Obama's Newest Shell Game

by: Mark Crutcher

The Obamanistas are saying that the new mandate requiring all employers – including Catholic institutions – to provide free birth control insurance to every employee does not violate the religious freedom of those institutions. They claim this is so because an exemption is granted to those religious-based organizations that primarily minister to members of their own faith.   more...

Time to Exhale

by: Mark Crutcher

By now, most people probably know about the Susan G.Komen/Planned Parenthood fiasco. To recap, Komen announced that it would no longer give money to Planned Parenthood; the baby-killing lobby immediately went into an apoplectic rage; right on cue, the mainstream media piled on Komen with an attack so vicious it could almost make you feel sorry for them. Finally, wearing their best "deer-in-the-headlights" look, Komen's leadership rescinded the funding prohibition, rolled over onto their back and started begging Planned Parenthood not to hurt them anymore.  more...

Planned Parenthood Video: Black Genocide a “Vital Service”

by: Ryan Bomberger

A new video released by Planned Parenthood is nothing short of an infomercial for their continuing Negro Project, called “A Vital Service”.No other demographic has been more targeted and more deliberately failed by Planned Parenthood than the black community.  more...

Black Heritage Month: Week 2-Black Genocide

by: As The Girl Turns Blog

I recently read an article in Religion Dispatches by Sikivu Hutchinson titled “God’s Body, God’s Plan: The Komen Furor and Abortion as Black/Latino ‘Genocide’”. An interesting, and well-written read, though I thoroughly disagree with everything she posits. Ms. Hutchinson holds to the argument that a woman’s “right” to do with her body what she wishes should be wholesale protected by the government. It’s part of “reproductive justice” and that blanket term: “family planning”. She holds the belief that the ills suffered by women and children of color are because these services are not readily available and protected, and that the pro-life lobby and its work to eradicate abortion is part of the work to maintain a racist power structure. Huh?  more...

Obama’s religious bigotry

by: Cheri Jacobus

...On whichever side of the abortion debate one falls, forcing a religious institution by law to engage in abortion activity is abhorrent and un-American. Whether Catholic, Jewish, non-Catholic Christian, pro-choice Catholic, cafeteria Catholic, evangelical or non-evangelical Christian, this aspect of ObamaCare overreach is cause for uproar and rejection of the president and congressional Democrats in November. Even atheists and agnostics could get in on this one, if they are keen on freedom and liberty. From constitutional and religious scholars to the proletariat, this latest Obama blunder reverberates.  more...

When will the Life Community finally "break free" of Komen and Planned Parenthood? Life Advocate

by: Eve Silver

I wonder: Why exactly is the Life community still waiting around for Komen? This isn't the first article that I have read in which Komen, as the main character in Pilgrim's Progress, struggles along and is is finally redeemed. Is that what you are waiting for? Why?   more...

Other health issues lost in birth control debate

by: Rebecca Hagelin

The past few weeks have been alive with talk about the urgency of “women’s health.” First came the Department of Health and Human Services‘ regulations mandating coverage of contraception and abortion-causing drugs, with little room for religious objection.  more...

The ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ Illusion

by: Ross Douthat

AMID the sound and fury of the latest culture-war battles — first over breast cancer dollars and Planned Parenthood, and then over the White House’s attempt to require that religious employers cover contraception and potential abortifacients — it’s easy to forget that there is at least some common ground in American politics on sex, pregnancy, marriage and abortion.  more...

Mandates, Planned Parenthood, and the Battle for Conscience Over Subservience

by: Steven Aden

The Obama administration’s birth control/abortion pill mandate is not only still in the news, but actually is the news on many leading media websites and news publications. Thanks to ongoing, vocal opposition to it by Roman Catholics like Archbishop and Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, leading Protestants like Dr. Al Mohler, and others like The Washington Post’s Charles Krauthammer.  more...

Disclosing the abortion-suicide association

by: Clarke Forsythe and Mailee Smith

All 11 active judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in St. Louis recently heard one of the most important abortion cases in the federal courts today. The case, Planned Parenthood v. Rounds, involves a South Dakota statute requiring informed consent before a woman undergoes an abortion.  more...

Erasing Women: How Both Sides Contribute to the Media Blackout on Female Pro-Lifers

by: Gina Dalfonzo

When I was growing up, I was under the impression that there were hardly any female politicians who spoke for me. Oh, one would hear occasionally of conservative, pro-life women in positions of power—in much the same sense that one would hear of the Loch Ness Monster. They were said to be out there somewhere, and some people even reported having seen them, but for the most part they came across as elusive mythical figures.   more...