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LIFE DIGEST: Bush administration again blocks funds for UNFPA
The Bush administration announced June 27 it has refused for the seventh consecutive year to forward federal money to a controversial United Nations family planning fund linked to the support of China’s coercive population control program. more »
by: Tom Strode - Jul 10, 2008 - topic(s): Family, Sexual Purity, Modesty, Life, Abortion, End-of-Life Issues, Suicide
Schiavo-like case in Florida garners interest
Stroke victim indicates she doesn’t want to die
Just a few years ago 57-year-old Karen Weber sat around the kitchen table talking about the Terri Schiavo case with her husband, Ray, and her mother, Martha Tatro. more »
by: Joni B. Hannigan - Jul 7, 2008 - topic(s): Family, Living, Health, Life, End-of-Life Issues
CLC urges Blunt to call pro-life special session
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Christian Life Commission (CLC) of the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) is drafting a letter to Gov. Matt Blunt urging him to call a special session of the General Assembly to deal with pro-life legislation. more »
by: Brian Koonce - Jul 2, 2008 - topic(s): Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Legislation
LIFE DIGEST: Human rights to go to apes in Spain
The Spanish parliament’s move to grant rights previously reserved for human beings to chimpanzees and other apes is a victory for those seeking to minimize the uniqueness of humanity, a bioethics specialist says. more »
by: Tom Strode - Jun 30, 2008 - comments: 1 - topic(s): Family, Parenting, Life, Abortion, Cloning, Citizenship, Human Rights
Planned Parenthood ‘price breaks’ axed
The U.S. House of Representatives has eliminated language in a war supplemental spending bill that would have provided price breaks for Planned Parenthood, the country’s No. more »
by: Tom Strode - Jun 25, 2008 - topic(s): Life, Abortion, Birth Control, Citizenship, Legislation
Court rules child rapist cannot be executed
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 25 a child rapist may not be executed if he did not kill his victim.
The vote was 5-4 in the case, with Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy joining the high court’s four more liberal members in the majority. more »
by: Tom Strode - Jun 25, 2008 - topic(s): Family, Abuse, Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Citizenship, Capital Punishment,
LIFE DIGEST: House drops provision to benefit Planned Parenthood
The U.S. House of Representatives has eliminated language in a war supplemental spending bill that would have provided price breaks for Planned Parenthood, the country’s No. more »
by: Tom Strode - Jun 24, 2008 - comments: 2 - topic(s): Life, Abortion
Blunt should call special session for pro-life bill
For Missouri abortionists, it could be “the perfect storm.”
Missouri Southern Baptists believe abortion should be prohibited. Only God has the right to take an innocent life. more »
by: Don Hinkle - Jun 19, 2008 - comments: 1 - topic(s): Life, Abortion, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Legislation
LIFE DIGEST: Georgia woman jailed for forging girl’s abortion notification
A Georgia woman has been sentenced to a year in jail after pressuring her son’s teen-age girlfriend to have an abortion, forging a letter of parental notification and paying for the procedure. more »
by: Tom Strode - Jun 17, 2008 - comments: 1 - topic(s): Life, Abortion, Cloning, Stem-Cell Research, Science, Bioethics
Pro-life bill battered, Senate does nothing
JEFFERSON CITY—The Missouri General Assembly in the last days of the 2008 session was characterized by the placid demeanor of representatives and senators as bills that may have stood a chance of passing in previous years simply wasted away and died due to lack of interest. more »
by: Allen Palmeri - Jun 17, 2008 - topic(s): Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Legislation