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Chemical Abortions are Not “Between a Woman and Her Doctor”

Sep 4, 2013JerryAbortionAbortion

Abortion proponents who say abortion should be between a woman and her doctor must not be talking about chemical abortions. Giving a woman or girl some pills and sending her home to abort her baby—sometimes alone and without proper follow-up—is hardly healthcare.

Our friends across the border in Oklahoma passed legislation to rein in some of these abuses. It is not surprising the Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, a pro-abortion organization, has sued, trying to have the courts overturn the law.

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Ronald Reagan on Religious Liberty, Conscience

Sep 3, 2013JerryReligious FreedomReligious Freedom, Religious Liberty

Twenty-nine years ago, on August 23, 1984, President Ronald Reagan delivered a speech at the Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast in Dallas, Texas. During the speech he commented on the importance of religion, morality, and how they relate to public service and politics.

Below is a clip of the final 3 minutes of his speech addressing specifically religious liberty and the importance of faith.

If you would like to watch the entire speech, click here. You can also read a transcript of the speech here.

Surprising Rice University Study on Same-Sex Marriage

Sep 2, 2013JerryMarriageMarriage, Same-Sex Marriage

Last June, just days before the U.S. Supreme Court struck part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, sociologists at Rice University published a significant study examining Americans’ attitudes toward same-sex marriage.

The study polled 1,300 random adults in 2006, asking them “The only legal marriage should be between one man and one woman. Agree? Neither Agree nor Disagree? Or Disagree?”

The folks conducting the study then polled the very same group of Americans 6 years later, asking them the same question.

The results were that in 2006, 57% of people said marriage ought to be the union of one man to one woman. In 2012, 53% of people agreed that’s how marriage ought to be defined. On its face, then, this study would seem to indicate support for traditional marriage fell by 4% from 2006 to 2012. That simply is not the case.

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