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Pro-life common ground with rapper Common: “$315 ain’t worth your soulâ€
Click here to view the embedded video. Now, Common is far from a Republican and “Retrospect for Life” serves as a conflicted, debate piece about abortion – in which both sides are represented – but several of its lines should give Sarah Palin and other conservatives some common ground with Common. ~ Baltimore Sun journalist [...]
Continue reading...Common ground with rapper Common?
13 May 2011 – 3:06 am PDT
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Click here to view the embedded video. Now, Common is far from a Republican and “Retrospect for Life” serves as a conflicted, debate piece about abortion — in which both sides are represented — but several of its lines should give Sarah Palin and other conservatives some common ground with Common. ~Luke Broadwater commenting on [...]
Continue reading...Summer pro-life teen boot camp opportunities
12 May 2011 – 2:41 pm PDT
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When I was a teen I went to church youth camp one week every summer. Those times, focused strictly on God night and day, and surrounded by like-minded teens and adults, availed some of the best growing periods of my life. If I had teens in the house now I’d not only send them to [...]
Continue reading...Jivin J’s Life Links 5-12-11
12 May 2011 – 11:06 am PDT
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by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat A Democratic legislator in Iowa has drafted a proposal to keep abortionist LeRoy Carhart out of Council Bluffs but still allow post-20 week abortions. Why am I not surprised? After the dust over Kermit Gosnell and his deplorable clinic has settled, pro-choicers like Morgan Zalot have stopped lamenting [...]
Continue reading...MTV "Standards Department" Refuses Pro-Life Ads
12 May 2011 – 10:03 am PDT
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When the desire to save lives becomes the target of boycotts or censorship, something is really wrong with the nation. The latest fear against running pro-life ads comes from MTV. As Life News reports: Heroic Media, an organization supported by Sarah Palin and Lila Rose, wanted to run commercials saying “The most dangerous place for [...]
Continue reading...Sen. Sanders, Rep. McDermott Introduce Medicare for All Legislation
12 May 2011 – 9:05 am PDT
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This week, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced a revised version of the American Health Security Act (S 915), legislation which, if implemented, would create a national single-payer healthcare system. Sanders was joined by Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA) – who introduced the companion House Bill (HR 1200) earlier this year – and labor leaders from the [...]
Continue reading...First Universal Health Care Bill in U.S. Marks Success of Vermont’s Human Rights Movement
12 May 2011 – 6:54 am PDT
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By Anja Rudiger for NESRI – On May 5 the Vermont House followed the Senate in passing the final version of a health reform bill that creates a path for a universal, publicly financed health care system in Vermont. Governor Peter Shumlin has confirmed he will sign the bill into law. This makes Vermont the [...]
Continue reading...Abortion: “Basic equality†for women?
12 May 2011 – 3:03 am PDT
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The common denominator is to render abortion impossible. The goal is to render women powerless…. Abortion is difficult enough without these new laws…. The Republican-controlled House is railing against the deficit and slashing social programs while refusing to raise taxes. But its microfocus is on depriving women of their basic equality – the right to [...]
Continue reading...Sorry, baby: Obama administration to force pro-life hospitals, medical professionals to dispense hormonal contraceptives, perform IVF
11 May 2011 – 11:46 am PDT
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Actually, there are 3 ways out: Close hospitals, quit or never get into the medical profession, or engage in civil disobedience. Today Students for Life of America released an important letter it received April 13 from the Department of Health & Human Services. HHS was responding to a March 22 inquiry SFLA and 3 pro-life [...]
Continue reading...Jivin J’s Life Links 5-11-11
11 May 2011 – 11:06 am PDT
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by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat A second patient in Geron spinal cord clinical trial has been injected with cells derived from embryonic stem cells. In Belarus, the Ministry of Health is working with religious organizations on a pilot project where psychologists will talk with women considering abortion: According to the specialist, nursing personnel [...]
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13 May 2011 – 6:02 am PDT
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