JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

Ever since the first in vitro fertilization baby, Louise Brown, was born the in 1978 reproductive technology has taken many turns.

Some of us have been tracking the strange events surrounding Yale art student Aliza Shvarts, Class of ’08, whose alleged “art project” calls into question a great deal about the young woman and, perhaps most importantly, officials at Yale.

A very sad story is unfolding in Indianapolis, Indiana. Katherin Shuffield, a 30-year-old bank teller, expecting to give birth to twins in a few months, was wounded during a bank robbery Tuesday, April 22.

A couple of days ago a member of the leadership team from Colorado for Equal Rights sent me a link to the NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado home page where I found something remarkable.

Every time I, as a senior citizen, read a story about how to be healthy and happy in your sixties, there is invariably a reference to the importance of exercise, particularly walking.

I recently came across a letter from the president of the National Lawyer’s Association. Her name is Rebecca Messall and her message is one that is rarely heard but profoundly important.

Sometimes headlines jump off the page and you wonder whether or not they are designed to suck you into a story that has nothing whatsoever to do with the headline!

Thursday was a day full to the brim with everything you ever wanted to know about Catholics, courage and cowardice.

Calls for disciplinary action against Bill Maher from prominent Catholic organizations grew stronger as American Life League demands that HBO fire Maher for his hate-speech directed at Pope Benedict XVI on April 11.

A recent news item from Vancouver, British Columbia arrived in my inbox, sent by a fellow pro-lifer who has been battling the culture of death in Canada for many years.

Remember the flap over Don Imus when he made a crude comment about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team?

It is with the deepest admiration that I come to you with a story that makes me wish there were more heroic people like Susan Crump and Javier Negrete in our world.