FIC Blog

The day began with a standing-room-only press conference on Rep. Art O’Neill’s homeschooling bill. It ended with all three of the bills FIC Action supports getting raised in committee. Our concepts on homeschooling, fatherlessness and a variation on parental notification were all raised for public hearing by the select committee on children.
Raising these bills is just the […]

Next week marks the start of the 2008 session of the Connecticut General Assembly—and anti-family lobbyists are already launching new attacks on faith and family! But their attacks are being met by a new force that has risen up in the last few years to fight for our values: Family Institute of Connecticut Action.
Here are […]

In the six months since I became executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut it has been my privilege to represent our state’s pro-family movement at many important events. But the one I attended last Tuesday will be hard to top. Three days ago I was an invited guest at the White House, where […]

We have a rough idea of what the break-through in stem-cell research will mean for the Left and their media echo chamber. But what does it mean for Connecticut?
No, our opponents will not admit it any time soon, but the debate over destroying human embryos for research has been resolved. What pro-lifers–including President Bush–have said […]

So I’m on Dan Lovallo’s program last Friday talking about the scientific break-though of embryonic-like stem cells being created without having to kill human embryos (”When I read the news I thought of the Family Institute of Connecticut” Dan graciously told his audience) and Dan asks me about the media factor in all of this. […]

No–in answer to the wiesenheimer who left the voice mail on my cell–FIC won’t be taking up a petition drive to excommunicate the bishops. Hartford’s Bishop Macaluso, in fact, was one of the key speakers at our September 12th Rally for Liberty, and our relationship with the Catholic Church remains strong.
But I understand where the […]

A year ago we noted a powerful Courant op-ed about the ethical concerns on the disbursement of state funds for embryo destroying research. Last Friday this story appeared in the Courant regarding the state’s best known stem cell scientist:
STORRS - Internationally known cloning expert Xiangzhong “Jerry” Yang violated conflict of interest policies when he didn’t […]

I’ve noted before the case of the 15 year-old West Hartford runaway who appears to have been the victim of a statutory rape that went unreported by Planned Parenthood (where she went for her abortion). The incident is a sad reminder that Connecticut is one of only six states that has yet to pass a […]

Why do we have Democrat supermajorities in both houses of our legislature? In part, because state GOP leaders seem intent on snubbing social conservatives:
The legislature’s top two Republicans, state Sen. John McKinney and state Rep. Lawrence Cafero, will spearhead efforts in Connecticut to promote former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to the White House…
McKinney said he and Cafero […]

“State’s Stem Cell Policy Begins To Pay Off,” says the headline on the front page of yesterday’s Courant. The “policy” referred to here is the 2005 law committing $100 million of taxpayer funds mostly to embryo-destroying research.
“So what’s this ‘pay off’ that’s now begun?” you ask. “Has there been some sort of medical breakthrough? Is Connecticut […]