UN Compliance Committees New Front Line in UN Abortion Debate

By Susan Yoshihara, PhD NEW YORK, September 29, 2006 (C-FAM.org) -Â Leading scholars on both sides of the abortion debate agree that the push to make abortion an international human right has shifted from the UN General Assembly, where treaties are negotiated, to the inner-workings of UN compliance committees, where treaties are monitored. In an article in Human Rights Quarterly, “Feminist Influences on the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies,” law professor Rachael Lorna Johnstone found that the committees responsible for monitoring human rights treaties have successfully adopted the feminist agenda. Countries that have ratified human rights treaties are required […]
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Judge Finds Ohio Law Restricting RU-486 “Unconstitutionally Vague”

By Peter J. Smith COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A US federal judge overturned an Ohio Law restricting the abortion pill RU-486, calling it “unconstitutionally vague” and that it failed to include a significant health exception. The law had intended to regulate RU-486 (or mifepristone) according to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) protocols, which would have made it illegal for doctors to prescribe the drug after the seventh week of pregnancy. US District Judge Susan Dlott ruled Wednesday in agreement with Planned Parenthood that the law regulating mifepristone was “unconstitutionally vague”, and violated due process rights under the […]
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Catholic Youth Face Dangerous Religious Confusion, Warns Australian Cardinal Pell

By Gudrun Schultz SYDNEY, Australia, September 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, spoke out in concern over the growing religious confusion and lack of commitment in young Catholics in Australia, in an address to the National Catholic Education Commission’s annual conference yesterday. “Too many young Catholics have been led by the pressures of contemporary propaganda, whatever might be said about the inadequacies of family life and Catholic religious education, so their religious confusion is worse than that of all other young Australian Christians,” Cardinal Pell said, reported the Universe Newsroom. “They are also poorly equipped for […]
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Calgary Bishop Wins Battle to End Gambling Fundraising for Catholic Schools

By Gudrun Schultz CALGARY, Alberta, September 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Calgary Catholic school board has finally agreed to stop funding school programs with the proceeds of casinos and bingo halls, after a lengthy dispute with Bishop Fred Henry. The Calgary bishop had called for an end to gambling as a school fundraising source, saying the practice was immoral. The district refused to comply, issuing a formal statement of refusal on May 31, 2006, arguing that extracurricular programs would be cut as a result, including bands, choirs and sport teams. Almost two million dollars were raised annually through gambling by […]
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Evangelical Demonstrator Cleared of Charges after Controversial Arrest

By Gudrun Schultz SOUTH WALES, United Kingdom, September 29, 2006, (LifeSiteNews.com) – A prominent Christian demonstrator against homosexual activity who was arrested on charges of threatening behavior for passing out leaflets at a gay pride event has been cleared of all charges, BBC News reported yesterday. Yesterday, the Crown Prosecution Service announced the case against Stephen Green, national director of the evangelical lobby group Christian Voice, would be dropped for lack of evidence. Green has denied all accusations of aggressive or threatening behavior and said the arrest was an infringement on his right to freedom of expression. “The police should […]
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Christian Psychologist Loses Job with Minneapolis Police over Pro-Family Group Membership

By John-Henry Westen MINNEAPOLIS, September 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Christian psychologist Michael Campion, who was suspended (and then cleared) by the Minneapolis Police Department after city officials learned that he was once a board member of a pro-family group, has lost his job with the Department. Campion was told Tuesday that his contract work screening police officers would no longer be required. His case has attracted nationwide attention from Christians and civil liberties advocates who see his suspension as evidence of blatant anti-Christian discrimination. After being reinstated following his widely reported suspension, Campion said he was scheduled to do a […]
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Action Urged to Counteract Leftist Media Campaign Against Removal of Court Challenges Program

By Steve Jalsevac OTTAWA, September 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – REAL Women of Canada today warned that the taxpayer funded Court Challenges Program and its supporters have begun a strong counter-offensive to persuade the Conservative government to reverse its decision to eliminate the Program. In its announcement today the non-taxpayer funded conservative women’s group stated, “Numerous newspaper articles and letters to the editor have been flooding the country over the past few days. However, these articles and letters have not been telling the real story behind the CCP which has had such a powerful influence in shaping the social values of […]
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Organs Taken From Executed Prisoners are Harvested and Sold to Foreigners For Transplants

By Meg Jalsevac China, September 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An undercover investigation by the BBC has once again confirmed that it is common practice in China to harvest organs from executed death row inmates and sell them to foreigners. One hospital admitted that some of the organs they sell do come from executed prisoners. At that particular hospital, the cost for a liver transplant would run approximately $94,400. Another hospital, No 1 Central Hospital in Tianjin, completed 600 liver transplants in 2005. The Chinese Foreign Ministry does not deny that harvesting organs from inmates happens but maintains that it happens […]
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Who is parenthood for – adults? Or children? ~ New Study Asks

By Hilary White CHICAGO, September 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The homosexual revolution has swept through legal systems around the world and shows no sign of slowing. The Chicago-based scholar Elizabeth Marquart has published a report that examines the effects on children of the “new family” as envisioned by the social re-engineers of the pan-sexual revolution. Titled, “The Revolution in Parenthood: The Emerging Global Clash Between Adult Rights and Children’s Needs,” the report discusses the effects of the newly renovated laws entitling homosexual partners not only to call themselves “married” but increasingly to adopt children and mimic natural families. Marquart’s report, […]
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Pope: Abortions are “Never Justifiable” Even in Cases of Fetal Abnormality

By John-Henry Westen VATICAN CITY, September 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an address to the new German ambassador to the Vatican today, Pope Benedict XVI expressed concern about his native country’s legal stance on abortion and homosexual civil unions. The Pope spoke of the “protection of marriage and the family” noting that “legislation proposed by the government introducing new forms of marital unions that depart from the natural family unit” threaten to undermine it. Benedict lamented the “totally unjustifiable abortions that continue to claim the lives of many innocent unborn children.” He added, they “remain a painful concern for the […]
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Vatican to UN: Fight Against Death Penalty Needs to be Matched by Fight Against Abortion and Euthana

By John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, September 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an address to the 61st Session of the United Nation’s General Assembly yesterday, a Vatican representative spoke of three primary human rights, the first of which is the “right to life”. Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, President of the Governatorate of the Vatican City State, spoke hopefully about reform of the United Nations in the area of human rights. “The Holy See regards the promotion of human rights as one of the United Nations’ primary forms of service to the world,” said the Archbishop.“It hopes the newly formed Human Rights Council […]
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Abortion Showdown Coming to US Senate as Soon as Friday

By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, D.C., September 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Senate will vote on a groundbreaking parental notification bill as early as Friday September 29, in a surprise move to quickly decide the fate of the measure currently sidelined by Democratic opposition. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist filed a “cloture petition” on the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act Wednesday September 27—if the bill receives 60 or more of the 100 Senate votes, it will move directly to President Bush, who has indicated he will sign it into law. The bill would require all abortionists to ensure a minor […]
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Abortion Notification, Consent Laws Reduce Risky Teen Sex Says New Study

TALLAHASSEE, September 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Laws that require minors to notify or get the consent of one or both parents before having an abortion reduce risky sexual behavior among teens, according to a Florida State University law professor in Tallahassee, Fla. Jonathan Klick, the Jeffrey A. Stoops Professor of Law, and Thomas Stratmann, professor of economics at George Mason University, came to that conclusion after they looked at the rates of gonorrhea among teenage girls as a measure of risky sex in connection to the parental notification or consent laws that were in effect at the time. The researchers […]
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House Passes Pro-Life Parents’ Rights Bill https://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042095.cfm House Approves Public Expression of Religion Act https://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042096.cfm Senate Judiciary Committee again fails to take action on president’s nominations for federal appeals courtshttps://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0042094.cfm U.S. Supreme Court Takes Up Appeal of Controversial Ruling Granting Union Officials a “Right” to Forced Union Dues for Politicshttps://www.nrtw.org/b/nr_555.php Family Day, 2006 – A Proclamation by the President of the United States of Americahttps://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060922-4.html The Mythological Conflict Between Christianity and Science | An interview with physicist Dr. Stephen Barr https://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2006/sbarr_interview_sept06.asp Shocker: Veteran Washington Post Reporter Admits Mainstream Media’s Bias Is ‘Overwhelmingly to the Left’https://newsbusters.org/node/7832 God Is Back! A new […]
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John Paul II an “Unbelievable Misogynist” ~ New Editor of Anchorage Catholic Paper

By Hilary White ANCHORAGE, September 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – John Paul II did not like women and spent the entirety of his 26 years as pope working to put them in their “place” according to the new editor of the newspaper for the Catholic diocese of Anchorage, Alaska. On her personal weblog, Maia Nolan published a feminist diatribe replete with accusations that the late Pope was “an unbelievable misogynist.” Maia Nolan began work on the paper September 8th replacing John Roscoe, the founding editor of the Anchorage Catholic Anchor. The comments have since been removed from the ‘blog, but have […]
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European Human Rights Court Rules State May Deny Parents Right to Home School Their Children

By Peter J. Smith BRUSSELS, September 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Court of Human Rights gave another setback to German homeschoolers by affirming that the interests of the State trump the rights of parents to educate their children. Yesterday, the Court denied a request from the parents of Joshua and Rebekka Konrad to rule Germany’s ban on homeschooling violates their human rights as parents to educate their own children under the European Convention on Human Rights. Fritz and Marianna Konrad filed the human rights complaint in November 2003 on behalf of their children arguing that Germany’s compulsory school attendance […]
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“Someone Please Tell the Liberal Party that Integrity Still Matters in Politicians”

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, September 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Belinda Stronach, the controversial now-Liberal MP who left the Conservative Party and was given a Cabinet post in the former Liberal Government, has been named in divorce proceedings as an adulterer. The wife of former hockey player Tie Domi, has filed for divorce alleging her husband had a sexual relationship with Stronach. The Domis have three children. Stronach has refused to deny the affair, and the Liberal Party Leader has said the matter is of no consequence.“There’s been a lot written about me, and I’m not going to comment on those […]
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Call for DDT Opponents to be Held Accountable for Millions of Preventable Malaria Deaths

By Steven Milloy  Special to LifeSiteNews.com Sept. 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The World Health Organization’s recent announcement that it has lifted its nearly 30-year ban on the insecticide DDT is perhaps the most promising development in global public health since, well, 1943 when DDT was first used to combat insect-borne diseases such as typhus and malaria. Overlooked in all the hoopla over the announcement, however, is the terrible toll in human lives (tens of millions dead—mostly pregnant women and children under the age of five), illness (billions sickened) and poverty (more than US$1-trillion dollars in lost GDP in sub-Saharan Africa […]
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In Outgoing Speech Tony Blair Takes Poke at Bush Rejection of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

WESTMINSTER, September 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) -The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned Tony Blair’s endorsement of embryonic stem cell research in his farewell speech to the Labour party conference. Mr Blair said: “America does not want stem cell research, we do, we welcome it here.” Mr Blair was referring to embryonic stem cell research, which kills embryonic children in order to extract their stem cells. US President George W. Bush has banned federal funding for such destructive extraction. (The US supports stem cell research using non-embryo tissue.) Anthony Ozimic, SPUC political secretary, commented: “Not only does […]
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UK Gov’t Minister Says Childcare “Harmful for the Very Young”

By Gudrun Schultz LONDON, England, September 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Children’s Minister Beverley Hughes suggested that putting babies and toddlers into daycare programs is not in their best interests, reported the Daily Mail yesterday. Speaking at a conference fringe meeting, Ms. Hughes said more options are needed to give families greater flexibility in meeting the childcare needs of very young children. She emphasized the need for fathers to share in the responsibility of caring for children under school age, saying, “I don’t think we can square the circle unless fathers are equally and practically involved in the sharing of care […]
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Mother of Seven Arrested Without Warning for Showing Abortion Image

FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, Sept. 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life woman was arrested Tuesday for holding an image of an aborted child outside an abortion facility in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Suzie Ryan, mother of seven, was silently holding the image outside the Morgentaler centre as abortions were being performed inside. Mrs. Ryan was charged with violating s.163 of the Criminal Code. S.163 is about the display of obscene material. She was released after being held in a jail cell for several hours. She must face the charges in court in November. Prior to her arrest Mrs. Ryan was not warned […]
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Canadian Conservative Government Slashes Funding to Wasteful Anti-Family Programs

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, September 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The budgets of some of the most wasteful and at the same time biased Canadian government funded programs have been slashed by the new Conservative Government. Three organizations which have been overtly pushing for same-sex marriage have been denied millions of tax-dollars they have been receiving for years under the previous Liberal government. In an announcement of over two billion dollars in reduction of waste spending, the Conservative Government has included five million dollars in “administrative reductions to Status of Women Canada”, a $5.6 million dollar saving in eliminating the Court […]
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A Seven-Point Plan to Protect Christian Youth Against Homosexuality

Special to LifeSiteNews.com by Linda Harvey Linda Harvey is the Founder and President of Mission America, which focuses on homosexuality and its destructive impact on youth. Linda told LifeSiteNews.com she is a convert to Christianity and left her former life as a ‘liberal’ during which she was even a volunteer for Planned Parenthood.ÂThis message is primarily directed to Christian familiies and youth and is given from the perspective of a believer in traditional, authentic Christian moral and spiritual principles. It may already be too late. As students return to school this fall, we are sadly reminded that the campaign to […]
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BC Gov’t Urged to Add Animal Rights in Mandatory Gay-Friendly Social Justice Course

By Gudrun Schultz VANCOUVER, British Columbia, September 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – If animal rights activists have their way, BC high school students will soon be taught to give cows and chickens the same care and attention enjoyed by cats and dogs, in a broad new course on “social justice.” The controversial high school curriculum already includes “gay-friendly” content, designed to promote acceptance of homosexuality in the schools. A deal between the BC Ministry of Education and a homosexual couple granted the two men the right to privately determine pro-homosexual content in the course, after they filed a complaint against the […]
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Italian President Advocates Debate on Legalizing Euthanasia

By Gudrun Schultz ROME, Italy, September 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has encouraged debate on changing the country’s law against euthanasia, in a letter to a terminally ill man who is requesting permission to end his life, Reuters reported Monday. Euthanasia is illegal in the Roman Catholic country. “I accept your message of tragic suffering with sincere understanding and solidarity,” Napolitano wrote to Peirgiorgio Welby, who suffers from advanced muscular dystrophy. Napolitano said Welby’s request should be given “unhurried reflection” and should lead to “sensible and thorough debate.” “The only unjustifiable position would be silence,” he wrote. […]
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Abortion Distress Suspected in Police Officer’s Murder-Suicide

By Gudrun Schultz PLANTATION, Florida, September 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A young female police officer who shot and killed her boyfriend and then killed herself was distraught over a recent abortion, according to a report by the Miami Herald. Laura Gunas, 30, an officer with the Plantation police, shot firefighter Robert Peat, 31, in the kitchen of their home on Aug. 4, and then killed herself. Grunas had undergone an abortion a few weeks earlier, according to the police report on the deaths. Neighbors testified that an hysterical, enraged Grunas attempted to enter their house after Peat apparently locked her […]
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Fiji Considers Decriminalizing Abortion, Homosexual Activity

By Gudrun Schultz SUVA, Fiji, September 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The island nation of Fiji is considering the decriminalization of abortion, homosexuality and prostitution, the Fiji Times reported September 21, after growing pressure by international activist organizations to alter the laws. Under Fiji’s present Penal Code, abortion and homosexual activity are considered criminal offences. Legal experts will spend the next three months preparing recommendations on the Crimes Act, which will replace the Penal Code, according to Fiji Law Reform Commission chairman Alipate Qetaki. “We would decide whether to decriminalize these offences or retain existing laws,” he told the Times. The […]
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Doctor Charged in Katrina Deaths Denies Committing Murder, Euthanasia

By Gudrun Schultz NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, September 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The doctor accused, along with two nurses, of murdering four patients in a New Orleans hospital in the days after hurricane Katrina struck has denied the accusations. She also said she does not believe in euthanasia. Arrested and charged with four counts of second-degree murder for lethally injecting patients during a panicked exit from the flooded Memorial Medical Center, Dr. Anna Pou insists she and the two nurses only gave “comfort care” to the elderly patients. “It is unbelievable shocking for me that I am actually sitting here having […]
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The Pope and Islam – More Article Excerpts

By Steve Jalsevac See the full text of the Pope’s Sept. 25 talk to Muslim leaders athttps://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/sep/060925a.html Excerpts from significant articles: POPE: RELATIONS BETWEEN FAITHS NECESSARY – AP, CBS News  Pope Benedict XVI told Muslim diplomats Monday that “our future” depends on good relations between followers of both faiths as he sought to put to rest anger over his recent remarks about Islam and violence. After his five-minute speech, in a salon in the papal palace in the Alban Hills, Benedict, greeted each envoy one by one. He clasped their hands warmly and chatted for a few moments with each […]
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Pope and Islam Controversy – Latest Quotes

Excerpts fromÂsignificant articles onÂPope and Islam controversy September 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) THE POPE’S DIVISIONS – BENEDICT XVI PROMOTES “INTERFAITH” DIALOQUE. MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS NEED IT – Ruel Marc Gerecht – Wall Street Journal  Let us be frank: There is absolutely nothing in the pope’s speech that isn’t appropriate or pertinent to a civilized discussion of revealed religions and ethics. Benedict is trying to tackle many of the very same subjects that Iran’s former president, Mohammad Khatami, approached in his book, “From the City World to the World City”—but with considerably more erudition and tact. Mr. Khatami’s language, thought and historiography […]
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Stem Cell and Embryo Research Round-up for September

TORONTO, September 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The month of September saw the usual flood of stories on developments in stem cell research which continues to both hold out hope for treatment of disease in the case of adult stem cells, and draw criticism in the case of embryos. Dr. Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts published a study in the scientific journal Cloning and Stem Cells showing that human embryonic stem cells are being used in experiments on rats and the blind animals’ sight was partially restored.ÂÂ Dr. Lanza said, “We have demonstrated that these human embryonic-stem-cell-derived […]
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Democrats Unveil New “Pro-life” Legislation That Even Pro-Abortion Advocates Can Support

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, September 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life House Democrat from Tennessee has proposed legislation that intends to reduce the number of abortions in the United States, but offers no challenge or restriction to his party’s devotion to perpetuating unfettered abortion. The legislation may provide an opportunity for the liberal-dominated Democratic Party to reclaim some of the pro-life votes that made the difference for an overall Republican victory in the 2004 elections. Rep. Lincoln Davis (D-TN) unveiled the Pregnant Women Support Act at a press conference Wednesday on Capitol Hill. The bill is in the spirit […]
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Liberal MP Stronach Suggests Only Pro-Abortion Women’s Organizations Should Receive Gov’t Funds

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, September 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Opposition MP Belinda Stronach, the former Minister of Human Resources while the Liberal Government was in power, was quoted in the Toronto Star yesterday suggesting that women’s groups which do not support abortion should not receive government funding. Speaking of government funding for women’s groups such as REAL Women Canada which are pro-life, Stronach said, “They should be rejected because they’re anti-choice and they’re also anti-equal rights. They don’t support equality.” The suggestionÂalienates a majority of Canadian women. A Focus Canada poll conducted in October 2005 by Environics Research found that […]
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Highly Credentialed Conservative Appointment to Bench Slammed over new Judge’s Christianity

By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, September 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of Canada’s leading political columnists, the Globe and Mail’s John Ibbitson has once again demonstrated an intolerance for all things Christian. Writing on a new appointment to the Ontario Superior Court Ibbitson leads with quotes from the newly appointed justice given at a conference for Christian law students earlier this year. Ibbitson then notes the appointment adding “One day, he might rule on the legality of abortion.” Ibbitson relates that the new judge has argued against same-sex ‘marriage’, on behalf of pro-family groups. Earlier this week, Minister of Justice and […]
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Latvian President Insists on Homosexuality Inclusion in Workers’ Discrimination Law

By Gudrun Schultz RIGA, Latvia, September 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga will approve the country’s new anti-discrimination labor law after homosexuality was added to a list including race, gender, age, disability, religious and political beliefs, a spokesperson said Friday. The Latvian Parliament fought against the inclusion of homosexuality in the legislation that would outlaw discrimination in the workplace and in housing, voting to exclude sexual orientation from the list. President Vike-Freiberga, who has been strongly defensive of homosexual activism in the country, refused in June to sign the legislation unless sexual orientation was included, the Baltic Times […]
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U.N.-Initiated “Global Tax” Justified by Proposed Use for Third-World Anti-AIDS Drugs

By Gudrun Schultz NEW YORK, New York, September 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – UN leaders announced a new plan for a global tax on airline tickets on Tuesday, ostensibly to fund disease treatment in developing countries, the International Herald Tribune reported. As part of a new UN initiative based in Geneva and known as UNITAID, or “united to aid,” tax revenues generated by the program will go toward the purchase of cheaper drugs to treat AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases plaguing the Third World. UNITAID will also work to pressure pharmaceutical countries to lower drug costs for struggling countries. The […]
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NBC Broadcaster Slashes God from “Veggie Tales” Programming

By Gudrun Schultz NEW YORK, New York, September 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US National Broadcasting Corporation has agreed to run the enormously popular children’s cartoon “Veggie Tales,” which features moral and religious storylines centered on biblical themes, but the broadcaster is demanding that all mention of God be slashed from the shows before they can be aired. Hosted by Larry the Cucumber and Bob the Tomato, “Veggie Tales” has become something of a phenomenon in the 13 years since the series was first distributed on VHS, wrote the president of Media Research Center L. Brent Bozell III, in a […]
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Correction re: Little Black Book and Manitoba Schools Story

CORRECTION: We have been advised that some of the information provided by another organization to LifeSiteNews.com for the Sept. 19 report, “Graphic Girls’ Sex Ed Book Urging Lesbianism Coming to Manitoba Schools”, was inaccurate. The Little Black Book produced by St. Stephen’s Community House in Toronto, and correctly described in the report, is in fact not the same Little Black Book being considered for distribution to students in Manitoba schools. Parents have also complained about the latter item but details are not available. A follow up news report will provide further details. The original story has been edited to reflect […]
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Vatican Review of US Catholic Seminaries Completed, USCCB Says

By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, D.C., September 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The in-depth evaluation of U.S. seminaries called for by the Vatican in response to the sex-abuse scandal has been completed, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has said.ÂThe results of the investigation have been sent to Rome. In 2005 the Vatican called for a careful investigation and evaluation of the teaching and formation offered to men preparing for the priesthood in U.S. Seminaries. Directives from Rome specified the investigation was to be carried out with reference to John Paul II’s 1993 encyclical Veritatis Splendor, which emphasized the importance of […]
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“Same Sex Marriage Harms Children’s Rights” Marriage Symposium Hears

SALT LAKE CITY, September 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Louis DeSerres, co-founder of Preserve Marriage – Protect Children’s Rights, addressed the issue of harm to children’s rights resulting from same-sex marriage at symposium on marriage held at Brigham Young University Law School last week. The ‘What’s The Harm? How Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage Will Harm Society, Families, Adults, Children and Marriage’ symposium was jointly sponsored by The Marriage and Family Law Project at Brigham University Law School and The Marriage Law Project at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law. The symposium was held on September 15-16, 2006. DeSerres asked […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes

Human stem cells help blinded rats https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060920/hl_nm/science_stemcells_dc_1 UN Taxation—A Dangerous Precedent By Paul M. Weyrichhttps://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2006/060919.asp The United Nations Human Rights Council: Repeating Past Mistakeshttps://www.heritage.org/Research/WorldwideFreedom/hl964.cfm Plan to Ensure Pill Access Worrying Pro-Life Pharmacistshttps://www.ncregister.com/articulo4.php?artkod=OTMy DOJ: Betraying aborted-alive babies?https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52059 Senate Judiciary Committee Adds Fifth ‘Controversial’ Nomineehttps://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0042028.cfm The Three R’s of ABC: Rosie, Radicals & Rantingshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/202006jm.asp Maryland County’s Sex-Ed Material Not Yet Out of the Woodshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/192006c.asp Yale’s Med School Hosting Planned Parenthood-Backed Abortion Traininghttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/202006e.asp PERA Viewed as Best Opportunity for Pro-Family Victoryhttps://www.cwalac.org/article_372.shtml Republicans are beginning to take a few races off the table, or at least move them closer to their edge. Our numerical […]
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UN Chief Warns of Global War Over Religion, Says Only UN can Solve World’s Problems

By John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, September 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Tuesday, Secretary General Kofi Annan delivered his final address to the United Nations General Assembly before he retires at the end of the year. During the speech, which comes on the heels of the media-generated controversy regarding Pope Benedict XVI’s quoting of a text on Islam, Annan said, “insensitivity towards other people’s beliefs or sacred symbols –- intentional or otherwise—is seized upon by those who seem eager to foment a new war of religion on a global scale.” “Moreover, this climate of fear and suspicion is constantly refuelled by […]
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NBC TV to Air “Blasphemous” Madonna Mock Crucifixion Stunt

By Gudrun Schultz NEW YORK, New York, September 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – NBC television has decided to air a mock crucifixion staged by pop star Madonna during November programming, despite the strenuous objections of international religious leaders to a performance condemned as blasphemous. The stunt is a centerpiece of Madonna’s international “Confessions” tour, with the performer appearing on stage strapped to a 20-foot mirrored cross, wearing a crown of thorns. The stunt is part of her on-stage rendition of Live to Tell, an account of the trauma of domestic abuse. Regardless of the context, however, religious leaders have condemned the […]
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Forget Same-Sex ‘Marriage,’ Costa Ricans Oppose Homosexual Civil Unions

By Gudrun Schultz SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, September 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A strong majority of Costa Rica residents are opposed to permitting civil unions for homosexual couples, recent poll results have revealed. Almost three quarters of all respondents to a survey conducted by the Universidad de Costa Rica, 71.4 percent, indicated they would not support allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions, according to a report by Angus Reid Global Scan, published today. Only 16.4 percent surveyed said they would support civil unions for same-sex couples. 11.6 percent said they had no opinion. The Supreme Court of Costa Rica […]
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Hong-Kong Court Rejects Appeal for Homosexual Age-of-Consent Restriction

By Gudrun Schultz HONG KONG, September 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Current laws forbidding homosexual activity for boys and young men between the ages of 16 and 21 have been rejected by Hong Kong’s High Court, after the government appealed an August ruling that struck down the age restriction. Hong-Kong overturned its anti-sodomy law in 1980, but men engaging in sexual activity, when one or both males were under the age of 21, could face life-imprisonment. The age of consent for heterosexual or lesbian sexual activity in Hong Kong is 16. “I cannot see any justification for either the age limit […]
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Election Results Show Considerable Pro-Life Support in New Brunswick Legislature

FREDERICTON, NB, September 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – There is considerable support for the pro-life cause in the 55-seat New Brunswick Legislature, following Monday’s provincial election which gave the Liberals 29 seats and the Progressive Conservatives 26. Campaign Life Coalition NB president Peter Ryan said that 19 of the new MLAs are considered supportive of pro-life. Eleven are Liberals, 8 Conservatives. Ryan does not expect incoming Premier Shawn Graham to change abortion policies from what they were under Bernard Lord. “The policies of the two policies are pretty similar,” Ryan said. “They both oppose public funding for private abortion clinics, but […]
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Republican Pro-Life Senator Vows to Block FDA nominee over RU-486

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, September 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life US Senator Jim DeMint has vowed to block President Bush’s nomination of acting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Andrew Von Eschenbach, until the agency pulls the medical abortion drug RU-486 off the market according to Jim Rosen of the Washington Bureau. The South Carolina republican insists that he will resist von Eschenbach’s nomination to head the FDA until the acting commissioner demonstrates real concern for women’s health by removing RU-486 from market circulation. The abortion inducing drug has caused death in at least 8 women, besides hundreds of […]
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New Website Details Thousands of Violent Crimes by Abortion Supporters

FRONT ROYAL, Va., September 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Human Life International—the world’s largest pro-life, pro-family civil rights organization with over 90 affiliates in 75 countries around the world—today announced the launch of its newest web-based informational resource: ProchoiceViolence.com. “This website exposes the pro-choice movement as the most violent political movement in United States history. In fact, we have documented over 7,000 acts of violence and illegal activities by those who support or practice abortion,” stated Brian Clowes, Ph. D., senior analyst for HLI.“We have launched this site to expose this troubling truth and to draw attention to the fact that […]
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Life Chain: a public pro-life witness

By Tony Gosgnach TORONTO, September 20, 2006, (theinterim.com) – As the leaves change color to herald the onset of fall, it’s also a signal that the annual Life Chain event is just around the corner across Canada and the U.S. Scheduled for the afternoon of Sunday, Oct. 1, normally between 2 and 3 p.m. (specific times vary according to individual location), Canadian Life Chains are expected to attract tens of thousands of people this year to what organizers hope is the largest event of its kind in the 16 years it has been taking place in this country. Participants stand […]
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Parents Kidnap Daughter, Attempt Forced Abortion, Police Charge

By Gudrun Schultz NORTH YARMOUTH, Maine, September 20, 2006, (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pregnant, 19-year-old woman was kidnapped by her parents on Friday, bound with a rope and forced into their car for a trip to an abortion clinic in New York state, the Portland Press Herald reported Monday. Police said her parents were angry that their unmarried daughter was pregnant by a man now in jail. Katelyn Kampf eventually managed to persuade her parents to untie her for a stop at a mall restroom in New Hampshire, where she called 911 from a family cell phone she had taken during […]
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Volunteers in US Death with Dignity Program Admit Actively Assisting with Suicides

By Hilary White TORONTO, September 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At an international meeting of euthanasia and assisted suicide organizations held in Toronto September 7-10, spokesmen from the US-based group, Compassion and Choices, admitted that their Client Support Program is an active assisted suicide program. They revealed that program trains volunteers to assist their clients to kill themselves while remaining technically within the law. Ostensibly strictly for purposes of disseminating information to people who are seeking “choices” at the end of their lives, Helen Beum the program’s director said it has 130 volunteers spanning 27 states in the US. Program volunteers […]
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Poland Pro-Life Activist Vindicated by Court after Being Sued by Radical Left

LODZ, Poland, September 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lukasz Wróbel is a 25-year-old student from Warsaw and an organizer of graphic anti-abortion exhibitions on the streets of Polish cities. His “Choose Life” exhibition features a series of graphic images of aborted babies juxtaposed with pictures of war and genocide victims. It has been shown on large posters in publicly accessible locations of six Polish cities. Apart from street displays, the pictures have been presented at several institutions, including the renowned Cardinal Wyszynski University. Even though in each of the host cities the exhibition was fully legal and had satisfied all the […]
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Jerusalem Loses Battle to Ban Gay Pride Parade—Court-Ordered Date Set for November 10

By Gudrun Schultz JERUSALEM, Israel, September 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An ongoing battle over homosexual pride demonstrations in the city of Jerusalem came to an end today, after the controversial Gay Pride parade was rescheduled for November 10, the Jerusalem Post reported. After talks lasting three hours between the Jerusalem Police, State Prosecution, the Jerusalem Municipality and homosexual activist groups, Jerusalem police agreed to provide security to the event. As well, the Jerusalem Municipality bowed to a request by Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch to coordinate preliminary arrangements with event organizers. The agreement forestalls a threatened suit against the municipality […]
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Illinois Supreme Court Re-instates Law Limiting Abortion Access

By Gudrun Schultz CHICAGO, Illinois, September 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Minor girls seeking abortions in the state of Illinois will soon be required to notify their parents first, after a Supreme Court decision yesterday opened the door to activating a state law laying dormant for the past 11 years. The Parental Notice of Abortion Act was passed by the General Assembly in 1995, but the Supreme Court refused to issue necessary rules for minors seeking waivers of the requirement under special circumstances, the Chicago Tribune reported today. U.S. District Judge Paul Plunkett ruled in 1996 that without those rules in […]
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More Articles From the Net on “Rioters’ Madness” Against Benedict XVI Comments

Excerpts from articles on Pope and Islam Controversy ioters’ Madness Shames Muslim World; Reactions of Some Fanatics Does Not Help Open Dialogue – Father Raymond J. de Souza – National Post  Painful though it may be, speaking frankly is necessary if there is to be honest and open dialogue between the Abrahamic faiths. Given the reaction to Benedict’s address, though, one wonders if that dialogue is even possible..In response to this historical excursus in an academic lecture by one of the world’s most erudite theologians, we are witnessing a wave of madness and malice, no doubt an embarrassment to millions […]
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U.S. Bishops Urge Amnesty International To Reject Abortion Initiative

WASHINGTON, September 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has warned Amnesty International that a proposal to abandon its neutral stance on abortion for a policy of advocating for abortion as a “human right” will threaten vulnerable unborn children and jeopardize the organization’s excellent record as a champion for human rights. “To abandon this long held position would be a tragic mistake, dividing human rights advocates and diverting Amnesty International from its central and urgent mission of defending human rights as outlined in the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights,” Bishop William S. Skylstad, […]
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Socialist Portugal Government to Introduce Abortion Vote January 2007

By Gudrun Schultz LISBON, Portugal, September 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Portugal’s ruling Socialist Party announced plans to hold an abortion referendum in January 2007 last Friday, to question voters on support for legislation allowing abortions during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, Euro News reported today. Abortion is banned in the largely Catholic nation, with exceptions up to the twelfth week in cases of rape, incest, fetal abnormality or serious danger to the life or health of the mother. After twelve weeks no abortions are permitted for any reason. The opposition party Christian Democrats responded to the announcement by reiterating […]
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Full Text of the Pope’s Speech The Mistinerpretation of Which Has Sparked Muslim Violence

APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI   TO MÜNCHEN, ALTÖTTING AND REGENSBURG   (SEPTEMBER 9-14, 2006) MEETING WITH THE REPRESENTATIVES OF SCIENCE LECTURE OF THE HOLY FATHER Aula Magna of the University of Regensburg  Tuesday, 12 September 2006 Faith, Reason and the University  Memories and Reflections Your Eminences, Your Magnificences, Your Excellencies,  Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen,   It is a moving experience for me to be back again in the university and to be able once again to give a lecture at this podium. I think back to those years when, after a pleasant period at the Freisinger Hochschule, […]
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Pope: A Society with Legal Abortion Cannot Fight Crime Effectively

By John-Henry Westen ROME, September 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Saturday, Pope Benedict XVI addressed participants at a conference on stem cell therapy. The conference was organized by the Pontifical Academy for Life and by the International Federation of Catholic Doctors’ Associations. The Pope pointed out the grave injustice of those who falsely claim that the Church is against scientific advancement. “In the face of the frequent and unjust accusations of insensitivity directed against the Church,” he said, “I would like to underline the constant support she has given over the course of her two thousand-year history to research aimed […]
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Sunday Shopping Triggers Increase in Recreational Drug, Alcohol Use among Faithful: Study

By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, D.C., September 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When laws against Sunday shopping are eliminated, church-goers begin to skip attendance and significantly increase their consumption of drugs and alcohol, a new study has found. “[T]he gap in heavy drinking between religious and non religious individuals falls by about half after the laws are repealed,” said authors Jonathan Gruber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Daniel M. Hungerman of the University of Notre Dame. The report, entitled “The Church vs. the Mall: What Happens When Religion Faces Increased Secular Competition?” was published by the National Bureau of Economic […]
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Chile Court Suspends Gov’t Plan to Distribute Free Morning-After Pill

By Gudrun Schultz SANTIAGO, Chile, September 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An attempt by the Chilean Health Ministry to supply emergency contraception to minors without their parents’ knowledge has been temporarily blocked by a Chilean court. The appellate court suspended the measure until a lawsuit filed against Health Minister Maria Soledad Barria by a coalition of lawyers and mayors has been resolved, Reuters reported yesterday. The federal government order to provide the ‘morning after pill’ to young girls, on demand and without the knowledge or consent of their parents, was scheduled to be implemented this month. Several mayors refused to participate […]
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Quebec Refuses Appeal on Massive Abortion Payout

By Hilary White   MONTREAL, September 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The province of Quebec has announced that it will not appeal a court order to repay Cdn $13 million in costs to nearly 45,000 women who had to pay for their own abortions. The court ruled that the province had “misinterpreted” its own laws when charging women $200-$300 extra over the coverage by the province’s public health system.   The suit was brought by the pro-abortion activist association known as the Association for Access to Abortion. The judgment covers abortions performed between 1999 and 2005.   The strongly pro-abortion government […]
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New study questions “brain-death” criterion for organ donation

By Peter J. Smith ROME, September 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new case-study raises more doubts about the ethical determination of “brain-death”, since researchers discovered that a patient suffering from a “persistent vegetative state” (PVS) demonstrated similar brain activity to healthy conscious individuals according to Zenit news. Under the leadership of neuroscientist Dr. Adrian Owen, the team of scientists from Cambridge University and the Belgian University of Liège applied MRI technology to discover that the brain activity of a PVS patient indicated she was “consciously aware of herself and her surroundings.” In their experiment, the researchers gave oral commands to […]
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Funds from Terry Fox Run to Support Organization Funding Embryonic Stem Cell Research

TORONTO, September 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The annual Terry Fox Run takes place this Sunday September 17. Canada’s Terry Fox run is an inspiring and motivational fundraiser for cancer research invigorated by the loving memory of Canadian hero Terry Fox. Fox was diagnosed with bone cancer and had to have a leg amputated. Nonetheless Fox decided to run across Canada to help cancer victims. After over 3000 miles he was forced to stop as cancer had spread to his lungs. He died at a tender 22. With that driving force Canadians have raised over $400 million for Cancer research through […]
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Plan B Is a Bad Plan With bad news to come. Increase in sexual activity predicted ; Look for an increased rate of STD infectionshttps://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjNiMzllYjRhNDRmMjA2NzZjOWMzZDFmN2MxNTJiYzQ= Chilean young people march against distribution of morning after pill in schoolshttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7615 Lack of Quorum Forces Postponement of Judicial Nominees’ Votehttps://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0041976.cfm Bob Casey has no business delivering a lecture on public morality at the Catholic bishops’ national university of the United Stateshttps://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjdjNDY4ZGM0Nzg2ZjdjMzVjOGY4YzVhZGZlOWViYmU= Eight States Consider Marriage Amendment on November Ballot https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0041968.cfm Virginia Grassroots Mobilize to Push State Marriage Amendmenthttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/142006d.asp Canadian Bishops laud ‘new mood’ at the Vaticanhttps://www.wcr.ab.ca/news/2006/0918/onbishops091806.shtml Cardinal invites priests to hear witness of sex-abuse […]
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Catholic Ethicists Decry Overblown “Rights Rhetoric” in Tubal Ligation Media Flap

By Hilary White OTTAWA/TORONTO, September 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The decision of St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Humboldt, Saskatchewan to permanently cancel tubal ligation sterilizations has generated a furor in the local media and within the medical community. Dr. Daniel Kirchgesner, a Humboldt family physician, made the claim on local radio that sterilization is an “inherent right for women.” Catholic ethicists and health care providers, however, are responding to what they consider unfounded and overblown rhetoric that fails to take into account the actual reasons for the Church’s ethics teachings. Apart from its contraceptive aspect, Toronto’s Dr. John Shea, who is […]
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Germany Uses Nazi Era Law to Imprison Mom for Homeschooling; Family Flees to Austria

By Peter J. Smith PADERBORN, Germany, September 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – German police stormed into the residence of a Christian home schooling family, and arrested a mother for homeschooling her children, an offense established since Nazi Germany. Now the woman’s husband has fled with their children to seek refuge in Austria, which allows homeschooling under certain conditions according to the Brussels Journal. The Brussels Journal reports that Katherina Plett responded to a knock on the door from an undercover police woman Thursday morning at 11:00PM. Once the Baptist woman opened the door, police officers, hidden outside the house, stormed into […]
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Homosexual Adoption Measure Passes First Round in Scottish Parliament

By Gudrun Schultz EDINBUGH, Scotland, September 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill that would permit homosexual couples to adopt children has passed the first round of parliament in a 103-8 vote, the Scotsman reported today. The controversial legislation, which has been heavily opposed by the Scottish Catholic Church and Christian organizations, would open up adoptions to unmarried and same-sex couples. Those opposed to the bill have said they will continue to fight it, including MSPs and leaders in the Scottish Catholic Church. Bishop of Motherwell, Joseph Devine, one of Scotland’s most senior Roman Catholic leaders, has actively sought to block […]
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Details Set For Memorial Service for Ken Campbell in Ajax, Ontario

AJAX, Ontario, September 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews provides below the recent notice of the death of renowned Canadian pro-life hero, Rev. Ken Campbell, which includes details of the Toronto region memorial service to be help on Sept. 23: DR. KENNETH LIVINGSTONE CAMPBELL On Monday, August 28, 2006, Dr. Kenneth Livingstone Campbell entered triumphantly into the presence of his Lord in his 73rd year, while in palliative care at Delta Hospital. He was the beloved husband of the late Norma (Nandrea) Campbell, and father of Annette Jean (Daniel Ahern), Jennie Elizabeth (David Bew), David Livingstone (Kim Kouri), Katharine Margaret (Roc […]
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Top Canadian Cardinal Speaks on Abortion, Gay Marriage and Catholic Politicians

By Gudrun Schultz EDMONTON, Alberta, September 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Marc Ouellet, primate of the Catholic Church in Canada, called on Catholic politicians to follow their conscience and their beliefs when voting on issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage, in statement to the press September 8. The Western Catholic Reporter covered the news conference held at the Catholic Pastoral Centre in Edmonton. “I think that Catholic politicians have to take into account the whole country and not only their community of faith, obviously, but their personal principles and their faith must play a role in their decisions,” Cardinal […]
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California School Reverses Course Allowing Students to Wear Pro-Life Shirts

LIVINGSTON, CA, September 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A public school reversed its position over students being allowed to wear pro-life shirts as a result of an administrative complaint filed byÂattorneys from the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) on the pupils’ behalf. Two middle school students were admonished by school officials for wearing pro-life shirts. The shirts stated: (front) Help Cure Abortion (back) Abortion: The leading cause of death in America 1,200,000 every year. One student was pulled out of her classroom by two instructors and told that she is not to wear the shirt to school because it is “inappropriate.” She […]
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BC Parents Will Have to Lie to Keep Kids out of Gay Advocacy Curriculum

by Hilary White VANCOUVER, September 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – BC’s Province newspaper, reports that parents in BC may not be allowed to opt their children out of school programmes promoting the homosexual lifestyle under the rubric of “respecting diversity”. Surrey School Board Trustee, Heather Stillwell, predicted that the result of the legislation, denounced as coercive by activists, will be parents coming up with creative ways to keep their children out of the classes. “Every year,” Stillwell told the Province, “there are lots of personal arrangements made between teachers and parents to let kids opt out of certain parts of classes […]
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Conservative PM Asked to Honor Promises to Protect Freedom of Speech/Religion Under Gay ‘Marriage’ L

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, September 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campaign Life Coalition, a national advocacyÂorganization which has been urging nationwide grassrootsÂlobbyingÂtoÂconvince Members of Parliament to support a return to the traditional definition of marriage, is also asking Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper to live up to his promises to protect freedom of speech and freedom of religion under theÂsame-sex ‘marriage’ law. On February 16, 2005, Conservative Party leader and now-Prime Minister Harper delivered a memorable speech in the House of Commons in response to the introduction of theÂsame-sex ‘marriage’ Bill C-38. “The so-called protection that the government has offered for […]
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Scottish Bishop Warns Labour Party Catholic Support Near End Over Homosexual Policies

By Terry Vanderheyden EDINBURGH, September 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Scottish Roman Catholic bishop has warned the ruling Labour party that their historic support from Catholic voters is nearing an end, citing as a reason the party’s support for same-sex unions. “There’s no doubt Catholic support for Labour in Scotland is clearly waning,” said Bishop Philip Tartaglia of Paisley, according to a Scotsman.com report. He condemned Labour politicians for “running roughshod” over traditional family values while actively promoting their opposite: homosexual marriage. “Catholics are tired of being bullied into accepting an intolerant new orthodoxy on issues such as homosexual unions […]
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Montana doctor sentenced to 6 years for euthanasia

By Alex Schadenberg, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition   HELENA, September 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. James Bischoff of Ennis Montana has been sentenced to 6 years in prison after pleading guilty to negligent homicide and fraudulently obtaining drugs in the euthanasia death of Kathryn Dvarishkis, who was 85 years old.   Dr. Bischoff was very upset with the 6 year sentence saying that he would not have pleaded guilty if he knew that his plea bargain which included a 2 year sentence was not to be honoured.   Dr Bischoff euthanized Kathryn Dvarishkis on July 16, 2000. At the time he […]
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UK Sisters Petition for Same Tax Exemption Rights as Lesbian Couples

By Gudrun Schultz UNITED KINGDOM, September 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Elderly sisters who have lived together all their lives are challenging the inheritance tax exemption that was granted last year to same-sex couples in civil unions, the Telegraph reported today, saying they should also be able to claim the exemption. Lawyers for Joyce Burden, 88, and her sister Sybil, 81 argued yesterday before the European Court of Human Rights, claiming the right of tax-free property inheritance for the sisters if one of them should die. The Burden’s inherited their home from their parents, whom they cared for, along with two […]
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Pro-Life Group Handed $51,000 to Settle Demonstration Dispute

By Gudrun Schultz FLORENCE, South Carolina, September 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The city of Florence has ended a four-year battle with a pro-life group by paying $51,000 to Columbia Christians for Life in an out-of-court settlement, the Associated Press reported. Five of the 30-member group were arrested in Florence in August 2002 after the group refused to sign a city parade permit, disputing the constitutionality of the city’s demand that the group receive permission before demonstrating. The organization was conducting a statewide tour protesting against abortion. City officials said they decided to settle out of court because the city was […]
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Northern Irish Parents who “Smack” to be Criminalized

By Hilary White BELFAST, September 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Barry McNeany, the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People, (NICCY), is trying to force the government of Northern Ireland to revise recently enacted laws to add criminalizing parents who spank their children. McNeany has been granted leave for a judicial review on legislation designed to protect children from “abuse” and wants the law to be further tightened to prevent parents “assaulting” their children while disciplining them. McNeany filed papers with Ireland’s High Court on Monday and a judge will decide if there are grounds for a review. The NICCY […]
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Christian Editors Sue Paper for Discrimination by Homosexual Management

By Gudrun Schultz INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, September 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two former editors of one of Indiana’s top newspapers are suing the paper for religious discrimination, claiming they were demoted and fired by homosexual management because of their evangelical Christian beliefs, Agape Press reported September 7. Lisa Coffey and James Patterson filed a federal lawsuit against the Indianapolis Star, after Coffey was demoted and Patterson was fired. Both were experienced employees with excellent performance reviews who had spent years on the editorial board of the Star’s sister paper, the Indianapolis News. When that paper closed down they were transferred to […]
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Scottish Mother to Appeal Judgment Denying Support For Child Not Killed by Abortion

PERTH, Scotland, September 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Scottish woman may appeal after losing a suit against Britain’s National Health Service for compensation after the NHS failed to kill both her twin daughters in the womb. Stacey Dow, the mother of now five year-old surviving twin Jayde, demanded $250,000 from the public health service for support for Jayde, the daughter she never intended to raise. The case was a first of this kind for Britain, commonly called “wrongful life” or “wrongful birth” suits. She said after being informed of the court’s decision that she would be consulting with her lawyers […]
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Pope Preaches Against Chance Evolution: “Man is Not the Chance Result of Evolution”

By John-Henry Westen REGENSBURG, Germany, September 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This morning Pope Benedict XVI discussed evolution in his homily at the outdoor Mass celebrated in Islinger Field. In a direct attack on the concept of random chance evolution, Pope Benedict asked rhetorically: “What came first? Creative Reason, the Spirit who makes all things and gives them growth, or Unreason, which, lacking any meaning, yet somehow brings forth a mathematically ordered cosmos, as well as man and his reason.” The Pope explained that the belief in God as Creator comes in the most ancient profession of faith known to Christians, […]
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Reports of a major breakthrough in the science of stem cells were premature, and wrong.   by Wesley J. Smith https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/684fncgd.asp Abortion Advocates Target S.D. Law https://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0041933.cfm Pro-Family Volunteers Needed in Eight Stateshttps://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0041900.cfm Politically Involved Churches Can Make a Difference https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0041926.cfm Legislation would stop taxpayers from footing the bill when the ACLU challenges Ten Commandments monuments and other public acknowledgements of the Christian faithhttps://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0041924.cfm Stopping the United Nations’ Bullying – The UN flaunts national sovereignty and international law in its effort to mandate leftist policieshttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/11477/BLI/commentary/index.htm Verizon Worker Recounts Her 9/11 Conversation With UA Flight 93 Herohttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/112006a.asp The Arab and Iranian […]
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9/11 Canadian, One of 16 Tower Impact Zone Survivors Says His Escape was Miraculous

By John-Henry Westen with files from Gerry Brosso NEW YORK, September 11, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Brian Clark is a Canadian, and one of only 16 people to survive from the impact zone and above in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. Five years after the tragic incident he still firmly believes he was aided by God in his miraculous escape. Clark spoke with CBC’s Peter Mansbridge on a special ‘One on One’ program which aired over the weekend. Mansbridge asked Clark:“As it turned out, only 16 people from the impact zone and above in the South Tower got […]
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Nations Move to Ban Suicide Counseling; Euthanasia Movement Complains

By Peter J. Smith TORONTO, September 11, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The recent efforts of Australia and other nations to ban the promotion of suicide through the internet has euthanasia advocates complaining that the loss of the internet may prove lethal to the “right-to-die” movement itself. In late 2005, Australia passed the Suicide Related Material Offences Act, which effectively outlawed suicide counseling by fax, telephone, and internet, the tools of choice employed by suicide advocates to educate and encourage people to commit suicide. This year Germany also has begun to follow suit by proposing similar legislation that would also outlaw internet […]
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Halifax Archbishop Urges Parishioners to Speak Up in Defense of Marriage

By Gudrun Schultz HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, September 11, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of the Halifax Archdiocese and Administrator of the Yarmouth diocese urged parishioners to actively support reopening debate on the definition of marriage, in a letter issued September 8, 2006. Writing to 16,000 Catholics in his diocese, Archbishop Prendergast urged people to contact their MPs and ask them to support reopening the issue. “Parliament must have a second chance to vote on the matter, without partisan pressure on MPs,” Archbishop Prendergast wrote. “Whoever tells you otherwise is using arguments that are not based on the facts.” “[T]he […]
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Canadian National Broadcaster Embraces Porn Star and Raunchy Porn Film Parties

By Gudrun Schultz TORONTO, Ontario, September 11, 2006, (LifeSiteNews.com) -Â A controversial, sexually explicit film featuring actors engaged in actual acts of sex has received full support by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, despite the film’s condemnation as pornography by critics. Directed by John Cameron Mitchell, Shortbus purports to be an exploration into the many layers of human sexuality. Scenes include three-way homosexual sex and close-up shots of masturbation acts requiring yogic flexibility, according to the Canadian Press. Actors were selected based on their interest in performing explicit sex scenes. One actress selected was CBC Radio broadcaster Sook-Yin Lee, host of […]
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“Abortion Lessons” for Children Should be Mandatory, Ministers Advisory Group Suggests

By Gudrun Schultz LONDON, United Kingdom, September 11, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Â School children 11 years and older should be given compulsory classes promoting abortion as part of sex education, a ministers’ advisory group has recommended. The group has also pushed for the establishment of mandatory sex education classes for children as young as five, which would include information on abortion under the recommendation of the current report, according to coverage by the Evening Standard. The report called for lessons that would present the benefits of abortion, so pregnant teenage girls could “make an informed decision” about ending their pregnancy, as […]
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Gov. Schwarzenegger Vetoes Pro-Homosexual Curriculum Bill; Two Others Pendinghttps://www.pacificjustice.org/resources/news/focusdetails.cfm?ID=PR060906a Bishop urges civil debate in South Dakota abortion referendumhttps://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0605077.htm Judge rejects Illinois Gov’s request that Lawsuit by Pharmacists Opposing being forced to Dispense Morning After Pill be Dismissedhttps://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/15468295.htm Ford Sales Drop 11.6%. Homosexual Groups More Important Than Support For Employees, Dealers.https://www.afa.net/aa090606.asp The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on Thursday in a case that one Christian attorney says could affect the right of existence of legislative prayers across the U.Shttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/82006a.asp Media Critic Highlights Dangers of Mainstreaming Pornographyhttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/82006c.asp Campuses Largely Lean Left … But Why?https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/afa/82006b.asp Former Employees Sue Indiana […]
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Conservative Jews Expected to Permit Homosexual Rabbis

By Gudrun Schultz NEW YORK, New York, September 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism is expected to vote in favour of permitting the ordination of homosexual rabbis in December, the Associated Press reported yesterday. The vote by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards will likely trigger serious discord among the conservative Jewish community in the U.S. and Canada, Rabbi Jerome Epstein, executive vice-president of the USCJ, told the AP. “It could cause confusion, it could cause tremendous angst, it could cause tremendous tension, it could cause tremendous disagreement,” Rabbi Epstein said. He predicted the vote […]
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No Gay “Marriage” or Adoption says French Presidential Hopeful Sarközy

By Hilary White PARIS, September 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNewsc.om) – French interior minister and presidential candidate, Nicolas Sarközy, has infuriated homosexual political activists by insisting that his government would outlaw same-sex “marriage” and prohibit homosexual partners from adopting children. Speaking to Le Figaro, Sarközy, head of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) said he was opposed to any form of discrimination, and favours financial equivalence for homosexual couples in taxes and inheritance, the needs of children must be considered in adoption. “Our model,” he said, “must remain that of a heterosexual family: children need a father and a mother.” […]
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Canadian Bishop Calls Parents to Action against Homosexual Indoctrination in Schools

By Peter J. Smith VANCOUVER, British Columbia, September 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archbishop of Vancouver has called on parents to protest the government’s plan to mandate favorable teaching on homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual matters to children without the consent of parents. In an editorial in the B.C. Catholic Newspaper, this week, Archbishop Roussin, SM reminded B.C. parents that their rights to educate their children are “non-negotiable”, and that they must take action during the government’s consultation about the program engineered by two homosexual activists with unprecedented cooperation from the government. The Archbishop’s editorial comes in response to the current […]
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Prominent Nun/Professor Formally Repents of Abortion Support

By John-Henry Westen NAIROBI, Kenya, September 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While in North America or Europe Catholic nuns and priests may not be censured for nuanced abortion support, the same is not true in Africa. In 2003 a prominent nun and professor of religion at Kenyatta University in Nairobi Kenya was sanctioned by her bishop for touting pro-abortion sentiments in an interview with the BBC. The censure has produced positive results. Sister Anne Nasimiyu-Wasike, PhD. has now formally and publicly repented of her erroneous stand. Given her celebrated feminist past, that renouncement must have been all the more difficult. In […]
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Michael Coren Reinstated on CFRB Radio, by “Popular Demand”

By Gudrun Schultz TORONTO, Ontario, September 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Michael Coren, the outspokenly conservative radio talk show host who was fired almost one year ago by Toronto radio station CFRB 1010, has been reinstated on mainstream airways. Coren was fired in November 2005 after a program in which he “picked on a group of people”—the over-weight—according to CFRB General Manager Pat Holiday at the time. Coren had created a fictitious character in a staged interview, whom he mocked about his weight to illustrate a point on obesity debates in the country. The program content outraged listeners and led to […]
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Chile’s Mayors Refuse Morning After Pill Push

By Hilary White SANTIAGO, September 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Several of Chile’s mayors are balking at a federal government order to make the abortifacient Morning After Pill available for free to girls as young as 14 starting this month. The drug, a massive dose of the same hormones found in regular birth control pills, must be given on demand and will not require a prescription or authorisation from a girl’s parents. Marta Ehlers, mayor of the Santiago district of Lo Barnechea told reporters she is “indignant” at the order. Ehlers said that she would not permit the distribution of the […]
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Mexico Confirms Pro-Family Calderon Elected as President

By Gudrun Schultz MEXICO CITY, September 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Felipe Calderon was officially declared president-elect in Mexico yesterday, after two months of wrangling and dispute over allegations of election fraud in an extremely tight vote. In a unanimous decision by the Federal Electoral Tribunal, Mexico’s top electoral court, Calderon was granted the presidency with a margin of 0.56 percent, Associated Press reported yesterday. The ruling is final and cannot be appealed. Calderon, with the ruling National Action Party, was considered a long-shot against opposition leader Manuel Lopez Obrador with the socialist Democratic Revolution Party.  Calderon is known to be […]
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Kentucky, Indiana Rural Communities Battle Porn Shop Inroads

By Gudrun Schultz UNIONTOWN, Indiana, September 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Local residents of Jackson County have joined efforts by the county government in an all-out campaign to oust an adult store selling pornographic videos and DVDs from the neighborhood, the Courier-Journal reported yesterday. Protestors picket outside the Lion’s Den seven days a week, at all hours, carrying signs and photographing or videotaping customers entering the business. “We will be here till that is gone,” protestor Douglas Hoskins told the Courier-Journal. “I don’t want this to happen to anybody else, anywhere else.” A lawsuit is pending in Jackson County Superior Court, […]
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Dutch Bishop Pushes Condoms Undermining Uganda’s AIDS Abstinence Success Story

By Hilary White AMSTERDAM, September 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Dutch Catholic bishop, Martinus (Tiny) Muskens of the diocese of Breda, travelled to Uganda to support Aids activists advocating the use of condomsÂto stopÂAIDS.ÂThe bishopÂtold Radio Netherlands that the use of condoms can be acceptable for AIDS prevention and cites the Catholic theological position of the “lesser evil” to defend his idea. Muskens is quoted saying, “It is permissible to opt for the lesser evil of condom use to prevent the greater evil of AIDS.” Bishop Muskens was invited to make his comments by the head of an Amsterdam-based organization, […]
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Student Makes Mockery of Court Arranged Apology For Destroying Pro-Life Display

By Hilary White HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, September 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In May this year, a group of pro-life students at Northern Kentucky University (NKU) set up a display of white crosses to memorialize those children killed in the US by abortion. Such displays are popular with student groups as an affordable means of emphasizing the loss of life brought about by abortion, and are often vandalized by abortion supporters. True to form, a feminist professor incited a group of students to destroy the Northern Kentucky University display and its accompanying sign. Unlike Canada, however, the story at NKU has a […]
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British PM Plan to ID Pre-Birth Menaces to Society Will Lead to More Abortion Warns Pro-Life Group

WESTMINSTER, September 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Plans outlined by British Prime Ministser Tony Blair to identify those who might be a “menace to society” before they are born will lead to even more pressure upon health and social workers to provide and promote abortions in schools and elsewhere, warns the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC). Last week, Blair justified his intervention, even pre-birth, into the lives of children saying, “If we are not prepared to predict and intervene far more early, then there are children that are going to grow up in families that we know perfectly […]
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Virginia University Paper: Christianity Bashing Okay But Homosexuality Bashing No Way

CHARLOTTESVILLE, September 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite having apologized to homosexuals over a cartoon deemed derogatory to gays, the University of Virginia’s student newspaper has refused to apologize to Christians over two cartoons which are derogatory to Christians. Students at the University of Virginia contacted the Catholic League regarding two anti-Christian cartoons that appeared in The Cavalier Daily, the student newspaper on campus. The August 23rd edition showed a drawing of Jesus crucified on a mathematical graph with the inscription, “Christ on a Cartesian Coordinate Plane.” On August 24, the newspaper ran a cartoon of Mary and Joseph, with Mary […]
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Ghana Bans Gay Conference, Says it Would Promote Unhealthy Homosexuality

By Gudrun Schultz ACCRA, Ghana, September 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government of Ghana banned a homosexual conference scheduled to take place yesterday, saying it would undermine the country’s culture and morality and encourage the practice of homosexuality, the Mail & Guardian reported Saturday. “Ghanaians are unique people whose culture, morality and heritage totally abhor homosexual and lesbian practices and indeed any other form of unnatural sexual acts,” said a statement by Information Minister Kwamena Bartels. “Supporting such a conference or even allowing it will be encouraging that tendency which the law forbids.” The practice of homosexuality is illegal in […]
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