The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) new preventive services guidelines are a disaster for freedom of conscience and a fresh illustration of the political hammerlock “reproductive rights” organizations have on the Obama Administration. Forcing private insurance plans to pay for morally controversial offerings such… Read more
The New York legislature’s June 24 vote to redefine the family and recognize homosexual marriage will have a number of short-term and long-term impacts within and well beyond the Empire State.[1] The vote does not signal an end to the now two-decade fight over the meaning of marriage.… Read more
Abstract: Marriage and family are declining in America, following a trend well established in Europe. This breakdown of the American family has dire implications for American society and the U.S. economy. Halting and reversing the sustained trends of nearly four decades will not happen… Read more
If Olympic medals were handed out for hubris, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a gay activist group, would be the clear favorite for the gold. Its ruthless effort to deprive the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) a top-notch defense in federal court has collapsed at the starting block. But this… Read more
Abstract: The repeal of the 1993 law prohibiting open homosexuality in the military poses significant risk for military service members and chaplains who, as matters of religious or moral conviction, hold to traditional values regarding marriage and sexual… Read more
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)[1] contains several provisions that weaken longstanding federal policy denying public subsidies for elective abortion and health care plans that provide coverage of elective abortion. In addition, PPACA fails to adequately protect the conscience rights of health care insurers, providers, and… Read more
Obamacare: Impact on Taxpayer Funding of Abortion The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will spawn a new wave of federal and state legislative debate—as well as judicial action—on abortion funding. Moreover, the executive order signed by President … Read more
Families have good reason to be concerned about how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010[1] will affect them. While the law will deliver a health insurance entitlement to millions of individuals and families, many of its provisions weaken family choice of coverage, undermine… Read more
President Obama has put forward another variant of health care reform whose foundation is H.R. 3590. Nearly a year after the President launched the health reform process with a White House summit, public opinion has moved even more strongly in the direction of keeping longstanding prohibitions on federal… Read more
Impact of Child Care Tax Credit Increase on Families and Economy Curtis S. Dubay and Chuck Donovan … Read more
A too-clever-by-half marketing team at Kraft Foods has come up with what they think is a hot seller: a contest...… Read more
As both sides of the debate remember all too well, the final passage of Obamacare last year hinged on a many-layered...… Read more
The Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health policy arm of the National Academy of Sciences, has issued its long-awaited...… Read more
The full Senate Judiciary Committee met today to consider a proposal to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act...… Read more
Illinois’s and New York’s recent recognition of same-sex couples has raised religious liberty concerns for Catholic and...… Read more
Evolution and inevitability are words much in the news lately regarding same-sex marriage. The victory for marriage...… Read more
The New York legislature’s vote last Friday night to redefine the family and recognize homosexual marriage will have a...… Read more
A prominent group of retired military chaplains has written a letter to current chief chaplains in the Armed Forces...… Read more
The decision by the U.S. Navy to rescind new guidelines that would have permitted same-sex marriages to be performed in...… Read more
The House of Representatives approved a measure yesterday by a wide margin that establishes a consistent and...… Read more
Chuck Donovan on End of Life Medicine on FNC Chuck Donovan comments on regulation and end-of-life decisions. …
Chuck Donovan on Fox News 9/3/09 Chuck Donovan discussing the risks of Obama's upcoming speech. …
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