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July 2015

July 16, 2015

Abortion Apologists Defend the Mother Ship

Planned Parenthood's mega funding from the federal coffers might be -- might be -- in a bit...

July 16, 2015

Colorado State U Buys Planned Parenthood Aborted Baby Body Parts

Why is abortion so hard to stop? Why is Planned Parenthood seemingly impossible to de-fund?...

July 15, 2015

Why Would Any Woman Submit to Partial Birth Abortion? Why Would Any Doctor Do It?

At first, I thought partial birth abortion was a hoax. I mean, why would any...

July 14, 2015

10th Circuit Rules First Amendment Protections Don’t Apply to Little Sisters of the Poor

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Little Sisters of the Poor...

July 14, 2015

Planned Parenthood Medical Director Filmed Selling Baby Body Parts

"Laws are open to interpretation." That's how Planned Parenthood's Senior Director of Medical Services, Dr...

July 11, 2015

Cancer Doc Who Gave Healthy People Chemo Gets 45 Years.

What happens when you cannot trust your doctor? Dr Farid Fata is an example. Dr...

July 01, 2015

Supreme Court Puts Texas Abortion Law on Hold

The United States Supreme Court has stopped implementation of a Texas abortion law that would require...

June 2015

June 10, 2015

The Junk Food Fix is More Than One Person’s Bad Choice. It’s an American Problem.

My brave, witty and beautiful colleague, Katrina Fernandez, writes with the uninhibited gusto of a natural...

June 09, 2015

Can Bruce Jenner Be a Christian? Of Course He Can.

I hadn't intended to discuss Bruce Jenner, the person. I don't mind discussing what I...

June 03, 2015

Sex Change Surgery is the New Prefrontal Lobotomy and a Trendy Form of Child Mutilation

What do prefrontal lobotomy and sex change surgery have in common from a scientific viewpoint?...

May 2015

May 18, 2015

We Need Caregiving for Caregivers of Parents with Dementia

A few days ago, I had someone praise me for my "witness." This person was...

May 15, 2015

Every Minute is an Hour When You’re Waiting in an Emergency Room

If you want to feel like your life lasts forever, spend it waiting with a...

March 2015

March 17, 2015

Will the Stepford Congress Kill the Sex Trafficking Bill?

The boys and girls in DC are doing their doo-dah, once again. It seems that...

December 2014

December 05, 2014

What About People Who Want You to Kill Them?

Euthanasia is the practice of killing another person. It is murder. One question that orbits...

October 2014

October 25, 2014

A Look at Ebola from Inside Medicine

My fellow Catholic Patheosi, Dr Tod Worner published a post today concerning the Ebola crisis....

October 24, 2014

New York Doctor Diagnosed with Ebola

Dr Craig Spencer Dr Craig Spencer, who had recently been treating Ebola patients in Guinea,...

October 15, 2014

Second Dallas Nurse Diagnosed with Ebola had Just Completed Cross Country Flight

A second Dallas nurse has been diagnosed with Ebola. She had traveled on a commercial...

October 14, 2014

WHO: Ebola Cases Could Reach 20,000 by Nov, Killing 70% of Victims

Ebola is the disease that won’t be contained. Today, the World Health Organizatin issue its...

October 10, 2014

Ebola: The 2014 Outbreak Explained

This video is a couple of weeks behind the curve, but it still contains...

September 2014

September 13, 2014

Send it Back: Surrogates and Killing Their Manufactured Babies

It’s the new hot trend. Go online and pick an egg donor from photos and...

August 2014

August 07, 2014

You Gotta Remember: Ann Coulter Called John Edwards “a Faggot.”

You gotta remember: Ann Coulter called erstwhile presidential candidate and famous adulterer John Edwards “a faggot.” I...

August 06, 2014

Ebola. The Family Disease.

It’s been cooking for months. The question now is whether it will get out...

July 2014

July 25, 2014

HHS Mandate: NOW Obama Says He Wants to Compromise

Talk about giving the last drop of political blood. President Obama defended the HHS Mandate...

July 25, 2014

Planned Parenthood, Teaching Sexual Fetishism and Other Perversions to Kids

Watch the videos below and consider this: Our government puts $542 million into Planned...

July 22, 2014

Nurse Who Won’t Prescribe the Pill Sues Clinic for Not Hiring Her.

This is the story that irony built. It seems that Sara Hellwege is a...

July 22, 2014

Will Obama’s One Man ENDA End Up in Court?

One of my Facebook friends called him “the great divider.” Even though I am both...

July 18, 2014

Former Euthanasia Supporter Testifies Against British Bill: We were Wrong. Terribly Wrong.

My heart goes out to Dr Theo Boer. He doesn’t sound as if he gets...

July 17, 2014

Washington Post: Reid, Pelosi Hobby Lobby Commentary is Not Factual

The Washington Post took Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi...

July 17, 2014

The Parent Makers … Orrrrr … The Handmaid’s Tale Redux

Did I say that the media promotes the creation/selling/buying of babies? Did I say that...

July 17, 2014

Evil Never Sleeps: The Killing Fields of Medical Murder

Britain is debating legalizing medical murder. Medical murder’s proponents spiff it up by calling it...