Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life,

UPDATE, 9:30a: Souter’s abortion history on the SC, according to CNNPolitics.com…

by Christianity Today has an editorial on Obama‘s supposed efforts to reduce abortion entitled, “Reducing Abortion for Real”: Obama is suggesting that abortion is a human need, which can be reduced but never eliminated. He is suggesting that we all will “support” (meaning affirm the decisions of) women and families, even if they abort a […]

UPDATE, 3/12, 9:45p: The Steele abortion flap has grown throughout the day. For conservatives, Steele is becoming the focus of pent up wrath toward Republicans who tell pro-lifers what they want to hear to their face but then melt on the pro-life issue when in a different crowd or when it’s time to vote. Wrote […]

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 […]

From the Deseret News reports on a February 13 speech by Ken Starr. The article summarizes Starr’s message: If President Barack Obama is hoping for bi-partisan support of his future U.S. Supreme Court nominees, he may have painted himself into a political corner … because he actively opposed nominees from former President George W. Bush… […]

by New York Times entitled, “Abortion Politics Didn’t Doom the G.O.P.”: Overturning Roe and Casey has never been an easy task, and the election of Barack Obama will make it that much more difficult. Facing a hostile governing majority, pro-lifers can and should talk more about the possibility of compromise: They should explain, more often […]

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