Denying freedom of conscience

Dr. Robert Walley, executive director of MaterCare International, a Newfoundland-based organization of Catholic health professionals, stated in April this year that rescinding the right to conscientious objection from health
care professionals will hamper the progressive initiative of the obstetrics field and the choice of women.

Penguin Rights

On 15 December 2008, the London Daily Mail ran an article with the following headline:

“Gay penguins expelled from zoo colony for stealing
eggs are given their own to look after following animal
rights protest”

In an apparently serious attempt to inform readers of the exploits of purportedly homosexual male penguins in a Chinese zoo, reporter Caroline Graham has given her readers a new take on the egg-sitting antics of penguins and the
so-called assistance of their zoo keepers. In the captive colony of Polar Land in Harbin, Northern China, two penguins unburdened by female companionship, have resorted to egg-napping. The reader is led to believe that this is a
nobly inspired move of desperation, similar to the human homosexual quest for parenthood.

Bills of Rights not needed

The Australian Commonwealth government has recently set up a national Human Rights Consultation Committee for the purposes of looking into questions of human rights in Australia and in particular whether we should have a human
rights Bill or Charter.

The ozone hole, global warming & other manifestations of environmental hysteria

Remember when we were all warned about the hole in the
ozone layer? How it was becoming bigger by the day and
it was all the fault of right-wing, conservative consumerist
societies?

Breastfeeding - a genuine environmental benefit

Women who breastfeed their babies are protecting themselves
from heart attacks and strokes in later life according
to a study by University of Pittsburg.

The United Nations, HIV/AIDS and Women  

During the first two weeks of March the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held its 53rd session, the theme for this year being “The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including care-giving
in the context of HIV/AIDS”.

President Obama asks for Jesus’ Name to be covered

President Obama asked for a Christian faith symbol to be covered during his Georgetown University speech in April. The White House confirmed on April 16 that they asked for a cross and the the symbol, IHS, which represents the name of Jesus, to be covered“to have a consistent background of American flags....”

Why Aren’t Women Being Told/

Cancer fundraising organizations raise millions of dollars every year for the breast cancer crusade. Nevertheless, increasing numbers of American women are developing the disease each year.

Embryo Experiments: Politics beats science and ethics in the USA and South Australia

In April Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman, US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB’s) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, called President Obama’s executive order to fund human embryonic stem-cell experiments “a sad victory of
politics over science and ethics”.

Silencing the problem of Children raised in same-sex households

Quoting propagandist Joseph Goebbels, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it...” For a long time, powerful media have been complicit with those trying to keep people in ignorance about same-sex parenting by silencing debate, and smothering
freedom of speech. The impact on children who grow up with same-sex parents is being silenced.

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