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May 23, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) - Catholic Charities USA is a dues-paying member of an organization that advocates for public funding of abortion providers and of abortifacient contraceptives.

The Coalition on Human Needs fought against cutting…

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…

FREDERICTON, NB, May 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Organizers of the March for Life held in Fredericton said they were thrilled by the turnout of pro-lifers from across the province at this year's event on May 16.

"It was a great success", Peter…

NEW YORK, May 23, 2013 (C-FAM.org) - While debates over abortion laws and international norms continue, a stealthy campaign is underway to gain universal acceptance for the tools and training to do abortions, whether legal or not.

One recent …

May 23, 2013 (C-FAM.org) - Ten years ago, the late, great American jurist Robert Bork wrote a short book entitled Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges.  He described how the “American disease” of judicial legislating—activists using…

May 23, 2013 (Acton Institute) - There is no doubt that higher education is costly. Textbooks alone can run $1,000 a semester for some undergraduates. Waiting tables and flipping burgers won’t cover those costs. With many parents just as strapped…

OTTAWA, Ontario, May 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While Prime Minister Stephen Harper and mainstream media have said that Canadians do not want to reopen the abortion debate, MPs have presented the government with more than 70 petitions from…

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Members of the House of Representatives heard testimony Thursday from two former abortion industry workers as hearings were held on a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks gestation, when…

Analysis

May 23, 2013 (STOPP.org) - When I walked into this year’s Oregon Adolescent Sexuality Conference in Seaside, Oregon, one of the first things I encountered was a table manned by three young teen boys. On the table was a collage that…

FATIMA, Portugal, May 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The rector of Portugal’s Fatima Shrine, Fr. Carlos Cabecinhas, is again refusing permission to members of the National Pro-life Referendum Committee to collect signatures favoring a national vote…

RICHLAND, WA, May 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An elderly florist in Washington state has filed a countersuit against the state Attorney General after being sued for refusing to sell flowers for a same-sex "wedding."

AG Bob Ferguson says…

OTTAWA, May 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual men who have not had sex with other men for five years are now eligible to donate blood to the Canadian Blood Services (CBS).

The organization revealed yesterday that it has received approval…

KUALA LUMPUR, May 23, 2013 (C-FAM.org) - Women Deliver, a global conference on maternal health, has tapped pro-infanticide philosopher Peter Singer and partial-birth abortionist LeRoy Carhart to train family planning advocates.

While the…