Life Digest

WASHINGTON (BP)--Ms. Magazine wants as many women as possible to confess they had abortions -- as long as they don’t regret them.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Senate failed Sept. 29 to approve a bill to outlaw interstate abortions on minors without parental notice when eight Democrats switched positions to support their party leadership’s obstruction of the measure.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Fertility clinics increasingly are using embryo screening to weed out unborn children who don’t fit the genetic profile desired by their parents.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The “morning-after” pill has not reduced abortions in Great Britain and other European countries, refuting predictions by some of its proponents, a family planning specialist said Sept. 16.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Even leading congressional promoters of embryonic stem cell research have criticized Advanced Cell Technology’s much-hyped report that it had found an ethical way to do such experiments.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Southern Baptist public policy specialist Richard Land and 21 other pro-life, pro-family leaders have urged Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to force action on legislation that would thwart efforts to circumvent parental involvement in minors’ abortions.

WASHINGTON (BP)--A summer of judgment for abortion clinics continues as operations at six more abortion clinics were shut down recently in Alabama and Florida, maintaining a pattern that began developing in mid-June.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The cells of aborted babies are being treated like a fountain of youth for women at unregulated clinics outside the United States.

WASHINGTON (BP)--What would Jesus do when it comes to stem cell research that destroys human embryos? Support it, a Texas gubernatorial candidate says.

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Food and Drug Administration has signaled it may be prepared to permit an emergency contraceptive with abortion-causing qualities to be sold over the counter.