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Family Research Council uses adoption-technology story to attack Planned Parenthood

By | 08.23.11 | 9:08 am | More from The Iowa Independent

A Monday blog entry posted by Family Research Council Action references a media account of how adoption is changing due to technology, but FRCA omits the portion about technology and instead attempts to make the leap that a lack of birth mothers is due to abortion services, and specifically due More…

Poll: Majority of Americans support gay marriage

By | 05.19.11 | 3:37 pm

A poll released by the Public Religion Research Institute on Thursday confirmed what several other national pollsters have found: A majority of Americans now support marriage rights for same-sex couples. The poll found that 51 percent of Americans supported legalizing gay marriage compared to 43 who opposed legalization.

Church leader wants all states to adopt nondiscriminatory adoption rules

By | 04.21.11 | 9:00 am

For most anti-abortion rights groups, there should only be one legal alternative to an unwanted pregnancy: putting the baby up for adoption. In the latest abortion wars, Planned Parenthood has been excoriated for providing more abortions than adoption referrals — 324,008 abortions vs. 81,492 adoption referrals in 2008, according to the More…

Did Mississippi Mother Lose Her Baby to Foster Care Because She Doesn’t Speak English?

By | 08.28.09 | 2:59 pm

Time has a shocking immigration story in its Aug. 27 issue about an undocumented woman originally from Oaxaca, Mexico, who was reported to the Department of Homeland Security for deportation when she showed up at a hospital in Pascagoula, Miss., to give birth. The agency took the  newborn More…