July 07, 2006

Various News Topics

Jim Schneider urged listeners to call their Senators concerning the three pieces of legislation discussed yesterday on Crosstalk. The three include HR 810 which has moved on to the Senate, SB 3504 and SB 2754

-House panel kills bill designed to remove the jurisdiction of the federal courts over cases involving the pledge of allegience.

-There's an international outcry regarding a world gay pride event in Jerusalem scheduled for August 6-12th. The location may be moved to Tel Aviv.

-Michigan State University being sued over their recognition of same-sex marriages.

-Muslims who fail to pray five times daily can be sentenced to death in Somalia's capital.

-Oregon pro-life campaigners, working to put a November initiative on the ballot regarding parental notification for an abortion, turned in over 115,000 signatures a day early.

-Brain rewires itself in man comatose for 19 years.

-Florida's Department of Health is allegedly demanding the nursing license and nearly $1,700 in fines and administrative costs from a nurse who gave public testimony in the case of Terri Schiavo.

-Chinese woman dies trying to escape family planning officals that wanted her to have an abortion of her twins.

-Passengers on French airlines paying surcharge to help the world's poor.

-Navy review concludes that chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt's complaint that his commanding officer censored and harrassed him by discouraging the use of certain Bible quotations is said to be without merit.

-The ruling socialist government in Portugal is moving ahead with plans to call for a September vote in Parliment that would place a proposal on the ballot for voters to consider legalizing abortion through the twelfth week of pregnancy.

-South Carolina schools can critically analyze evolution beginning this Fall.

-U.S. states are dumbing down their grade school tests where high failurre rates could bring penalties under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

-U.S. authorities disrupt plan by foreign terrorists for an attack on New York City tunnels.

-43 influential leaders sign declaration pledging to withhold suppport for any candidate, Democrat or Republican, who votes for legislation that provides amnesty or a guest worker program for illegal aliens.

-Howard Dean lashes out against recent New York decision that upholds traditional marriage.

-Mexican customs facility planned for Kansas City's inland port may have to be considered the sovereign soil of Mexico.

-President Bush seeks to rally support of other nations over North Korean missile crisis.

Action Points

To contact your senators about the following bills, call:
202-224-3121

Here are the bills to mention when giving your comments to your U.S. Senators:

HR 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, now sent to the Senate, which would allow federal funds to be used so that any human embryo could become a target to be destroyed for stem cell research.

Senate Bill 3504, the Fetus Farming Prohibition Act, which would prohibit someone from taking a human embryo created by fertilization or by cloning, gestating it for a number of months, and then aborting that human fetus for spare parts.

Senate Bill 2754, the Alternative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapies Enhancement Act, which would give scientists an incentive to come up with other ways to get good stem cells that are flexible, and do so without destroying a human enbryo.