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Pro-abortion supporters attack Justice
Christianity Today
After the Supreme Court recently upheld the ban on partial-birth abortion, abortion supporters attacked Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy for taking into account mental and emotional health too much in his majority opinion. Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsberg came down on opposite sides of the partial-birth abortion decision, but Christianity Today reports that both seem uncomfortable -- if for different reasons -- with the reasoning of Roe vs. Wade that originally allowed abortion on demand. As support for Roe's reasoning wanes, the real legal debate now concerns what abortion supporters will try to replace it with.

What is excommunication?
IgnatiusInsight.com
Canon lawyer and civil-law expert Ed Peters explains the Church act of excommunication. He says that excommunication is the most misunderstood and misrepresented topic that canon lawyers have to deal with. The topic of excommunication was in the news recently when Mexican politicians, who are Catholic, who voted in favor of legalized abortion in Mexico City.