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The University of Notre Dame has adopted a statement reaffirming its opposition to abortion in the wake of last year's
uproar over the school's decision to invite President Barack Obama as its commencement speaker. The school faced a backlash
over the appearance of Obama, who is a strong supporter of abortion rights and embryonic stem-cell research. Thursday's
statement says the Roman Catholic school "recognizes and upholds the sanctity of human life from conception to natural
death" in compliance with church teachings.
 

Congressman Mike Pence helped rev up about 730 people at the Indiana Republican state dinner Thursday night by urging them
to help the party regain control of the U.S. House in November and the presidency in 2012. Pence told the crowd in Indianapolis
that the Obama administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress were on a course of runaway spending and big government.
Pence is the third-ranking Republican in the U.S. House and has been mentioned as a potential presidential candidate in 2012.

It has been 20 years since Ryan White passed away from the AIDS virus. Indiana University in Bloomington will mark the anniversary
Friday with a ceremony honoring his life and an announcement about a special scholarship in his name. White became the national
poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after he contracted HIV at age 13 from a tainted blood transfusion. He died
April 8, 1990, just four months before he was to begin his freshman year at IU. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.