Colette Wilson Walter Hoye is a pro-life Baptist pastor from Berkeley who feels a special calling to reach out to his fellow African-Americans to end the genocide-by-abortion taking place in their communities. As part of his efforts, in 2007 he began going out about once a week to stand in front of Family Planning Specialists, […]
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Wesley J Smith In 2000, The New England Journal of Medicine reported that patients being euthanized in the Netherlands sometimes experienced significant side effects (apart from death, that is), such as nausea, convulsions, or coma. This belied the assertion oft made by euthanasia proponents that being killed by a doctor necessarily provides the euphemistic “gentle
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Terry L Thompson “Isn’t there a better way?” This is a question I’ve often been asked. “Sure, abortion is wrong but why break the law? Why not just educate everyone on what abortion really is?” I wish it could work just that way. However, when you’re passing by a neighbor’s house and you see a
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Wesley J Smith A narrow assisted-suicide ruling. The news about Monday’s [Jan. 16] 6-3 assisted suicide ruling is not as bad as euthanasia opponents might have feared. Indeed, even in the midst of disappointment that Oregon carried the day, there is some moderately good news: Gonzales v. Oregon was not an exercise in judicial activism.
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Robert George What the Stem Cell Scientists Really Want The journal Science late last month published the results of research conducted at Harvard proving that embryonic stem cells can be produced by a method that does not involve creating or destroying a living human embryo. Additional progress will be required to perfect this technique of
Katie Short I know, I know. Close only counts in horseshoes. But the vote on Proposition 73, California’s parental notification initiative, was close, particularly compared to the outcome for the other seven initiatives on the same special election ballot—all of which were also defeated. The margin for Prop 73 was 5.6%. The next closest was
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We want to pay our respects to Terri Schiavo and her family by continuing to remember her long after her hastened and tragic death. We also want to pay our respects by learning from this devastating situation so that others will be spared similar state-sanctioned executions and the heartbreak that attends them. What did we
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The gospel of life is at the heart of Jesus’ message. Lovingly received day after day by the Church, it is to be preached with dauntless fidelity as “good news” to the people of every age and culture. In fact, while the climate of widespread moral uncertainty can in some way be explained by the
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In November 2004, California voters passed Proposition 71. This proposition created the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine and its governing body, the Independent Citizens’ Oversight Committee (“ICOC”). On behalf of two taxpayers’ groups, People’s Advocate and National Tax Limitation Foundation, LLDF’s lawyers filed a Petition for a Writ of Mandate in the California Supreme Court
For the first time in the history of California, the people will have an opportunity to vote on a measure relating to abortion. Thanks to the efforts of thousands of pro-life, pro-family Californians, the Parents’ Right to Know and Child Protection Initiative (PRKCP) has qualified for the state ballot and will top the list of
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