Blog Heap o'Urantiana Links 8 April 2015

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Links regarding faith and belief
and men, women, marriage, and family life,
also sciences, the spritual and the 'supernatural,'
and, of course, Jesus of Nazareth.

Spiritual Matters

Dallas vs Synagogue
Jeff Dunetz, Truth Revolt Wed 2015-Apr-8 6:32pm

Congregation Toras Chaim is a tiny Orthodox Jewish Synagogue which meets in a home in north Dallas. The City of Dallas is attempting to shut the synagogue down because they are meeting in a private home without the correct Certificate of Occupation (CO). However, the Synagogue's attorney says the city’s ordinance requiring the CO is invalid under the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act.…

Modern Family Life

Fertility Delayed Is Fertility Denied
The Other McCain Wed 2015-Apr-8 9:07pm

…Because fertility declines significantly for women in their 40s… demographers carefully watch these women to get a sense of how many children Americans are having, or not. … With more women having their first child in their mid 30s, late 30s and early 40s, American families may be shrinking: The number of women aged 40 to 44 who had only one child roughly doubled between 1976 and 2014…

DWS
Wasserman-Schultz: No Limits on Abortion
Dapandico, Weasel Zippers Wed 2015-Apr-8 8:52pm

In a press release, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said that she did not support any government restrictions on abortion: “period. [citing Daily Caller]

Okla Flag
Okla Bans 2nd Trimester Abortion Procedure
AOL / AP Wed 2015-Apr-8 6:21pm

Oklahoma lawmakers have approved a ban on a common second-trimester abortion procedure that critics describe as dismembering a fetus. …now goes to Republican Gov. Mary Fallin… Under the bill, doctors cannot use forceps, clamps, scissors or similar instruments on a fetus to remove it from the womb in pieces… would ban the procedure except when necessary to save a woman's life or a serious health risk to the mother…