Articles for Month: November 2006

Post Election Analysis

Groups may decide to discontinue all prescription drug coverage in order to avoid violating principles

By Gudrun Schultz   WASHINGTON, D.C., November 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal seeking to overturn a decision by the top Maine court upholding a ban on religious schools in a state tuition voucher program.   The program provides parents from regions without high schools with vouchers to cover tuition at schools of their choice. State school districts in 145 small towns with no high schools provide the vouchers to 17,000 students, who may use them at public or private schools, in-state or out-of-state.   Religious schools are no longer included, however, […]

By Hilary White   PRETORIA, November 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Vice President of South Africa has, in President Thabo Mbeki’s absence, signed the bill that makes that country one of only a handful around the world to abolish the legal definition of natural marriage in order to include homosexual partners.   The Civil Union Act changes the country’s definition of marriage from a union of one man and one woman, to a “voluntary union of two persons, which is solemnized and registered by either a marriage or civil union.” The Act comes into effect today. “The act is […]

Also, "loser", Democrat Howard Dean, gives keynote address at Liberal Party Convention

Approve "the promotion and protection of sexual and reproductive health and rights", "unsafe abortion" and "safe motherhood"

By John-Henry Westen ISTANBUL, November 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI signed a joint declaration today with the leader of Orthodox Christians, Patriarch Bartholomew I. In their declaration, the Roman Catholic and Orthodox leaders commit to joint action to protect life. “We must all commit ourselves to the renewed service of humanity and the defense of human life, every human life,” says the declaration. The leaders note their willingness to carry on the work of their predecessors toward unity.  They express the necessity of their joint work in reforming the culture of death.  “Moreover, we cannot ignore the increase […]

Liberty Counsel, Centre For American Law and Justice ask Mayor Richard M. Daly to stop religious discrimination against film

Senator Obama is radical in his abortion support, going so far as to back partial-birth abortion

By Steve Jalsevac   TORONTO, November 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Interim newspaper is reminding youth that the Dec. 8 deadline for submissions to the Father Ted Scholarship Program is just slightly more than a week away.   Grade 11 or 12 students are eligible to win one of three $1,000 scholarships this year by submitting an original 800-1000 word length essay on the topic, “Is abortion the most important human rights issue of our day?”   For more contest information, the rules and to download the application form see:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/sep/06092209.html

By Steve Jalsevac   TORONTO, November 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Interim newspaper has just released for download it’s unique December Curriculum Supplement for Schools. The 6 page supplement, which can be used for home or classroom use, helps teachers and parents to guide their young charges through an exploration of the true meaning of Christmas.   The supplement includes quotes and an article on Christmas plus entertaining multiple choice questionnaires to test readers’ knowledge on a wide variety of Christmas lore, including questions on related scripture, novels, movies, ethnic Christmas dishes and more. The last page is a large […]

By Gudrun Schultz   RICHMOND, Virginia, November 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Virginian woman has failed in her bid to deny a former lesbian partner visitation rights with a child she conceived during their now-ended relationship, after a Virginia appeals court ruling yesterday, the International Herald Tribune reported yesterday.   The Court of Appeals of Virginia ruled Tuesday that a previous court had erred in overriding a Vermont court decision granting Lisa Miller’s former lesbian partner, Janet Jenkins, visitation rights with Miller’s daughter Isabella. The case was sent back to the Vermont court. “We hold that the trial court erred […]

Female L.A. police officer files misconduct complaint against lesbian sergeant

Special to LifeSiteNews.com By Linda Ames Nicolosi of NARTH   COPENHAGEN, November 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A major study published last month in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal, Archives of Sexual Behavior, provides striking new evidence for the influence of childhood family factors on sexual-orientation development.    The study used a population-based sample of 2,000,355 native-born Danes between the ages of 18 and 49. Denmark—a country noted for its tolerance of a wide variety of alternative lifestyles, including homosexual partnerships—was the first country to legalize gay marriage. The researchers assessed detailed marriage records for all Danish-born men and women marrying a […]

By Peter J. Smith   DUBLIN, November 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ireland’s Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) published a report Tuesday recommending a range of options to the government for giving legal recognition to cohabiting relationships other than traditional marriage. “In Irish society today increasing numbers of people reside in domestic arrangements which are not founded on marriage or which do not conform to traditional family forms,” stated Tanaiste, Michael McDowell, T.D., who is also the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. “The Government wants to deliver a framework in which non-married couples, including gay couples, can live in a […]

Panel members all of similar leftist thinking

Some pro-marriage Liberals waffling, claiming Tories are not keeping promises on issue

Only those opposed to the club were allowed to post flyers about meeting to decide fate of club

By Peter J. Smith   WASHINGTON, D.C., November 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) –“What’s past is prologue” is an admonition from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, however that is the theme of a report from the government watch-dog group Judicial Watch, which warns that America faces a return of aggressive pro-abortion policy if former first lady turned senator Hillary Clinton wins the presidency in 2008.   In a special report entitled: New Clinton White House Records Raise Disturbing Questions about Hillary Clinton and Abortion, Judicial Watch reveals that Hillary was ever present behind the scenes of Clinton’s abortion policy, and indicates that a Hillary […]

Says to do so would go against his religious belief that homosexuality is immoral

Court warned that law must be changed or court would change law automatically

Former editor of Toronto Diocese Catholic Register greatly helped national pro-life efforts

By John-Henry Westen EL SALVADOR, November 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On April 9, New York Times reporter Jack Hitt produced what may be called a ‘hit piece’ against the pro-life movement in El Salvador.  The piece, laden with scare tactics, culminates in his tale of woe of a woman who he says had an illegal abortion when she was 18 weeks pregnant and was sentenced to thirty years in prison.  The only problem with the story is that the woman was found guilty of strangling her full-term baby shortly after her birth. Writing in an editorial in one of the […]

By John-Henry Westen REPENTIGNY, November 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rev. Raymond Gravel, a Catholic priest, who has scandalized Canadian Catholics for years by condemning Vatican pronouncements against homosexual marriage and pronouncing himself publicly in favour of abortion, has been elected to Parliament, representing the Bloc Quebecois in Repentigny Quebec. While the Vatican has officially forbidden priests from seeking public office, Gravel obtained permission to run from his Bishop – Gilles Lussier of the diocese of Joliette - on condition that he cease priestly functions for the duration of his political career, and that he abstain from voting against the Church […]

By Gudrun Schultz   SHANDONG, China, November 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One day after the retrial of blind Chinese human right’s advocate Chen Guangcheng concluded without an immediate verdict, his wife was taken for questioning by police in Shandong Province, the Associated Press reported earlier today.   Yuan told the AP she was approached by six or seven policemen as soon as she left a court in Yinan County where she was signing documents. “They said they wanted to talk to me about some matters, but refused to say what they were,” Yuan said in a telephone interview from the […]

By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, D.C., November 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Medical Association has asked the U.S. bishops to stop using controversial sexual abuse education programs, aimed at teaching young children to protect themselves from abusers, in their dioceses. During the association’s annual conference in Boston last month, the CMA released a 55-page study that condemned programs such as “Talking About Touching” as ineffective, out-of-step with child development, and not in keeping with the Church’s teaching on the appropriate sex education of children, the National Catholic Register reported last week. The report, entitled To Prevent and to Protect: Report […]

Laws would force churches and faith-based organizations to allow gay groups to use facilities

The population police are at it again  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=420   New Special Report Raises Disturbing Questions about Hillary Clinton and Abortion  https://www.christiannewswire.com/index.php?module=releases&task=view&releaseID=1588   ‘If only we had enough condoms’  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=422   Africa still desires children  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=423   One of the world’s most prestigious medical journals is pushing a failed strategy to promote “reproductive health”.  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=419   How Gene Patents Are Putting Your Health at Risk  https://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_11-26-2006/Intelligence_Report   The Economist’s moral blinkers  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=424   Two Christian men sentenced to ten years in prison for “blasphemy”  https://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=7859   Jiangsu: a new bishop to be ordained without Holy See approval  https://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=7855   10 Is […]

By Peter J. Smith SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (LifeSiteNews.com) – The rising tide of polygamist groups in America have adopted the tactics of homosexual activists to lobby for legal recognition of their relationships, however, these groups are playing an important role in the long-standing agenda to dismantle the traditional family. In a recent Washington Post story, “Valerie”, a mother of eight “with a smile as bright as Utah’s sky”, who “has insisted that she’s just like you and me” illustrates that polygamists have discovered the tactics used by homosexual activists to further acceptance of their relationships in society. Namely, that […]

AFA Center for Law & Policy disappointed with President Bush's nomination of Neff

ORALANDO, FL, November 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As part of the Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign, Liberty Counsel has created a “Naughty and Nice” checklist (available online in pdf or MSWord) which catalogs retailers who either censor or recognize Christmas. The list was compiled from information gathered by Liberty Counsel supporters. Partial “Naughty List” Lowe’s – Employees cannot say “Merry Christmas” to customers. Lowe’s corporate advised that only when customers initiate a “Merry Christmas” greeting can employees respond in kind. Toys ‘R’ Us – “Holidays” are in, “Merry Christmas” is out. Banana Republic – Web site has “Holiday Gift Guide” […]

120,000 women are injured each year from legal abortions in Russia

By Gudrun Schultz   VATICAN CITY, November 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – AIDS victims and their families must be cared for with respect and compassion, Pope Benedict said in two separate addresses over the weekend.   Speaking to the crowds in St. Peter’s Square after praying the Angelus on Sunday, Pope Benedict spoke with compassion of those suffering with AIDS, in anticipation of World AIDS Day on December first. “May this circumstance favor greater responsibility in the treatment of the illness, and a commitment to prevent all discrimination against those afflicted by it,” Pope Benedict said. “Invoking the comfort of the […]

Calls for reversal of cutbacks to Status of Women plus 25 per cent increase in funding

By Gudrun Schultz   LONDON, United Kingdom, November 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An outpouring of condemnation and criticism from within the UK and around the globe finally convinced British Airways to withdraw its controversial ban on workers wearing a visible cross, the Daily Mail reported Saturday.   Airline chief executive Willie Walsh made the announcement five hours after the Church of England threatened to sell its £6.6 million worth of BA shares in response to the ban.   Mr. Walsh had led the airline in its refusal to concede employee Nelda Eweida’s right to wear a small visible cross around […]

Social Conservative Morton Completely Avoiding Abortion Questions

Of those who voted against Proposition 107, only 8 percent supported same-sex marriage

Furious reaction to proposal meant to help raise dangerously low birthrate and certain population decline

LONDON, November 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study by Dr Shusheela Singh on unsafe abortion, due to appear in this week’s edition of the British medical magazine, the Lancet, uses flawed data to promote abortion, says the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC). Paul Tully, SPUC general secretary, commented: “The author of this story works for one of the most wealthy and politically powerful pro-abortion lobby groups in the world, the Wall Street-based Guttmacher Institute. The “research” was funded by the Hewlett Foundation, a notoriously pro-abortion body. “Reports of the study claim that Dr Singh found out about […]

Leafs general manager John Ferguson says "we're comfortable with it"

By Gudrun Schultz   UNITED KINGDOM, November 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Leading Anglican Bishops were joined by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Portsmouth in warning university student unions that banning Christian groups from campuses was illegal, in a letter published Wednesday in The Times. “Christian students at many of our universities are facing considerable opposition and discrimination in violation of their rights of freedom of expression, freedom of belief and freedom of association,” the bishops wrote.   Student union associations at three universities, Exeter, Birmingham and Edinburgh, have responded to increasing pressure from homosexual activists on campus by banning groups […]

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, November 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A motion debated at the November 21 session of the Carleton University Students’ Association (CUSA) council meeting would prohibit any group opposed to abortion from attaining club status at the University.  While aimed at a pro-life group of students seeking club status on campus, the proposed policy may ban Catholic, Evangelical, Jewish and Muslim clubs as well. On November 21, Katy McIntyre Vice President of CUSA Student Services, proposed a “Motion to Amend Discrimination on Campus Policy” which would bar from club status all groups opposed to abortion.  The motion stated: […]

MP is proposed bill to reduce the legal age for abortion from 24 to 21 weeks

Scientists conclude there is really no such thing as "normal" in genetic inheritance

Say legalising brothels would only exacerbate trafficking in sex trade workers

By Gudrun Schultz ARIZONA, United States, November 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Presidential hopeful Senator John McCain said he does not believe homosexuality is a “defect” or a “sin,” in an interview Sunday with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos for “This Week.” Sen. McCain emphasized that he does not support same-sex marriage, however, and does not think special laws are necessary in the workplace to prevent discrimination against the homosexual community. “I do not believe gay marriage should be legal,” McCain said, repeating, “I do not believe gay marriage should be legal,” online news source The Raw Story reported Monday. Sen. McCain […]

President Abraham Lincoln’s first Thanksgiving came at a pivotal point in his lifehttps://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU06K19&f=PG03I03 Why We’re Thankful for Family – Top Ten Findingshttps://familyfacts.org/topten/topten_0611.cfm House to Consider Pain to Preborn Caused by Abortionhttps://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000003192.cfm Abortion Activists Blame U.S. for Maternal Deathshttps://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000003188.cfm Political campaigns focus on ‘no-holds barred’ internethttps://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/11/22/internet-leadership.html Vermont Pays People to Care for Elderlyhttps://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000003187.cfm Will the true-blue Democratic party please step forward? – By Tony Perkinshttps://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjhkOTdjYzIxYzViYmExZWM0YzAwOTM2ZDYyMDQ5YTQ= Genetic breakthrough that reveals the differences between humanshttps://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2007490.ece It’s Okay to Say Merry Christmas!Âhttps://www.cwfa.org/articles/11879/LEGAL/freedom/index.htm Freedom, Liberty and Marriage – Paul M. Weyrichhttps://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2006/061121.aspx Wal-Mart Risks Heat for Supporting Global Warming Projecthttps://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200611/NAT20061122a.html “Unstoppable global warming: every 1500 Years” […]

By Gudrun Schultz HARTFORD, Connecticut, November 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activists in the state of Connecticut have renewed their attempt to gain legal “marriage” recognition by filing an appeal to the state Supreme Court on Wednesday, claiming a ban on gay ‘marriage’ violates their constitutional rights. Connecticut granted homosexual couples all the legal rights and privileges of married heterosexual couples last year with the creation of a civil union law, but stopped short of conferring the term “marriage”. Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, the legal organization that succeeded in pushing through gay ‘marriage’ legislation in the state of […]

By Hilary White  TORONTO, November 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In what might be the last pastoral letter from Toronto’s Cardinal Archbishop, who was due to retire two years ago, Aloysius Ambrozic tells Catholics that he has had enough. Enough of relativism – disguised as “values” – in the Church and in society in general. “The word ‘value,’” the Cardinal writes has been neutralized to the point where it “admits that for someone else my value may be quite valueless.”  Echoing Pope Benedict XVI’s condemnation of the “dictatorship of relativism” that has come to be the guiding principle of most public […]

Last year when my eldest son Joshua had just turned eight, he learned and recited a beautiful poem of thanksgiving. The poem gave us all pause for reflection and drew us to thanksgiving to God Who provides for us from day to day. The poem would make very appropriate dinner-table reading tonight, and I’d encourage you to have your children put it to memory – so it can be an inspiration for years to come. Happy Thanksgiving! John-Henry Westen  Editor  LifeSiteNews.com   The Open Door. – Unknown Author Within a town of Holland once  A widow dwelt, ‘tis said,  So […]

By Gudrun Schultz   NEW YORK, United States, November 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Almost half of all  women who have abortions in the U.S. have already aborted at least one previous pregnancy, according to a recent report by the research affiliate of Planned Parenthood, the Alan Guttmacher Institute.   In the study entitled Repeat Abortion in the United States, released this month, researchers found that 48.2 percent of women who had abortions between 2000-2001 were obtaining repeat abortions. That included 29 percent who had one previous abortion, 12 percent who had two previous abortions, and 7 percent who were aborting […]

Fr. Robert Spitzer speaks at pro-life conference in Vancouver

By Gudrun Schultz JERUSALEM, Israel, November 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ministers and members of the Knesset expressed dismay at yesterday’s decision by the High Court of Justice to grant marital recognition to same-sex couples “married” outside the country, Ynet News reported today. Knesset member Yitzhak Cohen said in response to the ruling, “The High Court of Justice just removed the last mezuzah from its doors.” “Marriage is only between man and woman in accordance with Jewish law. Any other hybrid is like a bond between an animal, tree or rock to a person. Thanks to the court, the dam protecting […]

By Gudrun Schultz EDINBURGH, Scotland, November 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – University of Edinburgh officials have banned students with the Christian Union from holding a six-week course teaching abstinence on campus grounds. The University made the decision to ban the program, entitled ‘PURE’, after some students objected to literature promoting the course, which apparently included stories from people who had been “cured” of homosexuality, the Scotsman reported Sunday. The course promotes marriage as the best setting for a sexual relationship, encouraging students to abstain from sexual activity until they are ready to get married. Officials said the course promotional material broke […]

Initiative voted inadmissible for discussion, 61-21, and therefore no appeal allowed

By Hilary White LONDON, November 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Britain’s Daily Mail reports today on a remarkable series of photographs showing animals still in the womb. The images were created with a combination of advanced ultrasound technology, computer graphics and tiny cameras inserted into the animals’ uterus. They include photos of a golden retriever puppy panting and showing its fur and whiskers, and a dolphin that swims, moves its eyes and curls its tail fin against its body in utero. Clearly identifiable and perfectly formed, a foetal elephant, at six months of its two-year gestation period, is seen seemingly floating […]

By Peter J. Smith STRASBOURG, France, November 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British woman has made her final appeal to the Grand Chamber of the European Court to save her frozen embryos, pleading that their destruction is a violation of her “right to family life” guaranteed under the European convention on human rights. Natallie Evans, a British subject left infertile by her treatment for ovarian cancer, is fighting for the right to bear her children, six embryos, conceived through IVF treatment with her partner at the time, Howard Johnston. However, after the couple’s separation, Mr. Johnston withdrew his consent in […]

By Hilary White LJUBLJANA, Slovenia November 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The small south-central European country of Slovenia is suffering from a low birth rate and a government minister has suggested financial restrictions on abortion as a remedy. Slovenian Minister for Labour, Family and Social Affairs, Janez Drobnic, suggested that the state’s public health system should only pay for abortions if the mother’s life would be threatened by giving birth. “According to the constitution, human life is untouchable and we believe the state is not obliged to give financial support for an abortion,” said a statement from Drobnic. Reuters reported that […]

By Peter J. Smith BENTONVILLE, Arkansas, November 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Retail giant Wal-Mart announced Tuesday afternoon that the company will no longer use corporate money to “support or oppose highly controversial issues” such as homosexual activism. Wal-Mart had outraged pro-family groups for its financial support to homosexual activists, and for the recent promotion for sale of a graphic sex-ed manual promoting teen lesbianism, recalled shortly after a LifeSiteNews.com exposé. “Wal-Mart will not make corporate contributions to support or oppose highly controversial issues unless they directly relate to our ability to serve our customers” the announcement stated, adding that Wal-Mart […]

Dear Readers, Who do you suppose would propose a policy to lower the age of consent for “anal intercourse” to 14 years of age? a) The North American Man-Boy Love Association  b) The Netherlands Pedophilia Party  c) Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere  d) The Liberal Party of Canada If you wanted to answer all of the above you may be correct, but unbelievably (at least for some of us) the Liberal Party of Canada is the correct answer this week. read about it here:https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/nov/06112202.html John-Henry Westen  Editor  LifeSiteNews.com

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, November 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In what is likely a Canadian first for a major political party, the Liberal Party of Canada is proposing lowering the age of consent for “anal intercourse” in their publicly-released book of policy resolutions. On Monday, the Liberal Party of Canada made available the text of the policy resolutions put forth by the Party’s Provincial and Territorial Associations, commissions, and National Caucus. The policy resolutions are to be debated and voted upon at the Liberal Leadership and Biennial Convention to be held from November 28 to December 2, 2006, in Montréal. […]

Party orders London by-election candidate Haskett to not answer any questionnaires

DETROIT, November 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alliance Defense Fund allied attorneys filed suit Monday against Detroit police for violating the free speech rights of six pro-life supporters, all of whom were harassed and later prevented from expressing their views outside the Superbowl in February 2006. “Detroit police need to be reminded that free speech is the right of all Americans, not just a select few,” said ADF-allied attorney Ted Hoppe.“They clearly acted in violation of the Constitution when they chose to single out and squelch pro-life speech.” After learning of the group’s plans to demonstrate Feb. 5, police first instructed […]

Not interested "in replenishing their ranks by having children"

Says "far worse to allow the homosexualization of the Holy Land than to give back land to the Arabs"

Family opposes experimental treatment; prefers to "let" her die from feeding tube removal

By Gudrun Schultz LONDON, United Kingdom, November 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Christian employee’ of British Airways has lost her appeal against the airline’s refusal to allow her to visibly wear a small cross while in uniform, BBC News reported yesterday. Nadia Eweida, 55, has been on unpaid leave for almost two months, since her employers said she couldn’t allow a small cross she wears around her neck to show while she was at work. The airline defended the decision by saying the policy applies to all jewelry worn on a chain. Ms. Eweida was free to wear her cross […]

Canada's Gay "Marriage" Law Strikes Again

By Hilary White LONDON, November 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a statement yesterday Lord Falconer, the Lord Chancellor of England has warned doctors that they may face prison sentences if they refuse to starve and dehydrate patients to death. Criminal charges of assault could be laid against doctors or nurses who refuse to allow patients to die, even by removal of food and hydration tube. The Labour government unveiled its new guidelines for doctors to follow the Mental Capacity Act that is to come into effect next spring. The guidelines instruct doctors that a patient’s “advanced decision,” what is often […]

Catholic Voters Abandon Republicanshttps://ncregister.com/site/article/1251 A Pro-Life Revival?https://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10646 Horrific New Evidence of China Organ Harvesting Revealedhttps://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-11-16/48226.html Teen accused man of rape, pro-life group documented her clinic visithttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53013 A Philosophical Ruse: Is Bioethics Beyond Good and Evil?https://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2006/jyulo_philosruse_nov06.asp Evangelicals get on global warming bandwagon and join with abortion-on-demand and population control organizationshttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53009 Mark Steyn silences the lefthttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53015 How ironic, if Wal-Mart banishes the Grinch – but has its Christmas sales stolen by the gays! https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53016 Christ is making a comeback this Christmashttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53012 School in retreat on ‘halal-only’ Christmas https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/18/nhalal18.xml Best Buy Bans Use of Merry Christmas in Advertisinghttps://www.afa.net/petitions/issuedetail.asp?id=222 Alito: Courts Not ‘Center of […]

By John-Henry Westen LONDON, November 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Terry Grange, the leading officer on child protection of the UK’s Association of Chief Police Officers’ has ignited controversy by commenting in an interview with The Sunday Times that pornography featuring children at 13 years of age should not be considered child porn. Grange also said that the term “pedophiles” should only apply to adults who have sex with 12 and under. Grange’s comments match those of the pedophilia party launched recently, with court approval, in the Netherlands. The ‘Charity, Freedom and Diversity’ (NVD) party of the Netherlands formed last Spring […]

By Gudrun Schultz LISBON, Portugal, November 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Constitutional Court of Portugal accepted the government’s referendum question on abortion earlier this week, moving the proposed referendum on increasing abortions a step closer, AFP reported. The referendum would ask voters if they agree with a law that would permit abortions on demand up until the 10th week of pregnancy. Voters would be asked, “Do you agree with the decriminalization of voluntary termination of pregnancy if it takes place, at the woman’s request, within the first ten weeks of pregnancy in a legally authorized medical facility?” Under current Portuguese […]

By Hilary White TORONTO, November 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New evidence shows that abnormal stem cells, and not ordinary cancer cells, may be the key culprits in the growth of certain types of cancer. Two separate studies published today in the online edition of the journal Nature, one from a Canadian team of researchers and another from Italy, showed that treatments for cancers that treat all the cells in the tumour equally, may be shooting at the wrong target. John Dick, the senior scientist at the University of Toronto and Princess Margaret Hospital who led the work, said, “Colon cancer […]

By Gudrun Schultz MONACO, November 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Permitting deliberate abortion for medical reasons or rape will inevitably lead to abortion on demand, Archbishop Bernard Barsi of Monaco said in a statement issued Oct. 12 to all churches in the Monaco diocese, in response to a private bill calling for increased abortion access. “A bill has been put forward at the National Council in order to legalize certain kinds of abortions,” Archbishop Barsi stated. “Even before we know the result of the procedure that has just begun, and of the contradictory debates that will come from this, I must […]

By John-Henry Westen MANAGUA, November 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Friday, the President of Nicaragua, Enrique Bolanos signed into law a bill eliminating the “therapeutic abortion” exception in the Criminal Code. The new law eliminates a loophole that allowed an unborn child to be killed if three doctors certify that a woman’s “life or health” is at risk. The so-called “health” exception terminology, has been severely abused in some countries to allow virtual abortion on demand. The new law also ends the permission to abort a child conceived in rape. Pro-lifers argued that the innocent child conceived in rape should […]

STOCKHOLM, November 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A seminar organised by the Catholic pro-life movement Respekt at Sahlgrenska Univerity Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden on Tuesday, was relocated at the very last moment following protests from doctors at the hospital. The aim of the seminar was to discuss the emotional consequences of abortion on women in an open and non-prejudiced way. Three speakers had been arranged, among them Anne Nordal Broen, a psychiatrist from Oslo, Norway, who has carried out extensive research where she has compared women who had miscarriages with women who have had abortions. Respekt made reservation arrangements for the […]

By Hilary White   SAN FRANCISCO, November 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pastor of Most Holy Redeemer Catholic parish in the heart of San Francisco’s heavily homosexual Castro neighbourhood, is back in his position after spending some time “on leave from his duties,” following a scandal involving a homosexual activist group.   Father Stephen Meriwether, who also serves as Chancellor of the San Francisco Archdiocese, was placed “on leave” after his permission to allow a virulently anti-Catholic homosexual activist group to hold “revival bingo” games was revealed by faithful Catholic bloggers.   Earlier this month, World Net Daily reported that […]

By Peter J. Smith ROME, November 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI warned that the quest for peace and social justice becomes a “substitute for religion” for many people when the sanctity of human life is excluded. The Pope told the Swiss Bishops on their ad limina visit to Rome that the Church must exert itself to ensuring the themes of peace, justice, and respect for the environment are “inseparably united back to the moral teaching of the Church’s defense for life.” “Modern society is not simply without morality, but it has, so to speak, ‘discovered’ and professes a […]

WASHINGTON, November 17, 2006 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – President George W. Bush has appointed a physician with close ties to the pro-life movement to supervise federal family-planning programs. The President has named Dr. Eric Keroack to be the assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. In that post he will supervise the disbursement of $283 million in annual federal grants to family-planning programs. Keroack, a Massachusetts gynecologist, has been a pioneer in the use of ultrasound technology in crisis-pregnancy centers. He has developed a national reputation in the pro-life movement for his work in persuading women not to have […]

By Hilary White OTTAWA, November 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ottawa Health Research Institute, the research arm of The Ottawa Hospital and an affiliated institute of the University of Ottawa has opened the Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research to focus on regenerative medicine. While it will not be using embryonic cells in research for the moment, the Sprott Centre, does not rule out the possibility for the future. The Centre’s Dr. Michael Rudnicki, first to be recruited and formerly a professor at Hamilton’s McMaster University, told the Ottawa Citizen that the Centre’s focus would be on curing diseases. Dr. […]

By Meg Jalsevac DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, November 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a highly controversial move, the government of South Africa voted on Tuesday to legalize homosexual civil unions and marriages. South Africa is the first African nation to legalize any form of homosexual union. In direct response, the slightly northern African country of Tanzania has come out reaffirming the fact that its code of law deems homosexual acts illegal and will not change any time soon. The South African bill passed 230 to 41 after the ruling African National Congress ordered all MPs to be present and vote […]

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, November 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a strongly worded letter addressed to Larry Cox, Executive Director of Amnesty International, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith and 73 other Members of Congress, including ten Democrats, urged the organization to either maintain the abortion neutral position or take a position in favor of life. The letter states that a decision to support or condone abortion would “significantly undermine Amnesty’s reputation and effectiveness.” For the last several years Amnesty International has been asking its national branches if the organization should enter abortion advocacy by proposing abortion as a human right. A […]

By John-Henry Westen BENTONVILLE, AR, November 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A graphic sex-ed manual promoting lesbianism to teenage girls has been dropped by Wal-Mart only days after LifeSiteNews.com published a story exposing Wal-Mart’s sale of the controversial book. Produced by St. Stephens’ Community House in Toronto, the book is titled “The Little Black Book for Girlz: A Book on Healthy Sexuality”. Parents were outraged when they learned of the book which gives detailed instruction for teens to engage in lesbian sex acts. The manual was further condemned for using obscene and derogatory language. Examples include a section entitled “My First […]

By Hilary White  DUBLIN, November 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Human beings at the embryonic stage do not have an inherent right to life says a High Court Justice in the Republic of Ireland. Never having been implanted in a uterus, frozen IVF embryos do not qualify as “the unborn” and are therefore not covered under Ireland’s constitutional protection said Justice Brian McGovern“There has been no evidence … to establish that it was ever in the mind of the people voting on the Eight Amendment to the Constitution that ‘unborn’ meant anything other than a fetus or child within the womb,” […]

CHICAGO, November 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Pro-Life Action League applauded the American Catholic bishops today for reiterating the Catholic Church’s constant teaching on the sinfulness of contraception in the document “Married Love and the Gift of Life,” released by the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops this week at their annual fall meeting. “The bishops said what pro-life activists have been saying for years: The ‘contraceptive mentality’ is impoverished, even sad,” commented Joseph M. Scheidler, National Director of the Pro-Life Action League. “The bishops didn’t mince words. They said, quite clearly, that ‘contraception is objectively immoral.’” “The bishops also […]

By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, November 16, 2006 (C-FAM) – Last week, a high-level panel commissioned by Secretary General Kofi Annan released a key report on UN reform. While the purpose of the report was to recommend ways to make the UN more effective, one of its major recommendations is a sweeping overhaul of the UN in order to promote “gender equality” and “women’s empowerment.” Among the top recommendations is the creation of a powerful UN “gender entity” that will make “gender equality and women’s empowerment” central to all UN activities in member states, including all development budgeting and programming. […]

By Meg Jalsevac BALTIMORE, November 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The USCCB has approved and publicized their letter, reported on previously by LifeSiteNews, entitled ‘Married Love and the Gift of Life’. The document talks of marriage as “an intimate partnership in which husbands and wives learn to give and receive love unselfishly, and then teach their children to do so as well.” The document was approved Tuesday at the USCCB’s fall meeting in Baltimore. The document is in question-and-answer format and answers questions on the topics of marital love, contraception and Natural Family Planning (NFP). The questions answered include “What does […]

By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, November 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking at a luncheon for pro-life priests organized by Campaign Life Coalition Wednesday, Quebec City Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Primate of Canada, said that the International Eucharistic Congress set to take place in his diocese in 2008 was intentionally named to promote the pro-life cause.“The Eucharist, Gift of God for the Life of the World” is the title of the international event which Pope Benedict XVI is to attend. The Cardinal spoke of “renewal” of both the faith and of the culture of life in Canada stemming from the Eucharistic Congress. […]

By Meg Jalsevac SAN ANTONIO, TX, November 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life trend among conservative Protestants is picking up steam in the US, Newsweek reports. In 1995, David and Suzanne Bortel of San Antonio, Texas developed a website called Quiverfull.com to lend support and encouragement to couples who are totally open to as many children as God gives them. Under the name of Quiverfull, the group encourages its members to reject all forms of birth control and welcome children as “a gift and blessing from our gracious heavenly father.” The name of the group is taken from Psalm 127 […]

"further illustrates the literal bankruptcy of progressive thought and action"

Yesterday’s LifeSiteNews.com story “Wal-Mart Hits Teens with Gay Porn How-To Manual” erroneously referenced the book as being available at Wal-Mart Canada. The book is available only at Wal-Mart in the USA. Wal-Mart Canada has said “This book is not available for sale in Canadian Wal-Mart stores and we have no plans to stock it.” A corrected version of the story is posted on LifeSiteNews.com here complete with contact information for Wal-Mart USA which is still selling the obscene book.https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/nov/06111507.html

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, November 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For the first time in 12 years, Democrats have regained control of both houses of the US Congress, toppling pro-life Republican leaders with the aid of their own pro-life candidates. However, with both the House of Representatives and the Senate under their control, the liberal leadership of the Democratic Party now possesses the array of congressional powers to stifle pro-life initiatives and to advance their pro-abortion agenda. “Every chairmanship and subcommittee chairmanship is in the hands of the Democrats and in every instance where it matters” pro-life Rep. Chris Smith […]

(First published in the Straits Times - Singapore)

By Meg Jalsevac and John-Henry Westen BALTIMORE, November 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US bishops have approved and released a letter entitled “Ministry to Persons With a Homosexual Inclination: Guidelines for Pastoral Care.” The document was approved at the bishops’ meeting in Baltimore yesterday. As reported on previously by LifeSiteNews, the document treats homosexuality – carefully distinguishing between the disorder and intrinsic evil of homosexual acts and the innate dignity and value of the homosexual person. In accord with the teachings of the Church, the recent document calls homosexuals to live a life of chastity. It says “Chaste living is […]

By Hilary White  WASHINGTON, The US Catholic bishops have issued a document outlining the necessary conditions for Catholic laity to receive Holy Communion at Mass. Its purpose, the bishops say, is “to affirm clearly what the Church believes and teaches concerning the Eucharist and the reception of Holy Communion.”  Since the 2004 US federal election, the question of reception of Communion for Catholic politicians who vocally oppose Catholic teaching and vote contrary to their Catholic conscience, has been the most prominent and controversial political issue for the US Church. A number of pro-life groups, some clergy and bishops, in conjunction […]

*** UPDATE Wal-Mart Drops Gay Sex How-To Manual for Teens after LifeSiteNews.com Exposehttps://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/nov/06111703.html By Gudrun Schultz BENTONVILLE, AR, November 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A graphic sex-ed manual promoting lesbianism to teenage girls is now offered for sale by Wal-Mart in the United States. Called “irresponsible and obscene” and by the Institute for Canadian Values, the material contains explicit directions for engaging in oral/anal sexual acts. The book encourages same-sex experimentation, telling girls that only 10 percent of the population is actually heterosexual, while 80 percent is “mixed” or bi-sexual. Produced by St. Stephens’ Community House in Toronto, the book titled […]

By Gudrun Schultz CALGARY, Alberta, November 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary wants a federal commission to carefully examine the potential impact of same-sex marriage on Canadian society, before a free vote is held in the House of Commons on the issue. “Prime Minister Harper has said repeatedly that he is keeping his campaign promise to hold a free vote in the House of Commons on whether the issue of “same sex marriage” should be revisited,” said Bishop Henry in a letter to the Calgary diocese, to be released this week. “Prior to doing so, following the […]

WASHINGTON, November 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal appeals court yesterday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a pro-abortion group challenging the “Weldon Amendment.” The Weldon Amendment is a federal statute that prohibits the federal government or state and local governments receiving certain federal aid from discriminating against medical professionals who refuse to perform or refer for abortions. “Doctors and nurses should not be forced to participate in abortions against their religious beliefs or conscience.  Under the banner of ‘choice,’ the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) asserted a supposed right to do this, but the […]

ANN ARBOR, MI, November 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For the last several years, the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest laws firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan has been successfully defending the right of Christians to display nativity scenes on public property and to celebrate Christmas in public schools. This year it has asked thousands of supporters to go on the offensive-where there has been no nativity display before, ask the government for permission to erect one; where the government has allowed a religious display of another faith, ask that a nativity display be erected on the same […]

BALTIMORE, November 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The full text of the newly approved document “Married Love and the Gift of Life” is available at the link below. The document was approved by a vote of 220-11, with one abstention at the US Bishops Fall meeting Tuesday. See the full text of the document:https://www.usccb.org/laity/marriage/MarriedLove.pdf  

BALTIMORE, November 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The full text of the newly approved document ‘“Happy Are Those Who Are Called to His Supper’: On Preparing to Receive Christ Worthily in the Eucharist” is available at the link below. The document was approved by a vote of 201-24, with two abstentions at the US Bishops Fall meeting Tuesday. See the full text of the document:https://www.usccb.org/dpp/Eucharist.pdf 

BALTIMORE, November 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The full text of the newly approved document “Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination: Guidelines for Pastoral Care” is available at the link below. The document was approved at the US Bishops Fall meeting Tuesday by a vote of 194-37 with one abstention. See the full text of the document:https://www.usccb.org/dpp/Ministry.pdf 

Lyle Oberg seen as most favourable to life and family but pro-abortion Dinning leads

By Peter J. Smith JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, November 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Missouri state panel is under fire for issuing a report that blames 33 years of legalized abortion for the United States’ increasing dependence on illegal immigration. Missouri’s House Special Committee on Immigration Reform also credited “liberal social welfare policies” for discouraging Americans from working jobs taken by illegal immigrants. The report stated: “Suggestions for how to stop illegal hiring varied without any simple solution. The lack of traditional work ethic, combined with the effects of 30 years of abortion and expanding liberal social welfare policies have produced […]

Dear LifeSiteNews.com Readers, From time to time we get comments from readers about “all the bad news” that is depressing and maddening or scary and worrying. That is one perspective in response toÂsome of the most important developments in the life and family battle the world over. However, there is another, more productive and more life giving perspective. Many readers see these reports as giving opportunities for action and initiating much needed change. We are all, in our own way, soldiers or activists, or alternatively just passive observers,Âin this battle to restore a culture of life. We are praying, lobbying, […]

No pro-life judges, no abstinence-only sex ed, more human embryo stem cell research

By Hilary White SACRAMENTO, November 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of California has been asked to overturn that state’s ban on homosexual ‘marriage.’ The suit, brought by a group of homosexual activists after the state passed a ban on the practice, will go forward without its original principal litigants. Lancy Woo and Cristy Chung, described in the gay media as the “poster children” of the cause, after “marrying” illegally in San Francisco, have broken up and dropped out of the case. The suit is being brought by the three main groups, The National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda […]

By Hilary White ANCHORAGE, November 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In late September, LifeSiteNews.com reported that the editor of the Catholic Anchor, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Anchorage, Alaska, had previously published remarks on her personal website to the effect that the late Pope John Paul II was an “unbelievable misogynist.” On November 9th, the archdiocese of Anchorage published on its website a help-wanted ad for a new editor. The former editor, Maia Nolan, began work on the paper September 8th. On September 27th, the assistant to the Archbishop, Mary Gore, admitted to receiving complaints from local parishioners about Nolan’s […]

By Gudrun Schultz LONDON, United Kingdom, November 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The birth of two babies in Britain at the beginning of November marked the start of a new phase in the genetic screening of human embryos, a process condemned as eugenics by the international pro-life movement for attempting to prevent the birth of people with disabilities. Parents Catherine and Jim Greenstreet both carry a cell for cystic fibrosis, BBC News reported today. Their five-year-old daughter has the disease—her twin brother does not. The Greenstreets had their lab-fertilized embryos screened by a new process known as pre-implantation genetic heliotyping, a […]

Touted as pro-life and pro-family moderate who values his Catholic faith

Since 1992 importance of religion to Canadians declined from 61% to 39%, in U.S dropped from 83% to 63%, Muslims have by far highest belief

By John-Henry Westen SPRINGFIELD, MO, November 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Emily Brooker, a student in the Missouri State University’s School of Social Work, sued the university after being punished by a professor for refusing to lobby in favour of homosexual adoption. Only weeks after launching the suit, the university has settled out of court and disciplined the professor in question. Professor Frank Kauffman had assigned Brooker, and her classmates, to write a letter to the Missouri Legislature expressing support for homosexual adoption. She refused to do so because of her religious objections and was charged with a “Level 3 Grievance,” […]

"The impact (of the mid-term election) is strongly negative."

Social climate of the conservative country is drastically changing

By Gudrun Schultz MOSCOW, Russia, November 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A young man dressed in military gear attacked a Moscow abortion clinic in an attempt to stop his girlfriend from undergoing an abortion, Interfax reported Nov. 8. Identified as ‘Alexander’, the student from the Ulyanovsk region burst into the hospital clinic wearing camouflage gear from his army service and carrying what appeared to be a grenade and a pistol. According to reports, the man took a nurse hostage and ordered her to take him to the operating room, arriving just before the doctors began the abortion. Begging his girlfriend not […]

Whatcott responds that only facts, not hurt feelings, ought to count in law

By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, November 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some of the voters in today’s Toronto municipal electionsÂwere informed aboutÂone of the candidates for Catholic School Board Trustee from the pulpits of their churches on Sunday.ÂÂ Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic, the Archbishop of Toronto sent a letter to all parishes in the zone where renegade priest Karl Clemens is running for election to the Toronto Catholic school board.ÂÂ The letter which was read at Sunday Masses at all parishes in Toronto’s Ward 9 over the weekend reminded Catholics that “in order to run for an elective office, a priest must have […]

Experts criticize media reports for confusing legitimate treatment withdrawal and euthanasia

By Gudrun Schultz NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, November 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Adult stem cells may soon be used to treat human diabetes, after a study by U.S. researchers showed the cells increased insulin production in mice with Type 2 diabetes, and may also have aided in kidney repair. Researchers at the Tulane University in New Orleans injected human stem cells, taken from bone marrow samples obtained from adult donors, into diabetic mice with high blood sugar levels and kidney damage. Tests after three weeks showed the mice who received the human stem cells had lowered blood sugar levels. The researchers […]

By John-Henry Westen LONDON, November 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activism has led singer Elton John to call for the banning of all religion. In a discussion last August with Jake Shears of Scissors Sisters and published yesterday by The Observer Music Monthly, Elton John said: “I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many Christian people I know who are gay and love their religion . . . From my point of view I would ban religion completely, even though there are some […]

The proportion of Canadian 65 or over will go from 13% today to 25% by 2040

By Peter J. Smith BALTIMORE, November 11, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Next week the US Catholic Conference of Bishops will discuss a new document on ministry to homosexuals, however a number of Catholic medical psychologists and psychiatrists have raised objections that the proposed document is fundamentally weak and ignores useful scientific facts concerning homosexuality. The document, “Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination: Guidelines for Pastoral Care” was prepared by the bishops’ Committee on Doctrine and has been under development since the fall of 2002, and intends to “assist bishops in evaluating existing or proposed programs and ministerial efforts” for those […]

Despite Election Day Setback, Pro-Life Campaign Continues in South Dakotahttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/afa/92006b.asp A Democratic Win: So What Does It Mean? – This will be a challenging new Congress for pro-family Christians.https://www.cwfa.org/articles/11824/CWA/misc/index.htm Politicians are at their best when acknowledging defeat – Peggy Noonanhttps://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110009221 Don’t Despair – Strong justices can still be confirmed.https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjMzMzRmNzQ1NTUyY2NjNzBjYWE4ZWQ4ODE3YWZkOGU= Archbishop Raymond Burke comments on passage of Amendment 2https://www.archstl.org/commoffice/2006/releases/11-08-06-statement.pdf Gingrich Sees Hope for Conservative Agendahttps://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/11/10/122845.shtml?s=ic Rabbi Praises Interfaith Effort That Kept ‘Gay Pride’ Parade Off Jerusalem Streetshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/afa/102006c.asp Borat: Repulsive Comedy Sells, but Can We Afford the Price?https://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/afa/102006f.asp Unscripted Profanity OK on News Programshttps://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000003018.cfm Restoring ‘Christmas’ doesn’t redeem Wal-Mart, critics sayhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52898 Corporate […]

Pro-life leaders call for removal of diocese support and Catholic name from Centre

Initial two-thirds support for measure was brought down to 51% at time of vote

LOS ANGELES, November 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Student government of Orange Coast College in California, voted 3-1 this week to eliminate recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance from its weekly meetings. According to news accounts, student Board member Jason Ball, a self proclaimed atheist, called the flag salute” irrelevant to the business of the student government, and referred to a 2002 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on a possible “church-state conflict.” Ball, wearing black boots, a beret and a hammer-and-sickle pin, was quoted as saying, “Nationalism is something that divides people.”   Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel […]

Seen by many as means of bypassing democratic process

By Gudrun Schultz MEXICO CITY, November 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mexico City lawmakers voted to approve legal recognition for same-sex civil unions Thursday, in the first legislative decision favoring homosexual couples to take place in the strongly Roman Catholic country, the Associated Press reported today. The measure stops short of permitting same-sex “marriages”, instead allowing homosexual couples to register with civil authorities and giving them spousal benefits and inheritance rights. The civil union bill will also be extended to heterosexual couples who are not legally married.  The bill was passed by a 43-17 vote in the Mexican City assembly. Opposition […]

By Gudrun Schultz JERUSALEM, Israel, November 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The long battle over Jerusalem’s Gay Pride parade came to a surprise end yesterday, as organizers were forced to finally cancel the event one day before its scheduled date. Security concerns, amid relentless pressure from the Orthodox Jewish community against the event, were cited as the reason behind the last-minute cancellation. “A lot of people are very happy because a level of purity has been returned to Jerusalem,” said Rabbi Yehuda Levin, of the Rabbinical Alliance of America, Mercury News reported. “The holy city of Jerusalem now breathes a sign […]

By Gudrun Schultz OTTAWA, Ontario, November 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Religious leaders from faith communities across Canada have joined together in a coalition urging Parliament to restore the traditional definition of marriage, issuing a joint declaration on Thursday appealing to MPs to support the coming Parliamentary vote on reopening the issue. “To ensure that future generations do not lose the distinctive and fundamental institution of marriage, we appeal to the members of the Parliament of Canada and to all Canadians to reconsider the decision to redefine marriage and to work together to re-establish in law and public policy the historic […]

By Gudrun Schultz VATICAN CITY, November 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The gay pride parade scheduled to take place in Jerusalem today will be a “serious affront” to faithful Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Holy City and around the world, the Vatican said in a press release Wednesday. “With regret it was learned that,…on November 10, a so-called ‘demonstration of homosexual pride’ is due to take place in Jerusalem,” the statement said. “The Holy See expresses its intense disapproval of this initiative, because it constitutes a grave affront to the feelings of millions of Jewish, Muslim and Christian believers who […]

By John-Henry Westen   LONDON, November 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK Royal Mail unveiled its new Christmas stamps this week to a chorus of disapproval from the Church of England and several Christian leaders. Not one of the six new stamps carried any religious symbolism identifying ‘the reason for the season’. A Church of England spokesman told the UK Daily Express: “Last year they came up with some very innovative designs which reminded people of the true meaning of Christmas, so we welcomed it. “We regret that they haven’t carried on. I am sure lots of Christians will regret […]

TORONTO, Nov. 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campaign Life Catholic has reported a strong response to its Ontario-wide questioning of candidates for Catholic school board trustee in Monday’s elections. Well over 100 hundred candidates have responded with all pro-life responses to the questionnaire. CLC also lists 10 other candidates who have given conditional or otherwise unacceptable responses. Campaign Life Catholic also reports that three Toronto councillor candidates have completed the questionniare for councillors by giving fully pro-life answers. They are Francis Nunziata, Rocky Gualtieri and Tony Ciufo. See the Ontario Municipal Election page at https://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/elections/municipal/2006/

The God vacuum: America and the barbarian hordeshttps://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52770 The GOP: Cutting out the “Middle” Man? ..the candidates who didn’t see the importance of marriage and family in 2006 are all out of a jobhttps://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU06K10 Archbishop Burke: Catholics must create culture of life after election losshttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8019 RNC chairman a closet ‘gay,’ charges Bill Maher – Some in Washington have charged White House and Congress are run by “Gay Republican Mafia.”https://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52877 Democrats ‘to control US Senate’https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6131122.stm Jihad Finds a Strange Advocate: “La Civiltà Cattolica”https://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=95604&eng=y Controversial “politically correct” version of the Bible published in Germanyhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8025 U.S. Ambassador to U.N. John Bolton may be […]

Opening oral arguments heard yesterday on 2003 Partial Birth Abortion ban

Results Have Remained Consistent over Five Years of Polling

British media has ignored careful and measured rationale of document and blasted it as similar to radical Islam.

Would "put women's empowerment and gender equality at the centre of the work of the United Nations"

Bush approved the distribution in August to consternation of conservative base

Attorney General Kline defeated by opponent who received large campaign contributions from notorious abortionist

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Â- Dr. JamesÂÂDobson – Focus on the Family “Laura Ingraham said it best. When Congressional Republicans wait until the First of October to begin reaching out to their base, they are destined to lose. That was the GOP’s downfall. They consistently ignored the constituency that put them in power until it was late in the game, and then frantically tried to catch up at the last minute. In 2004, conservative voters handed them a 10-seat majority in the Senate and a 29-seat edge in the House. And what did they do with their power? Very little that Values Voters care […]

Dear Readers, The results of yesterday’s U.S. elections were sobering to say the least – much worse than many within the pro-life, pro-family movements expected. The Iraqi war quagmire that the U.S. finds itself in certainly was a large determining factor, although not the only factor. The one bright light was the passage of constitutional bans on same-sex marriage in seven more states. Five of those bans even included a ban on granting same-sex unions any marriage rights, which represents a strengthening of these state constitutional bans to protect marriage. After the dust settles, there will undoubtedly be a lot […]

By Hilary White VICTORIA, The United Church of Canada, in a bid to boost its ailing and aging membership, is initiating a $10.5-million project that includes advertisements for magazines, community newspapers and on the Internet featuring a bobble-head Jesus doll, and references to gay “marriage.” One ad shows a wedding cake statuette with two grooms and the caption, “Does anyone object?” Another ad features a photo of a bible filled with coloured post-it notes labelled, “agree” and “disagree”. The ad featuring a bobble-head statue of Jesus has the caption, “Funny (or) Ticket to hell.” The church has set up a […]

By Gudrun Schultz LONDON, United Kingdom, November 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Heart attack victims will receive stem cell treatment using cells taken from their own bone marrow, in a breakthrough new technique scheduled to begin trials January in two London hospitals, the Daily Mail reported yesterday. In research being carried out at University College London Hospital and Barts and the London NHS, Patients suffering a heart attack will undergo regular treatment of an angioplasty to remove blockage to an artery, and then will receive an injection into the artery of stem cells harvested from the bone marrow in their hip, […]

By Gudrun Schultz PORTLAND, Oregon, November 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Physician assisted suicide in the state of Oregon will be officially referred to as “Death With Dignity” from now on, the Oregon Department of Human Services has decided. Responding to pressure from the pro-euthanasia organization Compassion & Choice, the DHS initially agreed to change “physician assisted suicide” to “physician assisted death,” part of an effort to employ “friendlier” language by the movement, in order to gain more public support. Pro-life organizations fought the language change, however, saying it was a deliberate attempt by the pro-euthanasia movement to manipulate public opinion. […]

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, November 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Moments after the hearing of oral arguments in the partial-birth abortion case before the United States Supreme Court today, a pro-life lawyer involved in the case is predicting a “major victory”. Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), said that he is convinced the ban on partial birth abortion will be ruled constitutional. The ACLJ has filed amicus briefs in both cases before the Supreme Court – including one on behalf of some 80 members of Congress – including the sponsors of the federal ban […]

By Hilary White   PIERRE, South Dakota, November 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The voters of South Dakota have narrowly rejected a comprehensive ban on abortion that was passed overwhelmingly by the legislature and signed into law last year. A consortium of abortion advocates had brought a petition to have the law put to a public referendum. The vote was 45 to 55% against the law.   The South Dakota plebiscite had been closely watched in anticipation of the Supreme Court case against the federal partial birth abortion law set to start today. Many pro-life advocates had hoped that the South […]

A Step Back for Life in the United States

By John-Henry Westen COLORADO SPRINGS, November 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin all approved bans on homosexual ‘marriage’ yesterday. Arizona, however, became the first state to vote down a constitutional ban on homosexual ‘marriage’. Thus far, 27 states have approved such bans. Including the seven states listed above which approved the measure, the following states have approved the measure: Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Nebraska, Missouri, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio¸ Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana¸ Arkansas¸ Georgia¸ Kentucky¸ Mississippi¸ Texas¸ and Alabama. The successful marriage protection amendments won yesterday in Idaho, South Carolina, […]

By John-Henry Westen BAKER, Oregon, November 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Voters in California and Oregon narrowly rejected measures to require that abortionists inform the parents of minors 48 hours prior to an abortion. In both states the measures were rejected by a vote of 54-46%. Proponents of the measure argued that a girl as young as 12 can be taken from school for an abortion without her parents even knowing. “Child predators are taking advantage of this situation to cover up their crimes, including statutory rape,” said one campaign release. Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, the California Teachers Association (CTA) spent […]

By John-Henry Westen KANSAS CITY, November 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A deceptive campaign funded with tens of millions of dollars by a company which stands to profit from the measure has succeeded in having Amendment 2 passed. The measure permits embryonic stem cell research and human cloning to be conducted in the state. Efforts by pro-life activists in Missouri to disabuse the public of the false information proved narrowly unsuccessful as the Amendment passed 51-49%. The approval makes Missouri the second state after New Jersey to approve human cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). The public was moved to […]

Virginia Voters Pass Marriage Amendmenthttps://www.cnsnews.com/ThisHour.asp#Virginia%20Voters%20Pass%20Marriage%20Amendment An hour-by-hour guide to tonight’s results.https://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110009204 ‘Record’ IVF baby born from an embryo deep-frozen for 13 yearshttps://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C13509-2436945%2C00.html Shortages in both low- and high-skilled labour threatening China’s economic boomhttps://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=7688 Australian Senate OKs cloning embryoshttps://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061107/aussie_embryo_061107/20061107?hub=Health The hidden cost of ‘choice’https://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=47b8406d-8d86-4959-b822-45cd43763047 New York Plan Provides Freedom Of Gender Choicehttps://www.tbo.com/news/nationworld/MGBPET1U7UE.html Expert shocks parents with teen drug use numbershttps://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=9548&z=3&p= Christ is dumped from Christmas stampshttps://express.lineone.net/news_detail.html?sku=678 The Pope and the Prophet – Finally, a leader has spoken about the real, essential differences in the struggle between the West and Islamhttps://www.crisismagazine.com/november2006/reilly.html Most still wary of liberalshttps://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=cd3ac2be-ea4d-45b6-994d-c8db2bfd1f95 Haggard bares his soul in note […]

By Hilary White LONDON, November 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of researchers at Kings College London and the North East England Stem Cell Institute (NESCI) are applying to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) for permission to attempt to create hybrid embryos made from cow and human genetic material. HFEA, one of the most permissive national regulatory agencies in the world, said it has not yet received the application but has been asked before for permission to create human/animal hybrids. In January this year, Professor Ian Wilmut, the cloning researcher who created Dolly the cloned sheep, applied to […]

Says bill would disproportionately effect "straight people and sexual minorities"

By Hilary White  WASHINGTON, November 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speculation is mounting in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s expected ruling on the partial birth abortion ban. CNN wonders aloud if the appointment of two new Justices by President Bush, John Roberts and Samuel Alito will tip the scales away from its previous abortion support. Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear the partial birth abortion ban case and both sides of the abortion debates are watching closely.  The 2005 appointment of Roberts as the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was taken by many as a signal that the Court […]

Fundraising Luncheon with Bill Clinton Tomorrow at noon

Says we are in "period of rapid, systematic and consistent dismantlement of democracy"

By Gudrun Schultz MARSASCALA, Malta, November 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Malta’s leading pro-life organization is lobbying Members of Parliament to alter the constitution so unborn children are granted constitutional rights, the Times of Malta reported Sunday. While abortion is illegal in the Catholic country, the Gift of Life foundation believes the law may change without a constitution guarantee of protection for the unborn. “We do not want it to be used as a political card and that is why we want the Constitution to be changed now,” Gift of Life spokesman Paul Vincenti told The Times. “We want to urge […]

*** Please note that the Vatican Press Office has indicated that the speech it released in the name of Pope Benedict XVI, reported on below, was in fact a speech by Pope John Paul II which was not delivered. Pope Benedict’s remarks to the Swiss bishops are to be published tomorrow. By John-Henry Westen VATICAN CITY, November 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a meeting this morning with Swiss Bishops, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of “the advance of secularization and of relativism.” Beyond a drop in Sunday Mass attendance, he said, these trends mean “that the moral values proposed by the […]

By Hilary White  ST. LOUIS, November 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Archbishop of St. Louis, Missouri has announced that four priests, previously suspended upon credible accusations of sexual abuse, have been permanently removed from the ranks of the priesthood. The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has dismissed the men at the request of Archbishop Raymond Burke. All four, James A. Funke, James L. Gummersbach, Bryan M. Kuchar, and Michael L. Seidel, had already been suspended from their priestly functions, meaning that “they were forbidden to function or represent themselves in any way as priests.” Three of […]

By John-Henry Westen CAMDEN, NJ, November 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Bishop of Camden New Jersey, has a double doctorate. Most Reverend Joseph A. Galante, is a doctor of canon law, and a doctor of Divinities. In a letter to the faithful last week the bishop expounded on a statement made by Cardinal Ratzinger just prior to his election to the pontificate which has often been used wrongly to suggest that Catholics may support pro-abortion politicians because they agree with them on issues other than abortion. In a 2003 letter to the US Bishops’ Conference, then Cardinal Ratzinger wrote in […]

By Gudrun Schultz TOPEKA, Kansas, November 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Notorious Kansas abortionist Dr. George Tiller has been accused of regularly performing late-term abortions on grounds of “maternal depression,” in a report broadcast by Fox News Nov. 3. Fox television host Bill O’Reilly, on Friday’s edition of The O’Reilly Factor, said a “source inside” told the show that Tiller performs late-term abortions when a patient is “temporarily depressed”, in an interview with Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline. “Our information says that on almost every medical sheet—and obviously we have a source inside here—it says ‘depression’, O’Reilly told Kline during the […]

By Hilary White TEL AVIV, November 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an announcement on the weekend, the Israeli Attorney General has given the green light to the upcoming controversial Gay Pride parade, despite the growing protests of police over fears for public safety. Protests in Jerusalem and elsewhere have resulted in property damage and a synagogue has been desecrated by unidentified vandals. Thursday morning, unidentified persons smashed windows of the Geulat Yisrael synagogue in Tel Aviv and sprayed graffiti reading, “If we don’t march in Jerusalem – you won’t walk in Tel Aviv.” Police in the upscale neighbourhood of Tel […]

His Opposition to Michael J. Fox's Stem-Cell Ads

Significant donations have been made to politicos who support their research

Previous LifeSiteNews story exposed Pimental's abortion militancy but she still remains on staff of Catholic Univ.

By Gudrun Schultz LONDON, United Kingdom, November 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com ) – Britain’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology has put forth a proposal calling for the active euthanasia of babies born with serious health problems, the Times reported Sunday. One argument the doctors are using is that the possibility of killing newborns after birth will reduce “late abortions”. The college is arguing that medical advances which allow severely disabled babies to survive more often and with longer life spans make the option of “active euthanasia” necessary for the wellbeing of families. “A very disabled child can mean a disabled […]

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Other provinces also encouraged to do pro-life evaluations of candidates during their next municipal elections

By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, D.C., November 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court today asking the court to expedite its decision on whether to hear a case involving a California high school student prohibited from wearing a T-shirt at school expressing his biblical views on homosexual behavior. “The opportunity of students to exercise their First Amendment rights should not be lost because the students graduate before the court rules,” said ADF Senior Counsel Gary McCaleb. “One of our clients has already graduated and the other will soon. We hope […]

Youths could be questioned on sexual activity, no matter why they went to see the doctor

By Hilary White WASHINGTON, November 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Coalition of American Nuns (NCAN), has issued a U.S. voters’ guide promoting acceptance of homosexuality, abortion, “gay marriage”, and adoption of children by homosexual partners. The organization is also a strong proponent of women’s ordination and numerous leftist causes. NCAN, which in various reports is said to represent anywhere from 500 to 1200 U.S. nuns, was founded in 1969 by prominent dissident Sister Margaret Traxler of the congregation of Notre Dame. Sr. Jeannine Gramick, another Notre Dame nun, and co-founder of the gay friendly New Ways Ministry, is currently […]

JEFFERSON CITY, November 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This week over two dozen experts in science, medicine, law and ethics released an open letter to news media and the people of Missouri on the state’s proposed ballot initiative known as Amendment 2. They conclude that “the people of Missouri should know what they are actually voting on. Amendment 2 creates a constitutional right for researchers to engage in human cloning. Efforts to deny this are misleading and deceptive.” The signers include experts in embryology, microbiology and maternal/fetal medicine, as well as past and present members of the President’s Council on Bioethics […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL, November 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week, the Florida Supreme Court declined to consider a Wiccan group’s challenge to a state sales tax exemption. Earlier this year, the high court agreed to take the case and heard oral arguments from both sides regarding the Wiccan’s objection to a sales tax exemption for Bibles and other religious items. Liberty Counsel, a law firm which works for religious liberty, filed a brief with the Florida Supreme Court defending a state law that exempts Bibles, religious publications and ceremonial items from sales tax. In a 6-1 decision, the Court found no […]

By John-Henry Westen SALERNO, IT November 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archbishop of Salerno, Gerardo Pierro has announced publicly that a medically inexplicable cure of a lung cancer victim is a miracle which will move late Pope John Paul II closer toward being declared a saint in the Catholic Church.“There is medical proof otherwise I wouldn’t have dared bring up the case. The recovery has lasted – a year and a half later, the inexplicable remains confirmed,” Archbishop Pierro told the Il Mattino newspaper Thursday. After the lung-cancer victim was diagnosed with the dreaded disease in 2005, his wife prayed […]

By Gudrun Schultz LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, November 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Young Christian couples are re-thinking contraceptive use and biblical teaching on human sexuality, in response to a growing awareness of the social damage caused by the sexual revolution, a foremost leader in the U.S evangelical community told Christianity Today last month. Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., is a theologian and ordained minister, serving as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the leading educational institution of the Southern Baptist Convention. He said Christian evangelicals are questioning the effects widespread reliance on birth control has had on society. “In the first […]

By Gudrun Schultz PHOENIX, Arizona, November 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Phoenix diocesan newspaper, with endorsement from the bishop, is urging area Catholics to petition for an end to abortion clinic funding by the local branch of one of the largest breast cancer foundations in the country. The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation donated $25,000 to Planned Parenthood of Central and Northern Arizona, after the fundraiser Race for the Cure raised $1.8 million last month. The money was designated for programs providing “breast health education and early cancer detection in Coconino, Gila, Maricopa and Yavapai Counties.” The diocesan newspaper […]

Pray for the Electionshttps://www.citizenlink.org/fnif/A000002844.cfm How Should Catholics Vote? https://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=2&art_id=34861 A Liberal Congress Could Spell Disaster for Conservative Judicial Nomineeshttps://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000002861.cfm If the GOP loses the Senate, precedent shows that more than 60 Bush judicial nominees will never get a Judiciary Committee hearing -Â Cal thomashttps://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2006/11/02/the_2006_choice Congressman Defends Life and Purityhttps://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000002875.cfm Why Does Wisconsin’s Proposed Marriage Amendment Forbid Any Legal Status Substantially Similar to Marriage?https://www.constitutionallycorrect.com/archive/2006/11/02/190.aspx Missouri, Don’t Get Egg in Your Facehttps://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OThiMzdhOGI0M2M0YjZmZmIwNmI2OWM3MGU5ODc2NDM= The Family Lies of Doc Hollywood Michael J. Fox https://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU06K03 Ohio School District Accused of Discriminating Against Religious—Except Muslimshttps://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/afa/22006d.asp Pa. Letter Carrier Attacked by Squirrelhttps://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/02/D8L51GN00.html Woman sells her eggs on […]

Threatened population control targets appear to be real concern

Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical facing 400 suits over serious illnesses and death

2nd degree murder charges may be laid

TOPEKA, Kansas, November 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a press release issued yesterday, Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline announced that he is now in possession of the 90 hotly disputed medical records subpoenaed from two Kansas abortion mills, Planned Parenthood and George Tiller’s Women’s Health Care Services. The files were received by the Attorney General’s office a week ago and are now being examined by criminal investigators and prosecutors. Kline was granted the subpoenas for the records in his investigation into allegations of the concealment of child rape and illegal late-term abortions after Judge Richard Anderson found that there was […]

By John-Henry Westen MADISON, WI, November 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Robert C. Morlino is a man of courage. The 59-year-old who has been a bishop for seven years, serving the last three in the diocese of Madison, has taken steps to ensure that his teaching on voting in favour of life and family get transmitted to the faithful. After hearing reports of “isolated cases” of priests refusing to convey, or even publicly contradicting, the bishops’ messages on these important topics, he went to the extraordinary step of ordering all of the priests in his diocese to play a recorded […]

CHICAGO, November 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week, Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Jim McKay described (homosexual) Chicago man Nicholas Gutierrez’s “ferocious” 2002 murder of a pious, 51-year-old Catholic mother of four, Mary Stachowicz, saying he also raped Mary in addition to stabbing, strangling and beating her, then stuffed her bloody body in a crawl space under the floor of his apartment. “There is a monster in the courtroom today,” McKay said, describing how Gutierrez stabbed Stachowicz so many times that he bent the tip of his hunting knife. Gutierrez then allegedly wrapped her body in sheets and covered her […]

Chin's wife not confident court ordered retrial will be conducted fairly

By Gudrun Schultz South Dakota, November 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A South Dakota law that would have required doctors to tell women that abortion would end the life of a unique human being was blocked Monday by the St. Louis federal appeals court. The 2005 law required doctors to inform women seeking abortions, in writing, that theÂÂÂ procedure would “terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.” Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North and South Dakota filed suit against the state legislature shortly after it was passed, saying the law would infringe on doctors’ First Amendment rights. The […]

Concerns using either ethical cell lines or cell lines, both new and existing, from aborted babies

By John-Henry Westen JOLIETTE, QC, November 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Diocese of Joliette has issued a press release after the mainstream media erroneously reported that the Vatican had given permission for a Catholic priest who supports abortion and homosexual ‘marriage’ to run for public office. Both a Canadian Press story, published in several papers, and a CBC story claimed that the Vatican granted Fr. Raymond Gravel special permission to run for politics. Gravel is representing the Bloc Quebecois, a separatist party which is also known for its support of abortion and homosexual ‘marriage’. The first line of the press […]

Editorial by John-Henry Westen As if Canada was not embarrassed enough by the childish antics of some Liberal politicians . . . – Liberal (former) MP Carolyn Parrish who stomped on a Bush doll, called him a “moron” and referring to Americans said “I hate those bastards” – Liberal MP Belinda Stronach, who was just named as the mistress in a divorce settlement, has said that women’s groups which do not support abortion should not receive government funding –  Liberal (former) MP Hedy Fry claimed falsely in the House of Commons that racism crosses were burning in Prince George British […]

A Diabetic on Michael J. Fox and Missouri Amendment 2

Wesley Smith charges media deliberately ignore advancements using adult stem cells

Largest group of Internet porn viewers are children between ages of 12 and 17

There may be more abortions in country each year than the annual birth rate of 230,000

By Gudrun Schultz WARSAW, Poland, November 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Poland’s government has stopped short of attempting to ban all abortions in the Roman Catholic country, despite efforts by the League of Polish Families to introduce legislation offering protection to unborn children under all circumstances, including in cases of rape or threat to the health of the mother. Brothers Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who together head the strongly-conservative government in coalition with the League, indicated they would not considering reopening the issue of abortion, in statements to the media reported by TVNZ.com October 28. “I am for keeping the status […]

Issue has caused citizens across Scotland to rally around the fire fighters