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	<title>Ruth Institute Blog &#187; Betsy</title>
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	<description>An intellectual climate favorable to marriage</description>
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		<title>Army Silences Catholic Chaplains</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Todd Starnes The Obama administration has been accused of telling Catholic military chaplains what they can and cannot say from their pulpits after the Army ordered Catholic chaplains not to read a letter to parishioners from their archbishop. The Secretary of the Army feared the letter could be viewed as a call for civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demographic Free-fall</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/09/demographic-free-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Population]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Under-population]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Low Fertility and Economic Crisis By Father John Flynn, LC ROME, FEB. 3, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Sustainable development is the imperative of the 21st century and cannot be achieved without improving reproductive health: words expressed at a recent executive board meeting by UNFPA executive director Babatunde Osotimehin, according to a Feb. 1 press release. UNFPA is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Health Organization Classifies Contraceptives as Highly Carcinogenic</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/09/world-health-organization-classifies-contraceptives-as-highly-carcinogenic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/09/world-health-organization-classifies-contraceptives-as-highly-carcinogenic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA, Switzerland (LifeSiteNews.com) &#8211; A press release issued on July 29th of this year by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a division of the World Health Organization (WHO), declared the little publicized classification of combined estrogen-progestogen oral contraceptives (OCs) as carcinogenic. The IARC placed the contraceptives into their Group 1 classification, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Study Pinpoints Oral Contraceptive-Breast Cancer Link (OCBC link); Resurrects Abortion-Breast Cancer Link (ABC link)</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/09/new-study-pinpoints-oral-contraceptive-breast-cancer-link-ocbc-link-resurrects-abortion-breast-cancer-link-abc-link/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast cancer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10185</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Joel Brind, Ph.D. &#8230; &#8220;Brinton was the chief organizer for the 2003 NCI (U.S. National Cancer Institute) “workshop” on “early reproductive events and breast cancer”, a panel which reported that the lack of an ABC link had been “established”. In other words, since 2003, the NCI has firmly maintained the position that there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planned Parenthood cheats taxpayers with imaginary mammograms</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/09/planned-parenthood-cheats-taxpayers-with-imaginary-mammograms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/09/planned-parenthood-cheats-taxpayers-with-imaginary-mammograms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10182</guid>
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		<title>PA school offers Plan B vending machine</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/09/pa-school-offers-plan-b-vending-machine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teenagers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birth control]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Charlie Butts Shippensburg Universityin Pennsylvania is now selling the &#8220;morning-after&#8221; pill via a vending machine. A pro-family group in that state believes that sends the wrong message to students. [Ya think?!] For $25, people with access to campus health services at Shippensburg can buy Plan B from a machine, just like they would a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daycare must focus on child, not adult needs, says new report</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/09/daycare-must-focus-on-child-not-adult-needs-says-new-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan A new report on daycare and child wellbeing in New Zealand has had a predictably stand-offish reception from the media and professional groups so far, although parents posting their opinions online are dividedabout its claims. The report, Who Cares, published by lobby group Family First and written by British psychologist and author [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regarding the Department of Health &amp; Human Services (HHS) Mandate:</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/regarding-the-department-of-health-human-services-hhs-mandate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/regarding-the-department-of-health-human-services-hhs-mandate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Never before in our U.S. history has the Federal Government forced citizens to directly purchase what violates our religious beliefs. The issue here . . . is the survival of a cornerstone constitutionally protected freedom that ensures respect for conscience and religious liberty. -Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston This latest erosion of our first freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military Tells Catholic Chaplains What They Can and Can&#8217;t Say About Obama Administration&#8217;s Assault on Religion</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/military-tells-catholic-chaplains-what-they-can-and-cant-say-about-obama-administrations-assault-on-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/military-tells-catholic-chaplains-what-they-can-and-cant-say-about-obama-administrations-assault-on-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jim Hoft Last week Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan lashed out at the Obama Administration for forcing religious organizations to go out into the marketplace and buy a product that violates their conscience. The rule would force Christian organizations to provide free contraceptives, sterilizations and abortion drugs to workers even though this violates Catholic Church teaching. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We’re All Catholics Now</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/we%e2%80%99re-all-catholics-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By David French I’m not the first to comment on the Obama administration’s breathtaking assault on religious liberty, I won’t be the last, and I’m certainly not the most eloquent. I am, however, a lawyer prepared to do something about it. At issue are two competing visions of religion in American public life. For the Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planned Parenthood&#8217;s Hostages</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/planned-parenthoods-hostages/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/planned-parenthoods-hostages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan G. Komen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The abortion provider uses a vast media and political network to maintain its subsidies from government and private charities. By ROBERT P. GEORGE AND O. CARTER SNEAD The Susan G. Komen Foundation, an organization dedicated since 1982 to fighting, and one day curing, breast cancer, decided to extricate itself from the culture wars by discontinuing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over 150 congressional leaders demand repeal of HHS mandate</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/over-150-congressional-leaders-demand-repeal-of-hhs-mandate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/over-150-congressional-leaders-demand-repeal-of-hhs-mandate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michelle Bauman A letter from 154 bipartisan members of Congress is urging the Obama administration to reverse a contraception mandate that religious employers say would require them to violate their consciences. The Feb. 6 letter to Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, condemned the recent mandate as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Things Everyone Should Know About The HHS Mandate</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/six-things-everyone-should-know-about-the-hhs-mandate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/six-things-everyone-should-know-about-the-hhs-mandate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[February 6, 2012 WASHINGTON— The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops offers the following clarifications regarding the Health and Human Services regulations on mandatory coverage of contraceptives, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs. 1.The mandate does not exempt Catholic charities, schools, universities, or hospitals. These institutions are vital to the mission of the Church, but HHS does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What did we learn from the Komen-PP fiasco?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/what-did-we-learn-from-the-komen-pp-fiasco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/what-did-we-learn-from-the-komen-pp-fiasco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Susan G. Komen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sheila Liaugminas It has been deeply revealing and we have learned much. First of all, that the relationship existed. After all the years of doubt or uncertainty by many contributors to the Pink Ribbon campaign over whether the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure donated some of those funds to Planned Parenthood, it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tightening the screws</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/tightening-the-screws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by James S. Cole The Obama Adminstration is attacking religious rights by mandating that all health-care plans, even church-run one, must provide cover for abortion and contraception. On January 11, the United States Supreme Court reproved the Obama Administration by issuing a 9-0 decision against the Government in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message from Chuck Colson</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/message-from-chuck-colson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/message-from-chuck-colson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Co-laborers, We must all act together NOW. What is going on today is the greatest test of religious liberty we will have faced in our life time. If the administration does not back down, religious liberty—as clearly articulated in the Constitution and in court cases—will be gravely impaired.  And your organization, like mine, will face [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Komen Get It</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/komen-get-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/komen-get-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JAMES TARANTO Planned Parenthood&#8217;s bitter campaign against Komen&#8211;aided by left-liberal activists and media&#8211;is analogous to a protection racket: Nice charity you&#8217;ve got there. It&#8217;d be a shame if anything happened to it. The message to other Planned Parenthood donors is that if they don&#8217;t play nice and keep coughing up the cash, they&#8217;ll get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of the world as we know it</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dr. Jennifer Roback  Morse No, I’m not exaggerating. The American Experiment in religious liberty is officially over. The First Amendment provided institutional structures that allow different religions to peacefully coexist. All groups agree to NOT try to capture governmental structures for the benefit of their own particular denomination.  But the Obama Administration has ended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Coast Walk for Life&#8211;a student&#8217;s perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/west-coast-walk-for-life-a-students-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My name is Margaret Kelledy. I am a senior at Azusa Pacific University, and the President of our Students for Life chapter. I have been an avid pro-life activist for nearly nine years but I was never able to attend a Walk for Life until this year. As I walked through the streets of San [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Komen official quits over Planned Parenthood dispute</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/07/komen-official-quits-over-planned-parenthood-dispute/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/07/komen-official-quits-over-planned-parenthood-dispute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast cancer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Charlie Butts Komen initially decided to stop providing funds to Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion-provider in the country. It had reportedly adopted new criteria excluding the clinic chain from future grants for breast cancer screenings because it was under government investigation at the urging of pro-life groups. But after being bombarded by abortion proponents, [...]]]></description>
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