by Weekly Standard on Obama’s stem cell announcement entitled, “Perpetuating a needless stem-cell war”: Obama continued, noting that his stem-cell decision was just the starting point for a larger reevaluation of the role scientists will play in his administration: “It is about letting scientists like those here today do their jobs, free from manipulation or […]

by The Raving Theist examines a pro-choice blogger’s horror that the child born alive at a FL abortion clinic was stuffed inside a plastic bag to die: Horrified, again, that the baby was suffocated in a medical waste bag rather than chopped up in the womb two minutes before being stuffed into a medical waste […]

by Catholic Key blog has Archbishop Joseph’s Naumann column addressing Kathleen Sebelius’ appointment to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services: KS has one of the most restrictive laws regarding late-term abortions. Yet, it has become, in large part because of Dr. Tiller, the late-term abortion capital of the Midwest. How is […]

by Dan Gilgoff has an excerpt of the transcript from an address Gov. Sebelius gave to a Kansans for Faithful Citizenship conference addressing her position on abortion. George Weigel notes the problems Sebelius nomination could cause for serious pro-life Catholics…

by have now created induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells by “using strands of genetic material, instead of potentially dangerous genetically engineered viruses, to coax skin cells into a state that appears biologically identical to embryonic stem cells”: In addition to the scientific implications, the work comes at a politically sensitive moment. Scientists are anxiously waiting […]

by The Swamp (Chicago Tribune’s Washington bureau), Obama will get rid of the Bush administration’s conscience rule sometime today: Taking another step into the abortion debate, the Obama administration today will move to rescind a controversial rule that allows healthcare workers to deny abortion counseling or other family planning services if doing so would violate […]

by new strategy to oppose pro-life legislation involved walking out of the committee meeting and a holding press conference…

by Wesley Smith comments on the recent case of a woman in Japan being implanted with the wrong embryo, having an abortion and then suing the government-run hospital: As for me, I think it is all upsetting, and – yes I will say it – the field increasingly epitomizes a society that thinks we are […]