Our Takes Daily

No, it’s not OK to live together before marriage
Washington Post (registration site)
The Omaha Archdiocese has severed ties with a Jesuit-run Creighton University's family center after two researchers urged the Church to allow unmarried couples to live together and have sex and children as long as they are engaged. "The teaching of the Catholic Church about fornication is clear and unambiguous; it is always objectively a serious sin," Archbishop Elden Curtiss wrote in response (I’ll add the link here) the the archdiocese’s decision.

Doctor accused of violating late-term abortion law
Los Angeles Times (registration site)
A doctor who performs abortions was charged Thursday with violating Kansas law on late-term procedures, a surprise move from a Democratic attorney general who recently unseated a prominent antiabortion Republican. The abortions in question involved cases in which patients were more than 21 weeks pregnant and the fetuses were potentially able to survive outside the womb.

Internet inspiring suicide
Economist
One new trend that is clearly pushing the worldwide incidence of suicide up is the growing use of the Internet to learn about, plan or even encourage self-killing. Back in 1997, the Internet was used to publicize the effectiveness of charcoal-burning barbecues as a means of carbon-monoxide poisoning; the first recorded case of two or more people using the web to form a suicide pact was in Japan in 2000. Since then hundreds of people, if not more, have taken their lives this way, in countries from Australia to Spain.