Articles for Month: February 2007

PHILADELPHIA, February 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed a complaint Tuesday on behalf of a 10-year-old boy who was prohibited by his school principal from wearing a Jesus costume for the school’s Halloween parade and party because the costume was religious. Abington Township School District officials allowed costumes portraying devils and witches on Halloween 2006 but prohibited one student from dressing as Jesus. “For the school principal to censor this young student at Halloween because he was dressed as Jesus is patently ridiculous.  It’s yet another demonstration of just how hostile to Christianity public school […]

Canada’s Push for Euthanasia (Part 1)  https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=103373   Unfit to Live? – Down’s Children in the Crosshairs  https://ncregister.com/site/article/1961   Public Schools: Parental Rights in Jeopardy – By Paul Weyrich  https://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulWeyrich/2007/02/22/public_schools_parental_rights_in_jeopardy   David Suzuki is a charlatan, a shameless self-promoter who foments fear in his audience before promising them salvation—but only if they buy his miracle cure.  https://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover022207.htm   De-Populationist David Suzuki vs. Michael Crichton on Global Warming  https://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/editorialsletters/story.html?id=55f4dc45-f308-4b34-80af-011a0cf38fed   The global-warming hysterics strike again  https://www.townhall.com/columnists/WilliamRusher/2007/02/22/the_global-warming_hysterics_strike_again   Pope recognizes suffering of Archbishop Wielgus  https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49404   Italian cabinet hunting Senate votes for civil-union proposal  https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49406   Italian court recognizes marriage by phone  […]

SACRAMENTO, February 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to a report from the Campaign for Children and Families, Sally Lieber, a Democratic assemblywoman from San Jose, CA, is introducing her controversial spanking bill, in defiance of nation-wide opposition, which would criminalize all spanking of any child under the age of 4.    Lieber’s bill would require spanking of a child before the age of 4 to be treated as a class 3 misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $1,000 and/or a year in jail.  In Lieber’s own words, her bill will prohibit “any striking of a child, any corporal punishment, smacking, […]

Say Britain poised to overturn centuries of legal development in human rights

"There is virtually no area of pro-life or pro-family ethical concern which has not been made worse by the Blair government."

Gore preceded Monday by other star global warming doomsters, de-populationist David Suzuki and Sir Nicholas Stern

SAN DIEGO, February 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California Supreme Court, yesterday, affirmed the precedent-setting decision of a California appellate court, which upheld the right of the people of San Diego to transfer the Mt. Soledad veterans memorial and cross to the federal government.  At the same time, the Court denied the ACLU’s attempt to prevent the publication of the lower court decision favorable to the cross and veterans memorial.  The ACLU was seeking to have the decision suppressed so that it would not be used against them in future lawsuits.    The Thomas More Law Center, a national, public […]

By John-Henry Westen   QUEBEC CITY, February 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sparks have already started to fly in Quebec just after Premier Jean Charest announced the date of the provincial election to be March 26, 2007.  The leader of the pro-life group Campagne Quebec Vie (Campaign Life Quebec) is calling for the defeat of the current Health Minister Philippe Couillard for bringing late term abortion into the province.   In 2004, the media revealed that some Canadian women were travelling to the United States for late term abortions, when the mothers were more than six months pregnant. About 30 women […]

Safeguards in measure deemed too convoluted and potentially unconstitutional

By Gudrun Schultz   FLORIDA, United States, February 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The survival of pre-term baby Amillia Taylor, at 21 weeks gestation the youngest know child to survive premature birth, has produced an increase in media debate on the abortion issue.   Mainstream media outlets in the United States have acknowledged that the baby’s life raises “big questions” about legal abortion, . Weighing less than 10oz and just nine ½ inches long, Amillia was born one month earlier than the date considered viable for most babies, 25 weeks. About half of the babies born at 25 weeks will survive. […]