Blacks, Young Adults Least Likely to OK Planned Parenthood

Blacks, Young Adults Least Likely to OK Planned Parenthood | LifeNews.com: An eye-opening nationwide survey reveals that the groups Planned Parenthood targets—namely those under the age of 35, blacks, and lower-income people—are the least likely to support their government funding.

The question was simple: “Should Tax Dollars for Family Planning Go To Organizations that Perform Abortions?”

The majority of respondents (54%) opposed granting tax funding to abortion-performing family planning groups, with 43% noting that they are “strongly” opposed to it. In contrast, just 20% of respondents noted that they would “strongly” support taxpayer funding for such groups. Interestingly, 26% of pro-choice respondents rejected giving taxpayer dollars to abortion-providing organizations.

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Deadly Disclosures (novel) - eBook for 99 cents!

Deadly Disclosures (novel) - eBook - Answers Bookstore: This is the first book in an exciting new fiction trilogy! Includes an ongoing “debate” about creation that informs as it entertains.

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Personhood: It's science fiction

Conflict Of Interest: "All of the boundaries are up for grabs. All of the boundaries that have defined us as human beings, boundaries between a human being and an animal and between a human being and a super human being or a god." — Professor Leon R. Kass, former Chairman, President's Council on Bioethics, TransHumanism, Destroying The Barriers.

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Romney Used Polls to Determine His 1994 Abortion Position

Romney Used Polls to Determine His 1994 Abortion Position | LifeSiteNews.com: In the book Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics, Ronald Scott wrote that Romney commissioned former Reagan pollster Richard Wirthlin to survey Massachusetts voters on key issues. Wirthlin showed Romney a poll indicating any candidate describing himself as “pro-life” was unelectable in the state.

Before initiating his campaign against then-incumbent Senator Ted Kennedy, Romney informed the elders of his church about his decision to run as a supporter of abortion rights. In November 1993, Romney, Wirthlin, and Scott (all Mormons) presented their case to the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as a courtesy. Romney, then a Mormon leader in his state, explained his would label himself personally opposed to abortion but would take no action to outlaw it, a view he later described as “effectively pro-choice.”

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Embryonic stem cells aren’t working, but government gives more funding anyway

Embryonic stem cells aren’t working, but government gives more funding anyway | LifeSiteNews.com: Just before Christmas, the National Institutes of Health made three more lines of embryonic stem cells eligible for federal funding. Could it possibly have anything to do with the fact that a month before, a major private company decided that there was no profit in embryonic stem cell research?

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No negative impact for surrogate's own children

BioNews - No negative impact for surrogate's own children: Acting as a surrogate does not negatively affect the psychological wellbeing of the surrogate's own children, according to a new study from the University of Cambridge.

Researchers explored the experiences and psychological health of children whose mothers had acted as a surrogate for another couple. Sixteen children took part in the study - seven boys and nine girls aged between 12 and 22 years old. Researchers visited the children at home and assessed their wellbeing by conducting interviews and asking the children to complete questionnaires.

Editor: Does anyone else think this was too small a sample from which to derive any sort of conclusion?

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Working with Muslims to protect the unborn?

Post-Christian Europe that leads the fight to make abortion the law of the world. Even such solid countries as Poland and Malta go along with Germany, France, and the United Kingdom after the EU takes a common position, which is almost always in favor of the culture of death.

What about Catholic Latin America? There are a number of reasons they are not with us. Their elites long ago sidled up to Europe on the question of abortion. They view abortion practically as a sacrament and also a badge of sophistication. Their governments also do not want to be hectored by U.N. “human rights” committees who push for a universal right to abortion.

Is it worth protecting the unborn child if we have to make common cause with the Muslim states? LifeSiteNews

Pro-Abortionists Lament Pro-Life “Siege”

Pro-Abortionists Lament Pro-Life “Siege” | NRL News Today: A three-judge federal appeal panel's lift of a temporary injunction on Texas’s new sonogram law highlights the latest wave of pro-abortion indignation/apprehension that “abortion rights” are “under siege.”

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New ‘guidelines’ pushing radical, explicit sex ed agenda on schools nationwide

Brand new ‘guidelines’ pushing radical, explicit sex ed agenda on schools nationwide | LifeSiteNews.com: A groups of progressive education organizations in league with the family planning and homosexual lobby have released a new set of sex education "guidelines" that they are pushing on schools nationwide.

Introduction to sexual orientation would begin in the 3rd – 5th grade, and by 5th grade, students are expected to be able to define sexual orientation as “the romantic attraction of an individual to someone of the same gender or a different gender.”

The 6th – 8th grade curriculum calls for an explanation of the correct way to use a condom and an analysis of “external influences that have an impact on one’s attitudes about gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity.”

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Sold For Sex, In Our Backyards

Sold For Sex, In Our Backyards | Fox News: At 16-years old, Keisha Head says she was being sold on the streets of Atlanta for sex. “I did not know that a normal, average man who was a preacher, who was a lawyer, who was a senator - could turn into this monster. That is the scariest moment when you are amongst people who claim to be normal yet they purchase you and they turn into these monsters. They rape you. They beat you. And then act as if they're normal. These are not your normal pedophiles.”

Experts say, across the globe, millions of people are trafficked each year. Hundreds of thousands of the victims are women and girls. But what surprises many -- is the rate it is happening in affluent neighborhoods where minors are being turned into sex slaves.

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A New Eugenics: Aborting the Child With a Disability

A New Eugenics: Aborting the Child With a Disability | Parenting Squad: Kaiser Permanente admitted to the New York Times that 95% of its patients in Northern California have chosen to abort children that have tested positive for cystic fibrosis, a genetic condition which clogs the lungs and leads to life-threatening lung infections and obstructs the pancreas, keeping the body from breaking down and absorbing nutrients. These percentages are shocking, especially since the life expectancy for a person with CF has risen dramatically since the 1960s, from age eight to age 37, and those with Down syndrome are now living into their 50s.

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Clinic Tells Patients: "Wrong" Not to Abort Disabled Child

Clinic Tells Patients: "Wrong" Not to Abort Disabled Child | LifeNews.com: The Orlando Women’s Center believes that, “to diagnose fetal abnormalities and not be able to terminate the pregnancy is wrong.” Because of this, they are happy to perform late abortions on babies who have been diagnosed with any fetal anomaly in order to prevent “pain and suffering to the baby and family” and to allow the family to begin the healing process. In fact, after killing the baby and inducing labor, the clinic encourages parents to hold the baby and bring home his or her footprints and hand-prints.

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New Depression Drug Likely Made With Cells From Aborted Fetus

New Depression Drug Likely Made With Cells From Abortions | LifeNews.com: Anyone who has ever suffered with depression knows a cure would be a great achievement. But a new drug under development was tested with Neuralstem’s cell line. A cell line that, with a little digging, looks to have come from an aborted fetus.

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Flexible Adult Stem Cells, Right There In Your Eye

Flexible Adult Stem Cells, Right There In Your Eye: In the future, patients in need of perfectly matched neural stem cells may not need to look any further than their own eyes. Researchers reporting in the January issue of Cell Stem Cell have identified adult stem cells of the central nervous system in a single layer of cells at the back of the eye.

Related: Type 1 Diabetes Reversed With Stem Cells From Cord Blood

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Gay editor: ‘we will teach your kids the new norms’

Gay editor: ‘we will teach your kids the new norms’ | News | The Christian Institute: Children will be taught to endorse the homosexual agenda despite the beliefs of their parents, the managing editor of a homosexual newspaper in Canada has said.

Writing in the online edition of Xtra Vancouver, Robin Perelle blasted parents with traditional beliefs saying “your outdated morals are no longer acceptable, and we will teach your kids the new norms.”

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You Never Marry the Right Person

RELEVANT Magazine - You Never Marry the Right Person: Some people in our culture want too much out of a marriage partner. They do not see marriage as two flawed people coming together to create a space of stability, love and consolation, a “haven in a heartless world,” as Christopher Lasch describes it. . . . A marriage based not on self-denial but on self-fulfillment will require a low- or no-maintenance partner who meets your needs while making almost no claims on you. Simply put—today people are asking far too much in the marriage partner.

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Three Embryos Are Too Many for IVF

Three Embryos Are Too Many for IVF: Study: British researchers analyzed data from about 124,000 IVF cycles that resulted in 33,500 live births. The live birth rate was higher among women of all ages who had two embryos implanted than among those who received one embryo. But among women younger than 40, transferring three embryos was associated with a lower birth rate than transferring two embryos.

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Occupy Philly’s Abortion Rights Rally

Report From Occupy Philly’s Post-Arrest Abortion Rights Rally | PhillyNow | A blog about Philadelphia news, politics and culture by Philadelphia Weekly: About 35 members of Occupy Philly gathered yesterday afternoon outside 30th Street Station to hand out leaflets to rush-hour passersby. Their goal was to bring attention to a series of anti-abortion legislation that’s been "creeping" through the Pennsylvania legislature and onto the desk of Gov. Tom Corbett.

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Responding to Pro-Choice Bumper-Sticker-Speak

Responding to Pro-Choice Bumper Sticker Speak: We hear vapid slogans from abortion activists all the time, so are we to respond to their bumper-sticker lines?

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Get to Know: The Reformed Pro-Lifer

Articles and Papers | The Reformed Pro-Lifer: This website has a growing list of articles from a Reformed perspective, including: The Reformed Case for Pro-Life Action and Saving Some is not Compromise.

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John MacArthur: How to Confront the Culture

How to Confront the Culture: In Acts 17:22-34, Paul spoke to an indifferent and arrogant audience, like many to whom you and I speak today. He expressed three essential elements of an effective message to confront our post-Christian culture with the truth.

First, tell them that God is. Second, tell them who God is. Third, tell them what God says.

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Continued Majority Support for Death Penalty

Continued Majority Support for Death Penalty | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: The majority of Americans who support the death penalty today offer largely the same reasons that supporters gave 20 years ago. Roughly half (53%) say the punishment fits the crime or that it is what murderers deserve. A smaller share raises concerns about the costs of keeping murderers in prison for life (15%). Relatively few death penalty supporters cite deterrence (6%) or keeping murderers from committing more crimes (5%) in explaining their position.

Editor: Only 5 percent cite the Bible or religious reasons in support of capitol punishment. Churches need to teach it as a sanctity of human life issue (Genesis 9:5-6).

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Evangelicals may face choice: electable candidate or 'moral' one?

Evangelicals may face choice: electable candidate or 'moral' one | The Tennessean | tennessean.com: The Bible is filled with scoundrels turned good. Noah was a mean drunk, Moses a murderer, King David an adulterer and then a murderer. That didn’t stop them from being biblical heroes.

So evangelical voters may be willing to support a presidential candidate with a checkered past, and this presidential election, they may have to choose between a candidate who can win and a candidate who mirrors their religious ideals.

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American Evangelicals beginning to rethink birth control, argues author of new book

American Evangelicals beginning to rethink birth control, argues author of new book | LifeSiteNews.com: A new book from one of the world’s foremost scholars in family issues examines how mid-twentieth-century evangelical leaders followed the mainstream and bought into birth control, and, briefly, abortion. Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973, by Dr. Allan Carlson, comes at a time when some American evangelicals are rethinking their position on birth control.

At a Christian conference last October in Chicago, Carlson about what he called a simple truth, namely that “faithful Christian communities produce an abundance of children, and in doing so, they change this world.” He also pointed out that since the inception of Christianity there has been what he called a consistent “reproductive consensus” that those of Christian belief oppose abortion, infanticide, a contraceptive mentality, and easy divorce.

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Will Pastors Miss the “Millions of Years” Point?

Will Pastors Miss the “Millions of Years” Point? | Around the World with Ken Ham: "Many Christian leaders think as long as they are against evolution, it doesn’t matter what they believe about the age of the earth. But the problem really is millions of years—not evolution!"

Related:
Are Pastors Clear on What They Believe About Creation?

Why the Creation-Evolution Debate is So Important

Evolution and Christianity Impossible to Reconcile, Says Evangelical Theologian
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