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It might be tempting to equate the assertion that Obamacare definitely pays for abortions with claims that Obama’s death panels will kill your grandmother and siphon money from your bank account. . They’re actually different. The death panel and raid-your-bank-account ideas are lies. The abortion charge is merely a big exaggeration. Let’s go to the…

An academic colleague of William Ayers? A Kenyan socialist? Or a conservative Republican from Georgia?

Three things surprised me about the study of nuns (by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University for the National Religious Vocation Conference) reported on by Laurie Goodstein in today’s New York Times (MSM): –I knew the population of Catholic clergy was aging but this is truly amazing: “Ninety-one percent of…

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It’s very hard to make sense of what’s going on related to abortion and health care. Conservative pro-lifers claim the health care plan recently passed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee would increase the government’s support for abortion. “They wont pay for my surgery but we’re forced to pay for abortions,” says a frightened…

According to a new account, President Bush tried to enlist France’s support for the Iraq invasion by telling French President Jacques Chirac that the war would fulfill Biblical end of times prophecies. “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who…

Nancy Pelosi calls the insurance executives the “villains.” But is it really the case that the insurance industry is immoral? The answer to this question was probably best provided by Jessica Rabbit, the femme fatale in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” when she said, “I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.” I covered the insurance…

Until recently, Obama has emphasized two rationales for health care reform — reducing the burden on the economy and providing universal coverage. One attempts to appeal to our sense of fiscal responsibility, another to our conscience. “The cost of our health care has weighed down our economy and the conscience of our nation long enough,”…

A debate is raging over how the new health care legislation ought to treat abortion. Recently, the conservative group, Family Research Council’s legislative arm, FRC Action, launched an ad campaign claiming that health care reform would “mandate” abortion. This prompted charges from the progressive group Catholics United that FRC was making things up. Then there…

The House Energy and Commerce Committee wrestling with health care last night narrowly approved one measure (“The Capps Amendment”) claiming to be neutral on abortion — but which opponents claimed was slanted toward the pro-choice side. Then they narrowly voted for a different amendment (“The Pitts Amendment”) claiming to be neutral — but which a…
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