Worldwide Reach for Life

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, Jan. 13 — “From Peru to the Philippines to Poland,” U.S.-based pro-life groups “are increasingly engaged in debates overseas,” and have been particularly effective in Latin America, according to both supporters and detractors.

In Colombia, American pro-lifers have assisted local activists in opposing a legal challenge to the country’s ban on abortions, while Peruvian officials have been prevented from using the U.S. Agency for International Development to promote legalization of the morning-after pill.

The article’s tone made it clear that the Seattle daily did not welcome the trend, mentioning “liberal activists” only once — in connection with the “empowerment of women” — while branding the pro-life movement  “conservative” no less than 14 times.

A Planned Parenthood spokesman described the “massive effort” of the international pro-life movement as “very organized, with lots of resources,” and “powerful allies in the White House and Vatican.”

Cuffing Federal Courts

WORLDNETDAILY.COM, Jan. 13 — A bill introduced by Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, would remove from federal courts’ jurisdiction any case involving religious liberty, sexual practices, orientation or reproduction and same-sex “marriage.”

Paul’s bill points out provisions of the Constitution that are not well known to the public, including the fact that the Constitution “gives Congress the power to establish and limit the jurisdiction of the lower Federal courts,” and “gives Congress the power to make ‘such exceptions, and under such regulations’ as Congress finds necessary to Supreme Court jurisdiction.”

Paul’s bill stipulates that any judge violating the law shall be impeached by Congress or removed by the president.