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Women speak out against HHS mandate

>The battle over the Obama administration"s contraceptive/abortion mandate is about religious freedom, not the availability of birth control, women leaders inside and outside Congress say.... Continue Reading »

GuideStone: ‘Contraceptive mandate’ violates religious liberty

The Southern Baptist Convention's benefits entity has joined the growing chorus of evangelical and Roman Catholic voices publicly protesting the Obama administration's mandate that health insurance plans cover contraceptives, including ones that can cause abortions. GuideStone Financial Resources, which... Continue Reading »

GuideStone: Obama mandate violates religious liberty

The Southern Baptist Convention"s benefits entity has joined the growing chorus of evangelical and Roman Catholic voices publicly protesting the Obama administration"s mandate that health insurance plans cover contraceptives, including ones that can cause abortions.... Continue Reading »

Rubio seeks repeal of ‘contraceptive mandate’

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has introduced legislation to rescind a new Obama administration rule that has produced widespread opposition to its mandate that health insurance plans cover contraceptives, including ones that can cause abortions.... Continue Reading »

>Panel: Refugees wrongly labeled ‘terrorists’

The Obama administration"s continued inaction has stranded thousands of peaceful refugees wrongly labeled as terrorists in a bureaucratic limbo, says a coalition of religious and human rights organizations.... Continue Reading »

Pro-lifers should be optimistic, leaders say

Pro-life leaders find several reasons to be hopeful about the future of the American movement to protect unborn human beings, even if abortion has been legal in this country for nearly four decades.... Continue Reading »

Obama admin. reaffirms: health care plans must cover abortion-causing drugs

>The Obama administration has rejected appeals to overturn guidelines requiring health insurance plans to cover contraceptives that can cause abortions.... Continue Reading »

Supreme Court examines TV nudity, profanity

U.S. Supreme Court justices challenged lawyers for major networks Tuesday to explain why the federal government should not be able to establish a "safe haven" from nudity and obscene language on television.... Continue Reading »

Letter to Obama: It’s not just Catholics who oppose HSS over ‘contraception mandate’

Roman Catholics are not alone in opposing new guidelines requiring health insurance plans to cover contraceptives and the narrow religious exemption that goes with them, Richard Land and others have told President Obama.... Continue Reading »

Planned Parenthood abortions dip below previous years

Planned Parenthood, the country"s leading abortion provider, finally saw a decline in the number of lethal procedures its affiliates performed in a year, according to its latest annual report.... Continue Reading »

NORTH KOREA: Kim Jong Eun transition called ‘important opening’ for religious liberty focus

A bipartisan panel has urged the Obama administration to place religious liberty and other human rights at the center of its relations with North Korea as the brutally repressive regime transitions to new leadership.... Continue Reading »

Workers may testify against P. Parenthood

Seven former Planned Parenthood employees have volunteered to assist in the congressional investigation of the country"s largest abortion provider.... Continue Reading »