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A Quick Overview of Today's News
Part One of Four By Dave Andrusko Good evening, and thanks for taking time to read Today's News & Views as we come to the end of the week. Part Two is a fan-favorite, the Pro-Life Week in Review. Part Three is encouraging news about notorious abortionist Steven Brigham. Part Four is the fingers-still-crossed story that pro-abortionists have not challenged Nebraska's historic "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act." At National Right to Life News Today (www.nationalrighttolifenews.org), we begin with a look back at last night's debate between Sharron Angle and Harry Reid. There is also a great "Respect Life Month" message and a fascinating story about how twins bond in utero! Please send your comments on Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha. There is so much going on right now that Part One today is a smorgasbord of news items briefly touched on, while Part Two is our regular Friday "Pro-Life Week in Review." Let's quickly go through just a few of our stash of news items.
The Washington Post today put the best spin it could on a Washington Post-ABC News poll with the headline "Americans still evenly split on health-care law, poll shows": 50% against, 46% for. But a little further on you find that "more than three-quarters of those who oppose the changes say they support an effort to cancel the health-care reform measures." More importantly, "Support for the bill, though, dips lower among those who are most likely to turn out in November, with opposition rising to 55 percent of likely voters in the early October Post-ABC poll," according to Kyle Dropp. If that weren't ominous enough, "Four in 10 adults ages 50 and up support the changes, compared with more than half of younger Americans." Disproportionately, it is older voters who vote in off-year elections. On a related note, as you know, there are a series of challenges to ObamaCare wending their way through the courts. Yesterday Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida rejected the Obama administration's request to throw out the case brought by 20 states. If not read carefully, you might conclude that in "dismissing most of the states' other complaints," Judge Vinson left only legal crumbs to consider. In fact many critically important issues are still on the table. As the story points out, Vinson "ruled that they [the 20 states] can contest whether the law's 'individual mandate' requiring virtually all Americans to buy health insurance exceeds Congress's constitutional authority to regulate commerce and make laws 'necessary and proper' for carrying out its powers." In addition, "Vinson ruled that the fee imposed on people who fail to comply with the individual mandate amounts to a 'penalty' rather than a 'tax.' This would mean that Congress's ability to impose it cannot derive from its constitutional powers of taxation." Finally, "Vinson will also permit the states to present arguments on whether the law's expansion of Medicaid to cover not just the very poor but also people who are low-income impinges on state sovereignty because it could require states to spend billions more on the program." Changing topics, many of you are probably familiar with Susan Boyle, who became an overnight singing sensation when she appeared last year on "Britain's Got Talent." According to excerpt from her new autobiography, doctors advised Susan's mother, already the mother of eight, to abort Susan for health reasons in 1961. "They offered a termination but that would have been unthinkable for my mother, a devout Catholic," Miss Boyle writes. However, delivered by C-Section, it was "touch and go" for both of them. Then it turned out that Susan had been "starved of oxygen for a wee while," as her father put it, and doctors said "it was likely that she had suffered slight brain damage." Miss Boyle writes that doctors told her parents, "It's probably best to accept Susan will never be anything," and that "Susan will never come to anything so don't expect too much of her." Miss Boyle explains, "'I'm sure the doctors had the best intentions but they shouldn't have said that. What they didn't know was that I'm a fighter and I I've been trying all my life to prove them wrong.'" You can read a lengthy excerpt of "The
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America's resistance to ObamaCare continues unabated. Many publications try
to spin the numbers, but let's start with the most reliable--from Rasmussen
Reports which polls daily. On Monday it reported that "55% of Likely U.S.
Voters at least somewhat favor repeal of the new health care law. Only 39%
oppose repeal. These figures include 41% who Strongly Favor repeal and 32%
who are Strongly Opposed."