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Catholic Bishops: Don't Turn Military Hospitals in Abortion Centers Washington, DC -- The nation's Catholic bishops have a message for members of Congress: don't turn American taxpayer-funded military base hospitals into abortion centers. They are oppose language in a Senate bill that would overturn the ban on abortions at the approximately 250 military base hospitals. http://LifeNews.com/nat6478.html

Here is a video report on Democrats attempting to lift the ban on abortions at overseas military hospitals, a move that would be in keeping with their commitment to the radical pro-abortion agenda espoused by President Obama. They are trying to do it by attaching an amendment to that effect to the Defense Authorization Bill. As an Illinois State Senator, Obama would not even support the “Infants Born Alive Protection Act,” which required that life-sustaining measures be taken for babies that survived botched abortion procedures. Obama essentially supported infanticide – allowing those infants to be set aside to die, even...

Obama Admin Forces Military Hospitals to Stock Morning After Pill Washington, DC -- Late Thursday, the Obama administration issued a new order for the U.S. military requiring all military hospitals and health centers to stock the morning after pill. The Department of Defense will soon begin having military medical facilities stock the Plan B drug, which can sometimes cause an abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/nat5967.html

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A few weeks before Christmas, I had the opportunity to once again visit some of America's finest young men and women who were wounded in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom. These young warriors were recuperating in two of the finest medical institutions in the country -- the National Naval Medical Center and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. It is not the infrastructure, the architectural design or the budget that places these among the best. Like any first-rate institution, it is the people who make them great. They are staffed by soldiers, sailors and Marines. Doctors,...