The other side is becoming increasingly hostile, attacking the religious freedoms of pro-life Christians with greater boldness. From The New York Times, December 2:

The American Civil Liberties Union announced on Monday that it had filed a lawsuit against the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops, arguing that their anti-abortion directives to Catholic hospitals hamper proper care of pregnant women in medical distress, leading to medical negligence.

by Kelli

From reading the New York Times, you might think that religious conservatives had started a culture war over whether company health-insurance plans should cover contraception. What’s at issue in two cases the Supreme Court has just agreed to hear, the Times editorializes, is “the assertion by private businesses and their owners of an unprecedented right to impose the owners’ religious views on workers who do not share them.”

That way of looking at the issue will be persuasive if your memory does not extend back two years. Up until 2012, no federal law or regulation required employers to cover contraception (or drugs that may cause abortion, which one of the cases involves)….

by LauraLoo MSNBC’s Tim Carney debates religious freedom and contraception with former Georgetown Law student and now social justice attorney Sandra Fluke. Sandra is (unfortunately) back in the news thanks to the Supreme Court agreeing to take up a case surrounding the employer contraception mandate in Obamacare. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHYFmrkUvzQ[/youtube] Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions. [HT: […]

Guest post by Joel Brind, Ph.D.

“China is on the cusp of a breast cancer epidemic,” acknowledged a prestigious group of American epidemiologists in 2008 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Studiously avoiding the “A-word” the JNCI group blamed the emerging epidemic on “shifting reproductive trends” among “risk factors associated with economic development [that] are largely unavoidable.”

That’s because NCI still officially denies the reality of the abortion-breast cancer link.

But a new systematic review and meta-analysis of abortion and breast cancer in China was just published last week in the prestigious, peer-reviewed international cancer journal, Cancer Causes and Control, dealing the great wall of denial a serious blow.

by Carder He’s on His way. Christmas starts with Christ.” ~ As seen on Fr. Z’s blog, December 1

Political cartoonists continued the theme of linking President Barack Obama and Obamacare to Thanksgiving turkeys this week. Following are my top six favorites for the week. Vote for yours at the bottom of the post.

by Lisa Benson at Townhall.com…

 by Gary Varvel at Townhall.com…

You have judged and murdered people who aren’t guilty. And they weren’t even opposing you. ~ James 5:6, New International Readers Version [Photos (click to enlarge) via xojane.com’s “abortion gallery”]