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  • Pushing Veterans Toward the Grave

    August 31st, 200902:11 PM ET
    By Bradley Mattes
    First there were angry senior citizens at town hall meetings, literally fearing for their lives. They're worried that under the President's proposed health care plan they'll be denied critical life-saving services because of their age. There's good reason for their concern. And what's come to light since then won't make them sleep any easier. The ...

  • The Abortion Reporter

    August 31st, 200912:34 PM ET
    By Penna Dexter
    The late August edition of Newsweek profiles someone they call "The Abortion Evangelist." Leroy Carhart of Omaha, Nebraska was a colleague and also a friend of notorious and recently-murdered late term abortionist George Tiller. The two were confidants. They'd call each other to discuss tough patients.  Carhart says, "We became each other's th...

  • Beware of Compromise

    August 26th, 200911:39 AM ET
    By Bradley Mattes
    With all the rumors about reaching a compromise on healthcare reform, let me say this. Don't believe it! Recent developments provide absolutely no protection for unborn babies and their mothers from abortion, or our vulnerable citizens from rationing. Life Issues Institute doesn't oppose healthcare reform. But we firmly reject, and so should you, ...

  • Keep Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Out of Health Care

    August 25th, 200910:52 AM ET
    By Penna Dexter
    A recent article in Advertising Age deals with the Obama Administration's push for health care reform.  Writer Michael Bush begins this way:  "For a president and an administration that seemed to play the PR and communications game better than almost any that preceded them, President Barack Obama and his staff appear to have lost control ...

  • HEALTH CARE REFORM WOULD FUND ABORTION

    August 18th, 200902:21 PM ET
    By Penna Dexter
    CBS News Anchor Katie Couric asked President Obama last month whether he advocates federal funding of abortion in government-subsidized health care.  The president answered that he'd "rather not wade into" the issue. He mentioned a "tradition" of excluding funding for abortions but did not say whether or not he supports that tradition.  I...

  • Recession and Divorce

    August 10th, 200911:45 AM ET
    By Penna Dexter
    A recent front page Wall Street Journal story is titled "What God Has Joined Together, Recession Makes Hard to Put Asunder."  Writer Jennifer Levitz details the ways in which couples on the verge of divorce are coping with the fact that...they just can't afford to split.  She reports that "many couples are delaying the decision to dissolv...
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