Network News

  • Obamacare: Burying Us in Regulations
  • 4/10/2011
  • (First Things) - I warned and I warned, here at SHS, in speeches, on the radio: Obamacare would spawn 100,000 pages of regulations. That's because we no longer pass laws that govern, we pass laws that serve as skeletons for the bureaucrats to create the rules that actually exert the details of control.
  • Idaho House Sends Assisted Suicide Ban to Governor
  • 4/09/2011
  • (AP) - The House voted overwhelmingly to send a bill banning helping somebody else commit suicide to Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter for signature. Monday's 61-8 vote came after brief debate on the chamber's floor. Republican Rep. Lynn Luker of Boise argued that outlawing assisted suicide was necessary to help prevent abuse of elderly residents by their caregivers who are seeking to profit from their patients' demise.
  • Gabrielle Giffords Keeps Defying Odds with Recovery
  • 4/08/2011
  • (Arizona Republic News) - It has been three months since U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was critically wounded when a gunman opened fire at her constituent event north of Tucson. The attack was so devastating that many news outlets reported Giffords had died.
  • NHS Meltdown: Emergency Patients Forced to Wait for Surgery
  • 4/07/2011
  • (First Things) - I know I sound like a broken record: Single payer. Single payer. Centralized control. Centralized control. Obamacare begins the process of centralizing healthcare in America by giving multiple bureaucracies the power to create standards of care and insurance coverage.
  • Woman Heads Home After Remarkable Recovery
  • 4/06/2011
  • (timesunion.com) - Uranjargal Dovdonpurev is going home to Mongolia, the final leg of a remarkable journey of recovery. It took a village of hospital staff, volunteer therapists, financial donors and well-wishers across the Capital Region to restore mind, body and spirit of the visiting college student who came to Lake George last summer to work.
  • Terri's Life & Hope April Newsletter!
  • 4/06/2011
  • Canadian Pediatric Approves the Dehydration of Infants
  • 4/05/2011
  • (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Canadian Paediatric Society - bioethics committee, released a statement on April 1 concerning the withholding and withdrawing of artificial nutrition and hydration. The statement is similar to the statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
  • 'Death Panels Already in Place'
  • 4/04/2011
  • (WND) - The brother of Terri Schiavo, the 41-year-old brain-injured woman who died six years ago today due to court-ordered dehydration and starvation, finds the recent clamor over imminent Obamacare "death panels" moot because health-care rationing already exists.
  • Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting
  • 4/03/2011
  • (First Things) - I am trying to raise the alarm that current bioethical policies and advocacy promote the objectification of human life and the denigration of human exceptionalism. This episode is in To The Source, where I discuss organ harvesting coupled with euthanasia. From "No Longer Science Fiction:"
  • Death in Springtime: Terri Schiavo and Pope John Paul
  • 4/02/2011
  • As the 2005 deaths of Terri Schiavo and Pope John Paul II captured the world's attention, a mother considered her beloved daughter and the devaluation of people with Down syndrome, and heard a call to pro-life activism. April 2, 2011 (Patheous) - It was the first day of spring in 2005. I was at the florist in the seaside village where I grew up, assembling a basket of flowering spring plants for my sister, who had just given birth.