Hillary, Planned Parenthood and Plan B

Sen. Hillary Clinton, portrays herself as a scourge of the pharmaceutical industry, but she has shown that she’s willing to help a drugmaker if that’s what it takes to profit Planned Parenthood, her indispensable political ally.

Clinton’s campaign Web site touts that she has “battled the big drug companies.” Yet she has sponsored many bills that would directly subsidize Barr Laboratories, maker of the emergency contraceptive pill Plan B, which also functions as an abortifacient. Thanks to a deal cut between Barr and Planned Parenthood, those taxpayer subsidies will yield generous profits for the pro-choice group that every four years spends millions trying to elect a Democrat to the White House. Timothy P Carney, Hillary Clinton: Shill for the pill Examiner

Other Presidential News

 Abortion Will Be the Key Issue in the 2008 Election Deal W Hudson, InsideCatholic.com

Hillary, Under Lock and Key There are definitely First Lady Clinton papers we haven't seen. Stephen Spruiell, NRO

Thompson Acting Without a Script Debra Saunders, San Fran Chronicle

Immigration Burns Candidates Republicans and Democrats Alike
Approach Issue With Care. Wall Street Journal

Right can win with President Giuliani Gary Bauer and Daniel Allott, Politico

The Rap Against Huckabee What’s true, and what’s not. Byron York, NRO

Ten Things the Republican Nominee Must Understand to Earn the True Conservative Vote Douglas MacKinnon, Townhall

Church and State Today: What belongs to Caesar, and what doesn’t
Archbishop Chaput

It's time for all of us who claim to be "Catholic" to recover our Catholic identity as disciples of Jesus
Christ and missionaries of his Church. In the long run, we serve our country best by remembering that
we're citizens of heaven first. We're better Americans by being more truly Catholic -- and the reason
why, is that unless we live our Catholic faith authentically, with our whole heart and our whole strength,
we have nothing worthwhile to bring to the public debates that will determine the course of our nation.
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Bill Description: To provide that human life shall be deemed to begin with fertilization.

Congressman Broun is about to introduce his first legislation and it is a pro- life bill that would declare that a human life begins at conception. Broun was elected July 17, 2007 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rep. Charlie Norwood. Ask you representative to co-sponsor this bill.

Noteworthy

A Faithless Flag?

Update: VA rescinds ban on flag-folding recitation at veterans' funerals after national media and a dozen members of Congress demanded the prohibition be lifted. read article

In the ongoing effort to take God out of everything, the Department of Veterans Affairs has stepped forward to do their fair share. Prayers at school? Forget about it. Saying "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance? The courts keep trying to remove the words. Now, the federal government wants to remove God from your burial ceremony. Cradle to grave with no faith references? That is not the foundation that built our country. Bobby Eberle, GOPUSA
The meaning of each fold Wash Times

ADF attorneys send letter to VA offering constitutional analysis after flag-folding recitation faces legal threat

That Evangelical Crackup - Don’t believe it.

The reality is that, for millions of voters—evangelical, Catholic, and other—the number-one moral and political issue is the defense of the unborn. Join that to the defense of marriage and family and it seems certain that we are talking about no less than twenty million people. That is more than enough votes, or decisions not to vote, to decide a presidential election. It seems probable edging up to certainty that, if the choice is between a pro-abortion Republican, such as Giuliani, and a pro-abortion Democrat, such as any of the Democratic candidates, those millions will take it as an invitation not to be bothered with election day. read more Richard John Neuhaus, First Things

White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) Week

Morality in Media asks every American concerned about the floodtide of pornography pouring into our nation's communities, homes, and children's minds to do one or more of the following in conjunction with the White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) Week, which runs this year from Sunday, October 28 through Sunday, November 4, 2007.

State News

Alaska The Alaska Supreme Court ruled Friday that girls 16 and younger do not have to obtain parental consent to receive an abortion.

New Jersey Please don't forget to go to the Polls on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 and Vote No on Public Question # 2 - Referred to as the Clone and Kill "Stem Cell" Research Bond by New Jersey Right to Life

California Sex Offenders Evade Law by Going 'Homeless' Hundreds of California sex offenders who face tough new restrictions on where they can live are declaring themselves homeless -- truthfully or not -- and that's making it difficult for the state to track them

Ohio Ohio doesn't accept federal money to fight HIV in teens Columbus- Ohio and Utah are the only two states in the nation turning down federal money intended to prevent HIV infections in teenagers.

Oklahoma Catholic Charities to Defy New Immigration Law Declaring that the church's duty is to serve the poor, a representative of Catholic Charities has delivered almost 1,100 signed pledges of resistance to Oklahoma's new immigration law to Governor Brad Henry's office.

Utah Voters to Decide on Voucher Plan Utah voters will decide Tuesday whether to adopt the country's first statewide school voucher program that would be open to anyone. The referendum could influence efforts elsewhere to use tax dollars for private school tuition.

New York Licenses-for-Illegals Faces Court Challenge On Thursday, Republican members of the New York State Assembly filed a lawsuit against Spitzer and the state's Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner David Swarts in New York State Supreme Court in Albany County to stop the policy.

Florida Top Court Rules Lethal-Injection Method Constitutional The Florida Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that the state's lethal-injection methods, revised after a botched execution last December, are constitutional.

Presidential Candidate Chris Dodd has voted only once to support a pro-life bill in the last 10 years. He supports federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. He voted against a federal marriage amendment.

 

 

This Weeks Headlines

Senate Passes Revised Child Health Bill Despite Veto Threat The Senate passed a new bill Thursday expanding a popular children's health insurance program, despite the lingering threat of a veto from President Bush. CNN

Bush, Pelosi taking fight to new level
Pelosi’s attack on Bush was in response to remarks the president made hours before at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Bush charged Democrats in Congress as too responsive to liberal groups like MoveOn.org and Code Pink. The Hill

House Holds Hearing on Bush Policy Preventing Tax-Funded Intl Abortions The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a full hearing on the Mexico City Policy on Wednesday -- the Bush administration policy that protects taxpayers from supporting groups that perform or promote abortions overseas. LifeSite

Critics Claim ENDA Would Threaten Religious Freedom With congressional Democrats trying to gather votes for a bill to extend employment discrimination protections to cover sexual orientation, religious groups are concerned that the bill would threaten religious liberties, while proponents of the bill say these concerns are unfounded. CNSNews

Dems Planning to Restore Fairness Doctrine?OpinionJournal

 

 

From Our Shepherds

Cardinal: Christians Called to Fight Torture Christians are called to defend human rights, and particularly work for the abolition of the death penalty, says the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. The cardinal said: "Christians are called to cooperate for the defense of human rights and for the abolition of the death penalty, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment against the human person in time of peace and in case of war." Zenit

To be a good Christian is to be a good citizen, explains the Holy Father
"Vatican Council II, "exhorts Christians, as citizens of two cities, to strive to discharge their earthly duties conscientiously and in response to the Gospel spirit. They are mistaken who, knowing that we have here no abiding city but seek one which is to come, think that they may therefore shirk their earthly responsibilities. For they are forgetting that by the faith itself they are more obliged than ever to measure up to these duties, each according to his proper vocation." CNA

Pope Benedict challenges pharmacists to refuse to dispense abortion pill
An international gathering of Catholic pharmacists was received by Pope Benedict today at the Vatican. In his talk with them, the Holy Father insisted that health professionals must be allowed the right to exercise conscientious objection when it comes to dispensing drugs that cause abortion or euthanasia— words that are sure to impact the debate about the abortion pill in the U.S.  CNA

Bishops

Bishops Weigh Political Statement The nation's bishops will vote next month on a political roadmap for Roman Catholics headed into the 2008 election that gives top billing to abortion but also spotlights a wide range of issues, including opposition to torture and killing noncombatants in war.

Commentary

 Planned Parenthood faces criminal charges: A pattern? Andrew Flusche, American Life League

Death Penalty's Deadly Vacation John Lott, New York Post

Tortured Logic Senatorial moral preening may derail an excellent nominee. Mona Charen, NRO

Keep Religion In, Not Out Of, Politics John Hawkins, Townhall

Spitzer's Plan: A License for Vote Fraud? John Fund, Wall Street Journal

 Blue Dress Democrats and the Clinton Scandal Effect Lorie Byrd, Townhall

Time for Compromise on SCHIP Sen. Jim DeMint, RealClearPolitics

Protecting your children from perverts and pornography Rebecca Hagelin, Townhall

Doubling Down on Stem Cells Is your state in debt? Try gambling on embryonic research. Charlie Spierling, NRO

The Rangel Tax Bill: Roses Among the Thorns JD Foster, Heritage Foundation