I forgot to post some pictures I took at the Life Issues Forum I spoke at the other week at St. Anne’s Catholic church in Warsaw Missouri. Our diocesan pro-life committee travels around the diocese organizing these forums to keep parishioners up to date on life issues, especially those which concern our state. In this picture, Dr. Lankford, from Mexico … Read More
Response from Missouri Right to Life
Attributed to president Pam Fichter from MRL’s press release today: “Missouri Right to Life is outraged at the Secretary of State’s blatantly inaccurate and biased summary of the Cures Without Cloning ballot initiative. The ballot summary is profoundly different than the proposed amendment. Secretary Carnahan is greatly abusing the powers of her office and ignoring the legal requirement to use … Read More
Disgraceful Ballot Language Approved
I just got word today that the Secretary of State has approved the ballot title and language for the Cures Without Cloning initiative and it is an absolute disgrace: Constitutional Amendment to Add Article III, Section 38(e), Relating to Limiting Stem Cell Research, 2008-014 [full text] Submitted by: Lori Buffa, M.D. Contact Information: Lori Buffa, M.D. Cures Without Cloning P.O. … Read More
I Never Thought of it This Way!
Thank you Jivin Jehohaphat! In light of one blogger’s football analogy for the 2008 election and the possibility of a Hillary/Giuliani race (in favor of electing Giuliani), Jivin J offered one of his own. It’s 4th and goal from the 35 yard line and we’re down by 4 points. Our chances of scoring a touchdown (electing a prolife third party … Read More
The Great Giuliani Divide
Almost a week has gone by since pro-life leaders vowed third party support in the event of a Giuliani nomination and the fires are still burning on both sides of the Giuliani divide. I’m sick of this whole thing already. The way I see it, much of this infighting can be avoided if we would take a break and focus … Read More
ESC Research and the Presidential Candidates
One of the best things I think President Bush has done during his presidency (notice I said “one of”) was to take a stand and twice veto a bill to expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Of course it doesn’t exactly excuse the fact that he was the first president to actually provide federal funding for ESC research, … Read More
Proving My Point About Republicans
In recent years, retired Sen. John Danforth, no fan of the “religious right” wing of the Republican party, has been a consistent disappointment to me as a Republican, culminating in his unwavering support for human cloning, ESC research and the passage of last year’s Amendment 2. Now he is spending his time encouraging like-minded moderate Republicans to run for office. … Read More
Who’s The Most Conservative Candidate?
Via Stop the ACLU: Forbes Magazine rated the 2008 Presidential hopefuls on five policy issues, each on a scale of 1-10 (ten being the most conservative), making the highest score 50. Not surprisingly all of the Democrat candidates had scores of 10 and under, with Dennis Kucinich winning the prize for most liberal (2.8) followed closely by John Edwards (3.6). … Read More
Christians Against Rudy
I suppose it’s time to put in my two cents on this matter. I have made it no secret that I am thoroughly opposed to Rudy Giuliani becoming the Republican presidential nominee. That is my primary focus right now. There are many people who think that Rudy does not have a chance, at this point, to win the nomination because … Read More
Stem Cell Trials for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Smith also found this news from the UK abut a new clinical trial in humans testing the ability of bone marrow stem cells to help treat multiple sclerosis: The procedure involves patients being injected with stem cells taken from their own bone marrow, in the hope that they will travel to damaged parts of the brain and repair them. The … Read More