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Forget inflation, forget Ukraine, forget the crashing stock market. Thanks to a troublemaking leak by some jerk inside the U.S. Supreme Court, abortion is dominating the front pages of our media again. The leak of the first draft of a majority decision by the Supremes to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion in the U.S., has reignited the abortion issue overnight. Pro-life, pro-abortion, pro-choice, anti-abortion…. Abortion is a hot and ugly moral and political issue that is always smoldering under the national landscape like a coal mine fire that can never be put out. But...

"John Lewis believed in the Lord, he believed in humanity and he believed in America. He's been called an American saint, a believer willing to give up everything, even life itself, to bear witness to the truth that drove him all his life. That we could build a world of peace and justice, harmony and dignity and love. And the first crucial step on that journey was the recognition that all people are born in the image of God, and carry a spark of the divine in them." That was former president George W. Bush, a Republican, talking about longtime...

One of the most common questions I get when people find out about my wife and I recently having adopted is, “How old is your baby?” When I tell them “My baby is in high school and taller than me” I then get asked, “What made you decide to adopt a teenager?” among many other interesting questions and comments. People say “That’s rough to have a teenager. Wouldn’t you want a baby?” The last time I checked all babies must go through teenage years to become adults. Obviously, there is nothing wrong with adopting a baby. Babies are cute and...

Editor's note: This column was co-authored by FRC intern Natalie Pugh.It may have been unintentional, but a recent lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union could nonetheless result in many children being displaced from adoption agencies who would otherwise have been happy to care for them and find families to adopt them.The ACLU is currently suing the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Children’s Services Agency for allowing religious adoption agencies to adhere to their faith tenets as they conduct their work—which for them means placing children in a home with a mom and a...

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There is so much wrong with the following story that like other great art that imitates life, I think I’ll let the story mostly speak for itself…and many of the ills of society in general. So, stop me if you heard this one…. Two lesbians put up an ad on Craigslist looking for a sperm donor. This is not in dispute. They put up an ad on Craigslist looking for sperm, like sperm are a couch or a T.V. or those old worthless beanie babies your haggard aunt collected. In response to the ad, one William Marotta, who apparently...

Russia has threatened to suspend all child adoptions by U.S. families after a seven-year-old boy adopted by an American woman was sent alone on a one-way flight back to Moscow with a note saying he was violent and had severe psychological problems. The boy, Artem Saveliev, was put on a plane by his adopted grandmother, Nancy Hansen of Shelbyville. In a case that has caused outrage at the highest levels, Torry Ann Hansen packed off Artem with a note to Moscow officials saying 'I no longer wish to parent this child'. The single mother even paid an associate to take...

GODLEY — As with all their children, Deahl and Patti Rooks pray daily for their 14-year-old foster daughter, Serenity. Not only was Serenity abused and neglected, she was born with a genetic disorder that left her with a cleft palate, no tear ducts, few teeth, and only three fingers on each hand and two toes on each foot. She also was legally blind and partially deaf. In their prayers, the Rookses have asked God to protect Serenity; to help her through various surgeries; and to keep kids from picking on her. But never have they prayed for Serenity to regain...

Billings, Mont. -- Most elk, bison and trumpeter swans are unfazed by the presence of snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park, a new study suggests. Researchers from the park and Montana State University observed more than 2,100 interactions between snowmobiles and wildlife last winter. In 81 percent of the interactions, the animals either had no apparent response, or they looked and then resumed what they were doing, the study said. The study, commissioned by the National Park Service and conducted between December 2004 and March 2005, is one of several that park officials say they will take into account as they...

MOSCOW - Adoption of Russian children by foreigners has turned out to be a profitable business recently, Russian Deputy General Prosecutor Vladimir Kolesnikov declared at the round table meeting Laws on Adoption: Practices and Ways to Improve Them, which was held in the Russian State Duma yesterday. According to him, the Russian General Prosecutor's Office is receiving complaints filed by foreigners that they are requested to pay enormous amounts of money so as to adopt a Russian child. “Despite the fact that adoption is free of charge in Russia, foreigners are sometimes requested to pay up to $50,000 to adopt...