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Abortion:

• Abortion rate soars | Most of the people who go for abortion in Kampala are victims of defilement, a survey by the Church of Uganda has revealed (New Vision, Kampala, Uganda)
• Expendable women | One of the uglier aspects of the Bush administration's assault on women's reproductive rights is its concerted undermining of the United Nations Population Fund based on the false accusation that it supports coerced abortions in China (Editorial, The New York Times)

John Kerry & abortion:

• Abortion double standards | If John Kerry can be "personally opposed," why can't GOP judges? (Editorial, The Wall Street Journal)
• A question of choice | John Kerry now says he believes life begins at conception. He also claims this view does not conflict with his support of abortion rights. But abortion rights activists may have trouble buying that argument (David Asman, Fox News)
• Kerry's Catholic question | Cardinal Edward Egan faces a defining moment in the 2004 race for the White House (The Village Voice)

Communion & abortion:

• Burke's law | Burke's stance may not cause much actual public or political disruption. What it is causing is soul-searching among individual Catholics torn between their archbishop and their consciences. Their conclusions are their own and should be honored (Editorial, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• Burke's stance on Kerry offers food for thought | The Archbishop has said that if you vote for John Kerry, you are committing a sin. Since some of Mr. Kerry's funding must come from his wife, would it not be a sin to support him by using ketchup? (Bill McClellan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• 'Bad' Catholics | Marc Balestrieri, a canon lawyer and assistant judge of an ecclesiastical court in Los Angeles. He is filing "heresy" charges against Kerry with the Archdiocese of Boston, on the grounds of Kerry's pro-choice position (Jeff Fleischer, Mother Jones)
• Should Communion be denied to Catholics who disagree with the church? | Readers respond (The Washington Post)
• Should Communion be denied to Catholic politicians who disagree with Church teachings? | More readers respond (The Washington Post)
• McCarrick tempered letter on pro-choice politicians | Washington Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick downplayed a letter to the U.S. Catholic bishops from the Vatican's chief doctrinal watchdog on whether priests should refuse Communion to pro-choice Catholic politicians (The Washington Times)
• A grave offense against the faith | We do indeed have separation of church and state in the United States of America, but we do not have separation of abortion and Democratic presidential candidates (Wesley Pruden, The Washington Times)

Abandoned baby:

• Caregivers are celebrating baby's recovery | Abandoned infant leaves the hospital (The Boston Globe)
• Approval of infant haven laws no longer a safe bet | The question of legalizing safe havens for abandoned newborns -- scheduled for debate in the state Senate today -- has aroused discussion on both sides of the issue, but perhaps nowhere so passionately as in Arlington (The Boston Globe)

Abstinence in theU.K.:

• A plea for chastity, but will it play in randy Britain? | On its first overseas tour, the Silver Ring Thing's message of chastity has pitched the group into the center of a national debate on teenage sexuality and its attendant problems, on the efficacy of school-based sex education programs, and on the perceived American tendency to moralize (The New York Times)

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July (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48