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Arizona courts address abortion industry challenges to Informed Consent, Parental Consent and Conscience
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Various Arizona abortionists and abortion facilities (Planned Parenthood among them) filed two separate lawsuits, one in state court, one in federal court. The suits sought to enjoin common sense laws recently enacted by the Arizona legislature related to informed consent for abortion, parental consent for minors, and health care rights of conscience. Absent any injunction, the various statutory provisions were to go into effect in Arizona at midnight, September 30, 2009.
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BDF Resource: Obama Stem Cell Order is NOT just about "Left-Over" Embryos
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The Obama stem cell order is not limited to stem cell lines harvested from "left-over embryos." Soon to be released NIH guidelines are set to fund research on stem cell lines created or cloned solely for the purpose of experimentation.
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Inaugration: Thousands Send BDF's "A Pro-Life Letter from the Heart to President Obama"
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You can still sign this "Pro-Life Letter from the Heart" to President Obama.
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BDF in Rome: Hope from Benedict, Glendon
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BDF in Rome Nov. 2008: We write with a message of hope, even as the pro-life movement faces the radical pro-abortion and pro-destructive human embryo laws and policies planned by the upcoming administration.
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BDF in the Law Schools: Fall 2008
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During the Fall of 2008, BDF's Nikolas T. Nikas is teaching the truth about the human rights violations of abortion, cloning and destructive human embryo research at the law school Federalist Society chapters of the following 14 universities.
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BDF in Washington Post: Roe v. Wade Destroys Democracy, Dignity
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THE Washington Post/Newseek 'ON FAITH' QUESTION
John McCain and Sarah Palin say it's time to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Do you agree? What is the right moral choice?
Read Dorinda's answer.
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BDF Benefit with Bella Producer a Success
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The BDF "Passion for Life" Benefit held in Scottsdale on September 26 was a successful and inspiring evening. Guest speaker Leo Severino, producer and co-writer of Bella, shared the vision of Metanoia Films "to change the world to a place where a decision like Roe v. Wade becomes unimaginable."
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Letter to DHHS on Healthcare Rights of Conscience Regs
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Click here to see the comment filed by BDF in support of the Bush administration's proposed regulations that would designate the HHS Office for Civil Rights as the entity to receive complaints of discrimination against pro-life healthcare providers by federally funded healthcare providers.
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Palin v. Pelosi on Feminism in NRO
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Contrasting Feminism of Palin and Pelosi
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Pelosi Meet the Press Transcript: Response from Bishops and Embryology Sites
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Pelosi's "Meet the Press" Transcript and Resources to Correct Her Misrepresentations
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California's Parental Notice Initiative prevents Secret Abortion by Sexual Predators
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California Proposition 4 of 2008, “The Child Teen and Safety and Stop Predators Act: Sarah’s Law,” is a vitally important and constitutionally sound initiative that protects both parental rights and the well-being of adolescents.
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BDF Educates at Law Schools and National Conferences
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BDF lawyers Nikolas T. Nikas and Dorinda Bordlee debunk myths about cloning/embryonic stem cell experiments and abortion at major law school Federalist Societies across the nation.
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Cloning Funding Ban drafted by BDF signed into law by La. Gov. Bobby Jindal
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Human Cloning Funding Ban drafted by BDF signed by La. Gov. Jindal.
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Pharmacists Rights of Conscience brief filed in U.S. Ninth Circuit
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BDF filed a U.S. Ninth Circuit amicus brief representing pharmacy owners, former presidents of the Washington State Pharmacy Association, and professors of pharmacy who have an interest in defending the fundamental right of conscience in their profession against a Washington state law that would force them to stock and dispense the Plan B morning after pill.
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La. Pregnancy Care Centers granted $1.5 million in Louisiana funding
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BDF Senior Counsel Dorinda Bordlee gave legal assistance to the Louisiana Life Choice project, which was appropriated over $1.5 million in Louisiana state funding to assist Louisiana crisis pregnancy centers to help women choose life for themselves and their unborn children.
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BDF Brief Puts President's Council on Bioethics Report in Mo. Cures Without Cloning Court Case
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BDF Brief Informs Missouri Appellate Court about Misleading Human Cloning Ballot Summary.
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NRO: Winning by Witness
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BDF's legal team highlights the social tool of "witness" as a winning strategy in the battle for human dignity.
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Cloned Human Embryos Created, Lab Claims; BDF Statement
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If a California's lab's claims are true, "it is the first instance of cloning humans - only as embryos in a pitri dish, but still cloned human beings," reports MSNBC. See BDF legal team's response.
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Top 7 Victories of 2007!
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Top 7 Human Life Victories of 2007
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BREAKTHROUGH: Stem Cells without Embryos
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Stem cell pioneers in Wisconsin and Japan have released studies in Science and Cell that validate a new method to generate patient-specific stem cell lines without the creation or destruction of human embryos, the use of human cloning, or the use of human or animal eggs.
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"Dolly" Cloner Abandons Project to Clone Human Embryos
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Dr. Ian Wilmut, the scientist who created Dolly the sheep, "has decided not to pursue a licence to clone human embryos, which he was awarded just two years ago, as part of a drive to find new treatments." In a show of scientific integrity, the cloning pioneer stated that he will now pursue a rival method pioneered in Japan which regresses an adult stem cell back to its "embryonic" state without having to create a cloned human embryo or use eggs.
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Victory: Cloner Defeat in New Jersey Initiative
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In a stunning defeat, New Jersey voters soundly rejected a "Stem Cell Bond Act" ballot initiative that would have sunk $450 million in taxpayer dollars into clone and kill experiments that create and destroy human embryos.
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Beware of the Komen-Planned Parenthood connection
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Citizens who are interested in fighting this deadly disease should be aware that one breast cancer organization, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, has a policy of offering financial support to Planned Parenthood. Click here for the facts and links to groups that do not support abortion facilities or destructive human embryo research.
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Passion of the Christ Producer is special guest at BDF event
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BDF Passion for Life Benefit
Sept. 14, 2007 at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort with special guest, motion picture producer Stephen McEveety.
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BDF launches legal efforts in Seoul, South Korea
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Lawyers of the U.S.-based Bioethics Defense Fund, Nikolas Nikas and Dorinda Bordlee, will be assisting in the Catholic lay movement in South Korea against cloning. They will be in Seoul this week on a legal, media and educational mission.
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BDF assists LA to become first state to ban PBA after Supreme Court Victory
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FoxNews reports on legislation banning partial birth abortion in the states following Supreme Court victory.
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President's Stem Cell Veto and Executive Order is Pro-Science, Pro-Life
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Statement by BDF President Nikolas Nikas on the June 20, 2007 veto of tax funded embryo destruction and Executive Order about the Pluripotent Stem Cell Registry.
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VICTORY! Supreme Court Upholds Partial Birth Abortion Ban
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5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholds Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. BDF lawyers' 10 year legal battle sees victory!
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Politco.com lists BDF as main opponent of embryonic stem cell push
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BDF listed as main opponent of unethical embryo destructive research
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CBS News carries Nikas' "The Young Battle for Life"
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34 years of Roe v. Wade in historical perspective
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Meet the Cloners: Has Harvard's Dr. Melton spilled the beans?
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Nikas and Bordlee on NRO addressing the future of Missouri's approval of Amendment 2.
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Laura Ingraham links listeners to BDF's web page exposing the Missouri Tricky Lawyer's Cloning Amendment
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Missouri Amendment 2 claims in the voting booth to "ban human cloning." See the tricky legalese that really creates a state constitutional right to clone human life for the purpose of its destruction.
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Read Nikolas Nikas' Supreme Court Brief on Partial Birth INFANTICIDE and Judicial Bias against Pro-Life Medical Experts
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Read the U.S. Supreme Court filed by BDF President Nikolas T. Nikas about how partial birth abortion is really criminal infanticide, and pointing out blatant judicial bias against pro-life medical experts in court.
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BDF Litigates and Educates about the Deceptive Missouri Cloning Amendment
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After BDF's Nikolas Nikas and Dorinda Bordlee litigated the blatantly deceptive Nov. 8, 2006 ballot amendment in Missouri that claims to "ban human cloning," they participated in a July Missouri Pro-Life Leadership Summit to educate Missouri groups about the legal deceptions of this proposed Constitutional Right to Clone and Kill Research.
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BDF drafted "Post-Roe Activation Clause" Helps Louisiana Get Abortion Ban in Place
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Louisiana Post-Roe Abortion Ban
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BDF Files Medical Dangers Brief in S.Ct. Partial Birth Abortion Case
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On Monday, May 22, 2006, the Bioethics Defense Fund legal team filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Partial Birth Abortion Act of 2003. Representing distinguished ObGyn physician/researcher John M. Thorp, Jr. of UNC Chapel Hill, and Matercare International in a friend-of-the-court brief, BDF set forth the serious medical dangers of the brutal partial birth abortion procedure. More. . .
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BDF in Court: Exposing Deceptive Missouri Cloning Initiative
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BDF exposes Cloners Attempts to Deceive Missouri Voters
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Supreme Court to Hear Partial Birth Abortion Case
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Partial Birth Abortion to be heard at US Supreme Court in Fall 2006.
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Supreme Court Ayotte Victory Ends "Abortion Distortion" Standard in Reviewing Pro-Life Laws
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Ayotte victory ends old "Abortion Distortion" standard
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BDF tries case on Deceptive Missouri Clone and Kill Initiative
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Missouri Human Cloning Deception on Trial; Bioethics Defense Fund to Expose Deceptive Cloning Ballot Initiative
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Nikas on NRO: The 1000th Victim-Every 7 Hours
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The 1000th life taken by the death penalty happened after 29 years of legalized capitol punishment. BDF President Nikolas T. Nikas does the math to remember the 1000th victim of abortion that happens every 7 hours in America.
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BDF Puts Abortion Health Risks in front of Supreme Court
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BDF files a friend of the Court Brief Before the U.S. Supreme Court in a parental notice case that could impact the future of abortion restrictions.
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5 Answers to Frist's "Die Anyway" Embryo Argument
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Senator Frist has declared that although "life begins at conception," he supports using our federal tax-dollars to destroy human life for science experiments. Learn 5 easy answers to the seductive argument that the fertility embryos will "die anyway."
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Embryo Adoption: The Human Face of the "Spare" Embryos
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The story of Zara Johnson shows the reality of a policy that sanctions destroying some human lives for hyped and unproven benefits for others.
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John Paul II on Authentic Feminism
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What Women Want: John Paul II Knew!
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