Articles for Month: July 2006

Coulter: “Christians sometimes lapse into the church of liberalism by doing bad things, just as liberals sometimes lapse into our church by doing good things.”https://news.yahoo.com/s/ucac/20060706/cm_ucac/topsecretinterviewexposed Test-tube baby for jailed mafiosohttps://www.ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-07-06_1065804.html The Phone Book Test – Robert P. George explains how a simple experiment reveals the great divide in our culturehttps://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/006/32.44.html Bone marrow adult stem cells repair a damaged heart https://www.news-medical.net/?id=18664 Operation Rescue Demands Emergency Inspections of All Kansas Abortion Millshttps://www.operationrescue.org/ Priests for Life requests prayers for abortion practitionershttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7107 Priest plans discrimination suit against college after being told not to wear clericshttps://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=5117409&nav=3YeX Recent Cases Show Homosexual Agenda’s Threat to Religious Liberty […]

By John-Henry Westen MEXICO CITY, July 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life groups in Mexico are celebrating today the election of Felipe Calderon as the new President of Mexico.  Calderon, from the ruling National Action Party (PAN),  was until recently thought to be a long-shot against socialist Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party which supports abortion.  Initial results from Sunday’s elections were reported July 3, but with the extreme closeness of the vote a recount was demanded immediately by Obrador.  The recount confirmed Calderon as the winner.  The official recount had Calderon coming away with just over 236,000 votes […]

By Peter J. Smith VIENNA, July 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Austria’s Constitutional Court published this Wednesday a decision striking down the Interior Ministry’s 1996 Transsexual Decree, which forbids same-sex marriages.  Austria currently does not recognize homosexual unions, but the judicial activism from its highest court may have set it down that road. The case came before the Constitutional Court after a married man demanded that he have the right to change the registered sex on his birth certificate from male to female to reflect the sex-change operation he had two years ago. The Interior Ministry denied him this ability since […]

By Gudrun Schultz OTTAWA, Ontario, July 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Allegations of human organ harvesting against the Chinese government have been confirmed by a report from a former Liberal MP, CTV reported Tuesday. David Kilgour, together with human rights lawyer David Matas, prepared a detailed report to be release today, after investigating accusations that China is killing prisoners by harvesting and selling their vital organs. “They take both kidneys, then the heart and the skin and the corneas and the liver, and your body is then thrown in the incinerator,” he told the CTV. “I don’t think anyone can have […]

by Hilary White  NOTTINGHAM, July 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Zoe Jackson was born by cesarean section at 28 weeks and 4 pounds, 12 ounces, to 36 year-old mother Sam and is doing well. Her mother, Sam Jackson, is in the late stages of lung cancer and is not expected to live more than a few more weeks.  Zoe and her mother are in the care of Nottingham City Hospital where Sam had undergone chemotherapy and steroid treatments: one to relieve symptoms of cancer and the other to protect the life of her unborn daughter.   The UK’s Mirror reports that […]

by Hilary White  LONDON, July 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nearly a third of British women who have an abortion have had one or more before according to the latest Department of Health statistics.  In England and Wales, abortion rates have risen from 185,713 in 2004 to 186,416 in 2005. A significant increase was found particularly in early term abortions, those under ten weeks gestation, whereas late abortions, those committed over 20 weeks gestation, decreased almost 10 per cent last year.  Despite a move by some MP’s and others to promote a Parliamentary reconsideration of the legal gestational age limit for […]

by Hilary White   OTTAWA,  July 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A guest editorial appearing in a recent edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) has claimed that the 1988 Morgentaler decision of the Supreme Court of Canada that ended all legal protection for the child in the womb,  created a constitutional right to abortion and that doctors do not have the right to refuse to make abortion referrals.    The article was co-authored by Sandra Rodgers, a pro-abortion law professor who teaches a course to University of Ottawa medical students entitled “Abortion Services in Canada.” Mme. Rodgers sets the […]

By Gudrun Schultz STRASBOURG, France, July 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a lawsuit brought against the Irish government by an Ireland woman, who travelled to the UK to have an abortion. Under Irish law, abortion is only permitted if there is a “real and substantial risk to the life of the mother.” The woman, known as ‘D’, who had two previous children, obtained an abortion in the UK in 2002 during the second trimester of pregnancy with twins. She decided to abort after one of the babies died in the womb and she […]

ATLANTA, July 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the statewide vote of the people, who in November of 2004, by a margin of 77%, overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the state constitution protecting marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The ruling upholds traditional marriage and legally bans same-sex marriage. The Court ruled that the marriage amendment did not violate the state law requiring that the amendment address a single subject. Anita L. Staver, President of Liberty Counsel, commented: “When the people of Georgia went to the polls, they spoke loudly and clearly […]

ALBANY, July 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today New York’s highest court ruled 4-2 to uphold New York’s Constitution barring same-sex marriage. New York’s court of appeals reviewed four appeals filed by homosexual couples and ruled that the parties have no right to be issued marriage licenses by local officials. This leaves Massachusetts as the only state legally allowing same-sex marriages. Same-sex marriage bans are currently pending in New Jersey, California and Washington. Mathew D. Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, commented: “We are pleased that this latest attempt by the homosexual agenda to radically redefine our culture has been […]