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AUSTIN, TX, January 2, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The year 2013 marks a new era for the state of Texas: It is the first year the state’s health program has not funded Planned Parenthood affiliates.

The new relationship went into effect on New…

I have learned a few things since I started in journalism more than 20 years ago:

• A meeting of journalists is impossible to distinguish from a bunch of guys sitting around a bar;

• Journalists may report the straight facts in print, but when they…

December 24, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – If properly understood, the Christmas holiday would be enough, not only to end abortion, but to destroy all sin.

Even sentimental secularists wince when they connect the feast of Jesus as a Baby with the…

SAN FRANCISCO, December 21, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com—The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily halted a California law that would prevent psychologists from helping people who struggle with unwanted same-sex attraction.

The appeals court,…

December 21, 2012, (Family Research Center)—Nobel Laureate John Gurdon of the UK has come out in support of human cloning. Gurdon was one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Shinya Yamanaka of Japan.…

December 21, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com)—A British wag would say, Royals have babies. We commoners have fetae. The very sad fact is that “wanted” preborn children are granted personhood and life. The “unwanted” are consigned to a cruel death…

December 21, 2012, (C-FAM) - Late on Thursday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights released a lengthy opinion (Murillo et al. v. Costa Rica, dated November 28, 2012) holding that Costa Rica’s law which protects life at its earliest stages by…

NEW YORK, December 21, 2012, (Operation Rescue)—A “study” released by Planned Parenthood employees and sympathizers has concluded — based on incomplete numbers — that the abortion-inducing mifepristone and misoprostol are “safe” despite…

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 21, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com – A pro-abortion senator found levity in the fiscal cliff negotiations, tying Speaker John Boehner’s financial proposals to an abortion-inducing drug.

Boehner and President Obama are locked…

December 21, 2012, (HLI Worldwatch)—In Uganda, as in most parts of Africa, the culture is one in which life is respected and family is at the center. But like most of Africa, the culture is under constant attack from outside forces pressuring the…

December 21, 2012, (Acton Institute)—Writing over at The Atlantic, American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers shares the unsettling story of what a growing number of Swedish activist groups and political factions are attempting to…

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 21, 2012, (The Heritage Foundation) - Christmas, the quintessential celebration of family time, and New Year’s, a day of resolutions, provide a great opportunity for parents to ensure that family togetherness lasts the…

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 20, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, a federal court denied a request to temporarily stop enforcement of the abortion pill mandate, which would force the Christian-owned-and-operated Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., to provide…

NEW YORK, December 20, 2012, (C-FAM) As we look back over the year 2012, here are five of the worst moments for human life, dignity, and the family at the United Nations.

1. World Health Organization Guidelines on Abortion

The World Health…