Symptom of the Disease: Tax dollars indirectly used for abortions

By Steve McGough | October 14, 2009 |

Charmaine Yoest has an interesting post about the Capps Amendment designed to set up accounting mechanisms to ensure tax dollars do not directly fund abortions. An accounting mechanism? The problem is that direct funding may be blocked, but there is no way to ensure indirect funding is not used for abortions. This is another example…

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40 Days For Life

By Jim Vicevich | October 10, 2009 |

We’re about half way through the Catholic Church’s “40 Days For Life” event. Around the world people are praying and fasting for the unborn children and their mothers. It’s important to know this 40 days program is a peaceful time of prayer. No mothers are confronted, only reminded by the presence of people like you…

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Symptom of the Disease: Federal funding of abortion (5)

By Steve McGough | July 13, 2009 |

Back in April during budget votes, Senate Democrats and a few Republicans got together to block an amendment to the main budget bill to ensure health care providers would not be forced to abort babies and violate their moral and religious convictions. What do you think about taxpayer funded abortion in upcoming health care legislation?

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Standing on principle

By Jim Vicevich | April 28, 2009 |

Not much to say here other than a note to our Congresspeople. This is what is called principle, core, a belief system. Read and learn. Mary Ann Glendon has announced that she will not accept the Laetare Medal– the highest honor conferred by the University of Notre Dame– at this year’s commencement exercises. Glendon– the…

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Abortion Is A Blessing

By Jim Vicevich | April 1, 2009 |

This is from Via Media (via HotAir) and I find it appalling and disgusting that a minister of Christ could ever say this much less think this. This quote comes from the new Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Katherine Ragsdale. Read it first and I will deconstruct later. And when a woman…

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Donahue to Catholic Church: If only you were pro choice …

By Jim Vicevich | March 24, 2009 |

… then you surely would have more members. This is the kind of tripe Phil Donahue serves up these days. Fox brought Phil on to debate Father Jonathan Morris on President Obama speaking at America’s premier Catholic University, Notre Dame (sorry BC). But Phil didn’t want to talk about why a Catholic college would honor…

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Catholic Complacency and the 2008 Election

By Jim Vicevich | March 23, 2009 |

This is the post I read on the air today. Ed Morrissey brings the Archbishop’s Speech to a wider audience … and the questions he addresses will make some Catholics and other people of religion, more than uncomfortable. Archbishop of Denver Charles J. Chaput delivered a speech on Saturday reflecting on the significance of the…

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Contraception and abortion needed to … reduce global warming?

By Steve McGough | February 1, 2009 |

Jonathon Porritt, the chairman of a government watchdog group on environmental issues, is insistent contraception and abortion be the centerpiece of the fight against global warming. Not windmills. Not batteries. Not solar. Not alternatives. Cutting population growth should be the centerpiece through contraception and abortion through government regulation. Porritt is chairman of the Sustainable Development…

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