Here is a discussion not of the legality of the mandates, nor of the morality of contraception, but of the physical costs of contraception.
Oregon reports that there were “71 known assisted suicide deaths in 2011, up from 65 the year before.” Wesley Smith notes that the reports are based solely on self-reporting by doctors, because there are no mandatory reporting requirements.
Bill allows Virginia women to see ultrasound at abortion facilities.
Three bioethicists propose that the answer to global warming changes may be to genetically engineer smaller babies.
The California Department of Public Health has begun a program of providing free condoms by mail to children as young as twelve.
Former Planned Parenthood abortion facility director Abby Johnson has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.
Alicia joined Anglicans for Life for the first time at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. and shares her experience here.
Planned Parenthood Federation released its latest Annual Report for 2009-2010.
Those who support the sanctity of life are pleased to see the ban authored by former Congressman Dave Weldon (R-FL)—renewed each year since 2004 on the Commerce, Justice and State Appropriations bill to prevent the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from issuing patents on “human organisms”—made permanent. The House of Representatives, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith, added the Weldon language into the bill to make this ban permanent, preventing the patenting of human embryos.
