Lawmakers are plunging back into the contentious debate over whether the state should compel ultrasounds for women seeking abortions. ...more

March 19, 2009

A House committee wants to require women in Florida to get an ultrasound before they can get an abortion. ...more

March 18, 2009

For one claiming to favor fewer abortions, President Obama, with less than two months in office, has unilaterally acted to use my taxes to federally fund abortions and human embryonic stem cell research. Next on his agenda is to endorse the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) which will put into effect the most liberal abortion policy every introduced in the United States. ...more

March 12, 2009

The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) will write a woman's "right" to kill her pre-born child into law and will prohibit federal, state and local governments from enacting any type of law or regulation that would, in any way, interfere with a woman killing her pre-born baby. ...more

February 11, 2009

As a teenager, Shelby Knox took steps to prove abstinence-only sex education wasn't working in her Lubbock, Texas, high school. ...more

February 10, 2009

Two proposals designed to prevent political favoritism in redistricting, a practice known as gerrymandering, can go on the 2010 ballot if sponsors collect enough signatures, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday. ...more

January 30, 2009

A look back at some of the events experienced locally in 2008. Community Citrus Park got national attention when the Citrus Park Little League team ventured to Williamsport, Pa., for the Little League World Series. ...more

January 7, 2009

No Justification For Abortion In response to the guest columnist, Christina Page (Dec. 27), I would like to state there is no common ground on the issue of abortion. There can be no rationalization that can justify the murder of a baby in the mother's womb. ...more

January 4, 2009

Restrictions have Effects In her editorial, "Can Common Ground Prevail?" (Dec. 27), Christina Page states restrictions have little effect on abortion rates and that fighting poverty to reduce demand for abortion is the way to go. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, abortion rates have gone down quite a bit, from 29.3 abortions per 1,000 women in 1980 to 19.4 in 2005, the greatest decline being among teenagers. Did restrictions have little to do with this? When Minnesota passed a parental notification law, within four years the abortion rate for minors fell 27 percent, and the pregnancy rate fell 21 percent (American Journal of Public Health, May 1991). ...more

January 3, 2009

A long time ago, way down south, a guy named John took a mountain shortcut and stumbled upon a veiled pregnant girl who stunned him with a warning. "Your people will destroy themselves if they don't stop sacrificing one in five of your children to these false Gods." The girl was Our Lady of Guadalupe. The guy St. Juan Diego and his people were Aztecs who listened and flourished. ...more

January 1, 2009