During the presidential campaigns, Barack Obama said that while “most of the time” conservative and liberal Supreme Court justices will arrive at “the same place.” He added: …what matters at the Supreme Court is those 5% of cases...
Prenatal Testing and Down Syndrome
Prenatal testing, whereby tests are performed in utero to ascertain the health of the child, is now considered standard prenatal care. Unborn children have been screened in the womb for Down Syndrome in women over age thirty-five for many years. However,...
U.S. Judicial Nominations
“Among the starkest contrasts between John McCain and Barack Obama is the dramatic difference in their promised approaches to judicial appointments, especially to the closely divided Supreme Court.” --Stuart Taylor, National Journal, July 26. One...
Terminal Sedation
What is Terminal Sedation? Terminal sedation (also known as deep sedation) is the medical practice of administering sufficient palliative drugs to render a patient unconscious. This type of sedation is usually used only when lesser pain management is...
Adult Stem Cell Research
Stem cells are the basic building blocks of physiological tissue: they are cells not yet differentiated into specific types of tissue. Adult stem cells are multipotent, meaning that they have the potential to become many types of tissue. Scientists believe...
Voting Pro-Life: Single-Issue Voting?
Pro-Lifers are often attacked because we vote on just one issue—Life. We are criticized for supporting or rejecting a candidate based on his or her commitment to defend innocent human life. This position, however, is defensible in several ways....
Human Cloning
What is Human Cloning? Cloning is a form of asexual reproduction. One method of asexual reproduction is somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), in which the nucleus from a human egg is discarded and a somatic cell (any human cell other than an egg or sperm cell)...
Amnesty International
AI’s New Position on Abortion Amnesty International (AI) has long promoted human rights across the world; internationally, they are the largest and most influential human rights group. Until this year, their position regarding abortion has always been...
Pregnancy Resource Centers
Women, girls, and even men who find themselves with unplanned pregnancies experience a myriad of emotions, and they are filled with questions. Pregnancy Resource Centers (also known as Crisis Pregnancy Centers or CPCs), such as Birthright or CareNet, are...
Partial-Birth Abortion
What is Partial-Birth Abortion (PBA)? [Caution: Graphic description in the following section] This gruesome procedure, also known as Dilation and Extraction (D&X), is used to abort pre-born children who are 20 to 32 weeks old—or even later....
