Articles for Month: March 2007

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

‘Race for Cure’ Continues Funding Planned Parenthood  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000004246.cfm   Abortion and embryo manipulation tools of economic progress causing society’s death, say bishops  https://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=8861&size=A   Mexican bishops say votes will not change the Church’s fundamental respect for human life  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8993   Abortion: A case of missing perceptions  https://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhilHarris/2007/03/28/abortion_a_case_of_missing_perceptions   Promising Non-Embryonic Stem Cell News (What, You Missed The Coverage In The MSM?)  https://newsbusters.org/node/11702   AP on Polish Abortion Protests: ‘Ultraconservative’ Catholics vs. ‘Young People’  https://newsbusters.org/node/11696   Democrat-Led Congress to Reconsider Equal Rights Amendment  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004241.cfm   Gay Media Watchdog Honors New York Times  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000004248.cfm   N.H. House Kills Marriage-Protection Amendment  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000004249.cfm   […]

Assert nations legally bound to change constitutions and penal codes to incorporate homosexual rights

Pro-abortion former US President Bill Clinton at speak at Detroit event

By Gudrun Schultz   WARSAW, Poland, March 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Polish citizens turned out in a massive show of support  for a proposed constitutional amendment to protect the unborn from the moment of conception—as many as 20,000 people joined in a March for Life in Warsaw March 28, according to organizers’ estimates. Police reports showed about 4,000 participants, according to a report by Polish Radio.   Two proposals have been put forward to amend the constitution and ban all abortions.   Introduced by the League of Polish Families, the first proposal would explicitly provide constitutional protection for life “from […]

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

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 […]

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

California “Elder Suicide Rates Sound Alarm” – By Wesley J. Smith  https://www.centerforajustsociety.org/press/article.asp?nav=publications&pr=2185   House Dems Pushing for Largest Tax Increase in History – Pro-family experts say tax hike would devastate families  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000004233.cfm   Values Voters to Gather in Washington  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004231.cfm   Former senator Rick Santorum predicts McCain presidential campaign will ‘fade’  https://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/03/former_senator_predicts_mccain.php   Suit against US faith-based federal grant recipient dismissed  https://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/03/suit_against_faith-based_feder.php   Gore ignores real ‘planetary emergency’  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54875   Moral Decline, the Media, and Natural Law  https://www.catholicity.com/commentary/shaw/moraldecline.html   Study on Day Care Hits Close to Home  https://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU07C16&f=WX06L01   Parents Warned to Keep Kids Home from School on Gay ‘Day […]

Bill includes many exemptions because of successful past challenges to similar law

Republicans cast the 3 dissenting votes while 7 Democrat members supported measure

Studies have shown that adult bone marrow cells are universally compatible

By Hilary White   HAMILTON, Ontario, March 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hamilton’s McMaster University pro-life student group, LifeLine, is working hard to bring the message of the sanctity of life to students, faculty and the community at large. After the successes of last year’s project, Lifeline will be hosting a visit March 29 from the Silent No More campaign in which those who have lived through the trauma of abortions demonstrate and talk about their losses and healing.    Silent No More will be present for two gatherings, one at 12 noon and again at 1:30pm in the Student Centre. […]

Motion said to have been "imposed from top down" by delegates not representing views of members

At one school 5 teachers said to have 'outed' themselves as homosexuals

4th World Congress of Families May 11-13 to form united front against liberalism and secularism

Says Bishop's silence makes him "complicit in my sister's murder"

Unusually large slate of upcoming activities for Campaign Life Coalition

HLI and Cardinal Newman Society say "The Daniel Maguire scandals must end"

By Peter J. Smith   WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether a child pornography law passed in 2003 violates First Amendment protections of free speech.   The PROTECT Act of 2003, which penalizes those advertising, promoting, presenting, distributing, or soliciting material containing or purported to contain illegal child pornography, was struck down by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals as overbroad and impermissibly vague. “Non-commercial, non-inciteful promotion of illegal child pornography, even if repugnant, is protected speech under the First Amendment,” the federal court decreed.   The court argued that […]

By Hilary White   RIVIERE DU LOUP, Quebec, March 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In Monday’s election, Quebecers are sending a message that the province’s admiration for leftist government paternalism, as well as the advance of homosexual politics, is nearing its end.   Openly gay Andre Boisclair’s separatist Parti Quebecois has suffered its most resounding defeat in its recent history while the moderately conservative Action democratique du Quebec, headed by Mario Dumont of Riviere du Loup, surged from five seats to 41 and will replace the PQ as the official opposition.   Of the Quebec National Assembly’s 125 seats, the PQ […]

By Meg Jalsevac   BRITAIN, March 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A recent study printed in the British Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care suggests that nurses should be legally permitted to perform early, surgical abortions as long as a licensed doctor is in charge – but not necessarily actually present.  The authors of the study claim that their conclusions are based on a new interpretation of the current Abortion Act in Britain and the ensuing case law.   The study was performed by consultant gynecologist Vincent Argent and Lin Pavey, a nurse and former clinic manager of the […]

Organizers disappointed with poor Catholic showing at demonstration

Editorial

By Hilary White   OTTAWA, March 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A panel of legal experts and MP’s told an audience at Carleton University that Canada does not now and never has recognized a constitutional right to abortion. The panel was hosted by the recently formally established campus pro-life students’ group, Carleton Lifeline.   Canadian Catholic News reports that the March 21 event was attended by Liberal MP Tom Wappel (Scarborough Southwest, Ont.); Janet Epp Buckingham Laurentian Leadership Centre director; Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott (Saskatoon-Wanuskewin, Sask.), co-chair of Parliament’s pro-life caucus.   Liberal MP Tom Wappel described the so-called “constitutional right to abortion” as […]

By John-Henry Westen   ROME, March 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a homily delivered Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI stated, “Jesus came to tell us that He wants us all in heaven and that hell – of which so little is said in our time – exists and is eternal for those who close their hearts to His love.”   The warning about hell comes in the context of love.  In fact, it is because of God’s love that He warns us about the possibility of eternal separation from Him.  God is, “above all, love,” said the Pope.  “If He hates […]

By Gudrun Schultz   MONROE, Michigan, March 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Students at Jefferson Middle School have won protection for the right to speak out against abortion on school property, after a federal judge issued a permanent injunction on March 26.   Student Michael Amble-Lucas was forbidden by school officials to hand out pro-life information to his schoolmates between classes—the student was participating in the “Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity held on Oct. 24,” a student-led effort to inform other young people about the damage caused by abortion. The pro-life ministry Stand True sponsors the international event, with students at […]

By Gudrun Schultz   TOPEKA, Kansas, March 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Notorious late-term abortionist George R. Tiller may yet face criminal charges, after a resolution that would force Attorney General Paul Morrison to file charges against Tiller passed quickly through a House committee yesterday.   The House Federal and State Affairs Committee approved the resolution that would see Tiller charged with carrying out criminal activity at his Topeka abortuary. Among accusations raised against the abortionist are charges of illegal late-term abortions—an investigation into Tiller’s record resulted in 30 misdemeanor charges, accusing him of conducting 15 illegal late-term abortions in 2003 […]

By Gudrun Schultz   SCARBOROUGH, Ontario, March 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Liberal MP Tom Wappel, a strong pro-life supporter throughout his lengthy political career, announced his retirement from politics on Friday.   Mr. Wappel held his Scarborough Southwest riding for six terms since being elected Nov. 21, 1988. At 57, Wappel said he didn’t feel the drive necessary to undertake a seventh political campaign. “I just didn’t have the heart to go through another election campaign. You have to want it. I was just getting tired,” he told Scarborough’s The Mirror. “It’s difficult but it’s time.”   Throughout Mr. Wappel’s […]

By John-Henry Westen   GENEVA, March 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “The first right of children is that of being born and educated in a welcoming and secure family environment where their physical, psychological and spiritual growth is guaranteed, their potential is developed and where the awareness of personal dignity becomes the base for relating to others and for confronting the future.”  The statement was made during a March 23 address by Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi C.S., Holy See (Vatican) permanent observer to the United Nations at Geneva, who spoke during the 4th session of the Human Rights Council.   Archbishop […]

PHILADELPHIA, March 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to two researchers, the largest random sex survey ever conducted has reported that only 1.4% of adults engaged in homosexual behavior.  Analyzing a 2003 Canadian Community survey of 121,300 adults, Drs. Paul and Kirk Cameron told attendees of the Eastern Psychological Association Convention that 2% of 18-44 year olds, 1% of 50 year olds, and only a third of a percent of subjects 60+ considered themselves homosexual. Thus homosexual activity was much more common among younger adults.  “What happened to the older homosexuals? Some may have ceased to be sexually active,” said Paul […]

* Note: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.   Anti-Religion Elton John Holds Birthday Bash in Episcopal Cathedral  https://www.nypost.com/seven/03252007/news/worldnews/eltons_bday_simply_divine_worldnews_elizabeth_wolff.htm   Texas Bill would pay women to pick adoption, not abortion   https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA032307.08A.abortion.36898bf.html   Scientists create a sheep that’s 15% human  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=444436&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=&ct=5   Bishops urge Nicaraguan Supreme Court to maintain pro-life laws  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8956   Russian Orthodox priest subsidizes women for not having abortion  https://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=2792   Jesus, the woman, and the family   https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=105074   Ave Maria University’s Beginning Is Marked […]

Illustrates some of the issues that children face in the wake of homosexual adoption

Praises legislation, that will penalize Christian moral teaching, for having a "civilizing effect" on society

Say bill would create an "official climate of bias," against homosexuals

Results proved true regardless of quality of center-based care they received

By Gudrun Schultz   VATICAN CITY, March 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Europe’s rejection of its traditional Christian identity is leading to its imminent disappearance from the world stage, Pope Benedict XVI said in an address to a congress of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) on March 24. ”n demographic terms, it must unfortunately be noted that Europe seems set on a path that could lead to its exit from history,” Pope Benedict XVI stated at the event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome on March 25, 1957, which […]

Local paper says secrecy intended to avoid confrontation with pro-life demonstrators

By Peter J. Smith   COLUMBIA, March 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The South Carolina Legislature ratified a constitutional amendment Thursday banning same-sex “marriage” and civil unions overwhelmingly approved by voters in November.   The amendment was approved by 78% of voters and reads, “A marriage between one man and one woman is the only lawful domestic union that shall be valid or recognized in this state.”   South Carolina was among 7 states that approved constitutional bans against same-sex “marriage” in November. Only in Arizona did voters reject a marriage amendment because it went beyond banning same-sex “marriage” and civil […]

By Gudrun Schultz   March 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nations around the world observed the “Day of the Unborn Child” yesterday, established in growing ranks of countries as an official day of recognition for the unborn. The date coincides with the Christian celebration of the feast of the Annunciation, marking the incarnation of Christ in the womb of the Virgin Mary.   The movement originated in El Salvador in 1993 as the “Day for the Right to be Born,” and has since spread to include multiple countries in South and Central America, as well as the Philippines and Australia.   […]

By Hilary White   LONDON, March 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – 23 of the 26 Anglican bishop members of the House of Lords absented themselves from Wednesday’s vote on the Sexual Orientation Regulations, a result that has earned them the wrath of the Christian laity of the Church of England. The bishops of Southwell and Nottingham, Winchester and of York attended.   Early this week, Anthony Archer, a Synod member of the Crown Nominations Committee, addressed a letter to the bishops saying that their relevance as members of government was at stake in the vote.   Yesterday Archer told a Church […]

By Peter J. Smith TOPEKA, Kansas, March 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Kansas legislator has filed a complaint claiming judicial misconduct against a district judge, who failed to disclose his financial ties to the state’s most notorious abortion provider before tossing the 30 misdemeanor charges against him.   State Sen. Tim Huelskamp, R-Fowler, has alleged District Judge Paul W. Clark committed judicial misconduct in the investigation of abortionist George Tiller, who was under investigation by then-Attorney General Phil Kline for illegal late-term abortions, failures to report properly the details to state health officials, and failure to report suspected child sexual […]

By Hilary White  INDIANAPOLIS, March 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Indianapolis Colts’ coach Tony Dungy, who led his team to a 29-17 win in the Super Bowl XLI, has announced his support for a bill that would ban “gay marriage” in Illinois.    Dungy gave witness to his faith at a March 20 banquet organized by a pro-family organization, Indiana Family Institute where he was given the “Friend of Family” award for his strong Christian example.    He said at the banquet that he supported the Institute’s efforts to amend the Indiana constitution to define marriage as between one man and […]

By Gudrun Schultz   STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A one-person committee appointed by Sweden’s government recommended Wednesday that same-sex couples be given all the rights of marriage, the Associated Press reported March 21.   While the country permits homosexual civil unions under legislation passed in 1994, same-sex marriage is not allowed. “Two men or two women should be able to wed, and in the future be called spouses,” said Hans Regner, who carried out the commission. “All the rules for heterosexual spouses will be applied also to homosexual couples.”   Under the proposed legislation, same-sex couples already […]

By Hilary White   LONDON, March 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As traditional family supporters feared, the English Catholic Church’s longstanding policy of tacit support for the homosexual movement backfired against efforts to stop the Sexual Orientation Regulations legislation in the House of Lords on Wednesday.   In late January, while the Catholic Church in Britain was making headlines objecting to the Sexual Orientation Regulations on behalf of Catholic adoption agencies, Archbishop Vincent Gerard Nichols of Birmingham let it slip in an interview with the BBC that British Catholic agencies had been adopting children to homosexual singles for years.    The only objection, […]

By Gudrun Schultz   DENVER, Colorado, March 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – General Peter Pace deserves respect for saying homosexual acts are immoral, Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said in his column this week in the Denver Catholic Register.   The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Pace received heavy criticism from the media and homosexual activist groups, as well as some members of Congress, for his comments last week against homosexuality.   In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Gen. Pace said, “I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral […]

By Gudrun Schultz   TEXAS, March 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US bishops of the Episcopal Church have rejected the ultimatum handed down by primates of the worldwide Anglican Communion to cease promoting homosexuality by September 30 or face expulsion.   In an announcement late Tuesday night, the US bishops said they would not follow the primates’ requirement that they permit traditionalist congregations to operate under conservative bishops, an attempted compromise set up during the recent meetings in Tanzania to deal with the growing rift over homosexuality in the US church.   Accusing the primates of trying to drag the […]

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, March 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a rare move, a committee of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has openly criticized a professor at a Catholic university who styles himself a ‘Catholic’ theologian.  Professor Daniel Maguire of Marquette University has been a dissident on the issues of abortion, homosexual marriage and contraception for many years.   LifeSiteNews.com reported in 2001 that Maguire made headlines with a paper he wrote which claimed falsely that the Catholic Church supported embryonic stem cell research.  That piece entitled “Abortion Debate Clouds Stem Cell Issue” caused many to write Maguire’s then-Archbishop, […]

* Note: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSitNews.com. They are presented only for your information.   Ave Maria College Student Resports on Student Uproar over Dismissal of Fr. Fessio  https://www.spiritdaily.com/fessioletter.htm   Homosexual Practice Trumps Religious Belief  https://www.christianpost.com/article/20070320/26421.htm   Reaction to general illustrates culture war  https://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070320/COLUMNISTS0202/703200304/1119/COLUMNISTS   What about the Morality of Homosexual Behavior?   https://www.cwfa.org/articles/12601/BLI/dotcommentary/index.htm   Clinics Recruit Surrogates to Provide Kids for Gay Couples  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004169.cfm

By Hilary White   AUSTIN, March 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Emilio Gonzales has been given a reprieve by a restraining order to prevent a Catholic hospital from removing his respirator in ten days, as planned. Officials at the hospital have agreed to continue his care until at least April 10.   The hospital’s decision came after Emilio’s mother, Catarina Gonzales filed a restraining order to require the hospital to continue her infant son’s treatment, which consists of a respirator and feeding tube. She hopes the extra time will be sufficient to find another hospital willing to continue Emilio’s care but […]

By Peter J. Smith   PHILADELPHIA, March 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A US district court judge stuck down a 1998 law passed by Congress against Internet pornography that made it a crime for commercial website operators to let children under 18 view pornographic materials.   Senior U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed Jr., who presided over the four-week trial last fall, ruled in favor of the American Civil Liberties Union that the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (COPA) violated a constitutional right to free speech.   The judge ruled that while the law intends to protect children from commercial pornography, parents […]

Sexual Orientation Regulations Pass House of Lords

By John-Henry Westen   LOS ANGELES, March 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New research has again shown the grave danger of homosexual sex acts to the human body. The grave health risks associated with such dangerous sexual behaviours is one of the prime reasons why society as a whole should oppose homosexual acts, doctors have told LifeSiteNews.com under condition of anonymity.   A study which appears in the February issue of the International Journal of STD & AIDS, has found that “HIV-positive men who have sex with men are up to 90 times more likely than the general population to develop […]

By Peter J. Smith   ZITTAU, Germany, March 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A German court in the eastern province of Saxony has revoked custody of five children from their homeschooling parents, placing the fate of the children into the hands of the Jugendamt, the local youth welfare office.   The Christian Broadcasting Network reports the court ordered the Jugendamt, an organization created by National Socialist chancellor Adolf Hitler in 1939, to retain custody of Rosine, Jotham, Kurt-Simon, Lovis and Ernst, the children of Bert and Kathrin Brause of Zittau, until they are returned to public school.   Although the children […]

By Gudrun Schultz   RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, March 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Legislation under consideration by the Brazilian Senate that would make any public expression of opposition to homosexuality a crime poses a serious threat to religious freedom in the country, a legal expert warned earlier this week.   Bill 122/2006 would change federal anti-discrimination laws, the Brazilian Penal Code and the Consolidation of Labor Laws to make “discrimination or prejudice of gender, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity” a criminal offence. Conviction would result in prison sentences of between two and five years.   Dr. Zenóbio Fonseca, a […]

By Gudrun Schultz MEXICO CITY, March 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Church leaders from Mexico City’s  Roman Catholic, Anglican and Greek Orthodox churches joined together this week in denouncing a proposed law that would allow abortion in the capital city area—Mexico City is a federal district with its own legislature. “A human law can legalize abortion, but it will always remain an absolute immoral act,” said Father Hugo Valdemar Romero, communications director for the Archdiocese of Mexico, in a statement March 21. Entitled The Church Has Not Been Defeated, the statement condemns attempts by civil leaders to shut the Church out […]

By Gudrun Schultz   MONTPELIER, Vermont, March 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vermont House of Representatives voted against a proposal yesterday that would have made the state the second in the country to permit physician-assisted suicide, following Oregon.   House members voted 82-63 against the measure euphemistically entitled “Patient Choice and Control at End of Life,” after a week of impassioned debate on the issue, the Associated Press reported. The legislation would have made it legal for a doctor to assist a patient with a terminal illness to commit suicide by prescribe lethal medication. “In my view, (the bill) goes […]

Warning that changing definition of death will eventually lead to organ harvesting from disabled

The Achilles’ Heel of Condoms – Chastity and Fidelity Proving More Effective   https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=104734   Pope: Church and Society Need the Handicapped  https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=104801   French euthanasia doctor convicted, but avoids jail   https://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/16/content_5857971.htm   Liberal media pushing for Gen. Pace’s forced resignation   https://www.afa.net/kincaideditorial.htm   Russian society must oppose gay pride parade – Metropolitan Kirill  https://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=11693361   Vatican prodding German bishops on abortion counseling?  https://cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49953   Mexican lawmakers debate legal abortion   https://cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49960   The Church Will Not Be Hannitized  https://hli.org/sl_2007-03-16.html   ‘Heroes’ who kill unborn babies  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54757   Why high pensions mean low birth rates  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=501   Keeping children […]

* Note: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSitNews.com. They are presented only for your information. Polish public split on pro-life amendment, poll finds   https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49985 Massed February 2008 Primaries Dangerously Favor Candidates With Huge Pockets By Paul Weyrich  https://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulWeyrich/2007/03/21/massed_february_2008_primaries_dangerously_favor_candidates_with_huge_pockets   Earlier Primaries Might Limit Debate – Family issues would get less attention, pundits say  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004168.cfm   South Carolina Lawmakers Propose Ultrasounds Before Abortions  https://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=47984   Catholics Descend on Tiller’s Abortion Mill for 72 Hours of Prayer  https://www.christiannewswire.com/index.php?module=releases&task=view&releaseID=2539   ‘Anti-Catholic’ Pelosi Accused of Promoting ‘Culture of Death’  […]

Pulls Funding from Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinics

Concerns that provinces could follow example of some US states and mandate vaccine for young girls

By Hilary White   CHICAGO, March 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Answering questions about priests who do not sufficiently support the Church’s doctrine on the right to life, Chicago’s archbishop, Francis Cardinal George, called the attitude of some pro-life advocates “judgemental.”   Speaking at a crowded pro-life conference sponsored by the Archdiocese, Cardinal George said on the issue of pro-abortion politicians receiving Communion, “Maybe you should talk to Pope Benedict XVI, who gives communion to the pro-choice Prime Minister of Italy. You have to look at a lot of things. It’s not all that simple.”   The diocesan newspaper, Catholic New World, quotes the […]

By Peter J. Smith   WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A former US congressman and colleague of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has called the Speaker an “anti-Catholic” leader within the Catholic Church for embracing abortion and publicly flaunting her Catholic credentials at the same time. “She’s just the latest and maybe the most dangerous leader in the long campaign by anti-Catholics within the Church who mislead Americans, get elected and advance the culture of death,” said Robert K. Dornan in an article for the March-April edition of Celebrate Life magazine.   Dornan, a pro-life Catholic congressman from […]

Hospital Ethics Committee decides that keeping child alive is an "assault" on his human dignity

By Hilary White   WARSAW, March 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On March 20, LifeSiteNews.com reported that a woman who had been denied an abortion in Poland had sought and won damages against the Polish government in the European Court of Human Rights.   The decision, say pro-life leaders, is another effort by European ideologues to pressure Poland to admit to the existence of a “right” to abortion.   Ewa Kowalewska, President of the Forum of Polish Women, called the Court’s decision, “the greatest legal curiosum in court history of the European Council.”    The court ordered the Polish government to […]

By Gudrun Schultz   ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey, March 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Filthy conditions and unsanitary equipment at one of the state’s busiest abortion centers led to a state-ordered closure late last month, a report from health department officials has revealed   The Metropolitan Medical Associates was shut down Feb. 24 after state health officials discovered “immediate and serious” health risks during an investigation into conditions at the facility.   Forceps crusted with “brownish blood-like residues,” rusted crochet hooks used to remove IUDs, and a thick layer of dark red “dirt and debris” beneath an exam table were among the […]

Admitted to regretting her three divorces, and condemned abortion

By Hilary White   London, March 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An open letter signed by lay members of the Church of England, has been addressed to their bishops to say that a vote for the Sexual Orientation Regulations this week in the House of Lords would be to undercut the relevance of the presence of the Anglican bishops in the Upper House.    The letter bluntly tells the Anglican bishops to show up for the vote and vote against the Regulations. “Given the great significance of this vote, many people would understand that the responsibility that bishops undertake as members […]

By Peter J. Smith   UNITED KINGDOM, March 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amnesty International (AI) members in the United Kingdom narrowly reject making abortion advocacy a part of Amnesty’s human rights mission according to a newly released consultation report.   Amnesty International’s UK branch (AIUK) initiated a consultation from September to February 2, 2007 to gauge whether its members would be receptive to including abortion in a policy on Sexual and Reproductive Rights (SRR).   Many in AI have expressed concern that embracing abortion would unnecessarily compromise the organisation’s human rights mission. Both the Catholic Church and pro-life advocates have […]

Editorial  By Steve Jalsevac   LONDON, March 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – British Conservative leader David Cameron has voted with the Labour government in favour of the controversial Sexual Orientation Regulations. Cameron’s behaviour on this issue has been a great disappointment to some.   In his first speech as party leader to the House of Commons in Dec. 2005 Cameron said his plans included, “re-civilising our society, with school discipline, with strong families, and with cultural change.” He added that society is not the same thing as the State, decrying Labour’s “command and control state,” which minutely regulates nearly every aspect […]

Tory leader Cameron voted for measures that will severely impact religious and conscience freedoms

SAN FRANCISCO, March 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of San Francisco (USF), a Catholic college, features on the front page of its website a festival that includes at least two films that promote abortion and same sex marriage, and a report by four USF nursing students that includes recommendations for contraceptive use.   The 2007 Human Rights Film Festival (March 19th – 21st) is sponsored by USF’s Office of the Provost, College of Arts & Sciences, Gender & Sexuality Department, University Ministry, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Caucus among others.   One of the films presented, […]

Response to pressure for legal human cloning and embryonic stem cell research

By Meg Jalsevac   POLAND, March 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Court of Human Rights handed down a 6 – 1 ruling today which demanded that Poland compensate a mother who claims she was refused an abortion based on discrimination due to her sex and her visual disability.   Poland’s current laws only allow for the unborn child to be killed in its mother’s womb in cases of rape, when the child is seriously malformed, and when the health of the mother would be in grave danger were she to carry the child to full term.   Tysiac claims […]

By Gudrun Schultz   REGINA, Saskatchewan, March 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Civil Liberties Association unexpectedly entered a battle for freedom of speach on the abortion issue last week,  acting as intervenor on behalf of a Saskatchewan nurse sued for demonstrating against abortion.   The CCLA filed an affadavit declaring that the organization backed the rights of pro-life nurse Bill Whatcott, who in 2004 was fined $15,000 and given a 45-day suspension after the Saskatchewan Licensed Practical Nurses Association Discipline Tribunal found him guilty of two counts of professional misconduct for picketing in front of Planned Parenthood Regina. PPR […]

Editorial by John-Henry Westen Editor  LifeSiteNews.com   In his latest public document, Sacramentum Caritatis, Pope Benedict XVI has reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s teaching that validly married Catholics who get divorced and remarry are not to be given Holy Communion.  “The Synod of Bishops confirmed the Church’s practice, based on Sacred Scripture,” wrote the Pope, “of not admitting the divorced and remarried to the sacraments, since their state and their condition of life objectively contradict the loving union of Christ and the Church.”   It is a hard teaching, but a necessary one since, for Catholics, communion signifies a unity of […]

1. Please note that in a March 7 story, the title and lead erroneously stated that a judged ordered penal charges against a homeschooling mother.  Rather the judge penalized the homeschooling mother as the story indicates.  We regret any inconvenience this error has caused.   See the corrected story online here:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/mar/07030703.html   2. A March 16 story erroneously indicated in the headline that a bill signed by the Colorado governor mandated Catholic hospitals to provide an abortion drug to rape victims. The bill instead mandated the hospitals to give information about the drug to rape victims.   See the […]

By Peter J. Smith   VIENNA, March 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new museum dedicated to abortion and contraception opened this week in Vienna, cataloguing a history of human effort through the ages devoted to suppressing or destroying the next generation of human life in the womb.   According to Deutsch-Welle, abortionist Dr. Christian Fiala, chairman of the International Association of Abortion and Contraception Specialists, conceived the idea of building a museum dedicated to the history of his profession in the city where he has directed an abortion/family planning clinic for the previous 10 years.   Fiala’s museum is divided […]

If new legislation passes, even seminaries would not be allowed to disqualify active homosexuals

New book by leading dissident published by Novalis Press, official publisher of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

By Gudrun Schultz   ROME, Italy, March 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Biblical condemnation of homosexual activity is unmistakable, and forms the foundation of the Roman Catholic Church’s insistence on heterosexuality, said a leading Biblical scholar with the John Paul II Institute in Rome.   In a two-part interview with Zenit News Agency, Father Jean-Baptiste Edart discussed the biblical teachings on homosexuality. Fr. Edart is co-author of Clarifications sur l’Homosexualité dans la Bible” (Clarifications on Homosexuality in the Bible), published by Editions du Cerf.   Citing texts from both Old and New Testament which explicitly prohibit homosexual activity, Fr. Edart said […]

Ironically lived in home for unwanted children first few months of life; later became virulent pro-abortionist

Tory memo says election could start ‘within a week’  https://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070316/conservative_memo_070316/20070316?hub=TopStories Mexican bishops call abortion and infanticide abominable crimes  https://www.theindiancatholic.com/newsread.asp?nid=6703   Polish bishops back tougher abortion law  https://www.poland.pl/news/article,Polish_bishops_back_tougher_abortion_law,id,264568.htm   ‘Sinister’ federal government speech plan to track Americans – Bill would list ordinary citizens as lobbyists, disclose all contacts with politicians  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54715   Why high pensions mean low birth rates  https://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=501   Oregon Bill Threatens Pro-Life Centers  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004156.cfm   US television media predictably gang up on General Pace for remarks about homosexuality  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54728   The Crime of Conviction — General Pace and Morality  https://www.catholicexchange.com/node/59978   Liberal media pushing for Gen. Pace’s forced […]

By Stephen Mosher FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, March 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dinesh D’Souza’s new book, The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, has Michael Moore frothing at the mouth.  For D’Souza’s thesis is that Moore and others of his ilk have “fostered a decadent American culture that angers and repulses traditional societies, especially those in the Islamic world, that are being overwhelmed with this culture.”  Moreover, they are “waging an aggressive global campaign to undermine the traditional patriarchal family and to promote secularvalues in non-Western cultures.”  Thus they are—in part—responsible for the rise of Islamic […]

By Hilary White   KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Miss Jamaica World 2006 has announced that she will relinquish her beauty pageant crown after becoming pregnant rather than have an abortion. Sara Lawrence wrote in a statement, “Having taken a deeply personal decision to face up to my responsibilities as one who expects to become a mother later this year.”   The 21 year-old Lawrence is an alumna of Immaculate Conception High School, and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology with an emphasis on Pre-Medicine from Randolph-Macon College, Virginia.   She wrote, “I believe with all […]

By Gudrun Schultz   WASHINGTON, D.C., March 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama entered the media furor yesterday over comments General Peter Pace, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made against homosexuality last week, with both issuing statements saying, “I do not think homosexuality is immoral.”   Clinton and Obama made the statements after a homosexual activist group attacked “Democratic candidates” for failing to oppose General Pace’s comments that he believes homosexuality to be “immoral.” The general told the Chicago Tribune Monday, “I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we […]

Doctors, nurses, druggists and administrative staff, judges and politicians urged to take stand

By John-Henry Westen   WASHINGTON, March 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Apparently the Democrats consider an emergency war funding bill to be an appropriate place to include funding for so-called “emergency contraception” for Planned Parenthood.  On Thursday, the Appropriations Committee in the House of Representatives was scheduled to take up a $124.1 billion Supplemental Appropriations bill to fund the war in Iraq.   Into this emergency bill Democrats have buried a provision in the bill on page 155 which specifically mentions Planned Parenthood. The bill includes technical corrections to the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) regarding Medicaid.  “These corrections: … clarify current […]

Governor Ritter, a Roman Catholic, ran as a pro-life candidate in last fall's election.

By John-Henry Westen   MONTREAL, March 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A report issued at the behest of the provincial government of Quebec directs the government to fight homopshobia and heterosexism in every sphere of public life and especially in schools.  Quebec’s Justice minister asked the Quebec Human Rights Commission to create a task force in 2005, and that group has published its report called “From legal equality to social equality: toward a national strategy to fight against homophobia”.   The report ascribes to homophobia negative consequences of what many acknowledge as problems associated with disordered sexuality.  The report says that […]

Rush Limbaugh, referenced LifeSiteNews.com on his radio show March 14  https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_031407/content/01125106.guest.html   Mother shares joys, blessings of raising a son with Down syndrome   https://www.licatholic.org/archive/030707/DownSyndrome.htm   How Giuliani’s marriages could annul his ‘08 bid  https://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/03/14/2007-03-14_how_giulianis_marriages_could_annul_his_.html   Pope Benedict XVI On Natural Law   https://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/schall_b16naturallaw_mar07.asp   Vatican paper decries abuses at Italy gay-rights rally  https://cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49833   Gay Catholic meeting to obey archbishop’s communion ban  https://www.startribune.com/614/story/1052746.html   Scottish Pro-life Project Marks 10 Years – Initiative Has Helped Over 2,000 Women  https://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=104405   Discipline confirmed for liberation theologian   https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49796   Abortion ‘right to know’ bill rejected in UK  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6450251.stm   Portuguese bishops: […]

Same Assembly voted in 2006 to legalize gay civil unions; also working towards legalized euthanasia

Cards mostly intended for post-abortion women struggling with feelings of guilt rather than liberation

PHOENIX, March 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Does God answer prayers? The answer, according to a new Arizona State University study published in the March journal Research on Social Work Practice, is “yes.” David R. Hodge, an assistant professor of social work in the College of Human Services at Arizona State University, conducted a comprehensive analysis of 17 major studies on the effects of intercessory prayer – or prayer that is offered for the benefit of another person – among people with psychological or medical problems. He found a positive effect. “There have been a number of studies on intercessory prayer, […]

Says, "We have a lot of educated fools in important positions, particularly in education, media and some in government"

Youngest Polish Parliamentarian: "Homosexual Acts" not to be presented to children as normal or healthy

By Gudrun Schultz   TUCSON, Arizona, March 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Defense lawyers for a Tucson couple accused of burying the body of a newborn infant in a back yard have filed a plea for dismissal, claiming a premature baby is not a human being.   The body of a 4lb, nearly full term baby boy was discovered buried inside two buckets, one filled with water, in the backyard of Regina Lockwood’s Tucson home, the Arizona Daily Star reported March 14.   Lockwood and friend Nicholi Grimm have each been charged with one count of abandonment or concealment of a […]

By John-Henry Westen   LONDON, March 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of the organization which represents international police forces in dealing with online child pornography has defended his permission for a representative of the adult porn industry to take part in a conference sponsored by his organization.  Last month, former Ulster Unionist Party assemblyman Dr. Esmond Birnie, criticized the conference held in Belfast Northern Ireland for having duped local authorities into supporting it financially without letting them know the adult porn industry would participate.   Jim Gamble, CEO of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre and Chairman […]

By Peter J. Smith   SANTA FE, New Mexico, March 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson intends to sign legislation within the week mandating the immunization of young girls entering the 6th grade with Gardasil, a vaccine against the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer in women. “It’s a public health issue, and I believe it’s an important step,” Gov. Richardson said Monday. “New Mexico has always been progressive on these issues… We’ve got to find ways for young women to be protected.”   The measure passed Sunday in the Legislature and would […]

Rob Crawford made personally made ethical organ donation but campaign funds going to ethically quetionable group

Parental absence leads to more opportunity for sexual predators

By Gudrun Schultz   DEEFIELD, Illinois, March 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fourteen-year-old students at an Illinois high school were told to keep their attendance at a school panel discussion promoting homosexuality a secret from their parents, Concerned Women for America reported on Christian Newswire March 13.   Students at Deerfield High School were required to attend a “Straight Gay Alliance Network” panel led by upperclassmen identified as homosexual, as part of an advisory class that promoted homosexuality. Students were also required to sign a “confidentiality agreement” before attending the session that forbade them from telling anyone—including their parents—about the panel […]

Editorial says, "start making babies"

Outside pressure said to have caused Attorney General to reverse position on commissioners

By Gudrun Schultz   NEW YORK, March 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New York Supreme Court ruled yesterday to uphold a county official’s recognition of same-sex marriages performed out of state.   Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano announced in June of last year that same-sex couples would be granted legal privileges previously reserved for heterosexual marriage partners.   Supreme Court Justice Joan Lefkowitz said Spano’s executive order to recognize homosexual marriages did not violate the state Constitution and did not conflict with the state’s high court ruling last year that banned gay marriages from taking place in the state. “It […]

Declares that "under French law, marriage is a union between a man and a woman."

Our apologies for the large number of Newsbytes today. We inadvertantly allowed them to accumulate for a week. LifeSiteNews NARAL Bullies Kroger over Abortion Drug  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004112.cfm   Rudy Giuliani hopes pro-lifers will accept a bargain and support his bid to be president. We won’t says Catholic paper  https://ncregister.com/site/article/2017   Giuliani on public funding of abortion  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALDfwXIYUX0   Jesus was no socialist, guru, or hippie, but rather the Son of God, says Venezuelan bishop  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8853   Smithsonian Institute Ousts Research Associate Open to Intelligent Design Theory  https://www.cwfa.org/articles/12548/CWA/freedom/index.htm   New Gallup Poll: Americans Not Nearly as Concerned About Global Warming as Al […]

By Peter J. Smith   WASHINGTON, D.C., March 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A congressional hearing last Thursday raised awareness on the risks to women’s health and fertility by in vitro fertilization (IVF), human cloning, embryonic stem-cell research, where experts testified the techniques and drugs involved posed unacceptable risks to women.   Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) co-sponsored the congressional briefing “Trading on the Female Body” March 8, International Women’s Day, where health experts, and a mother who lost her daughter from health complications from IVF, testified on the severe dangers to women’s lives posed by fertility […]

Local German news services have instigated news blackout on situation

Husband arrested and charged with 2nd degree murder

Those with strong Christian outlook make at least double the money brought in by explicit films

Would oppose changing the law to allow openly homosexual soldiers to serve

Editorial by John-Henry Westen Editor  LifeSiteNews.com   NEW YORK, March 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Friday, the President of Human Life International, Fr. Tom Euteneuer used his weekly column to point out the hypocrisy of Catholic celebrity Sean Hannity, one of the stars of Fox News’ Hannity and Colmes show.   Hannity had, on a show the week before, made a big deal of apologizing for having inadvertently eaten a couple of bites of a meat sandwich on a Friday during Lent.  In his column, Fr. Euteneuer pointed out that the meat incident was not sinful at all, and “If […]

"How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?" Miller asks

By Hilary White   WARSAW, March 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The people of Poland are remaining firm as the country struggles to remain steadfastly opposed to expansion of abortion. A poll by Polska Grupa Badawcza has found that a majority of Poles support strengthening the law protecting human life from conception to natural death.   52.4% of Poles would support a constitutional amendment to ban abortion and euthanasia in all cases. Currently abortion is legal in cases where the pregnancy is due to rape or incest or there are foetal abnormalities. Only 15% were definitely against an amendment.   Currently, […]

A "New World Order" With Warming "Deniers" Threatened

By Peter J. Smith   GILLETTE, Wyoming, March 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An activist lesbian couple “married” in Canada may no longer receive Holy Communion in the Catholic Church, after having been told by their pastor that their homosexual behavior and advocacy of same-sex unions prevent them from being Catholics in good standing.   The News-Record, a Gillette newspaper, reports that Rev. Cliff Jacobson, pastor of St. Mathew’s Catholic Church, informed Leah Vader and Lynne Huskinson by letter that “because of your union and your public advocacy of same-sex unions, that you are unable to receive communion.”   Rev. Jacobson […]

Charges party creating "new kind of morality devoid of any Christian principle or background"

Bishop Sgreccia, says, "Everything based on untruths is destined to damage someone, if not many people."

Government will create Justice Department Task Force on Religious Liberty

Would like to see the church take a more prominent role in secular media

By Peter J. Smith   VATICAN CITY, MAR 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI spoke to an assembly of participants involved in media and social communications at the Vatican commending and encouraging them for “your commitment to the apostolate of social communications, the importance of which cannot be underestimated in our increasingly technological world.”   The Pope addressed the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications in English noting the “fast-changing” nature of the field of social communications, the decline of the print media, and the ascendant rise of the electronic media in radio, television, and through the […]

By John-Henry Westen   LIMA, March 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Peru, a pro-life country which in 2002 officially declared March 25 the “day of the unborn child,” seems to have succumbed to international pressure to legalize abortion.  The Peruvian daily “El Comercio” reports that a directive which went into effect in February allows for “therapeutic termination of pregnancy” up to the 22nd week of pregnancy.   The directive specifies that such ‘therapeutic’ abortions are available in one of 17 different health conditions.    The policy was put in place at the main state maternity hospital Instituto Materno Perinatal in Lima.  […]

In response, Priests for Life declared March 9 a Day of Invitation to Abortion Providers

Medical professionals admit they have "helped patients die" illegally

Another example of Christian students being punished at universities for viewpoints not 'politically correct

By Hilary White   SAN LUIS OBISPO, March 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Los Angeles Times reports that San Luis Obispo police and the Medical Board of California are investigating the conduct of a transplant doctor suspected of hastening the death of a man on respirator in order to harvest his organs more quickly. Organ donor agencies are worried that the investigation could hurt the public’s perception of organ donation.   Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, a transplant surgeon with Kaiser Permanente’s defunct kidney transplant program, is being investigated for allegedly having ordered excessive doses of pain medication to speed the death […]

Report authors yielding to euthanasia pressure to cloud public debate

By Gudrun Schultz   LISBON, Portugal, March 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Portuguese Parliament approved legislation yesterday that would introduce early-term abortion on demand up to the 10th week of pregnancy, despite low voter support for the measure in the predominantly Catholic country.   Up to this point, abortions have only been permitted in cases of rape or for the health of the mother and then only to 12 weeks gestation. Under the proposed legislation abortion will be permitted for any reason within the first 10 weeks, only requiring that women observe a three-day “cooling-off” period between requesting an abortion […]

US-sponsored resolution called on states to eliminate prenatal sex selection and female infanticide

By Gudrun Schultz   NEW YORK, March 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Time Magazine’s February cover story on crisis pregnancy centers (CPC’s) was little more than a familiar exercise in pro-abortion rhetoric, say disappointed pro-life critics, offering biased reporting based heavily on interviews with the leading U.S. abortion provider Planned Parenthood.   The title of the Canadian issue, published Feb. 26, was a good indicator of author Nancy Gibbs’ lean. The story ran under the headline, “The Abortion Campaign You Never Hear About: Crisis pregnancy centers are working to win over one woman at a time. But are they playing fair?” […]

By Meg Jalsevac   WASHINGTON, DC., March 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family legislation sponsored by Congressman Lee Terry (R-NE) and Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) is expected to be introduced in both the House and the Senate today.  The new act, entitled the Parents Tax Relief Act (PTRA), would grant tax relief and monetary incentive in various forms to families who chose to have one parent remain home as a care-giver to any children under the age of 6.   The new act is similar to a previous act, also introduced by Terry and Brownback in the summer of 2005. The […]

Follows documented strategy of Right to Die societies to advance euthanasia

All categories of respondents agree media are damaging America's moral values

Lawmakers are expected to pass the measure today

By Peter J. Smith   FLORENCE, Italy, March 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Italian doctors are struggling to save the life of a baby whom they aborted after hospital pre-natal tests misdiagnosed him as deformed, a victim of the inaccuracies of pre-natal testing, which in many cases leads to abortion.   According to The Australian, doctors from the Careggi teaching hospital in Florence told the baby’s mother that two ultrasound scans had yielded a high risk of a defective esophagus. After they had aborted the child, doctors discovered that not only was the baby’s heart still beating, but that he had […]

Attorney representing harassed Christian employees warns, "If we choose to be silent, silenced we shall be"

RALEIGH, March 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thousands of citizens rallied outside the legislature in Raleigh Tuesday to call for lawmakers to allow a vote on the state marriage amendment. Observers familiar with similar events said this was the largest crowd they had ever seen on the Halifax Mall behind the Legislative Building.   Bills similar to the 2007 Senate version of the bill, SB13-Defense of Marriage, have been introduced each of the last three years, in both the House and Senate, but have been referred to a committee and have never come up for consideration in either body. A similar […]

WASHINGTON, March 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Thomas More Law Center, a national pubic interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is encouraging the public not to use the newly issued Presidential $1 Coins, which have “In God We Trust” removed from the face of the coins.   Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Law Center, commented, “It is astounding that Congress has effectively done what atheist litigants have been unsuccessfully trying to do for years—erase all reference to God from our money.”   Continued Thompson, “I encourage the public not to use the coins, and petition […]

WASHINGTON, March 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As women around the world observe International Women’s Day the women of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign are urging the United Nations and cultures worldwide to celebrate the one thing that makes women unique – the ability to nurture life and give birth.   The organization of women who publicly regret their abortions states, “It is time for people to re-consider the archaic acceptance that for women to be equal to men we must deny our reproductive gifts. The last 50 years of feminism has undermined what it really means to be a […]

By Peter J. Smith   WASHINGTON, D.C., March 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has asked supporters for $100,000 in “Coulter cash” to “fight back against the politics of bigotry” after the conservative commenter described Edwards’ as a “faggot.” However the Edwards campaign itself has perpetuated the politics of bigotry – namely against Catholics and ex-gays.   The brouhaha over the “homophobic slur” began when the provocative Ann Coulter made a joke about John Edwards at Friday’s Conservative Political Action Conference. “I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, […]

By Hilary White  ST. LOUIS, March 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In March 1856, a black slave named Dred Scott was judged by the US Supreme Court to be less than a person. Today his great, great granddaughter, Lynne Jackson, is pointing to the case as a beacon of hope that full human rights will be extended to all citizens, regardless of their age, size or degree of dependency.    The March 6, 1857 Dred Scott decision ruled that any person descended from black Africans, whether slave or free, is not a citizen of the United States, according to the U.S. […]

By Hilary White   COLORADO SPRINGS, March 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A woman who spent nearly seven years in a coma, woke up for a short time Sunday and started talking. Christa Lilly, a native of Colorado Springs, relapsed into her previous unconscious state today.   Lilly suffered a heart attack and then a stroke in November 2000 and was diagnosed as being in a “vegetative” state but with her eyes open. Like Florida’s Terri Schindler Schiavo, she is being kept alive by a feeding and hydration tube while unconscious.     During her short period of wakefulness, Lilly spoke with CBS affiliate […]

By Hilary White   SUFFOLK, Massachusetts, March 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Boston Globe reports that a Charlestown woman is suing Planned Parenthood and one of their abortionists for child support after the latter failed to kill her daughter in 2004.    Jennifer Raper, 45, is including a second doctor in the suit who, she says, failed to inform her that she was still pregnant after the attempted abortion. The suit was filed Thursday in Suffolk Superior Court and is awaiting screening before being allowed to go to trial.   The suit alleges that Dr. Allison Bryant did not “properly” abort the […]

Baby boy miraculously survived womb-scraping procedure to remove its body

By Meg Jalsevac   TRENTON, March 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Honorable Thomas Zampino of the Family Division of the New Jersey Superior Court has penalized a home-schooling mother of seven.   According to a report by Matt Bowman on the website constitutionallycorrect.com, the mother’s supposed infraction is home-schooling her children without supervision from the local school board – a right explicitly upheld in New Jersey law.   According to the court’s opinion, Tara Hamilton is the defendant in a suit brought against her by her recently estranged husband, Stephen Hamilton.  Stephen brought the suit in an attempt to force Tara to […]

PROVO, UT, March 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The first-ever study to examine the impact of materialism on marital satisfaction found that highly materialistic spouses are about 40 percent more likely than non materialistic spouses to experience high levels of financial problems, which consequently harm their marital satisfaction. What’s more, the impact of materialism held true across all in come levels. “For years there has been an emphasis on learning proper saving and budgeting techniques to avoid marital conflict over financial issues,” said Jason Carroll, BYU assistant professor of family life and author of the study (subscription required) in the new […]

Church's accusers have not done the homework or are deliberately misreporting the facts

NEW YORK, March 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The IPF (Institute for Family Policy) and 18 other organizations from around the world – all with UN consultative status presented a report last week at the 51st session of the Committee on the Situation of Women, which is taking place in the United Nations Head Quarters in New York from 26 February to 10 March.    The report addresses the situation of female children in various countries, and focuses particularly on the discrimination against them practised in many countries, including denial of the basic right to be born.   The report reveals […]

By Peter J. Smith   DES MOINES, Iowa, March 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Cancer Society has awarded Planned Parenthood a $5,000 grant to train staff to help their “patients” to quit smoking as part of a campaign to reduce cancer.   The ACS grant will expand a smoking-cessation program begun by the American Legacy Foundation to 7 abortion centers of Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa. The ALF started the program in 2005 at Polk County centers with a $23,000 grant to which the American Cancer Society contributed $3,000 in 2006.   However, STOPP International, an affiliate of American […]

By Hilary White  BOSTON, March 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Boston’s Cardinal Archbishop, Sean O’Malley has compared Canada’s eroding legal protections for religious freedom with the case of a Lexington Massachusetts father who was denied by a school his right to opt his son out of state-prescribed sex-education classes.    Cardinal O’Malley compares the Massachusetts case to the situation in Canada. He wrote, “In Canada . . . They are already seeing the many different ways that people’s religious rights are being trampled because of the redefinition of marriage.”   In 2005, David Parker of Lexington filed suit when his son’s school […]

By Meg Jalsevac   BRITAIN, March 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, the Employee Tribunal in Sheffield of South Yorkshire county, Britain informed Andrew McClintock that, despite his religious beliefs, he may not refuse to preside over adoption cases that would place a child in a home with homosexual parents.  The tribunal also ruled that McClintock had not suffered any religious discrimination, despite the fact that McClintock was forced to quit his job in order to uphold his Christian conscience.   In his case, McClintock argued that, not only did his orders compromise his Christian beliefs, but they would compel him […]

By John-Henry Westen KITSAP COUNTY, WA, March 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An ambitious and well-organized pro-life initiative bringing churches together to fast, pray and hold a vigil for the unborn outside Planned Parenthood all the 40 days of Lent has become the talk of the town and is changing hearts and minds.  Kitsap Human Life, an affiliate of Human Life of Washington has coordinated volunteers to keep vigil outside the abortion centre from 8am-8pm Monday through Saturday Feb. 21 through April 7.   In addition to fasting, prayer and the vigil, the group has undertaken 40 days of outreach.  “The […]

By Gudrun Schultz HAVANA, Cuba, March 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The family of Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet is pleading for help in securing his release from a Cuban prison, after he was sentenced to 25 years for pro-life activities and peaceful demonstrations against the Communist regime.   A Christian medical doctor and pro-life activist opposing abortion and the death penalty, Dr. Biscet was imprisoned in 2003 for “disorderly conduct” and “counter-revolutionary activities.” He had previously received a three year sentence for pro-life demonstrations, including hanging the Cuban flag upside down.   Dr. Biscet is founder and president of the Lawton […]

ENGLEWOOD, NJ, March 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com/Operation Rescue) – Two more women have come forward and told of their life-threatening abortion injuries at Metropolitan Medical Associates since news broke last week of the clinic’s closure in response to a botched abortion on 20-year old Rasheedah Dinkins that left her comatose for four weeks and unable to bear any more children. Metropolitan is one of the largest abortion mills in New Jersey, and is affiliated with the National Abortion Federation.   One of the women, Gloria Mozas, 36, is suing Metropolitan for an abortion she had in 2003. Mozas alleges that abortionist […]

By Gudrun Schultz   NEW YORK, March 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Addressing violence against women and girls must go beyond mere policy changes to look at the root reasons for the devaluing of women, stated the Vatican delegation to the 51st  session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the UN March 2. “The promotion of women will be achieved not only by the legitimate vindication of women’s rights,” the delegation stated. “With that there must also be established a fresh appreciation of authentically feminine values in the heart of our societies.”   The session is considering the […]

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., March 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a liberal watchdog group, have demanded the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) launch an investigation into the “Second Look Project”, an awareness campaign on the facts of legal abortion funded by the Catholic bishops, which it calls “an ongoing and misleading ad campaign.”   Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW, said, “Mr. Catoe should abide by WMATA’s policies and immediately remove these false and deceptive ads from the Metro system as quickly as possible.” Sloan added that the transit agency […]

By John-Henry Westen   WASHINGTON, March 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Presidential candidate Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., delivered the keynote address at a luncheon of more than 400 board members, staff and supporters of the largest homosexual activist group in the United States on Friday.  During the revealing intro and speech, Clinton is revealed as more of a homosexual activist than the activist leaders themselves, moreover she is shown to be the prime mover behind fighting attempts to preserve the traditional definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman.   The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) meeting, […]

By Gudrun Schultz   VATICAN CITY, March 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Italian doctor’s resignation from the College of Physicians in protest over the College’s failure to discipline a member involved in a euthanasia case received the praise of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Zenit News Agency reported March 4.   Dr. Stefano Ojetti resigned from his position as adviser to the College after his colleagues decided not to take disciplinary action against Dr. Mario Riccio, an anesthetist who acted against orders in unplugging Peirgiorgio Welby’s respirator, ending Welby’s life. Severely disabled, pro-euthanasia activist Welby had publicly petitioned for aid […]

By Gudrun Schultz   ST. JOHN, New Brunswick, March 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A private member’s bill that would allow provincial marriage commissioners to decline presiding at homosexual “marriages” has reignited the same-sex “marriage” debate in the province, the Telegraph-Journal reported March 3.   Conservative MLA David Alward said his proposed amendment to the Marriage Act would grant rights to commissioners who are opposed to same-sex “marriage” on religious grounds.   Homosexual activist groups have responded to the proposal with outrage, saying the legislation would grant rights to individuals who “discriminate” and would be an affront to the “equal marriage” […]

By Hilary White   LONDON, March 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After this April’s implementation of the Sexual Orientation Regulations (SOR’s), British religious schools may no longer be allowed to teach school children that the Christian viewpoint on sexual morality is “objectively true,” a government report says.   The Joint Committee on Human Rights, made up of members from Parliament and the House of Lords, has issued a report on the implementation of the Regulations recommending that religious schools be required to modify their religious instruction to comply with the government-approved doctrine of “non-discrimination”.    Although religious schools will be allowed to remain […]

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, March 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For nearly the last twenty years, on almost every day when Parliament was in session, a Catholic priest has stood, prayed and fasted outside Canada’s parliament buildings   That constant prayerful witness has gained him admirers even among those who disagree with his stands for life and the traditional family.   Last week, a Conservative turned Liberal Member of Parliament who refuses to support the right to life for unborn children and actively fought against the traditional family in backing homosexual ‘marriage’, featured Fr. Tony Van Hee on his website.    The […]

CHAPEL HILL, NC, March 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – White adolescents with high exposure to R-rated movies and fewer restrictions on their television viewing habits are more likely to start smoking than those with low media exposure, but this association is not seen in black adolescents, according to an article in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.   Past research has suggested that all U.S. adolescents, regardless of race, have a higher risk of initiating smoking as their exposure to smoking in the media increases. In 2002, smoking was portrayed in 90 […]

Social Conservatives See ‘Two Americas’   https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200703/CUL20070302c.html   Reigning in the Courts: How Do Conservatives Fight Judicial Activism?  https://www.cwfa.org/articles/12447/LEGAL/judges/index.htm   The United Nations abortion dilemma  https://www.townhall.com/columnists/JaniceShawCrouse/2007/03/02/the_united_nations_abortion_dilemma   Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History  https://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=20-01-051-b   Abortion & Richard Hays’s Moral Ambiguity  https://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=20-01-038-f   Ultrasounds hurt women… because we say so   https://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2007/03/ultrasounds_hur.php   Enabling Freedom of Conscience in Health Care by Connie Marshner  https://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/wm1377.cfm   Utah Abortion bill will return   https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660199942,00.html   Trusting Rudy Giuliani on Social Issues Is Not Sensible  https://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_15972.shtml   Renowned artist says marriage, children benefit from no television  https://afajournal.org/2003/october/1003kinkade.asp   A single lower court federal […]

Says there must be means to hold countries accountable if they do not accede to international treaties over their own laws

Special to LifeSiteNews.com by American Life League President Judie Brown   Over the last four years American Life League has sought, through advertising, public commentary, personal communications, and other means to invite the Catholic bishops of our nation to enforce a particular Church law that deals with the protection of Christ who is truly present in the Sacrament of Holy Communion.   This Church law, Canon 915, is quite specific and states:   Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or the declaration of a penalty as well as others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin […]

By Gudrun Schultz   STORMONT, Northern Ireland, March 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic and Protestant election candidates joined together March 1 in supporting an initiative to make abortion a key election issue, led by Northern Ireland’s leading pro-life group Precious Life. The effort was undertaken to counter guidelines on abortion issued by the Department of Health in January, which pro-life leaders have identified as nothing more than an attempt to introduce abortion on demand. “These guidelines state that each Health Trust must ensure that their patients have access to abortion. This means all hospitals will be required to carry out […]

By Gudrun Schultz   OTTAWA, Ontario, March 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favor of granting government funded Canada Pension Plan benefits to surviving partners of homosexual couples this week, but said retroactive payments of all unpaid benefits was not necessary, the CBC reported earlier today.   The Liberal government’s decision in June 2000 to grant same-sex benefit payouts was limited to deaths occurring after Jan.1, 1998. A class-action lawsuit filed in 2001, led by the late homosexual activist George Hislop, had demanded CPP benefits for surviving same-sex partners dating back to 1985, when homosexual […]

Told she would die from soccer ball-sized ovarian tumour if she did not abort baby

By Hilary White   HEIDELBERG, March 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Education minister, Roman Giertych, told European news reporters that Poland would not back down on plans to oppose abortion and homosexuality as enshrined rights in a future European constitution.   Speaking Friday in Heidelberg, Germany, at an informal meeting of European education ministers, Giertych told reporters that “Europe needs changes.”“Abortion needs to be banned immediately.”   Giertych also took aim at the homosexual propaganda flooding the European cultural scene, calling it the result of “unwise political correctness.”“Homosexual propaganda must also be limited so children will […]

Abortuary shut down because of "immediate and serious" health risks

Urge separating legitimate environment concerns from extremists' anti-human direction

Bishop who allowed pamphlet with abortion referral information is not supported by other bishops

Will Revenue Canada enquire about Suzuki's charitable tax status?

Criticize doctrinal and moral deviations within Spanish Church as ultimate source of poor response

Language failed to pass affirming that Bible permits sexual relations only between married man and woman

Says if euthanasia becomes legal it will be available for any reason or any purpose

Started in 1982 with 50 people - now over 10,000, including hundreds of clergy

By John-Henry Westen PORTLAND, OR, March 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “It is categorically impossible for the same person to state that he or she believes simultaneously both what the Catholic Church teaches and that abortion is just a choice,” says Bishop Robert Vasa in a column released today by the Catholic Sentinel, the diocesan newspaper of the Archdiocese of Portland and the Diocese of Baker.   Although Vasa, the Bishop of Baker, did not mention her by name, he was referring in his column to Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi specifically, and to all politicians of a similar […]

WASHINGTON, March 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic chaplain who has been responsible for ministering to patients at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center has been reinstated after proving that he had been fired for his Catholic beliefs, attorneys from Kator, Parks & Weiser, PLLC, announced today. In a February 23 decision the Merit Systems Protection Board wrote “We concur in and adopt the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s finding that the agency discriminated against the appellant on the basis of religion and retaliation for equal employment opportunity activity.”   In discussing the ruling, lead attorney Irving Kator said, “Here […]

By Gudrun Schultz   CHICAGO, Illinois, March 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered a link between vasectomy surgery and a form of dementia that usually strikes men in their 40’s and 50’s.   Known as Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA), the disease targets the language center of the brain, causing victims to have difficulty remembering and understanding words. People afflicted with PPA lose the ability to talk and understand speech, and gradually deteriorate in other areas of function until they are fully incapacitated.   Lead researcher Dr. Sandra Weintraub, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and or […]

Anti-Trafficking Coalition rep says porn industry shouldn't have veto on U.S. foreign policy

Book review of America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It

By John-Henry Westen   VATICAN CITY, March 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Papal watchers are wondering what message Pope Benedict XVI was giving when he selected retired Bologna archbishop Cardinal Giacomo Biffi to preach the annual Lenten retreat to the Pope and the top members of the Vatican.   Rocco Palmo, expert Vatican reporter for The Tablet, the international Catholic weekly published in London England has noted the significance of the selection of the Lenten retreat preacher.  “Since time immemorial—or, at least, the retreat’s heightened profile over the 20th century—the selection of the preacher has become a closely-watched indicator of the […]