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DALLAS, TX, May 24, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Parents, scouting leaders and pastors are warning that yesterday’s vote to allow openly gay youth to join the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is likely only the beginning of a much more fundamental…

GRAPEVINE, TX, May 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Boy Scouts of America's (BSA) National Council has voted in favor of a resolution to allow openly gay boys to join the organization. 

Sixty percent of the 1400 delegates present at the Scouts…

May 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Six weeks earlier April and Bryan Gionfriddo had proudly brought their newborn son, Kaiba, home from the hospital. To all appearances he was a perfectly healthy baby boy.

But then one night, while at dinner at a…

May 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When Erica Nigrelli suddenly collapsed three months ago, paramedics were given the challenge of saving not just one, but two lives.

Nigrelli, a high school English teacher in Missouri, was 36 weeks pregnant at…

Calgary, AB, May 22, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canadian pro-life group that is distributing postcards showing the graphic reality of abortion in the ridings of politicians who the group says have “failed the children” has announced the second…

Xinyi, Jiangsu, May 18, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - More than 20 family planning officials nearly beat a farmer in Jiangsu province to death last week because he and his wife have three children, violating China's strict One-Child Policy, according…

PHILADELPHIA, May 17, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As investigators in haz-mat suits raided his flea-infested home in West Philadelphia searching for the bodies of babies he killed, abortionist Kermit Gosnell sat at the piano in the living room and…

NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan appeared to suggest during a radio interview this week that he may not view pro-abortion Governor Andrew Cuomo as a Catholic “in good standing,” the archdiocese has…

LANCASTER, PA, May 16, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A teen who was accused of trying to flush her newborn baby down the toilet before discarding it in a school trash can has been released.

Cherlie Lafleur, 19, was arrested earlier this month after…

PHILADELPHIA, May 16, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When authorities raided Kermit Gosnell’s ‘House of Horrors’ abortion clinic in February 2010, among the many grisly discoveries were the bodies of some 45 unborn babies. The remains were frozen and…

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Houston, TX (OperationRescue.org) – After the conviction of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell on murder charges, Operation Rescue has been repeatedly asked if there is any evidence that similar practices exist at abortion clinics…

Update: After criticism, The New York Times has since edited their story to include the word "babies'. The editors included no update notice to indicate the change had been made.

NEW YORK, May 13, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Much of the trial of…

May 13, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life leaders who have dedicated their lives to exposing the horrors that are endemic in the abortion industry breathed a sigh of relief today that “House of Horrors” abortionist Kermit Gosnell will never again…

PHILADELPHIA, May 13, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Judge Jeffrey Minehart, who is presiding over the capital murder trial of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell, has sent the jury back to continue deliberations after the jury announced this morning…