JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

The news out of Topeka, Kansas proves a point – being a Republican is being whatever you want to be unless becoming a Democrat can aid in your defense of child killing.

The New Jersey Legal Center for Defense of Life announced a victory for babies! A court has agreed that the center can proceed with its claim for an award of attorneys’ fees against the infamous Englewood abortion mill that is known publicly as Metropolitan Medical Services.

Pro-death Senator Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) is proposing that the U.S. Senate wait until a “date certain” in 2006 to vote yes or no on the human embryonic stem cell research funding bill (HR 810/S 471) that would lift the ban on government funding for the deadly practice.

What a joy it was to read a news story about a Catholic bishop taking a stand against the Culture of Death!

These are vexing times. We have seen the president nominate for a position on the Supreme Court a woman whose record is not just unclear but practically unknown.

We all know that the Catholic Church is consistently attacked as being stuck in the dark ages because the Church refuses to recommend the use of condoms in preventing the spread of AIDS.

National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru talks about recent “bad news” for pro-lifers, claiming that polls show an downsurge in the number of Americans who define themselves as pro-life.

There has been a great deal of debate for some months over the question of whether Senator Bill Frist is or is not pro-life.

I was shocked to read that the most recent efforts of the European euthanasia forces are wrapped in the name “Dignitas.”

It was heartening for us to read the most recent statements coming from the Vatican, focused on the great gift God has given Catholic people in the reality of who is present in the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist.

In a Zenit news report, we read: “Archbishop Levada suggested that the synod, in its small-group discussions, debate the problem of Catholics ‘who do not understand why it might be a sin to support a political candidate who is openly in favor of abortion or other serious acts against life.'”