Articles for Month: October 2005

WASHINGTON, October 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On February 2, 2005, Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) introduced the Right to Life Act of 2005, which, if passed, would amend the U.S. Constitution to provide for the right to life for each born and pre-born human person, according to an Operation Rescue (OR) news release. “This legislation would literally STOP abortion in America – all abortion – because the Constitution would guarantee the right to life for the pre-born,” OR emphasized. The proposed legislation to make abortion illegal has been introduced to Congress by Hunter every year since 1997 after he agreed to […]

CALGARY, October 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Lethbridge, Alberta man who beat his pregnant ex-girlfriend in order to induce an abortion is going to jail. The Alberta Court of Appeal ruled yesterday that Patrick William Coulthard’s earlier conditional sentence was not severe enough for the assault which was initiated because the woman refused to abort their child. “She was pregnant with his child and refused to have an abortion,” Justice Bryan Mahoney stated in his decision, according to a Sun Media report. “The attack caused great risk to the victim and child.” The woman was jumped from behind by the […]

HUNTINGTON, Conn., October 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stephen Bennett, the famous former homosexual, now happily married to wife Irene and proud father of two children, has made it his mission to spread the hope of change for men and women struggling against homosexual inclinations. In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com yesterday, Bennet explained his latest venture to reach out to Canada with his message. Bennett’s US national radio program “Straight Talk Radio”, which is to launch October 31 will broadcast in Canada via internet streaming radio. Because of Canadian broadcast restrictions, Straight Talk Radio will provide a 1” square icon and […]

GDP Growth to Experience Major Slowdown in Next Decade, Group Warns

The Promise of Narnia: Will They Get it Right?https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/242005b.asp Reproductive Technologies Out of Control and Harming Children  Good Work, Bishop Wiegandhttps://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=30505 Family institute in Colombia refutes statistics on abortion https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5232 Missouri Stem-Cell Initiative Permits All Cloninghttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/9235/CWA/life/index.htm Will This Catholic Senator Be the Next President? An Ignatius Insight Interview with Senator Sam Brownback https://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/vs_senbrownback_oct05.asp Sex Trafficking Goes Primetime – Chuck Colsonhttps://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/chuckcolson/2005/10/24/172641.html Sex and schoolkidshttps://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/jeffjacoby/2005/10/24/172497.html ‘Satanism flourishing in Russia’https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47000 Bearded Mel goes Mayanhttps://www.canadafreepress.com/ Calls to limit population growth in the Philippines are misguided, says a leading economist – Big families are the ultimate resource. https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=171 Obliterating this country’s long storied history is […]

Insiders see hint of Miers pulloutThe White House has begun making contingency plans for the withdrawal of Harriet Miers as President Bush’s choice to fill a seat on the Supreme Court, conservative sources said yesterday. “White House senior staff are starting to ask outside people, saying, ‘We’re not discussing pulling out her nomination, but if we were to, do you have any advice as to how we should do it?’ ” a conservative Republican with ties to the White House told The Washington Times. https://washingtontimes.com/national/20051021-112953-8355r.htm What Went Wrong: Lessons the White House should learn from the Miers debacle – John […]

WARSAW, October 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lech Kaczynski, who as the mayor of Warsaw banned “gay pride” parades two years in a row, was elected as the country’s president yesterday. Kaczynski, leader of the conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS), earned 54.5 percent of the vote to defeat fellow presidential contender Donald Tusk of the free market Civic Platform (PO), who won 45.5 percent. The two parties will form a centre-right cabinet in the coming week. The conservative win in the country’s general election last month unseated a socialist-led government that has been in power since the fall of communism […]

HOUSTON, Texas, October 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In her new book, Sex Appealed, a Texas judge documents why she concludes that a landmark 2003 US Supreme Court decision striking down anti sodomy laws was based on pre arranged arrests staged to test the constitutionality of Texas’ law. The non fiction book, her first, is subtitled Was the U.S. Supreme Court Fooled? The controversial 6-3 U.S. Supreme Court ruling favoring the defendants in the landmark case is the trigger event kicking away roadblocks to gay marriage. Lawrence v. Texas remains in headlines today in a larger cultural war over adoption, employee […]

ANN ARBOR, MI, October 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Thomas More Law Center has submitted a friend of the court brief with the Supreme Court of the United States supporting Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s efforts to uphold the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Nebraska had previously found the Act to be unconstitutional. The Act bans the abortion procedure where an unborn baby, generally twenty weeks or longer in gestation, is removed alive from her mother’s womb, except for the head. The doctor punctures the child’s head, sucks out […]

BOSTON, October 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Boston Globe reported Saturday that the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has assisted in the adoption of 13 children by homosexual partners in the last twenty years out of a total of 720 children adopted. Archdiocesan spokesman, Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, said that state regulations prohibit the agency from discriminating based on “sexual orientation.” “We have to balance various goods,” said Fr. Hehir. He said if they did not comply with the state’s nondiscrimination clause, the Catholic agency would not be able to do the work of placing other foster children into good homes. […]