Quick backdrop from Our Sunday Visitor:

Passed in 1994 as a way to limit violence outside abortion clinics, the FACE [Freedom of Access to Clinics] Act has been used with greater frequency in recent years.

Since the start of President Barack Obama’s administration in 2009, the Justice Department has filed eight cases under the FACE Act, a sharp increase from the one case filed during the previous eight years.

Mary Susan Pine was one of those eight.

In August 2010 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder filed a civil suit against Pine, accusing her of violating the FACE Act.

And on January 13, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida dismissed the case – with some interesting observations.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYb_FVBZeZc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]It’s a very interesting conundrum for the hierarchy in America: Catholic candidates unabashedly saying the bishops are flat out wrong on policy statements, those same candidates getting endorsed by catholic organizations that use the name ‘catholic’, and catholic voters lining up behind those candidates and those organizations with their money and their votes.

~ Michael Voris decribing the conflict that ensues when Catholic candidates, such as Rick Santorum, openly disagree with policy statements made by the Catholic bishops over matters that are not intrinsically evil, Real Catholic TV, January 12

My top five favorite cartoons this week, beginning with a good one by Steve Kelley at GoComics.com…

 by Nick Anderson at GoComics.com…

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Hearts of fans of pro-life hero and Christian role model  Tim Tebow broke last night when the New England Patriots rolled over the Denver Broncos, 45-10, emphatically eliminating them from the play-offs.

But as Tebow said after the game, “Regardless of whether I win, whether I lose, whether I’m the hero or goat, I still honor the Lord.”

Tebow’s devotion his Lord has opened the door for wild evangelistic venues. Take this January 10 CNN piece, written last week after the Broncos beat the heavily favored Pittsburgh Steelers:

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Ms. Magazine, in a January 13 article lamenting the decades long failure of the industry to development contraceptives for men, included a remarkable assessment, given the source:

Contraception is about many things – reproductive choice, personal freedom, partner trust – but perhaps mostly about money.

In 2015, the global contraceptives market for men and women will reach an estimated $17.2 billion, yet industry players have done little to sustain male-method development (beyond or even including male condoms) because they still don’t see potential demand or dollars.

“Market research has shown little interest from males, so companies have continued to [bow] out,” says Sitruk-Ware.

Kudos to Ms. for its honest evaluation of the real motivation behind the push for contraceptives.

That aside, why do you think men have “little interest” in altering their reproductive virility?

HPV Types 6 and 11 cause about 90% of genital warts cases in females and males.

HPV Types 16 and 18 cause about 75% of cervical cancer cases in females.

HPV Types 16 and 18 also cause about 70% of vaginal cancer cases and up to 50% of vulvar cancer cases in females.

~ Pharmaceutical manufacturer Gardasil, citing statistics for the sexually transmitted disease Human Papilloma Virus, via Planned Parenthood of the Heartland on Twitter, January 13, for Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. (Since 2006 there have been 71 unexplained deaths following Gardasil administration according to the Centers for Disease Control.)

[Graphic via Gardasil]

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

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• John Smeaton posts on North Carolina’s reparations to its past victims of state-mandated eugenic sterilization:

  Hundreds of women… forcibly sterilised under a now-defunct North Carolina eugenics programme are set to receive US$50,000 each in compensation. The state task-force which determined the sum said it was not seeking to place a value on people’s lives…. Such programmes were promoted by Margaret Sanger, the founder of the worldwide abortion movement.

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by LauraLoo

Here are parts 4-6 of the Tim Tebow interview sponsored by Jockey.

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