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Pelosi counters Catholic prelates’ criticisms on abortion
A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has struck back against criticism from prominent Catholic prelates who accused the California congresswoman of misrepresenting church teachings about abortion.
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Biden pick provides Catholic link, but renews abortion debate
c. 2008 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ While supporters say Sen. Joe Biden provides a crucial link with Catholic voters, others say the new vice presidential running mate reprises an unwelcome debate over abortion and Communion.
The senator chosen by Democratic candidate Sen....
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Democrats woo faith voters with small steps on abortion
c. 2008 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) In the history of abortion politics, it was a key event: the 1992 move by Democrats to deny Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey Sr., an opponent of abortion rights, a speaking spot at the party's national convention that year.
Bill Clinton, of co...
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Treating the pill as abortion, draft regulation stirs debate
The Bush Administration has ignited a furor with a proposed definition of pregnancy that has the effect of classifying some of the most widely used methods of contraception as abortion.
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Famed geneticist to leave NIH
Francis Collins, the guitar-playing geneticist who mingled a belief in Christianity with a defense of evolution, said Wednesday that he would step down as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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Evicted Hindus ponder fate of sacred artifacts
c. 2008 Religion News Service
EPPING, N.H. _ Six Hindu men and a woman huddled together on a 20-degree January morning along a dirt road beside a series of posted ``NO TRESPASSING'' signs.
They had come to save their deity.
Having been evicted from their bucolic, 100-acre temple g...
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Photos Help Grieving Families Hold On to Lost Children
c. 2007 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Elizabeth McGuire will live forever in family photographs, a tiny girl with dark blue eyes and a full head of hair.
Her family recently gathered in their New Jersey home to watch a computer slide slow of the portraits _ all the McGuires have...
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After 25 Years, a Catholic Warrior Steps Aside
c. 2007 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ In her 25 years as head of Catholics For a Free Choice, some interesting epithets have been hurled at Frances Kissling. The kinds of names _ ``confused lionness'' and ``progressive heretic'' to offer a few _ that most people would like to a...
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After 25 Years, a Catholic Warrior Steps Aside
c. 2007 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ In her 25 years as head of Catholics For a Free Choice, some interesting epithets have been hurled at Frances Kissling. The kinds of names _ ``confused lionness'' and ``progressive heretic'' to offer a few _ that most people would like to a...
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Supreme Court Weighs Limits on Late-Term Abortions
c. 2006 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Supreme Court justices returned to the controversial issue of abortion Wednesday (Nov. 8), weighing arguments on whether a procedure critics call ``partial-birth'' abortion can be banned constitutionally.
U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Cl...
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