than 500 grams (1 lb 1.62 oz) were not recognized by German authorities as having a legal identitythey could not be included on the civic register and were often thus not released or accepted for burial. As many German states require a person to be on the civic register before they can be buried, hospitals have often refused to give...
President Obama says Sasha and Malia influenced his stance on same-sex marriage
CBS ^ | 5/9/2012 | Norah O'Donnell President Obama endorsed same-sex marriage Wednesday, just hours after North Carolina adopted a constitutional amendment to ban it -- one of 41 states where same-sex marriage is illegal. President Obama's declaration does not change any law, but it does inject a contentious social issue into the race for the White House. "For me personally it is important for me to affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married," Mr. Obama said. CBS News correspondent Norah O'Donnell reports Mr. Obama has often said he was in favor of civil unions for gay and lesbian couples and...
Chilean Study Proves that Outlawing Abortion Does Not Lead to Coat-hanger Deaths
http://www.redstate.com/ ^ | May 08 2012 | Leon H. Wolf For decades, supporters of abortion on demand have insisted on two completely unproven assertions concerning what would happen if abortion were made generally illegal in this country. First, they have asserted, somewhat counterintuitively and again without any proof, that such a law would not work, and women would continue to get abortions. Second, based on the first unfounded assertion, they insist that therefore women would be forced into back alley abortions which would presumably always be performed with a dirty coat-hanger, thus leading to massive maternal mortality. These two pronouncements have been peddled uncritically with all the fervor (and factual...
CALIFORNIA: Boy Scouts policy barring gay members sparks Assembly fire
SacBee: Capitol Alert ^ | 5/8/12 | Jim Sanders A proposed resolution to commend the Boy Scouts of America on its 102nd anniversary died today in an Assembly committee because the measure did not urge the group to accept gays and lesbians. Instead, the Assembly Judiciary Committee passed a separate resolution that applauded the Boy Scouts but said its policy against accepting homosexuals is harmful and discriminatory -- and should be reconsidered. The measure that passed, crafted by committee Chairman Mike Feuer, D-Los Angeles, encouraged the group to "accept for membership and leadership positions all qualified boys and men, without discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or religious...
Take a look at how President Obama's policies help one woman over her lifetime and how Mitt Romney would change her story.
Who the hell is "Julia" and why am I paying for her whole life?
Human Events ^ | 05/03/2012 | by David Harsanyi In the new Barack Obama campaign piece The Life of Julia, voters can "Take a look at how President Obama's policies help one woman over her lifetime -- and how Mitt Romney would change her story." It is one of the most brazenly statist pieces of campaign literature I can ever remember seeing. Let's, for the purposes of this post, set aside the misleading generalizations regarding policy in the ad (no one is innocent on that account, obviously). What we are left with is a celebration of a how a woman can live her entire life by leaning on government...
I Had an Abortion Shirt Sales Stir Controversy at University of North Carolina Wilmington
The Blaze ^ | April 19, 2012 | Christopher Santarelli While the right to privacy may have been the key to securing abortion rights in Roe v. Wade, some advocates of the controversial procedure today want to walk around with a sign, t-shirt to be exact, broadcasting their reproductive decisions. In 2004, abortion advocate and author Jennifer Baumgardner launched the I Had an
Abortion project to encourage women and men to come out about their procedures. The campaign featured shirts that read I Had an Abortion, a book, photo exhibit, and documentary film featuring 10 women including feminist Gloria Steinem describe their abortion experiences spanning seven decades.
Hilary Rosen Apologizes to Ann Romney: Lets Put the Faux War Against Stay-at-Home Moms to Rest
The Blaze ^ | April 12, 2012 | Madeleine Morgenstern Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen is out with a statement apologizing to Ann Romney for saying she never worked a day in her life. Via Talking Points Memo: Lets put the faux war against stay at home moms to rest once and for all. As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is. As a pundit, I know my words on CNN last night were poorly chosen. In response to Mitt Romney on the campaign trail referring to his wife as a better person to answer questions about women than he is,
and substantial relationship with the child. The definition of consistent and substantial relationship, has not been specifically defined in Missouri law. The bill seeks to express clearly the actions a father must take to develop a consistent and substantial relationship. Unless actively thwarted from doing so by the mother, the father must provide: Consistent prenatal financial support Payment of prenatal and natal medical care for the mother and baby Child...
Voters in Anchorage, Alaska, Send Strong Message in Favor of the Natural Family
lc.org ^ | 04/09/2012 | n/a Voters in Anchorage, Alaska, overwhelmingly voted in favor of the natural family by rejecting Proposition 5, a measure that would have given special rights based on lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual behavior. Proposition 5 would have given special rights to sexual behavior and would have been used as a club to silence dissent of the faith community. Alaska voters sent a loud and clear statement to the rest of the country that forcing people to provide special privileges based on sexual behavior is unwise. The measure was put on the ballot and supported by a consortium of LGBT groups, called
It is well know that in the Western cultures of Europe and now in America, that the God ordained institution of marriage - which was ordained before the world began (Eph 5:28-33) - has been rapidly falling by the way side. This out right rejection of the institution of marriage is found mostly in liberal/progressive circles and is a progressive liberal trait. What is most alarming is that these "western" countries which once embraced the Judeo/Christian moral absolutes of the Bible - are now secular wastelands reaping the whirlwind of their anti moral absolute rebellion.
When I was young, I thought that I knew everything. The older I have grown, the more I have begun to understand how little I know. As a young, determined, hardworking financial consultant in the late 1980s and early 1990s, life seemed rather simple: Work hard, get ahead. As a consultant at BDO Seidman, where I began working while in graduate school at Georgia State University, the hours were long, but my future seemed bright. Arriving before the sun was up, my work often lasted until late at night, and more often than not, through the weekend. Once I earned...
Don't use words husband and wife...same-sex wedding reforms would axe terms from official documents
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 15 March 2012 | STEVE DOUGHTY Reforms to allow same-sex marriage will see the words husband and wife removed from official forms, it was revealed last night. Tax and benefits guidance and immigration documents must be rewritten so they no longer assume a married couple is a man and a woman. And private companies will be told to overhaul paperwork and computer databases containing the words. New versions of documents willreplace references to husband and wife with the more neutral terms spouses and partners. The cost of the red tape revolution demanded by the Equal Civil Marriage plans will run into millions, according to an official...
President Obama Invokes Sasha & Malia In Response To Rush Limbaugh Slut Remarks
Mediaite ^ | 3/6/12 | Tommy Christopher At Tuesday afternoons press conference, President Obama crystallized the terms of the widespread outrage over Rush Limbaughs attacks on Georgetown law student and activist Sandra Fluke, denouncing the remarks, and telling reporters that when he called Ms. Fluke, it was with his own daughters in mind. The President said he wanted his daughters to be able to speak their minds in a civil and thoughtful way. And I do not want them attacked or called horrible names. The major miscalculation that Rush Limbaugh made, and which GOP candidates like Mitt Romney have compounded, is that average Americans
be the termination of a newborn. Alberto Giubilini with Monash University in Melbourne and Francesca Minerva at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne write that in circumstances occur[ing] after birth such that they would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible. The two are quick to note that they prefer the term afterbirth abortion as opposed to infanticide. Why? Because...
Bastard Nation-a social pathology that keeps women in poverty and destroys children's futures
FrontPage Magazine ^ | February 23, 2012 | Daniel Flynn The New York Times reports that 53 percent of babies delivered to women under the age of 30the prime motherhood demographicenter the world without their parents married to one another. But its not the rise of illegitimacy that scandalizes sex scribbler Katie Roiphe. It is the newspapers peculiar moral undertone. [M]arriage is very rapidly becoming only one way to raise children, Roiphe explains at Slate, noting that other countries are obviously way ahead of the United States in incorporating a rational recognition of the vicissitudes of love, and the varieties of family life, into cultural attitudes toward unmarried parents.
Out of Wedlock Birthrate Continues to Soar. Nothing Less than the Future of Our Country is At Stake
Archdiocese of Washington ^ | February 21, 2012 | Msgr. Charles Pope The breakdown of the traditional family is at the heart of what Daniel Patrick Moynihan once called a tangle of pathologies. The image I have often used is that the breakdown of the nuclear family is in fact a kind of nuclear fission. For the family (not the individual) is the basic unit of society. Splitting the family is like splitting the atom, it leads to a destructive chain reaction that, if not somehow controlled and contained, destroys just about everything in sight.So many of our national ills are show a strong connection to the breakdown of the family: poverty...
New York Times ^ | February 17, 2012 | JASON DePARLE and SABRINA TAVERNISE LORAIN, Ohio It used to be called illegitimacy. Now it is the new normal. After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold: more than half of births to American women under 30 occur outside marriage. Once largely limited to poor women and minorities, motherhood without marriage has settled deeply into middle America. The fastest growth in the last two decades has occurred among white women in their 20s who have some college education but no four-year degree, according to Child Trends, a Washington research group that analyzed government data....
Vladimir Putin ridiculed after demanding Russians have more sex to halt declining population
Daily Mail ^ | 2/13/2012 | Will Stewart Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was mocked by his own countrymen today after urging Russians to start having more sex to put a stop to the country's declining population. In one of his more controversial presidential election campaign pledges, Putin vowed to give cash incentives to mothers who have a third child, to help encourage more births. Russia is the largest geographical country in the world but its 142 million population is smaller than both Pakistan and Bangladesh. Putin, who served two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 followed by his current term as prime minister, warned that the current...
unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader...
Veterans Affairs sued over same-sex marriage policy (Who saw this coming?)
The Virginia Pilot ^ | February 1, 2012 | Mackenzie Weigner A federal lawsuit was filed Wednesday challenging the Veterans Affairs Department for refusing to recognize legally married gay and lesbian military couples and denying them the same family benefits as their heterosexual colleagues. With the repeal last year of Dont Ask, Dont Tell allowing gays and lesbians to openly serve in the military, activists have now turned their focus to gaining full benefits for legally married same-sex active duty and veteran service members and their families. The Southern Poverty Law Center and the law firm WilmerHale filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Los Angeles on behalf of military veteran Tracey Cooper-Harris...
Teen births: Nearly half in state are to Hispanics (Although only 13% of population-CT)
The Day ^ | 1-26-2012 | MAGALY OLIVERO
At 13 percent of the state's population, the Hispanic community is growing at a dramatic rate - by almost 50 percent during the past decade - and experiencing increasing social and health inequities. Almost a third of Hispanic children ages 17 and younger live in poverty. Almost 22 percent of all Hispanics have no health insurance. The state's Hispanics had the third highest unemployment rate in the nation in 2010, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank. Hispanics had a four-year high school graduation rate of 64 percent in 2010, according to state Department of Education...
Seattle Times ^ | Jan. 24, 2012 | Andrew Garber Starbucks today joined a growing list of corporations, including Microsoft, that have endorsed gay marriage legislation in the state House and Senate. Gay marriage supporters have apparently secured the votes needed to pass a measure through both houses, and Gov. Chris Gregoire has said she'll sign it into law. Starbucks' statement below: Starbucks is proud to join other leading Northwest employers in support of Washington State legislation recognizing marriage equality for same-sex couples. Starbucks strives to create a company culture that puts our partners first, and our company has a lengthy history of leading and supporting policies that promote equality...
Marriage and Religious Freedom: Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together
USCCB.ORG ^ | Jan 12, 2012 Dear Friends: The promotion and protection of marriagethe union of one man and one woman as husband and wifeis a matter of the common good and serves the wellbeing of the couple, of children, of civil society and all people.The meaning and value of marriage precedes and transcends any particular society, government, or religious community.It is a universal good and the foundational institution of all societies.It is bound up with the nature of the human person as male and female, and with the essential task of bearing and nurturing children.
Another Tebow article http://www.reporterherald.com/news/loveland-local-news/ci_19708509 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2832298/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2832350/posts In his first 2011 start as the Denver Broncos quarterback, Tim Tebow was in the glare of the national spotlight.
During pregame activities before playing the Miami Dolphins on Oct. 23, though, Tebow focused not only on the football game ahead but also on 16-year-old Garrett Atwood.
Garrett, a Winter Springs youth who has been treated for a life-threatening illness in Jacksonville, spent time with his hero, thanks to Tebows desire to help children and families, especially those in crisis.
I know there are more important things than winning a game; like Garrett hes more important. Putting a smile on his face before the game was more important than winning, Tebow said during his post-game news conference. That is the perspective that my faith gives me.
Holy Gridiron! Tebow Throws for 316 Yards, Averages 31.6 Yds. Per Pass, OT 31.6 Television Rating
Gateway Pundit ^ | January 9, 2012 | Jim Hoft <p>For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.</p> <p>Tim Tebow started sporting John 3:16 way back during his college career.</p> <p>Yesterday Tim Tebow Tebow passed for 316 yards against the Steelers, completing 10 of 21 pass attempts meaning he passed for 31.6 yards per completion.</p>
Communists On what foundation is the present family the bourgeois family based On capital on private gain In its completely developed form this family exists only among the bourgeoisie But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians and in public prostitution. This is written as a response to objections by "bourgeoisie" detractors, though it's not exactly written as a complete refutation of the charge....
NEW YORK, New York, January 5, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) With the highest abortion rate in the nation, nearly double the 23% national average, New York continues to be a place that babies in the womb cannot love. New York City Department of Health released data that shows that 83,750 abortions were performed in New York City in 2010, which translated to 40% of all pregnancies, down from 41% in 2009. The Bronx saw a staggering 48% of pregnancies end in abortion. The city lost 38,574 African-Americans babies to abortion, a dumbfounding 60% of the citys African-American pregnancies.
Planned Parenthoods Annual Report: Got $487.4M in Tax Money, Did 329,445 Abortions
CNS ^ | 1.3.12 | Penny Starr According to its latest annual report, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) received $487.4 million in tax dollars over a twelve-month period and performed 329,455 abortions. In addition, the number of adoption referrals made by the organization continued to decline.
country. I wouldn't be surprised if this translates into a strong political response in 2012." These results do not necessarily...
Daddy Bear http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2792714/posts SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. -- When a bear is lost in the mountains, it hardly garners a mention. When a bear lost in the mountains belongs to a little girl, it can mobilize an army. Sometimes that army - online and in person - can make a miracle happen. The story of the bear nicknamed "Daddy Bear" begins on Tuesday night. Six-year old Justice Wadsworth and her family were driving back from a trip to see family in Idaho when Justice got carsick along Interstate 90. In the rush to get her out of the car and onto the side of the highway near Ellensburg, Daddy Bear fell out and went for a trip of his own. "I remember seeing the pillow go up to the top of the car, and I remember vaguely seeing something white, too," said Wadsworth's grandmother, Patty Sweeney. "It's heartwrenching because it means so much to her," she said, fighting back tears. Most teddy bears don't typically bring tears, but this one is different. Justice's real dad, Sgt. Claudio Wadsworth, is stationed with the army in South Korea. He sent Daddy Bear to his daughter when he was deployed to Afghanistan four years ago. The teddy bear was meant to be there while he's away.
"That's Daddy when Daddy's gone," Sweeney added. "She goes to bed with him every night." "It makes me feel likeI'm cuddling with my dad," said Justice. "We couldn't find him. I was still sad, so I was crying. And the more I cry, the sadder I get." With Daddy Bear missing somewhere along Interstate 90 between the Thorp fruit stand and Elk Heights, Sweeney took to Facebook. On Wednesday, she posted a note on the page for the Washington State Department of Transportation, who then tweeted about it. Within 24 hours, ordinary citizens and seasoned state employees were searching the side of the highway for the missing teddy bear. "I honestly didn't think anybody would find him," Sweeney said. "I mean, who finds a teddy bear lying on the side of the road?" On Thursday, Sweeney's phone rang. It was WSDOT, calling with the news that two maintenance workers found Daddy Bear, tucked into a bush, sandwiched on the side of the road, surprisingly clean after being protected from rain and road debris. And on Thursday evening, on their own time, those two seasoned state employees made the three and a half hour trip from Cle Elum to Sedro-Woolley to make sure a little girl didn't spend another night without Daddy Bear. "When my daughter was born, I bought her a similar teddy bear," said Harry Nelson, assistant maintenance superintendent for WSDOT. "She's 13 now, and she still cherishes the thing and won't part with it. We both really understand that it's really important to a child." "I have never been asked whether there was a teddy bear I had to go find out there somewhere," added Terry Kukes, an area maintenance and operations superintendent who has been with the WSDOT for 33 years. "At least she'll sleep tonight." "It means the world to her to have that bear," added Sweeney. "For them to do that on their own time is amazing. I just want to thank them. From the bottom of my heart I want to thank them for doing that."
CNA/EWTN News ^ | Nov 15, 2011 | Marianne Medlin Bishops in three Illinois dioceses announced Nov. 14 that they have dropped their lawsuit against the state and will shut down their adoption and foster care programs, after a civil union law required them to provide their services to same-sex couples. The decision not to pursue further appeals was reached with great reluctance, but was necessitated by the fact that the State of Illinois has made it financially impossible for our agencies to continue to provide these services, said Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, and Bishop R. Daniel Conlon of Joliet. Since we...
Microsoft, Starbucks among 70 major organizations to join suit AGAINST DOMA (shopping season alert!)
Seattle Times ^ | November 4, 2011 | Janet I. Tu Microsoft and Starbucks are among 70 corporations, financial institutions, medical centers, and other major organizations that have signed on to a friend-of-the-court brief in support of a challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).The organizations are, or represent, major employers who argue that DOMA imposes significant administrative costs, and that it harms their ability to attract and retain talent."Microsoft has joined dozens of corporations, organizations and governments in support of a challenge on constitutionality grounds to the federal Defense of Marriage Act, known as DOMA," the company said in a statement.
Minnesota ranks as the fifth least affordable state for prekindergarten child care, after New York, Montana, Massachusetts and Wisconsin. Minnesota is among the most expensive for child care partly because the industry is highly regulated by the state, according to Ann McCully, executive director of Minnesota Child Care. For example, Minnesota requires a lower ratio of staff to children than other states, which requires centers to spend more money on personnel. McCully said it can be difficult for centers to make a profit or simply break even.
It may not be a crime to be poor, but it can land you behind bars if you also are behind on your child-support payments. Thousands of so-called deadbeat parents are jailed each year in the U.S. after failing to pay court-ordered child support the vast majority of them for withholding or hiding money out of spite or a feeling that theyve been unfairly gouged by the courts. But in what might seem like an unAmerican plot twist from a Charles Dickens novel, advocates for the poor say, some parents are wrongly being locked away without any regard for...
LifeSiteNews ^ | 8/24/11 | Kathleen Gilbert WARNING: disturbing content. WASHINGTON, D.C., August 24, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Borrowing Planned Parenthoods talking points almost verbatim, the Obama administration is now encouraging parents to begin thinking about their children, and even babies, as sexual beings who should be allowed to sexually stimulate themselves from infancy. Children are human beings and therefore sexual beings, says a Q&A about sex directly linked to by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Its hard for parents to acknowledge this, just as its hard for kids to think of their parents as sexually active. But even infants have curiosity about their own...
Fashion industry outraged after French label launches lingerie for girls as young as FOUR
Daily Mail ^ | 1:51 PM on 17th August 2011 | Daisy Dumas The shots feature young girls in poses and styling that seem far too premature for their ages.Too much too young? New French lingerie label Jours Apres Lunes is designed for girls aged between four and 12 In one shot, a girl wears Jackie O-style sunglasses while lounging back on a pillow, her modesty protected by just panties and a cropped polka-dot tied top. Fashionista, which broke the story, says: 'Whats disturbing about Jours Aprs Lunes is... that its lingerie for people who probably shouldnt be old enough to even know what lingerie is.'
careful about committing to other pledges, including a broad promise to a socially conservative Iowa group that caused trouble for other candidates....
own, unaccompanied by a parent or guardian. The study, published online July 21 by the American Journal of Public Health, is the first to...
Rejection of common law, history and tradition (Law that redefines fatherhood clears CA state leg)
CalCatholic ^ | July 18, 2011 Yet another bill opposed by the states Catholic bishops is on its way to the governor for his signature this one co-sponsored by homosexual advocacy groups that seek to redefine fatherhood in a way that favors children with same-sex parents. The bill, AB 1349, sponsored by Assemblyman Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, passed the state Senate by a vote of 23-14 on July 14. It cleared the Assembly 5222 in May. The measure was co-sponsored by Equality California and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. AB 1349 is a bill that is intended to redefine fatherhood for children born to...
make us the one and only country in the Western world to have such a law. Even Revolutionary France in the days of its worst violence against the Church did not pass a law requiring the breaking of the seal of confession. The justification for the law is that the crime of paedophilia is so heinous that no one who hears...
Children now make up less of America's population than ever before, even with a boost from immigrant families. And when this generation grows up, it will become a shrinking work force that will have to support the nation's expanding elderly population even as the government strains to cut spending for health care, pensions and much else.
Good Article Broken Families, Broken Economy: The real obstacle to growth
Weekly Standard ^ | 7/4/11 | Mitch Pearlstein Dont look now, but the fiscal mountain blocking our path is rockier than usually advertised. Why? Because even if House Budget chairman Paul Ryan prevails on every contentious detail of his long-term plan for prosperity, family fragmentation -- more severe in the United States than in any other industrialized nation -- will
make it more difficult than generally assumed to balance our books. Very high rates of family breakdown, as it used to be known, are subtracting from what many American students learn in school and so holding them back economically. That harms the country by making millions of citizens...
President Obama Vows At Midtown LGBT Gala To Keep On Fighting For Same-Sex Marriage
newyork.cbslocal.com ^ President Obama Vows At Midtown LGBT Gala To Keep On Fighting For SameSex Marriage June 23, 2011 8:29 PM NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) President Barack Obama urged his supporters to recapture their enthusiasm from his 2008 campaign even though he says hes old news. Speaking to high-dollar donors Thursday night, Obama said he may not be the new, fresh candidate anymore, but his vision for the country is still the same as it was in 2008. Obama
spoke at a fundraiser at the exclusive restaurant Daniel on Manhattans Upper East Side. The dinner fundraiser which reportedly cost over $35,000...
Gwyneth Paltrow: whats wrong with second graders learning about homosexuality?
Life Site News ^ | June 13, 2011 | KATHLEEN GILBERT
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is thrilled that her second-grade daughter is learning about homosexuality. June 13, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, a top gay rights proponent in Hollywood, is thrilled that her second-grade daughter is learning about homosexuality. In her newsletter GOOP, the Iron Man actress says that when her daughter came home with news about a classmates lesbian parents, she was enthusiastic. When my daughter came home from school one day saying that a classmate had two mommies, my response was, Two mommies? How lucky is she?! she wrote. Paltrow went on to question how Arkansas school board member...
Top gay rights leader: kids of religious families are target demographic of ... ad
Life Site News ^ | Fri Jun 10, 2011 | Kathleen Gilbert Top gay rights leader: kids of religious families are target demographic of anti-gay bullying ad by Kathleen Gilbert Fri Jun 10 7:18 PM EST June 10, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After the broadcast of a homosexualist advertisement during the family-friendly Fox show American Idol prompted outrage, the founder of the ad campaign has confirmed that such advertisements are intended to promote the message of the gay rights lobby to young children in households that normally wouldnt support it. One conservative leader has now demanded that Google, Fox, and Disney-Pixar sever their ties with the campaign. Peggy Nance of Concerned Women...
Italians not having kids, and now, not getting married either: new stats
Life Site News ^ | June 6, 2011 | HILARY WHITE ROME, June 3, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) The archetypal Italian family, with mamma and papa presiding over a noisy dinner table, surrounded by rambunctious children and grandchildren, has become a cultural artifact of the past. Not only are Italians not having children, they are increasingly not even bothering to get married, according to recently released government statistics. The decline in marriages is unusually uniform in a country that sees large regional cultural differences between north and south. While Italy still has a relatively low rate of divorce, with only about 10 percent of marriages failing, young people especially are increasingly either...
Federal Court Lifts Ban on Public Prayer at Texas High School Graduation After Uproar
FOXNews.com ^ | June 3, 2011 | Foxnews.com A federal appeals court has lifted the order banning public prayer at a Texas high school graduation Saturday. The reversal comes of the heels of increasing criticism of a federal judge's earlier ruling that agreed with the parents of one graduating student that religious expression during the ceremony at Medina Valley Independent School District would case "irreparable harm" to their son. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals thought differently, reversing the judge's ruling Friday and allowing students to say the words "amen" and invite the audience to pray during the ceremony.
Indiana Will Defy Obama Admin Order to Not De-Fund Planned Parenthood
Life News ^ | Indianapolis, IN | 6/2/11 | Steven Ertelt Indiana Will Defy Obama Admin Order to Not De-Fund Planned Parenthood by Steven Ertelt | LifeNews.com | 6/2/11 8:07 PMState officials in Indiana say they will defy the decision by the Obama administration asking it to not proceed with implementing a new pro-life state law that would revoke taxpayer funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business.Yesterday, the top Medicaid official in the Obama administration denied Indianas use of its new state law that would deny millions in taxpayer dollars to the Indiana affiliate of the nations largest abortion business.Governor Mitch Daniels signed the law, which would cut off anywhere from...
When Tapes Show Sex Abuse Coverups, Abortion Agenda Becomes Clear
Life News/Catholic Anchor ^ | 5/30/11 | Joel Davidson Multiple Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation clinics across the country including five in Alaska were targeted as part of a nationwide phone survey that revealed clinic staff encouraging a caller who said she was a 13-year-old girl to
cover up statutory rape and child sexual abuse.The audio recordings of those March 2002 calls were released earlier this month online. The landmark survey by Life Dynamics was a precursor to and inspiration for the more recent undercover videos by pro-life group Live Action Films, which has drawn into question whether Planned Parenthood should continue receiving hundreds of millions in annual...
Governor (Rick Perry) signs sonogram requirement for abortion (new Texas law)
AP via Houston Chronicle ^ | May 24, 2011 | CHRIS TOMLINSON Flanked by anti-abortion activists, Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday celebrated passage of a law that requires doctors to conduct a sonogram before performing an abortion. Perry said the measure will save "countless lives" by discouraging women from getting an abortion. The governor had declared the matter emergency legislation and has already officially signed the bill. Tuesday's formal signing ceremony at the Capitol brought together anti-abortion activists to celebrate the passage of the law after working four years on the measure. ...State Rep. Sid Miller, R-Stephenville, said the bill was among the toughest in the nation. Only three other states require...
falling birth rates and growing emigration due to lack of professional opportunities. "A rent in the fabric of the labour market, where they are becoming a rarity", comments the Milanese daily, noting that this does not translate into an increased demand for young workers. On...
BREAKING: Indiana first state to cut off Planned Parenthood funding as Gov. signs bill
Life Site News ^ | May 10, 2011 | KATHLEEN GILBERT INDIANAPOLIS, May 10, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Indiana has become the first state to cut off Planned Parenthood from taxpayer assistance because of its role in the abortion business. Governor Mitch Daniels, a potential contender for the 2012 GOP presidential ticket, signed on Tuesday a measure to block public funds from
going to organizations that perform abortions, depriving Planned Parenthood of an estimated $3 million in both state and federal funds. According to the Associated Press, Planned Parenthood of Indiana has promised to take to federal court to seek a temporary restraining order and injunction Tuesday against the new law.
Tapes show hundreds of Planned Parenthood, NAF clinics covering up sex abuse
LifeSiteNews ^ | 4/13/11 | Kathleen Gilbert
April 13, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The pro-life group behind a nationwide survey of Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation (NAF) clinics in 2002 has made available never-before-published raw audio and transcripts of hundreds of investigative phone calls that they say prove the abortion industrys widespread complicity with sexual abuse of minors, in violation of state laws. In an effort similar to the widely publicized work of undercover pro-life group Live Action Films, Life Dynamics nine years ago identified 906 U.S. facilities affiliated with either Planned Parenthood or NAF. Of these, the group was unable to contact 93, but launched a...
Mammograms? What mammograms? New video exposes Planned Parenthood false claim
LifeSiteNews.com -- Your Life, Family, and Culture Outpost ^ | 30-March-2011 | by Peter Jesserer Smith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq0kBkUZbvQ&feature=player_embedded Mammograms? What mammograms? New video exposes Planned Parenthood false claim by Peter Jesserer Smith Wed Mar 30 11:11 AM EST WASHINGTON, D.C., March 30, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) A new Live Action sting operation on Planned Parenthood clinics across the country belies statements by Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards and Planned Parenthood allies that cutting funding to the abortion giant would limit womens access to health care services including mammograms. If this bill ever becomes law, millions of women in this country are gonna lose their health care access - not to abortion services - to basic family planning, you know,...
To Fund or Not to Fund: Planned Parenthood Performed One Abortion Every 95 Seconds Last Year
The Blaze ^ | 04/-8/11 | Emily Esfahani Smith Planned Parenthood performed 332,278 abortions in the United States in 2009, according to a fact sheet the group published last month. That is about as many as the 333,012 people who lived in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2009, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The 332,278 abortions Planned Parenthood performed over the 365 days of 2009 equals an average of 910 lives terminated per dayor about 38 per hour, or one every 95 seconds. CNS News also points out that 90
percent of Planned Parenthoods $363.2 million came directly from the federal governmentor from Medicaid, which is a...
Number of White Children Falling Fast (Whites already minority of child populations in 10 states)
New York Times ^ Americas population of white children, a majority now, will be in the minority during this decade, sooner than previously expected, according to a new report. The Census Bureau had originally forecast that 2023 would be the tipping point for the minority population under the age of 18. But rapid growth among Latinos, Asians and people of more than one race has pushed it earlier, to 2019, according to William Frey, the senior demographer at the Brookings Institution who wrote the report about the shift, which has far-reaching political and policy implications. The single largest increase was among Hispanics, whose birthrates...
One in five mothers in America have children with different fathers, a new study shows. Researchers found that the trend was higher in minority groups and mothers with low income and education backgrounds. The data was taken over a 27-year period from nearly 4,000 U.S. women who had been interviewed more than 20 times. The study's author Cassandra Dorius said of the one in five figure: 'To put it in perspective, this is similar to the number of American adults with a college degree. It's pervasive.'
Sen. Barbara Boxer lambastes GOP effort to defund Planned Parenthood as "vendetta" on women's health
SFGate: Politics Blog ^ | 3/24/11 | Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer California U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer is lambasting what she calls a Republican "vendetta" against Planned Parenthood, saying that efforts in the House Republicans' proposed budget to entirely defund the organization will impact millions. In California alone, hundreds of thousands of women, the Democratic Senator said, use the organization's "life-saving" services -- including cancer screenings, mammograms, day-to-day health care, OB-GYN services as well as contraception and family planning. Boxer made the statements this week at a San Francisco press conference, where we asked Planned Parenthood Shasta Pacific President and CEO Heather Estes about the controversial question of the organization's providing of...
The end of middle America? Working class white families are unraveling before our eyes
NY Daily News ^ | December 19th 2010 | Kay Hymowitz Foreclosures, plant closings, offshored jobs, underwater mortgages, miserable rates of unemployment, stagnating incomes: Is there any end to the woes of the struggling American middle? Apparently not, because now comes news of a trend guaranteeing trouble ahead for the more than half of the nation that make up the moderately educated and moderately earning middle even if the economy improves. That seismic shift, outlined in a new report from the National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values, is towards more divorce, more out of
wedlock births and, ipso facto, fewer kids with a hopeful future. Family breakdown,...
Team effort between Tulsa Police and Navy Seals attempts to stop child trafficking
KJRH Channel 2 Tulsa ^ | 12-2-10 | Marla Carter "SCT Now brings awareness into action by actually having retired Navy Seals, exGreen Beret, ex-FBI those types of military men that are trained and qualified to do what we're asking them to do, which is basically track down child predators, gather information and then because of the law enforcement and they're ability to arrest, we take that information and gift wrap it to them," said Jason Weis with Stop Child Trafficking Now.
Pew + Marriage = Confusion (Do 39% of Americans really believe marriage is becoming obsolete?)
American Thinker ^ | 11/27/2010 | Tom Trinko Once again, the Pew Foundation has come out with a poll that has given liberals a sound bite moment. You've probably heard that 39% of Americans said that marriage is becoming obsolete. Yet as with the Pew poll on religion, a broader
examination reveals results that liberals would like to ignore. Among them is a reference to a 2006 World Values Survey that showed that only 13% of Americans believed that marriage was an outdated institution. It seems odd that in four years, the number of Americans who reject marriage would increase threefold.
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Grim Data Persist On The Black Condition Monday, August 30, 2010 6:07:29 PM by Kaslin 32 replies IBD Editorials ^ | August 30, 2010 | GEORGE F. WILL 10,000 baby boomers eligible for Social Security and Medicare every day. 10.2% unemployment rate including 1.2 million that quit looking. $9.9 trillion gap between expected revenues and outlays for state and local governments during next 50 years. $76.4 trillion gap between expected revenues and outlays for federal government over 75 years. 70% of blacks born to unwed mothers. Over 60% of black high school dropouts go to prison. Black women outnumber black men two to one in getting bachelors degrees. 35% of black children live with two parents. 24% of white eighth graders watch four or more hours of tv a day. 59% of black eighth graders watch four or more hours of tv a day. By age 4, the child in a professional family hears 20 million more words than the working class family and 35 million in a welfare family.
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Why Young Black Males Are Not Graduating High School Townhall.com ^ | August 26, 2010 | Janice Shaw Crouse A new report from the Schott Foundation reveals that only 47 percent of black male students earn a high school diploma on time. Ironically, this report came out shortly after Judge Vaughn Walker ruled regarding Proposition 8 in California. If the statements on which Judge Walker based his ruling are facts, how do we explain what is happening educationally to boys in the black community where a large majority are growing up without fathers? Nancy Pearcey, in an article on American Thinker, identified certain facts that Judge Walker claims are now established by the evidence presented in his courtroom. Those...
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=177245 Obama, marriage: Saboteur in chief President getting flayed for attacks on wedlock http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2541261/posts Gay Pride parade features 10 year old grand marshal Fayetteville, Arkansas Nothing else needs to be said.
No-Fathers Day Why is it so important for liberal-progressives to reduce or eliminate loyalty to the family unit? http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2010/06/21/no-fathers-day/ Great Painting Jennifer Marshall: Our heartless inattention to the collapse of marriage