Articles for Month: March 2007

By John-Henry Westen   OTTAWA, March 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Both the Institute for Marriage and the Family Canada (IMFC), and REAL Women Canada have praised the recently released federal Conservative budget.    IMFC specifically praised the “end of the marriage penalty”. They explained, “For many years, family groups have worked to eliminate the disparity of the tax deductible amount that spouses could claim on their income tax filing.  The government is now increasing the spousal and other amounts to the same level as the basic personal amount.”   REAL Women concurred, “Increasing the spousal amount to equal the basic […]

Bishop says he "feared for my country" after listening to candidates' speeches

OTTAWA, March 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Joe Comartin, NDP MP for Windsor-Tecumseh, proposed an amendment to legislation that would have lowered the legal age of consent for sodomy to sixteen, from the current Canadian legal age of 18.   With legislation proposed by the government to raise the age of natural sex from its current 14 to 16, at the request of homosexual activists, Comartin proposed an amendment at the committee stage to “harmonize” the consent age for anal sex with that for vaginal sex; making it 16 for both. The amendment was also supported by Liberal party critic Marlene […]

By Gudrun Schultz   CACERES, Spain, March 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Abortion implicates denying the existence of the life of a human person,” concluded the first international congress on “Women and Abortion”, held in Caceres, Spain, March 8 to 10.   Organized by the Spanish Family Forum, the congress issued a report on the conclusions arrived at during the two-day session, reported by Fides News Agency.   While abortion denies the existence of “a life which must develop and become complete in autonomy,” the report stated, abortion also denies the life of the unborn child’s parents. The document warned that […]

By Hilary White   A new report by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University found that forty-nine per cent (3.8 million) of full time college students binge drink and/or abuse prescription and illegal drugs.   The study, titled Wasting the Best and the Brightest: Substance Abuse at America’s Colleges and Universities, also found that 1.8 million, 22.9 per cent, met the medical criteria for substance abuse and dependence, two and a half times the rate of the general population.   The 231-page report was completed after over four years of research and is the […]

Fr. Frank Pavone to participate again as well as star and producer of movie Bella

By John-Henry Westen   MELBOURNE, Australia, March 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. John Billings, founder of the Billings Ovulation Method of Natural Family Planning is near death according to family and friends.  Billings work has influenced millions, enabling countless childless couples to achieve pregnancy and also assist couples who needed to space children without resorting to potentially abortifacient contraception.   Rose Heron, the Canadian representative on the board of the World Organization Ovulation Method Billings (WOOMB), shared her thoughts on Dr. Billings with LifeSiteNews.com.   Dr. Billings developed the new method of fertility regulation in 1950 after it was found […]

By Hilary White   LONDON, March 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – William Wilberforce, a twenty-one year old rookie politician in the cynical, corrupt, cutthroat world of 18th century British Parliamentary politics, dedicated his life to Christ. Through that conviction, he also became dedicated to the cause of human rights, the dignity of the person and the “reformation of manners,” which we now call “changing hearts and minds”. Against incredible odds, and after decades of work, he saw his legislation abolishing the African slave trade in the British Empire pass in 1807.   Released during a flurry of events and remembrances of […]

Pro-lifer can resume counseling outside abortuary thanks to Thomas More Law Center

Second family worried police may storm their home and carry off their children as they did to the Busekros family