Six Things to Know About HHS Mandate
From Jennifer Roback Morse at the Ruth Institute, some important facts about the "contraceptive mandate." It's much more than that, and it directly threatens our...
Six Things to Know About HHS Mandate
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9th Circuit Court Finds California’s Proposition 8 Unconstitutional, State’s Marriage Laws in Jeopardy, Appeal to US Supreme Court
9th Circuit Court Finds California’s Proposition 8 Unconstitutional, State’s Marriage Laws in Jeopardy, Appeal to US Supreme Court
Bad news today for citizens, marriage. The Ninth Circuit voted 2-1 in favor of San Francisco federal court judge Vaughn Walker's controversial ruling in 2010 that Proposition 8 violates the 14th amendment of the US Constitution. The case is widely expected to be...
Two PA Abortion Clinics Suspend Abortions, Possible Ties to Abortionist Charged with Murder
Two PA Abortion Clinics Suspend Abortions, Possible Ties to Abortionist Charged with Murder
From LifeNews.com:Two Pennsylvania-based abortion businesses [Allentown and Pittsburgh] with ties to Steven Chase Brigham, the abortion practitioner charged with murder in the deaths of viable unborn children in a two-state operation aimed at avoiding late-term...
Gov. Tom Corbett delivers early Christmas present. To Life and Health!
Gov. Tom Corbett delivers early Christmas present. To Life and Health!
Today, Gov. Tom Corbett signed a new commonsense law that would regulate Pennsylvania's abortion clinics in the same way as ambulatory surgical facilities. The need for new regulations was brought to light by the tragic "house of horrors" case of the Kermit Gosnell...
Will 2012 be OUR ‘Year of School Choice’?
Will 2012 be OUR ‘Year of School Choice’?
Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal editors declared 2011 as The Year of School Choice. That was then; this in now. And this IS Pennsylvania, not the 13 states that advanced real education reform so far. As the legislative calendar in Harrisburg comes to a...
A Christmas Casino Poem by Bill Kearney (guest column)
A Christmas Casino Poem by Bill Kearney (guest column)
A Christmas Casino Poem By Bill Kearney, Philadelphia, PA Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house was barely enough food to feed a mouse. Our stockings had holes, chimney no heat, I waited in hope they’d return from the casino with something to...
Update on the Northmoreland Baptist Church Matter—And More!
Update on the Northmoreland Baptist Church Matter—And More!
Update on the Northmoreland Baptist Church Matter—And More! Thank you for your prayers for the Independence Law Center for the Northmoreland Baptist Church hearing in Wyoming County yesterday. The hearing went well, providing ample opportunity for the pastor of the...
Law Center in Court Today Defending Religious Liberty
Law Center in Court Today Defending Religious Liberty
Prayer Request from Pennsylvania Family Institute: INDEPENDENCE LAW CENTER IN COURT TODAY DEFENDING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY This morning Randall Wenger, Chief Counsel of our Independence Law Center, and Lindsey Hoban, an allied attorney with Ballard Spahr in...
Surprise! Entrepreneur, Tech Hero, Steve Jobs Supported School Choice
Surprise! Entrepreneur, Tech Hero, Steve Jobs Supported School Choice
"I believe very strongly that if the country gave each parent a voucher…several things would happen. Number one[,] schools would start marketing themselves like crazy to get students. Secondly, I think you’d see a lot of new schools starting…. I believe that they...
Urgent Prayer Request from Pennsylvania Family Institute
Urgent Prayer Request from Pennsylvania Family Institute
This morning, Randy Wenger, Chief Counsel of our Independence Law Center, is in Common Pleas Court in Montgomery County, arguing on behalf of the King’s Men, a Christian men’s organization committed to helping men grow spiritually, and to fighting obscenity and...