Horror in Florida

1. A horrifying story of a baby born alive after an abortion but left to die in the trash. The Culture of Death in all its tragic dimensions, in one story.

2. Contraceptives almost kill a young woman in Maryland. So where is the public outcry (a la Vioxx) to re-evaluate or even ban the drug? FDA? Congress? Women's health advocates? Trial lawyers? Anyone?

3. The new Administration continues to say that it wishes to reduce abortions, without doing anything to actually reduce abortions. This time, it's re-vamping the initiative to support faith-based community groups; I somehow doubt that crisis pregnancy centers will be included, but I'm pretty confident that condom distribution will get it's share of the pie. At the same time, the President "guarantees" that he will provide federal funding for dismembering small human beings, by overturning the last Administration's limits on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. All this, just one day after the President publicly declaimed that God does not approve killing innocent human beings. Of course, it could all just be political manipulation to gain and maintain power and influence, in other words, it's just the way all politicians operate.

4. Meanwhile, yet another group of scientists have shown that you don't need to kill small human beings in order to get pluripotent stem cells. Unfortunately, the scientists in Brazil, which apparently can't be seen from Washington.

5. Bishop Martino of Scranton sends Sen. Robert Casey what may be a canonical warning letter as a prelude to action under Canon 915 ("others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion").

6. A new study that religious belief is hard-wired into the brain and is useful for evolutionary purposes. So, since we can't help it, can we qualify for "protected victim" status?

7. Blogged yesterday on the cognitive dissonance of our President -- talking about how God doesn't approve killing innocent human beings, while at the same time…