Offense Mounted Against WWII Veterans

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The following blog post is by Family Council staff member Deborah Beuerman.

For what reason did the nation’s commander-in-chief order blockades placed around the WWII Veterans Memorial to keep out visiting veterans? The Memorial is essentially a landscape feature in a very large park through which people can walk 24/7. Usually the area is manned by a few staff members for only part of that time, but they were deemed non-essential and sent home—until the President decided that it was essential for them to come back in order to put up barricades to keep people out.

Honor Flights, a charity group that brings WWII veterans from around the country to visit their memorial, schedules the visits months in advance, so it was known that veterans would be visiting this month. Why was it commanded that these veterans in their 80s and 90s who had come far to visit their memorial, many for the first and last time, be blocked from walking in this park?

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Eric Metaxas on the Overpopulation Myth

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In this short, 4-minute audio clip, Eric Metaxas with the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview shares exactly why overpopulation is a myth, and why those who espouse population control are ignoring important facts.

In the past, fears of overpopulation have been used to justify everything from abortion to limitations on family size and even sterilization of human beings.

Read a transcript of Metaxas’ comments and get more commentary from Breakpoint here.

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Arizona Appeals 9th Circuit Ruling on 20-Week Abortion Law

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Last May the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declared an Arizona law banning non-emergency abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy unconstitutional.

The court stated the law violates legal precedent barring the state from prohibiting abortion prior to viability. Many constitutional law experts do not believe the issue is as cut-and-dry as the Ninth Circuit made it out to be, and the ruling has now been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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