The ad below is the first one for abortion services in Great Britain — and it’s set off a firestorm of controversy: The outfit behind it, Marie Stopes International, is one of the biggest abortion providers in the UK. It say the ad is “clear and non-judgemental” “The ad is not about abortion,” Julie Douglas,…

North Carolina has become the latest state to consider adding these license plates — and local bishops have endorsed the idea: Anti-abortion groups want to push North Carolina legislators to allow their message onto a special license plate. About 100 activists gathered Tuesday at the General Assembly to urge lawmakers to approve a license plate…

Health care reform hasn’t deterred at least one pro-life group from using a loophole in the new law to limit funds used for abortions: Abortion opponents fought passage of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul to the bitter end, and now that it’s the law, they’re using it to limit coverage by private insurers. An…

The circumstances were extraordinary — and the decision, I’m sure, was not easy to make. But the result has sparked a growing controversy in Arizona, where even the bishop has now intervened. From the Arizona Republic: A Catholic nun and longtime administrator of St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix was reassigned in the…

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