A precedent-setting package of abortion bills is now before the Michigan Senate, having passed the House in late July. Collectively called the Coercive Abortion Bills, the package is intended to protect women from being forced or intimidated into having abortions.

Since men have to pay paternity costs, how much say should they have in deciding on an abortion?  read more »

Police and environmental officials are investigating the improper disposal of medical waste and patient records at a suburban Detroit abortion clinic after an anti-abortion group found hum  read more »

The differences between post-abortion support groups. Some deal with guilt, while others affirm the decision.

Colorado: A celebration for Planned Parenthood was planned, but an abortion survivor was presented right before. Appropriate or not?

With Christmas just weeks away, a labor group on Tuesday denounced "horrific" sweatshop conditions where crucifixes are made in China to be sold at religious gift shops in the Un  read more »

Pope Benedict XVI blasted Europeans for being selfish and not having enough children, in a sermon on Saturday at the 850-year-old pilgrimage site of Mariazell in Austria.

How d  read more »

A number of religious leaders met to denounce human trafficking and abuse of women and children.

Defending the right of women to sexual and reproductive integrity in the face of grave human rights violations, Amnesty International recently incorporated a focus on selected aspects of abortion into its broader policy on sexual and reproductive rights.  read more »

SEARCH engine Google is facing a global backlash from internet users over its refusal to carry advertisements for a Christian group.The Christian Institute is sueing Google on the grounds it is infrin  read more »

An anti-abortion group has won its long legal fight to force Arizona to issue "choose life" license plates, and the proposed new plates could be available to the group's members within several months.

The Catholic Church in Australia has always been a strong supporter of the human rights aims and goal of Amnesty International. But, now that AI has adopted a pro-abortion position that runs counter to the Church's pro-life teaching, that long-standing relationship may be over.

Should they continue to support Amnesty International?  read more »

Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne Philip Freier has made a last-minute intervention in Victoria's abortion debate, joining the growing clamour for the proposed laws to be amended to allow doctors and n  read more »

A chimpanzee cannot be declared a person, Austria's Supreme Court has ruled, activists said Tuesday.An animal rights group had sought to have the chimp, Matthew Hiasl Pan, declared a  read more »

Federal Way police said a newborn baby boy was found wrapped in a blanket Monday on the doorstep of Calvary Lutheran Church.

Nobody ever leaves babies on our doorstep. It seems  read more »

The Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said the full body of U.S.  read more »

This article lists several moral measures around the country and their results.

Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the president of the Italian bishops’ conference, reaffirmed the Church’s opposition to euthanasia during comments on January 22. Cardinal Ruini also sharply cr  read more »

The second-highest ranking Catholic official on church doctrine has stepped up the church's condemnation of abortion calling it "terrorism with a human face." The Catholic church has always taken a strongly pro-life position but the description of abortion that Archbishop Angelo Amato used to describe abortion is especially intense.

Is this stepping over the line?  read more »

Roman Catholic bishops in Connecticut have agreed to let hospital personnel give emergency contraception to all rape victims, reversing their decision days before a new state law requires  read more »

Becky Carrubba, a student at Gowana, said that she was told she was “too young to believe in these type of things.” She stood her ground and said that the principal shouldn't say what 8th graders could and could not believe in or for that matter what they should talk about.  read more »

Christian Coalition of America commends the five justices on the Supreme Court who upheld the ban on the gruesome procedure called partial birth abortion, legislation which passed overwhelmingly in the U.S. Houses of Representatives (281-142) and in the U.S. Senate (64-34.)

 Step in the right direction or congress playing doctor? I believe the former, but what do you think?  read more »

The little fat Buddha statues don't reflect modern times. A recent study shows that Christians, especially Baptists, Pentecostals and Catholics, have a greater propensity toward obesity than others.

France is hosting it annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon, but the Roman Catholic Church is objecting because some of the money being raised will go to embryonic stem cell research.

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has condemned plans to make it easier for lesbian couples to use IVF to become parents.  read more »

A Christian medical body says holding back treatment to allow ill newborn babies to die - when treatment would be "a burden" - is not euthanasia.

When is ending a life murder? And does it matter how old the child is? Is any life "not worth living"? 

CAIRO, Egypt — The death of a 12-year-old Egyptian girl at the hands of a doctor performing female circumcision in the country's south has sparked a public outcry and prompted health and religious authorities this week to ban the practice.

Her mother paid for her to have the FGM procedure done.  read more »

Prominent evangelical Christians are urging churchgoers to strongly consider adoption or foster care, not just out of kindness or biblical calling but also to answer criticism that their movement, while condemning abortion and same-sex adoption, does not do enough for children without parents.

God says to care for the orphans and widows.  read more »

Two followers of a fundamentalist Christian church that favours faith healing over conventional medicine are to be prosecuted for manslaughter after their daughter died of a treatable infection.Carl a  read more »

A campaign by U.S. religious-right groups to soften their image by finding homes for children drew a cautious response from the Family Pride Coalition, which urged Friday that prospective adopters also find room in their hearts for tolerance.

Gay rights groups respond to the evangelical push for more adoption and foster parenting by asking that groups like Focus on the Family stop lobbying against GLBT adoption.  read more »

"Such is the gist of Ms. Magazine's current campaign to thwart trends toward curtailment of abortion. The Oct. 10 issue of the feminist magazine features a cover story titled 'We Had Abortions,' as well as a petition signed by thousands of women who, well, have had abortions."  read more »

At Wednesday’s CNN/YouTube debate, a questioner asked former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee “what would Jesus do” on the death penalty.

A former youth pastor was sentenced to death Wednesday for killing a teenager and her fetus in what is believed to be the first such order in Texas, the nation's busiest death penalty state.

It's not so much that he's a former pastor, but that he's being charged for the murder of the unborn child.  read more »

Google has agreed to display ads for anti-abortion messages from religious groups on its search site as part of an out-of-court settlement with a British Christian organization, the group said Wednesd  read more »

The family of a 12-year-old boy who is brain dead is fighting a hospital's attempt to have him taken off life support, arguing that their faith does not define death as the cessation of brain function  read more »

"Paging Dr. Moreau! Doctor Moreau, line 1!"

This would be moot if we didn't have embryonic stem cell research.

The discovery of children’s bones near a Christian hospital in northern India has led to accusations of illegal abortion against the clinic. The (Anglican) Church of North India which runs the clinic denies this and says fundamentalist Hindus are behind hyping up the scandal.

A number of bones of children were found behind the hospital.  read more »

Today anthropologists in South America seemingly have their own prime directive: no interfering in native cultures, even when those societies apparently practice infanticide.  read more »

Churches are basically being told that, if they preach against abortion, they can lose their tax-exempt status.

"By now, everyone on planet Earth has seen the new video campaign ad featuring Michael J. Fox, shaking uncontrollably from Parkinson's tremors as he endorses Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill of Missouri. Fox, like McCaskill, is a vocal supporter of embryonic stem cell research and in the ad he lays into incumbent Republican Jim Talent for not wanting to cough up the dough for more funding. Now get ready for the "answer ad" that's been thrown up as a rebuttal, featuring none other than the Light of the World himself, James Caviezel. This ad begins with Caviezel directly addressing the viewer in unsubtitled Aramaic before handing off to some sports notables and television personalities, each of whom lay out reasons why the viewer must not to be fooled into supporting the measure."  read more »

Hundreds of mourners gathered Sunday at the lay funeral of a paralyzed man who had a doctor disconnect his respirator.

The Roman Catholic Church denied a religious ceremony for Piergiorgio Welby on the grounds that he sought to end his own life, a decision that prompted some at his funeral to display signs that read: "Church, shame on you."  read more »

if sperm could be grown in the lab, it would be possible to take early germ cells from one woman, turn them into sperm cells, and use those to fertilize the egg of another woman. read more »

Mexico President Felipe Calderon has backed the Catholic Church's stance on abortion and declared himself against a change in the country's strict abortion laws.

They're proposing a law that would legalize abortion in the 1st 13 weeks.  read more »

The hospital doesn't want to keep her baby on Life Support. So much for the parent having the final say.

The article has a definite bias against the doctors from the first sentence,
but it's all about those who refuse to prescribe abortion pills, contraceptives, sterilizations, as well as euthanasia, Viagra to unmarried men, fertility treatments to lesbians, etc.  read more »

A nonprofit that runs a national post-abortion telephone talk line has unveiled a series of electronic greeting cards that concerned friends and family can send to a woman after she chooses to terminate a pregnancy.

The cards cover all of the various responses a woman might feel.  read more »

The Bush administration proposed stronger job protections Thursday for doctors and other health care workers who refuse to participate in abortions because of religious or moral objections.

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday that he was probably too flip when he said it was "above my pay grade" to answer a question about when is a baby entitled to human righ  read more »

"Older people who are religious have a significantly enhanced quality of life in old age than non-religious older Americans, a study has found."

What I see here the most is the extra involvement in  read more »

To the Spierings, Nebraska's requirement that newborn babies undergo blood screening within 48 hours of birth is an infringement on their religious beliefs and their right to decide what is best for their four children.

They're evangelical Christians who also embrace some Scientology. But when certain tests need to be done right after birth,  where's the line between parental rights and the welfare of the child?  read more »

Matt Beckenham arrived at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in the morning for a short visit with the baby dubbed Joan -- and described the tiny miracle as "absolutely beautiful".Mr Beckenham discovered Joan in a cardboard box outside Haberfield Baptist Church about 7.30am on Saturday.

People put the strangest things in the offering plate.  read more »

A Labour peer has accused the leader of Scotland's Catholic Church of misleading the public over the government's embryo research proposals.Fertility expert Lord Winston said statements made by Cardin  read more »

Quote: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) defines conception (and therefore pregnancy) as beginning at the moment of implantation. "Conception is implantation," says ACOG, and therefore EC cannot, by definition, cause an abortion???even if it affects a fertilized egg. But, as Karen Brauer of Pharmacists for Life International told CT, "Our issue has to do with human life, not their definition of pregnancy." In her view, human life begins the moment that an egg is fertilized.  read more »

Planned Parenthood of Idaho has apologized after an employee encouraged a telephone donation aimed at aborting black babies.Officials for the group said last month that the employee made a "serious mi  read more »

Is capital punishment a Christian teaching? Does the Bible require it? Does the Bible forbid it? A Polish bishop says the Pope forbids it.

The Pope gave his backing on Wednesday to Mexican Church leaders who have threatened to excommunicate Catholic lawmakers for voting to legalize abortion on demand in Mexico City.

One thing I have to say about the current Pope: he has a spine.  read more »

RCRC -- the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice -- will hold two events at the Democratic National Convention to highlight abortion and other reproductive rights issues in the campaign.  read more »

A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has struck back against criticism from prominent Catholic prelates who accused her of misrepresenting church teachings about abortion."While Catholic teachin  read more »

Religious doctors are less likely to prescribe the morning after pill. Yes, it's called "emergency contraception," but that's only after you redefine "conception" to "implantation". So the study shows the need to make the pilll available over the counter.  read more »

The case pits state law, which says a person is dead when the brain is dead, and some religious groups who believe a person is only dead when the heart stops. The difference is important for patients totally dependent on life support.  read more »

"Five people have been killed in western Ethiopia in violence between Christians and Muslims."

Christians wanted to celebrate a religious holiday, and Muslims tried to stop them. 5 are dead from th  read more »

"Hirawat, 93, a frail, birdlike woman, has eaten nothing in more than a month, attempting to free her soul from its bad deeds, part of the Jain religious tradition that says fasting can lead to nirvana."  read more »

The number of abortions in the United States dropped to 1.2 million in 2005, the lowest level since 1974 and down 25 percent from the all-time high of 1.6 million in 1990, according to rep  read more »

Scientists for the first time were able to clone embryos from adult monkeys, a breakthrough that raises the possibility that human cloning might soon be possible,

"You wer  read more »

Researchers at Wake Forest University and Harvard University reported the stem cells they drew from amniotic fluid donated by pregnant women hold much the same promise as embryonic stem cells.  read more »

A scientist who claims to have cloned embryos for Embryonic Stem Cell treatment has been arrested for faking his findings.

News that scientists have for the first time genetically altered a human embryo is drawing fire from some watchdog groups that say it's a step toward creating "designer babies." But an author of the s  read more »

e researchers said they found a safe way to coax adult cells to regress into an embryonic state.

Harvard is cloning babies do destroy them and harvest the stem cells. This is what happens when you outlaew human cloning but dehumanize unborn babies.

This article discusses not only the upcoming bill, but the non-destructive alternatives to Embryonic Stem Cell Research.

The Catholic bishop of Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware, Bishop Francis Malooly, recently published a letter to the editor in response to an interview Senator Biden gave to the same paper about hi  read more »

Planned Parenthood has reached a new low. Planned Parenthood-Indiana is giving the "gift of death" to the unborn this holiday season.

An Egyptian-made sing-along DVD aimed at children in the local Muslim community in England reportedly glorifies homicide bombings, The Daily Mail reported.

Apparently the "will of Christ" just happens to dovetail with the policy goals of the far right.  read more »

A North Texas church used Father's Day to present the couple who've been selected for free fertility treatment.The Reverend Keith Luttrell of the eleven7 church of Southlake says more than 100 couples  read more »