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"A 20-year-old woman from Scotland is suing a hospital for botching her abortion which was performed there in 2001. Stacy Dow was pregnant with twins but the procedure only terminated one pregnancy. "Her daughter, Jayde, is now three-years-old and healthy. Dow is raising her with her parents."

It's one of the odder stories that we missed. A teenage model who struggled to support her sick mother and younger brother hit on a sure-fire idea: She'd auction off her virginity. People in Peru were infuriated; one Canadian man offered $1.5 million. She shrugged

There's an interesting post at "Get Religion" about the growth of Eastern Orthodoxy. We've always been intrigued by Orthodoxy. Years ago, we read Faber & Faber's re-issuance of The Philokalia , practically memorized Kallistos Ware's modern classic, The Orthodox Way, and

This is an ethics violation? We would've thought it was basic politeness: > When reporter Craig McCool and photographer Mairin Chapman of The Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazette went to a local party to research a series on drinking among young adults, they saw nothing wrong with partaking of the

There's quite the screed at The Spectator about Britain's immigration/multi-cultural problem. Link. [http://www.lewrockwell.com/spectator2/spec593.html] Excerpts: > At the entrance to my local library there is a large glossy poster which carries the slogan 'Celebrate Diversity'. It sounds like

Another shocker: Married people with children don't want babies killed, the ACLU defending public perversion, and homosexuals further undermining the institution that's at the center of their lives. > The Progressive Policy Institute has discovered a "parent gap": in the last two presidential elections,

The sex paradox plods on: More sex means fewer children. Most people just want to bang without consequences, but even those who want children often can't have them. Between (i) waiting until after careers are launched, and (ii) messing up one's system with the pill, many

Are these high schools students or faculty members at Notre Dame/St. Mary's Theology Department? Link. [http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/state/11452310.htm] > High school students here are being admonished for wearing buttons inspired by the sometimes raunchy off-Broadway hit "The Vagina Monologues&

Public school educators don't give up. Why would they? It's not their money. Nevertheless, Kentucky is now re-assessing its taxpayer-funded GED program for drop outs. The cost is one issue, but also--shocker, shocker--it's almost as if the students who drop out don't

The LA Times ran an eerie piece over the weekend about the prevalence of pornography and its impact on teenagers. The message of the article is, "Look, the kids have seen it all and they're fine, so don't get worked up about porn any more.