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Today, the Supreme Court rendered a 5-4 decision in favor of Hobby Lobby in the company's fight to deny coverage of certain forms of birth control based on the strong religious beliefs of the company's owners. While Liberal heads are exploding all over the internet, many people sounding off just don't have their facts straight. So let's do a little ( Read more... )

I know I'm a little behind on this story, but I've been thinking about this today. During the Democrats mock hearing on birth control, a young woman named Sandra Fluke from Georgetown spoke and said:
"Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school."
I'm just curious -- is that per month? Per ( Read more... )

The state of Virginia is considering a mandate that any woman seeking an abortion would be forced to undergo an ultrasound procedure before proceeding with abortions, including a procedure called a transvaginal ultrasound, in which an ultrasound wand is inserted into the vagina. It's not an uncommon procedure, and it's also used in cases of ectopic ( Read more... )

Salon.com recently featured a story on their website titled Abortion saved my life. As I've stated here several times, I fully support abortion in situations of rape/incest or medical necessity. Reading the story, however, there were things that didn't add up.

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Remember during the 2008 Presidential election when the Democratic Party began floating the rumor that Rush Limbaugh was the defacto leader of the Republican Party and the everyone within the GOP fell in line with that lie? Well, it's sort-of happening again ( Read more... )

Concerning this previous post, it seems a man on death row in Oregon for the murder of his wife and three children is fighting to donate his organs after his execution. He's even offered to give up his appeals in order to do it, but the request has been denied by state corrections officials ( Read more... )

This video was originally posted by lather2002 on their LiveJournal, but the video no longer works, so I wanted to re-post it here for everyone's benefit. This is something that I think people on both sides of the capital punishment argument could support.

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My only concern would be issues with cellular memory (for example, inherited memories in organ ( Read more... )

While state lawmakers look for ways to fix a massive budget shortfall, they are also being told to tackle another hot-button issue -- abortion. Specifically, Gov. Rick Perry wants to add a few steps to the process of ending a pregnancy ( Read more... )

Health Care Debate Turns to Abortion Funding
by Brian Montopoli

On the heels of the House vote to repeal the health care reform law, Republicans turned Thursday to the issue of abortion, holding a morning press conference on the planned "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act."

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), who led a press conference on the bill, ( Read more... )