JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

This past weekend I listened to a pro-life Republican Catholic senator explain why it was acceptable for him, from a political perspective, to support the re-election campaign of a totally pro-abortion fellow Republican.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in Gonzales v Oregon, is continuing its pattern of ruling against traditional morality. Once again the dignity of the human person and his innate identity as a member of the human race was subjugated to the false argument of “choice” divorced from right reason.

When I read the latest news about pharmacist Heather Williams, who was fired by Target because she refused to fill prescriptions for abortive drugs like the morning-after pill, I was reminded of a simple, but oft overlooked fact:

The U.S. Senate faces a bit of a quandary. Do they create a bogey man out of Judge Samuel Alito and persist in misrepresenting his, to be frank, nebulous record, or do they face the honest facts and vote on his qualifications, period?

It is always a challenge to remain calm when the news reports on the March for Life begin pouring into the e-mail box or the actual “in” box at my office.

I almost feel sorry for the people at Planned Parenthood Federation of America. It’s obvious that they are in the middle of an identity crisis and their affiliates are acting schizophrenic.

The five members of the United States Supreme Court who agreed in Justice Kennedy’s opinion that the federal government has no “legitimate” right to claim that the Oregon physician

Planned Parenthood in Missoula, Montana is no longer providing “surgical” abortions and claims they are confident that Missoula’s Blue Mountain clinic will be able to pick up the slack.

I can remember my mother always drumming it into my head that if you make a decision that involves other people, but you are in charge, then the blame or the glory belongs only to you.

Recently Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) wrote a scathing commentary for the Washington Post.

Through July 2005, the first sentence of the organizational description that appeared at the bottom of every Planned Parenthood press releases read