Abortion

“Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced Friday it was reversing its decision to end grants to Planned Parenthood, after facing mounting pressure from pro-choice lawmakers and accusations that the breast cancer awareness organization had bowed to political influences.”

Va. senate approves abortion ultrasound requirement

Thus it’s not obvious to me that we will be better off encouraging Catholic hospitals and other groups to provide services exclusively to their own flock, while exclusively employing members of their own flock.

”68% of these new provisions—92 in 24 states—-restrict access to abortion services, a striking increase from last year, when 26% of new provisions restricted abortion.”

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) clinics did 329,445 abortions in 2010, which marked a drop of more than 2,000 from the 2009 total of 331,796.

“ ‘Today in America, 40 to 50 percent of all African-American babies, virtually one in two, are killed before they are born, which is a greater cause of death for African-Americans than heart diseases, cancer, diabetes, AIDS, and violence combined,’ Franks said at a hearing on the legislation.”The Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2011

“Siri, the iPhone 4S voice-activated ‘assistant,’ is being accused of wanting to prevent abortions by giving obscure answers to users searching for abortion clinics, leading to speculation that Steve Jobs, who confessed he was glad to not have been a victim of abortion, might have intentionally made the programing ‘glitch.’”Is the iPhone’s ‘Siri’ Really Trying to Prevent Abortions?