Planned Parenthood's real agenda

Right to Life of Michigan: For many, Planned Parenthood is a trusted name in affordable reproductive health care. Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) would like to keep that standing in the hundreds of communities where a center is operated. PPFA would also like to remain the largest abortion provider in the United States. To reach both goals, PPFA must hide the truth behind their public image and provide misleading information to women who are experiencing an unexpected pregnancy.

The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom

Amazon.com: The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom (9781581824599): David Kupelian: Books: Most of us mistakenly believe the 'abortion rights' and 'gay rights' movements were spontaneous, grassroots uprisings of neglected or persecuted minorities wanting to breathe free. Few realize America was actually 'sold' on abortion thanks to an audacious public relations campaign that relied on fantastic lies and fabrications. Or that the 'gay rights' movement faithfully followed an in-depth, phased plan laid out by professional Harvard-trained marketers. From the federal government to the public school system to the news media to the hidden creators of 'youth culture,' nothing is exempt from the thousand-watt spotlight of David Kupelian's journalistic inquiry. In the end, The Marketing of Evil is an up-close, modern-day look at what is traditionally known as 'tempation'—the art and science of making evil look good.

The violent streak in Christianity?

Strengthened by Grace Yes, there is a mean, violent streak in the true Christian life! But violence against whom, or what? Not other people!

• It’s a violence against all the impulses in us that would be violent to other people.
• It’s a violence against all the impulses in our own selves that would make peace with our own sin and settle in with a peacetime mentality.
• It’s a violence against all lust in ourselves and all enslaving desires.

The retreat from marriage — a recipe for disaster

The retreat from marriage — a recipe for disaster | LifeSiteNews.com: Albert Mohler: "Economists report that the wealth deficit of the unmarried as compared to the consistently married is as much as 75 percent. The unmarried are less healthy, less wealthy, and less stable in relationships as compared to married couples. And, to no one’s surprise, the ill effects of this condition are extended immediately to the children of unmarried unions and to generations to come. It's hard to imagine a plot to bring harm and unhappiness to human lives that can compare, in social and economic terms, to the marginalization of marriage."

Economist admits low fertility is killing Japanese economy

Economist magazine admits low fertility is killing Japanese economy | LifeSiteNews.com: In a special section devoted to Japan appearing in the November 20-27 edition, the Economist laments that “Japan is heading into a demographic vortex. It is the fastest-aging society on Earth and the first big country in history to have started shrinking rapidly from natural causes.”

Human cloning an ‘imminent threat’: scientist

Human cloning an ‘imminent threat’: scientist | LifeSiteNews.com: Dr. Theresa Deisher, a molecular and cellular physiologist and an internationally recognized expert in regenerative medicine, explored the negative consequences of pluripotent stem cell technology in a speech in Washington, DC recently as she discussed a slippery slope towards objectifying human beings in modern biotechnology. “Ultimately where we’re really going is reproductive cloning."

Abortion and the occult: a glimpse inside life at a death mill

Abortion and the occult: a glimpse inside life at a death mill | LifeSiteNews.com: According to Abigail Seidman, her mother’s descent into the abortion culture was not motivated by the usual social talking points - to save women from dangerous back-alley abortions, or to “help” women in difficult situations - or even for the money. It was a religion – literally.

Seidman described the abortion clinic where her mother worked as a nurse as “pervaded with occult imagery and practices.” The workers considered “abortion to be a form of sacrifice,” would perform the procedure as a sort of ritual, and worshipped deities embodying death, she said.

Interview transcript - read with caution.

Judge gets it half right in striking down health care law

Family Research Council: A federal judge in Virginia struck down parts of the newly enacted health care law that includes taxpayer funding of abortion.

From Genesis to the Gospel

From Genesis to the Gospel - Answers in Genesis: When the Lord was walking in the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve sinned, He came to seek those who had been lost. This loving act is one of God’s characteristics that shows that when man sinned, He still loved us and had a plan in place for salvation. When Christ stepped into history, it was to seek and save the lost (Luke 19:10).

Women of the Bible: Puah and Shiprah

Puah and Shiprah are Egyptian names. Aben Ezra, the ancient Jewish historian, says that these two women 'were chiefs over all the midwives, who were more than 500.' As superintendents of such a large staff to which they had been appointed by the Egyptian government, Pharaoh ordered them to carry out his terrible command just as he would give orders to any other of his officials. As it is likely that only the chief Hebrews could afford the service of midwives, probably the order of Pharaoh only applied to them. Although Egyptians by birth, it would seem as if they had embraced the Hebrew faith, for we are told that Puah and Shiprah 'feared God' ( Exodus 1:21).

Receiving the royal command to commit murder, these two loyal, vigorous, middleaged women were caught between two fires. Whom should they obey? The God of the Hebrews in whom they had come to believe, or the tyrannical king of Egypt? True to their conscience and honored calling they knew it would conflict with the divine command to kill, and so 'saved the men children alive.' Thus, they obeyed God rather than man, and in so doing brought upon their heads the rage of Pharaoh. Bible Gateway

How dare you as a man…

How dare you as a man… | LifeSiteNews.com: There's a popular pro-choice cartoon showing some old men in judges’ robes, obviously pregnant. One of them says to another “maybe we should rethink our position on abortion.” People who argue this way assume what is plainly not the case, that all women take a pro-choice position on abortion. But even apart from this fact, there are many reasons why men as well as women need to confront the moral issue of abortion.

Editor: Truth is truth. It's not dependent on who's saying it.

Childless couples win the right to pay surrogate mothers

Childless couples win the right to pay surrogate mothers - Telegraph: A senior family court judge allowed a British couple to keep a newborn child even though they had technically broken the law by giving more than “reasonable expenses” to the American natural mother.

Related: "They are just wombs"

Life on other planets

News to Note, December 11, 2010 - Answers in Genesis: If the emergence of life is the consequence of essentially random processes (a planet in the “just right” zone of a star, chemicals organizing in just the right way on the backs of crystals or in clay bubbles), and if we discover a seemingly infinite number of worlds with all manner of variation, it’s almost a statistically impossibility that earth could be the only home of intelligent life. It’s a sort of astrobiological corollary of the Copernican principle—that, whatever the evidence may be, the earth and its life just can’t be unique. Thus, evolutionists are painted into a corner because the philosophical consequences of finding no life beyond earth would serve a death-blow to their worldview.

Brazilians overwhelmingly reject pro-abort agenda of ruling party

Brazilians overwhelmingly reject pro-abort, homosexualist agenda of ruling party | LifeSiteNews.com: The poll by Vox Populi revealed that 82% of Brazilians wish to maintain abortion as a crime, and 72% are against its depenalization. Religious differences only changed the latter result marginally, with 75% of Evangelicals, 73% of Catholics, and 69% of other religions opposing depenalization.

A mom raves about a children's Bible

Every Story Whispers His Name — We are THAT Family: Blogger reviews The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name -- "Every story, from Adam and Eve to Saul, from Noah to the prodigal son, whispers the name of Jesus. The author follows The Author’s lead and every story points back or ties in the work of Jesus Christ. I have learned so much and it’s opened the Word of God up to me."

Globe Theatre to mark 400 years of KJV

Globe Theatre to mark 400 years of King James Bible | News | The Christian Institute: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is to celebrate 400 years of the King James Bible by hosting a cover-to-cover reading of the text next year. The readings, estimated to take 69 hours, will happen between Palm Sunday and Easter Monday.

The production at the Globe is part of a season entitled “The Word is God” and the Theatre says it will interrupt the readings with performances of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The Globe’s artistic director, Dominic Dromgoole commented: “We are celebrating the word, and man’s capacity to make a god of language, and out of language. If people want to take a bit of God, of whatever religion they might be, they are welcome to do so.”

US researchers breed mice from two males

US researchers breed mice from two males - stem cells, reproduction, mice, iPS cells, Biotechnology - Australian Life Scientist: It’s been something of a holy grail amongst reproductive scientists for some time; the breeding of animals with same sex parents. However, reports today by U.S researchers of the successful breeding of mice from two fathers have been met with caution by Australian scientists and legal experts.

“Whilst the findings in this paper are intriguing, whether such an approach could ever be applied to human reproduction is highly unlikely,” said Dr Megan Munsie, Senior Manager, Research and Government, Australian Stem Cell Centre. “The mice were not born simply from two fathers. Rather they were created by a complex process dependent on access to foetal tissue, the creation of stem cells, additional embryos, surrogate mothers and natural mating.”

Round 3 of the personhood debate

Operation Rescue has posted part three of a four part debate of the tactic of Personhood Amendments. Statements in favor of the Personhood Amendment strategy were written by Keith Ashley of Personhood Kansas.  Statements opposing the Personhood Amendment strategy were penned by Steven Ertelt, Founder and Editor of Lifenews.com.

Today, OR posted replies to rebuttals written by Mr. Ashley and Mr. Ertelt to each other's opening statements. Closing arguments for each side are tentatively scheduled to post on December 15, 2010.

Senate shoots down ‘don’t ask,’ military abortion ban repeal

Senate shoots down ‘don’t ask,’ military abortion ban repeal | LifeSiteNews.com: U.S. Senate Democrats failed in their bid to bring a defense authorization bill to the Senate floor that included repeal of the military’s ban on homosexuals and the ban on abortion at military bases on Thursday.

Scientists Still Pushing for Human Cloning Amid Media Blackout

Scientists Still Pushing for Human Cloning Amid Media Blackout | LifeNews.com: While the subject of cloning has not been in the news lately, people should realize that there are some scientists who still want human clones, and politicians pushing for approval of human cloning for experiments.

Polygamy debate evokes familiar 'rights' argument

MARRIAGE AND THE LAW / Polygamy debate evokes familiar 'rights' argument: I get that polygamy and same-sex marriage are completely different institutions. But their advocates rely on the same arguments, even if same-sex marriage advocates take umbrage. It's funny how quickly the switch can flip. Now civil-liberties types are wondering if maybe polygamy should be legal.

The State of Our Unions, 2010

The State of Our Unions 2010: The State of Our Unions monitors the current health of marriage and family life in America. Produced annually, it is a joint publication of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values.

Unmarried With Kids: A Shift In The Working Class

Unmarried With Kids: A Shift In The Working Class : NPR: The path to adulthood used to be clear — love, marriage, baby carriage — and no one embodied that more than America's working class. But today, for those with only a high school education, that order no longer holds.

Why pay for more population control?

WORLDmag.com | Community | Blog Archive | Why pay for more population control?: The late British writer Malcolm Muggeridge once puckishly observed: “There’s a bright lining to this terrible abortion cloud. In a hundred years, there will be no Sweden.” He didn’t really mean it, of course, but Sweden is just one of the Western European countries facing a population crisis—not too many people, but too few.

Side Effects: What Doctors Have to Say About Obamacare

Side Effects: What Doctors Have to Say About Obamacare | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: The Physicians Foundation found that “rather than a sign of progress, the survey suggests that most physicians view health reform as a further erosion of the unfavorable conditions with which they must contend.” Furthermore, Obamacare “has further disengaged doctors from their profession, with potentially negative consequences for both the medical profession and for the quality and accessibility of medical care in the United States.”