Obama's Pick for Supreme Court Elena Kagan Sailing Through Pro-abort Senate Confirmation
With a series of quick quips and nimble sidesteps, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan deflected tough Republican questions on her views and judgment to sail on Wednesday toward likely U.S. Senate confirmation. During three days of hearings, Kagan has coolly turned aside Republican criticism she would be a rubberstamp for President Barack Obama's political agenda, without revealing much of her own opinions about the court or its decisions. Kagan's performance in the Judiciary Committee drew praise from Democrats and compliments even from some critics and appeared to put her on a path to confirmation by the full Senate sometime in July.
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Media Ignore Planned Parenthood's $1.3 Billion Federal Funding Discrepancy
If $1.3 billion is unaccounted for and the media don't report it, did it really happen? According to an American Life League review of Planned Parenthood's annual reports, the organization received more than $2 billion in federal grants and contracts between 2002 and 2008. A June 16 Government Accountability Report, however, found that the organization spent just $657.1 million of taxpayer money in the same time period. The $1.3 billion discrepancy failed to catch the attention of the nation's major media outlets. None of the networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) or major newspapers (Los Angeles times, The New York Times, USA Today and The Washington Post) reported it.
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Unity Restored at Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life with New President
Pro-life leaders are expressing their hopes that the new head of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) can re-forge the organization's unity and get back to work promoting the Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life. Among the important curial appointments made today, Pope Benedict XVI announced that Msgr. Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, formerly chancellor of the PAV, will be taking over as president.
The academy has been wracked with controversy over the last year after its former head, Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, wrote an article, published by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, that appeared to condone the abortion of twins in Brazil. The scandal of the so-called "Recife Affair" made headlines around the world, with the secular media and abortion advocates welcoming the article, claiming it indicated a "softening" of the Church's stand on abortion.
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Notes from the NRLC Convention
Sitting on a hotel stage at the national convention of the Right to Life Committee, Rep. John Boehner smiled as Darla St. Martin, the group's co-executive director, introduced him as speaker of the U.S. House. "I'm getting ahead of myself,'' she said Saturday as she caught her mistake. "I'm dreaming of the future.'' The Ohio Republican, still minority leader of the House, joined the abortion regulators who met here over the last three days in predicting political and legislative gains for their movement. Mr. Boehner was the featured speaker on the closing day of the national convention at the Hyatt Regency at the Pittsburgh International Airport. The group reveled in recent gains for their position at the state legislative level. Speaker after speaker Saturday predicted that movement would be a prelude for gains at the federal level in congressional contests in November, when the GOP hopes to reverse the Democrat tide of the last two election cycles.
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NY pro-lifers oppose dangerous legislation
New York 2New York's pro-life and conservative community is intent on halting passage of the Reproductive Health Act, which they consider to be a radical measure that would be the greatest expansion of abortion rights since Roe v. Wade.
According to Mike Long, chairman of the Conservative Party of New York State (CPNYS), New York already has the most liberal abortion laws in the country. "This bill would just broaden and totally liberalize and allow abortion under any circumstances, at any time, at any time period, to be performed," he explains.
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Rwandan Genocide Rape Victims Grateful for Children Conceived in Rape
The tribal genocide of 1994 in Rwanda resulted in more than 800,000 Rwandan deaths and countless women suffering rape at the hands of the Hutu militia who were ordered to kill off the country's minority Tutsi tribe.
Now, 16 years later, the children of the raped women are facing the reality of how they were conceived. They and their mothers are looking for acceptance in a society that is still healing from the horrors of the past.
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With a series of quick quips and nimble sidesteps, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan deflected tough Republican questions on her views and judgment to sail on Wednesday toward likely U.S. Senate confirmation. During three days of hearings, Kagan has coolly turned aside Republican criticism she would be a rubberstamp for President Barack Obama's political agenda, without revealing much of her own opinions about the court or its decisions. Kagan's performance in the Judiciary Committee drew praise from Democrats and compliments even from some critics and appeared to put her on a path to confirmation by the full Senate sometime in July.
Click here for the entire article.
Media Ignore Planned Parenthood's $1.3 Billion Federal Funding Discrepancy
If $1.3 billion is unaccounted for and the media don't report it, did it really happen? According to an American Life League review of Planned Parenthood's annual reports, the organization received more than $2 billion in federal grants and contracts between 2002 and 2008. A June 16 Government Accountability Report, however, found that the organization spent just $657.1 million of taxpayer money in the same time period. The $1.3 billion discrepancy failed to catch the attention of the nation's major media outlets. None of the networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) or major newspapers (Los Angeles times, The New York Times, USA Today and The Washington Post) reported it.
Click here for the entire article.
Unity Restored at Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life with New President
Pro-life leaders are expressing their hopes that the new head of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) can re-forge the organization's unity and get back to work promoting the Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life. Among the important curial appointments made today, Pope Benedict XVI announced that Msgr. Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, formerly chancellor of the PAV, will be taking over as president.
The academy has been wracked with controversy over the last year after its former head, Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, wrote an article, published by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, that appeared to condone the abortion of twins in Brazil. The scandal of the so-called "Recife Affair" made headlines around the world, with the secular media and abortion advocates welcoming the article, claiming it indicated a "softening" of the Church's stand on abortion.
Click here for the entire article.
Notes from the NRLC Convention
Sitting on a hotel stage at the national convention of the Right to Life Committee, Rep. John Boehner smiled as Darla St. Martin, the group's co-executive director, introduced him as speaker of the U.S. House. "I'm getting ahead of myself,'' she said Saturday as she caught her mistake. "I'm dreaming of the future.'' The Ohio Republican, still minority leader of the House, joined the abortion regulators who met here over the last three days in predicting political and legislative gains for their movement. Mr. Boehner was the featured speaker on the closing day of the national convention at the Hyatt Regency at the Pittsburgh International Airport. The group reveled in recent gains for their position at the state legislative level. Speaker after speaker Saturday predicted that movement would be a prelude for gains at the federal level in congressional contests in November, when the GOP hopes to reverse the Democrat tide of the last two election cycles.
Click here for the entire article.
NY pro-lifers oppose dangerous legislation
New York 2New York's pro-life and conservative community is intent on halting passage of the Reproductive Health Act, which they consider to be a radical measure that would be the greatest expansion of abortion rights since Roe v. Wade.
According to Mike Long, chairman of the Conservative Party of New York State (CPNYS), New York already has the most liberal abortion laws in the country. "This bill would just broaden and totally liberalize and allow abortion under any circumstances, at any time, at any time period, to be performed," he explains.
Click here for the entire article.
Rwandan Genocide Rape Victims Grateful for Children Conceived in Rape
The tribal genocide of 1994 in Rwanda resulted in more than 800,000 Rwandan deaths and countless women suffering rape at the hands of the Hutu militia who were ordered to kill off the country's minority Tutsi tribe.
Now, 16 years later, the children of the raped women are facing the reality of how they were conceived. They and their mothers are looking for acceptance in a society that is still healing from the horrors of the past.
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