Pharmacists Sue State Over ‘Morning-After Pill’ Requirement

Pharmacists Sue State Over ‘Morning-After Pill’ Requirement
SEATTLE — Pharmacists have sued Washington state over a new regulation that requires them to sell emergency contraception, also known as the “morning-after pill.”
In a lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday, a pharmacy owner and two pharmacists say the rule that took effect Thursday violates their civil rights by [...]

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Thompson Lobbied for Abortion Rights (Then Again, No He Didn’t)

It’s a sign of the fear a potential, undeclared presidential candidate strikes in the hearts of opposing campaigns when said campaigns put up political ads attacking said candidate. Think about it: why else attempt to cut down an undeclared campaign before it’s begun except that one perceives it to be potentially strong and one to [...]

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SCOTUS Upholds Partial-Birth Abortion Ban

According to this news report:

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench.
The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not [...]

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Thoughts on the Office of the President and the Issue of Abortion

I am philosophically, theologically and pragmatically opposed to abortion, and believe it should not be legal to perform the killing of unborn children.
And when it comes to political candidates whom I am considering, this issue is one of the key, if not the key, issue by which I make my calculations. This does not [...]

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The Amicus Curiae Submitted to the Supreme Court by the Holy Orthodox Church

An Orthodox View of Abortion:
The Holy Orthodox Church respectfully submits this brief amicus curiae on behalf of itself and its members.
INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE
The Holy Orthodox Church was founded by Jesus Christ and the Apostles, and bears witness to that continuous and unbroken faith. The precepts of the Orthodox Christian faith mandate the protection of [...]

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Office for the Victims of Abortion

The Order of the Office of Prayer and Supplication for the Victims of Abortion
Prayed to our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ
(The Priest and Deacon take their places before the Icon of Christ placed in the center of the Temple or other suitable place. The Priest is vested in Riassa and Epitrachilion and the [...]

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The Church Fathers and Ancient Councils on Abortion

[Note: This is also posted here.]
The Canons of the Council of Ancyra (which canons were accepted and received by the ecumenical synods)
Canon XXI.
Concerning women who commit fornication, and destroy that which they have conceived, or who are employed in making drugs for abortion, a former decree excluded them until the hour of death, and to [...]

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An Outrage Such as This Renders One Speechless at the Utter Lack of Christian Charity

This–Outrage as Church backs calls for severely disabled babies to be killed at birth–is making the rounds of the internet (I’ve seen it at four or five different sites already).
The lede:
The Church of England has broken with tradition dogma by calling for doctors to be allowed to let sick newborn babies die.
Christians have long argued [...]

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Endorsing Infanticide

From the WT Call for debate on infant euthanasia
Nov. 6, 2006 at 9:25AM
Britain’s Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology has called for debate on whether to allow euthanasia of severely disabled newborns.
The college says there is some support for the move by some parents, medical ethicists and geneticists, Britain’s Independent reports.
In a [...]

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What Abortion Doctors Do

Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
This is part 3. All 5 parts are here.
May God have mercy on us for not doing more to save women and their unborn children from this evil in our midst.

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Lies, More Damned Lies

According to this news article on the recent approval of the so-called “Plan B” or “morning after” pill, it would seem like the prolife opposition to its approval is just a bunch of twaddle over nothing.
The pills are a concentrated dose of the same drug found in many regular birth-control pills. Taken within 72 hours [...]

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More Ramesh with More Debunking

Ramesh Ponnuru of NRO takes Planned Parenthood’s AGI to task for some Data Failure on their newly published report.
The Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, has done a lot of good and careful work over the years. The report it is releasing today is not among that work. The new report attempts [...]

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Your Unbiased Media at Work

Ramesh Ponnuru gives a devastating indictment of the media in his NRO article Partial Truth:
“I remember sitting in my office,” Kate Michelman recalled years later, “and James saying to me: “Kate. This is a disaster.”� Michelman was the head of NARAL, the abortion lobby, and its vice president, James Wagoner had just brought her a [...]

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Fetuses and Pain

A great little post over at The American Thinker: Fetuses and Pain. From the post:
The study of fetal and neonatal pain is an evolving discipline. In 1987 a landmark article in the New England Journal of Medicine, �Pain and its effects on the human neonate and fetus,� forever changed the perception that newborn [...]

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Chilling

Court Documents: Hospital Gave Lethal Injections to Patients During Hurricane Katrina
By John-Henry Westen
NEW ORLEANS, February 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Just after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans rumors circulated that at least one hospital had euthanized patients during the mayhem. LifeSiteNews.com reported in September 2005, that an unnamed doctor admitted to a UK newspaper that [...]

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