By Rand Paul
Obama acts as though we no longer have a Constitution
The Guttmacher Institute is a non-profit organization which works to advance sexual and reproductive health. The institute operates in the United States and globally "through an interrelated program of social science research, policy analysis and public education." According to their mission statement, this program aims to "generate new ideas, encourage enlightened public debate, promote sound policy and program development and, ultimately, inform individual decision making." - Source: Wikipedia
A group of 72 lawmakers have revived an effort to ask the government's watchdog agency to scrutinize taxpayer dollars going to Planned Parenthood and five other organizations who provide family-planning services.
A group of 72 lawmakers have revived an effort to ask the government's watchdog agency to scrutinize taxpayer dollars going to Planned Parenthood and five other organizations who provide family-planning services.
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s sudden fall almost five years ago left his Reproductive Health Act in limbo, but in New York state it is easy to find a champion for any pro-abortion bill. Gov. David Paterson supported it, but was too preoccupied with other issues to grab the baton. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, however, seems determined to take it across the finish line. It is a bill that would hurt everyone: unborn children, their mothers, the mothers’ families, doctors and hospitals, and our entire health care system. It must be stopped if we are to have any chance of ever becoming a civilized society again.
It was a startling assertion that seemed an about-face from church doctrine: A Catholic hospital arguing in a Colorado court that twin fetuses that died in its care were not, under state law, human beings.
Forty years ago, a poor, anonymous, pregnant woman called "Jane Roe" stepped forward to attack a Texas state law banning abortion. She and her attorneys succeeded beyond their wildest imaginations.
The promotion of death is big business in the United States. The abortion industry alone generates revenues of nearly $1 billion annually.
Janice Shaw Crouse deems reliable the Guttmacher Institute's U.S. abortion data -- which does not rely solely on official government reports -- but then proceeds to criticize our work in other countries on the exact same grounds ("Planned Parenthood think tank inflates abortion numbers," Web, Dec. 27).
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has signed off on permanent regulations that will hold abortion clinics to the same building standards as hospitals, joining Arizona and Michigan as states looking to tighten their abortion-facility standards to among the most stringent in the nation.
How many abortions, legal and illegal, are performed annually, nationally and worldwide? The answer depends upon whom you ask and whether the data come from the United States or from developing nations.
America's abortion rate fell 5 percent in 2009 in the largest single-year drop seen since the federal government started tracking data on the procedure.
