Bioethike

Just listen to your inner, overpaid celebrity:

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The AP is reporting that Senator Orin Hatch’s (R-Utah) efforts to strengthen language to disallow abortion coverage and to protect the consciences of health care workers regarding abortion were rebuffed by the Senate Finance Committee today.
Separately, the Senate could be voting on the legislation as early as mid-October.

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From The Washington Post:
The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday rejected two Democratic amendments that would have created a government-run “public option” as part an overhaul of the nation’s health-insurance system, with the panel’s chairman bowing to staunch Republican opposition that he said would prevent final passage of a bill containing such a provision.
After an amendment [...]

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According to a national telephone poll of voters (not “adults” as is the case with some other polls), 56% are opposed to the health care proposals while 41 % are in favor, according to Rasmussen Reports. The strongest nay-sayers are seniors:
Senior citizens are less supportive of the plan than younger voters. In the latest survey, [...]

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My week four submission to Creighton University:
A state which is not governed according to justice would be just a bunch of thieves.
Augustine, De Civitate Dei
Strip away acrimonious speech, political grandstanding, and the now infamous August “town maul” meetings and what do you have? Health care. At least a national debate about health care, a conversation [...]

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As National Right to Life has suggested all along, the Baucus (Senate version) bill’s fine print, which only a lawyer could love, will force physicians to ration health care for the elderly. How? Doctors will be forced, for fear of cuts to already meager payments for services rendered under Medicare, to under-prescribe in order to [...]

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So, like, I logged on to BarackObama.com September 20 and offered my opinion about the health care proposals making their way through Congress. And the President e-mailed me back, remember?
Well, today I was invited to special gathering this Saturday only a few blocks from my home. Seems Jessica Byrd from the Missouri collective contingent somehow [...]

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Robert Morrison at the FRC blog opines about the government bailing out larger newspapers since blogs are so, well, unreliable sources of information.
I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up [...]

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Over the summer the US Food and Drug Administration approved Next Choice, a generic “emergency contraceptive/abortifacient,” reports EmpowHer. According to the Next Choice site, the product
prevents a pregnancy the same way that a birth control pill does. It is believed that Next Choice prevents the egg from being (1) released from [...]

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