http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cultureoflife/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:43:09 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419667/posts In March of 1993, a Gallup poll determined that about a third of respondents (32%) wanted abortion to be “legal under any circumstances.” In the same year, Mark Donald of the Dallas Observer (5/18/1995) wrote this: “On June 28, 1993, Charlotte [Taft, then director of the Routh Street Women’s Clinic in Dallas] publicly aired her evolving views about abortion. ‘We have learned a great deal from the movement that calls itself pro-life,’ Charlotte told the Dallas Morning News. ‘We (the pro-choice movement) were hiding from women some of the pieces of the truth about abortion that were threatening.... It is... National Right to Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419667/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:43:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333952/posts Washington, DC -- Millions of Americans will be reminded of the pro-woman, pro-life perspective when they take to the streets on Sunday, October 4. That's because thousands of pro-life advocates in cities and towns across the country will be there to share the message with them. LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333952/posts#comment Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:49:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332476/posts An exceptionally touching 9 minute video of a courageous, loving couple who show what it means to be pro-life, give life and reject the life-demeaning advise of professionals. You Tube Link Life Site News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332476/posts#comment Fri, 4 Sep 2009 22:34:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2314752/posts The cost of caring for patients who are near death accounts for a big piece of the government's medical spending. But a furor over a provision for government-paid counseling to plan for end-of-life care is steering lawmakers away from the issue. Tucked inside a sweeping House bill to overhaul the health system is a provision that would require Medicare to pay physicians to counsel patients once every five years. During those sessions, doctors could discuss how patients can plan for such end-of-life decisions as setting up a living will, obtaining hospice care or establishing a proxy to make their health... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2314752/posts#comment Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:27:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2300406/posts Ricardo and Mayra Sadoval with Fr. John Gregory Denver, Colo., Jul 24, 2009 / 03:19 pm (CNA).- Though Mayra Sandoval died of cancer on July 8, her son Samuel is alive and healthy thanks to her insistence on choosing life, against the advice of doctors who urged her to abort. Now, Mayra’s husband and friends remember her as a powerful witness to the immeasurable value of life. In an interview with the Denver Catholic Register, Mayra’s husband, Ricardo Flores, recalled the battle of faith and trust that the couple underwent in the months leading up to her death.Both Ricardo... cna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2300406/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:44:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2297276/posts ROME, JULY 19, 2009 (Zenit.org).- The idea that some people are genetically inferior, and need to be eliminated or prevented from reproducing, is a mentality that still persists, despite the battering it took after the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime. In a revealing interview published July 12 in the New York Times Magazine Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States was asked about abortion, among other topics. Referring to the Supreme Court decision that opened the doors to abortion, Roe v. Wade and subsequent decisions about abortion funding, Ginsburg commented: "Frankly I had thought... Zenit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2297276/posts#comment Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:07:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296647/posts Nearly 50 years ago Democratic presidential hopeful John F. Kennedy went before a group of Protestant ministers in Houston to reassure them, and the rest of America, that if elected president he, as a Roman Catholic, would not set policy on orders from the Vatican. "I am not the Catholic candidate for president," the Massachusetts senator said that night in September 1960. "I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters — and the church does not speak for me." Given the evolution of... Ocala http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296647/posts#comment Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:14:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295146/posts In the late afternoon of July 1o, President Obama met privately with Pope Benedict XVI for just over 30 minutes. According to official Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi, S.J., "The president explicitly expressed his commitment to reducing the numbers of abortions and to listen to the church's concern on moral issues." On July 13 in a Senate committee hearing, Sen. Barbara Mikulski was forced to admit under persistent questioning by Sen. Orrin Hatch that the new health-care bill includes abortion coverage. Planned Parenthood's Guttmacher Institute estimates government funding of abortion increases abortion by 20 to 35 percent. There were 1,206,200... InsideCatholic.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295146/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:41:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294467/posts Bioethics: The former director of the National Institutes of Health, once an enthusiast for embryonic stem cells, now says their future has "dimmed." So why is the administration bailing out research into such therapies while troubled states like California have committed billions?Aside from creating or saving a few research jobs, the administration's decision to federally fund embryonic stem cell research is, as we've noted, a bailout of bad science. It throws money at an avenue of research that time and adult stem cell progress have passed by. Applauding the administration's move was Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., who echoed the claims... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294467/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:47:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292616/posts Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that she considered Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion, to be “settled law”...Dr. Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, said Roe is “anything but settled law.”“This question of Roe as settled law goes to a central point in the testimony we’ll be providing on Thursday morning: Roe is not settled law,” Yoest said in a statement CNSnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292616/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:18:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290333/posts In his first week in office, President Obama issued an executive order overturning the Reagan-era Mexico City regulations, which had prohibited American foreign aid from going to organizations that finance overseas abortions. Just a few weeks later, the Gallup organization revealed that the executive order was the single most unpopular action taken by the president during his honeymoon period. At a time when American families had experienced an average 25 percent decline in their net worth, it would appear that increasing the net worth of foreign abortionists was not high on their to-do list. The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290333/posts#comment Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:50:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290682/posts VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI stressed the church's opposition to abortion and stem cell research in his first meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday, pressing the Vatican's case with the U.S. leader who is already under fire on those issues from some conservative Catholics and bishops back home...Afterward, the Vatican said the leaders discussed immigration, the Middle East peace process and aid to developing nations. But the Vatican's statement also underscored the pair's deep disagreement on abortion. "In the course of their cordial exchanges, the conversation turned first of all to questions which are in the interest of... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290682/posts#comment Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:30:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290685/posts The most overturned appellate court has teed up another case for the Supreme Court to consider — and likely soon. The 9th Circuit overturned an injunction in a district court case, allowing the state of Washington to force a pharmacy to stock and dispense morning-after pills, which causes the abortion of an embryo in the early days of a pregnancy. The pharmacy owners had objected, claiming that the law violated their religious practice: HotAir.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290685/posts#comment Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:35:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287088/posts Ezekiel Emmanuel MD, Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, who is Barack Obama’s “Special Advisor for Health Policy”, is described by the [1] Huffington Post article as engaged in a very important mission: redesigning the US health care system. Emanuel and the White House are attempting to reorganize the delivery and reimbursement systems of health care, changing what the types of procedures doctors rely on, making people more aware of disease prevention, encouraging insurance companies to expand coverage, and so on. It is a process rife with sensitivities, trickeries and, of course, the potential for failure. It is not, he insists, impossible.“It... Pajamas Media: Belmont Club http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287088/posts#comment Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:15:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278973/posts The New Jacobin Elite | Print | Written by William F. Jasper    Wednesday, 24 June 2009 06:00 The Socialist Party of Great Britain is celebrating the reissuing of Peter Taaffe’s book, The Masses Arise: The Great French Revolution 1789 -1815. “Its republication by Socialist Publications, in time for the 220th anniversary of this great event in July 2009, is extremely timely,” says the party’s website. A different page on the party’s site promoting the same book instructs readers: “An understanding of the French Revolution remains crucial for all revolutionaries. Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky studied it intensely to gain an... The New American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278973/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:20:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278793/posts Science: The president's Council on Bioethics is summarily dismissed when it disagrees on the need for more federally funded embryonic stem cell research. The scientific method doesn't include firing those who disagree with you.Inspectors general are apparently not the only ones to pay for annoying the White House by doing their job. The 18-member council existed to provide the president with advice on the moral and ethical implications of the rapid advances in science and medical research. It exists no more. The council existed to ponder whether we should do something just because we can. Apparently President Obama wanted not... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278793/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:16:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2262192/posts "I feel sorrow for the Tiller family. I respect the sanctity of life and the tragedy that took place today in Kansas clearly violates respect for life. This murder also damages the positive message of life, for the unborn, and for those living. Ask yourself, 'What will those who have not yet decided personally where they stand on this issue take away from today's event in Kansas?' Regardless of my strong objection to Dr. Tiller's abortion practices, violence is never an answer in advancing the pro-life message." Governor Sarah Palin Facebook http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2262192/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:37:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261715/posts Contact: Margaret, Priests for Life, 908-432-7387   STATEN ISLAND, New York, May 31 /Christian Newswire/ -- Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, issued the following statement upon hearing this morning of the killing of abortionist George Tiller:   "I am saddened to hear of the killing of George Tiller this morning. At this point, we do not know the motives of this act, or who is behind it, whether an angry post-abortive man or woman, or a misguided activist, or an enemy within the abortion industry, or a political enemy frustrated with the way Tiller has escaped... Christian Newswire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261715/posts#comment Sun, 31 May 2009 19:18:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255517/posts America's Unsettled Conscience on Abortion Posted: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 1:56 pm ET Here is an amazing fact -- over 35 years after the legalization of abortion this nation is still deeply divided over the issue. America has an unsettled conscience on abortion, and this most contentious of moral issues may be further from resolution than at any moment since the Roe v. Wade decision was handed down in 1973. A new Gallup poll tells the story. The headline of the report from Gallup should encourage pro-life Americans: "More Americans 'Pro-Life' Than 'Pro-Choice' for First Time." Indeed, 51% of... http://www.albertmohler.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255517/posts#comment Thu, 21 May 2009 15:32:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249353/posts Pro-Life Ad on Adoption, Abortion to Air on American Idol Finale Washington, DC -- The same pro-life organization that produced a well-received advertisement on President Barack Obama and abortion has another commercial it will air on the series finale of the popular television program American Idol. CatholicVote.org, sponsored by the pro-life Catholic group Fidelis, is behind the ad, which is part of its “Imagine the Potential” series of television commercials. The latest ad focuses on the lives of political and business leaders, sports figures, and others who all could have become victims of abortion, but, instead, were welcomed into loving... LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249353/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 17:25:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2248773/posts She leaned on her husband, using his strength to hide her unsteadiness. Her steps were tentative, measured, cautious, with her gait more typical of a woman decades older than her late 20s. She could still walk, shake hands and almost smile, at least with one side of her mouth; she couldn't let the tumor take those gifts away -- not yet. She had to stay healthy another few weeks, until her baby was born. Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2248773/posts#comment Mon, 11 May 2009 21:12:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231479/posts In front of an audience of nearly 3,000 anti-abortion rights advocates in Evansville, Ind., Palin described in detail how she struggled with her fifth pregnancy last year and choked up when she spoke about Trig's birth. "It was a time when I had to ask myself was I gonna walk the walk or I was gonna talk the talk," Palin said. She said she learned she was pregnant with Trig while she was out of the state at an oil and gas conference. "There, just for a fleeting moment, I thought, I knew, nobody knows me here. Nobody would ever... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231479/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:09:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226191/posts Big donors, VIPs and those who could afford to shell out for corporate sponsorships won't be the only ones who will see Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in the flesh at Thursday's Vanderburgh County Right to Life spring banquet. The folks in the cheap seats will be able to see Palin in person, too. Courierpress http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226191/posts#comment Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:28:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221196/posts Governor Sarah Palin today thanked state representatives for their efforts in passing House Bill 35, a bill that would require parental notice and consent before girls under the age of 17 could have an abortion. “Today, 22 members of the House of Representatives took a significant step toward protecting Alaska’s children and strengthening Alaska’s families,” Governor Palin said. “The most important thing at stake is the right of Alaska’s children to receive the support and input of their parents as they face a life-changing decision. I strongly urge Senate leaders to give this bill a committee hearing, as they did... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221196/posts#comment Fri, 3 Apr 2009 01:48:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211650/posts LONDON (AFP) — A seriously ill British baby boy died on Saturday, the day after his parents lost a legal battle to force doctors to keep him alive. The parents wanted medics to keep treating their son -- who had a rare metabolic disorder, was brain damaged and had suffered respiratory failure -- but doctors said he had no prospect of recovery and was in intolerable pain. A hearing at the Court of Appeal on Friday to resolve the dispute backed the doctors although judges voiced the "deepest sympathy" for the mother and father of the nine-month-old boy. The parents,... AFP via Google News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211650/posts#comment Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:42:43 GMT