By requiring cigarette manufacturers to place more graphic, hardhitting warning labels on cigarette packages, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is tacitly agreeing with prolife groups that people will change their minds and their behavior if they can see graphic representations or pictures of how their actions to smoke (or to have an abortion) harm others.
In the News
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November 16th, 2010
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November 16th, 2010
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in New Hampshire's public schools.
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November 16th, 2010
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has upheld the constitutionality of public school children reciting "under God" in Pledge of Allegiance, rebuffing a prominent atheist group's attempt to stop the practice.
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November 16th, 2010
It is without doubt that the freedom of religion constitutes a pillar of human rights. It has been stated in the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Art. 9.1) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Art. 18). The practice shows however that the persecution on the grounds of religion or belief is still present worldwide. According to the statistics at least 75% of religious persecution is directed against people of Christian faith and each year about 170,000 Christians suffer because of their beliefs.
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November 16th, 2010
The recent award of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Medicine to Dr. Robert Edwards recognizes important research that led to the development of in vitro fertilization (IVF). But the work that he, along with his late colleague, Dr. Patrick Steptoe, conducted at Cambridge University raises profound questions that, with the evolving modern family, many doctors, patients and potential parents continue to struggle with decades later.
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November 16th, 2010
A homosexual couple from Northamptonshire have applied to marry as part of a campaign to challenge the legal ban on same sex marriages.
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November 16th, 2010
In a lecture last night, the retired police officer, who led Scotland Yard during the 2005 suicide bombings on London's transport system, said that religious leaders were losing the struggle to make it clear that faith impels them to do good deeds.
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November 16th, 2010
Children’s Minister Sarah Teather said Sure Start centres were wasting money on meeting the requirement to offer full day care of up to 40 hours per week in the most deprived communities because very few families took up the service.
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November 16th, 2010
Homosexual Lutheran ministers in the conservative German state of Bavaria may live with their partners in parish parsonages if they enter into a state-sanctioned civil union.
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November 16th, 2010
Following the campaign promise of Governor-elect Peter Shumlin (D), Vermont is again a target for passage of legislation that would legalize doctor-assisted suicide.