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Pro-life, pro-family commentators react to Obama's re-election

Pro-life and pro-family commentators have reacted to the re-election of anti-life and anti-family Barack Obama as US president. Abby Johnson, the former Planned Parenthood centre manager now pro-life figure, said: “Time to get involved in the prolife grassroots movement." [LifeSiteNews.com, 6 November] Dale O'Leary, an expert on the homosexual agenda, wrote: "We must protect ourselves and our families by strengthening our own institutions. We must create an alternative culture, one which will resist the culture of death." [Dale O'Leary, 7 November] Michael Matt, editor of The Remnant Catholic newspaper, wrote: "Barack Obama is not the problem, by the way. We are!  Abortion is ... Obama has been reelected because America, like any nation, will always get the leaders she richly deserves." [The Remnant, 7 November]

Other stories:

Abortion

• 3000 pro-life marchers demand Irish Prime Minister uphold unborn rights [LifeSiteNews.com, 5 November]

Embryology

• £12 million initiative announced to fund research into reprogrammed stem cells [Wellcome Trust, 6 November]

Sexual ethics

• Radical statist agenda behind Ireland ‘Children’s Rights’ referendum: former MEP Dana Scallon [LifeSiteNews.com, 6 November]

General

• Bishop Hopes preaches the Gospel of Life in Westminster Cathedral [John Smeaton, 6 November]
• Plymouth - SPUC Pro-Life Universities Tour [SPUC youth blog, 5 November]

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