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Act protects women from financial pressure to abort children with genetic disorders - In an important blow to the eugenics movement, President George Bush yesterday signed into law a bill preventing health insurance companies and employers from discriminating against born or unborn individuals on the basis of genetic information. "It protects our citizens from having genetic information misused, and this bill does so without undermining the basic premise of the insurance industry," said Bush of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). Proponents of the GINA have expressed fears that healthy individuals with genetic dispositions toward certain diseases could end up paying more for insurance. They also fear that employers would only hire or retain individuals without genetic dispositions towards disease in order to avoid future instances of an unhealthy workforce. The version of the GINA signed yesterday included important language protecting families from discrim...

BILL MAHER WANTS A BRAWL On the January 4 edition of the NBC show “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” Bill Maher commented on a remark about religion that was allegedly made by presidential contender Mitt Romney. In the course of his comments, Maher said the following: “You can’t be a rational person six days of the week and put on a suit and make rational decisions and go to work and, on one day of the week, go to a building and think you’re drinking the blood of a 2,000-year-old space god. That doesn’t make you a person of faith…That makes you a schizophrenic.” MORE I'm glad to hear that Bill Donohue is commenting on this. Anyone who talks about the Eucharist like this should be very careful -- he's just asking for it. Our God is a awesome God, but He is also a God of justice. It reminds me of a song I used to sing, "Humble thyself in the sight of the Lord" or He might just do it for you. Yes, I think humility and reverence are very needed virtues to ask the Lord to be...

Officials at Deerfield High School in Deerfield, Illinois are forcing 14-year-old freshmen to sign a confidentiality agreement saying they will not tell anyone, not even their parents, what they are taught in a pro-homosexual sensitivity training seminar . Martha Kleder spoke with Laura-Sue Hauser, head of North Shore Student Advocacy, a group of concerned area parents, and Matt Barber, CWA’s Policy Director for Cultural Issues. Listen Download Via CWA. This is a violation of IL state law and civil rights and if I were a parent of a student at that school, they would defintely be hearing from both me and my attorney. I would also mobilize other parents to act, just as the parents in this situation are doing. You can't give a student aspirin for a headache in the schools without parental permission. This is also a violation of student rights - to be subjected and indoctrinated into the homosexual life style and to be forced to sign a "contract" of this nature. No one can...

Feb. 1, 2007 (CWNews.com) - The Holy See will not approve a UN treaty on the rights of the disabled, because of “unacceptable” language referring to legalize abortion and gender rights. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s permanent observer at the UN, has announced that the Vatican cannot accept the terms of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which won approval by the General Assembly in December. While strong favoring the rights of the disabled, Archbishop Migliore explained, the Vatican cannot assent to the treaty’s treatment of “reproductive rights.” That phrase has frequently been interpreted by UN officials as a call for legal abortion. Vatican delegations have expressed reservations about the use of the term in previous UN documents, notably including the statements issued by the Cairo and Beijing conferences in 1994 and 1995, respectively. Because some countries now consider abortion an intrinsic aspect of “reproductive rights,” the archbishop ...