Articles for Month: January 2006

Alito Sworn In as Nation’s 110th Supreme Court Justicehttps://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183270,00.html The Lessons of Alito – It’s important to remember one thing: quality matters. https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/648jhqpm.asp A Supreme Day for America as Justice Alito Takes the BenchÂÂÂÂhttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/10030/LEGAL/scourt/index.htm The Liberal Nightmare Beginshttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/1/31/154642.shtml UK Anti-euthanasia alliance launched https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4662312.stm A majority of women in Britain want the abortion laws to be tightened to make it harder, or impossible, for them to terminate a pregnancy.https://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0%2C%2C1697578%2C00.html She refused abortion, though her little boy had no brainhttps://www.latimes.com/la-na-hospice28jan28,0,1197650.story?coll=la-homepage-calendar-widget Mohler: 80-90% of Down syndrome babies killed in push for ‘human perfection’https://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22533 Reuters on Abortion Debate: “Conservatives” vs. “Abortion Rights Activists” – […]

By Hilary White LONDON, January 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the most prestigious medical publications in the world, the British Medical Journal, has published an editorial calling for the legalisation of brothels. Fiona Godlee, the Journal’s editor said that the creation of legalised establishments in which three prostitutes would work together would reduce child prostitution and sex-slavery, a proposal denounced by anti-trafficking activists. Godlee is responding to a proposal of the Blair government to change the definition of what constitutes a brothel in order to allow up to three women to work from the same address. A government strategy […]

Speaker says "it was the politicians who were whistling past the graveyard, dodging reality at all costs"

NEW YORK, January 31, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New York Times reports today on a study showing that a combination of physical touch and the deep emotional commitment between married couples greatly reduces the neurological signs of stress. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Virginia studied the effects of touch on 16 couples that rated “very happily married” on a questionnaire. The research showed that a touch of the hand from a husband had a significant soothing effect on his wife’s stress levels. The woman’s normal neural reaction to anticipating threatening situation, in this case a […]

By John-Henry Westen VATICAN, January 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an address to the leaders of the Christian Associations of Italian Workers Friday, Pope Benedict XVI warned, “As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.” Benedict was in fact making his own the statement first uttered by his predecessor John Paul II, who made the statement in 2000. (see coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/feb/00022501.html ) John Paul originally wrote the statement in 1991 in the encyclical Centesimus Annus. Benedict XVI highlighted how, in our time, science and technology “present huge possibilities for improving everyone’s lives,” but […]

TORONTO, January 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian national pro-life organization, Campaign Life Coalition, has updated it online election 2006 candidates database to reflect the results of last week’s election. The number of votes received by each of the major candidates and the winning candidates’ party, name and votes are all highlighted in red. As well, pro-life, pro-family MP Votes and responses by candidates to the CLC questionnaire are easier to quickly identify now as they all have a * before suggest correct Yes’s and No’s. A *Y or *N is a correct vote or answer. All of this information […]

MONTREAL, January 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) –Â A Montreal woman, Marielle Houle, who pleaded guilty to killing her son Charles Fariala using sleeping pills and a plastic bag, has been sentenced to three years probation. Houle had pleaded guilty to a charge of assisting the suicide of her son, a playwright and student suffering from multiple sclerosis and apparent depression. The maximum penalty for assisted suicide is 14 years. Houle’s lawyer, Salvatore Mascia, described her crime as an act of “unconditional love.” The Crown, however, said that while Houle’s intentions may have been “compassionate,” Canada is not a society that tolerates […]

By Gudrun Schultz STEINBACH, Manitoba, January 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNew.com) –Over half the pharmacies in the town of Steinbach refuse to stock the abortifacient pill known as “Plan B,” which will prevent pregnancy, or end a pregnancy in the first few days following conception. “You’re not going to find that around here because of the kind of community this is,” staff in a small, privately owned pharmacy told the Winnipeg Free Press last week. Steinbach is a predominantly Christian community with strong roots in the Mennonite tradition. Health Canada made Plan B available without a prescription in April 2005. It is […]

By Gudrun Schultz January 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After thirty-three years of abortion-on-demand in the US, abortion activists are saying they can feel their grip on the country starting to slide away. “I think [Roe vs. Wade] in the short term will be dismantled,” said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, to Reuters. “We have an anti-choice president, an anti-choice Congress and now … with the confirmation of Judge Alito to the Supreme Court, we are seeing the potential for a very right-leaning, anti-choice Supreme Court.” Judge Samuel Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court has given pro-life advocates concrete […]

By John-Henry WestenÂÂÂ OTTAWA, January 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC), the national association of evangelical Christians in Canada, has expressed concern “that some of the principles Evangelicals are committed to were portrayed as ‘extreme’ during the campaign.” The organization which represents more than 140 affiliated denominations, ministry organizations and educational institutions, said in a post-election statement: “Protecting the unborn and holding to the traditional definition of marriage are two of those principles. These views are shared by many in Canadian society across religions and social/cultural lines. We trust that as Members of Parliament engage in […]