Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Successful in Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes

By Hilary White   CHICAGO, June 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new US study offers insights into the way stem cells from umbilical cord blood can be used to successfully treat diabetes. Researchers at the University of Florida College of Medicine studied twenty children aged between two and seven with type 1 diabetes, seven of whom were injected with cord blood cells. The researchers concluded that the study suggests that the cells “jump-start” and correct the patient’s own immune system. “This is the first attempt at using cord blood as a potential therapy for type 1 diabetes. We hope these […]
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BMA Votes to Eliminate Second Doctor Approval for UK Abortion

By Hilary White LONDON, June 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A week after it was announced that England and Wales have broken their own records for abortion rates, physician members of the British Medical Association (BMA) voted yesterday to make abortion in Britain even easier to obtain in the first trimester of pregnancy. While the doctors declined to follow the lead of some European countries in allowing nurses and midwives to kill unwanted children, they voted 189-89 to eliminate the need to consult a second doctor to approve an abortion. Under the current law, two doctors have to endorse the decision […]
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Kansas AG Brings 19 New Charges Against Tiller, Dismisses 30 others

By Peter J. Smith TOPEKA, Kansas, June 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – George Tiller, the most infamous late-term abortionist in Kansas and the United States, will finally face 19 misdemeanor charges for illegally using a physician financed by him to authorize his late-term abortions. Attorney General Paul Morrison made the announcement yesterday after sending mixed signals earlier in the week about what his office intended to do with Tiller “the baby killer”, who was under investigation by former AG Phill Kline for performing illegal late-term abortions. Morrison first announced Wednesday that he would drop 15 of the 30 misdemeanor charges that […]
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Archbishop Severs Ties with University’s Center for Marriage and Family over Sex Before Marriage Pro

By Elizabeth O’Brien   OMAHA, Nebraska, June 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of Omaha severed ties with the Center for Marriage and Family (CMF), a ministry center at Creighton University (CU), for its proposal in support of premarital cohabitation.   In the June issue of U.S. Catholic magazine, CMF director Michael Lawler and CU researcher Gail Risch wrote a proposal for the cohabitation of unmarried Catholic couples. The article says that there are two types of cohabiting couples—those that are committed to marriage, so-called “nuptial cohabitors,” and those that are not committed to marriage, or “non-nuptial cohabitors.” Quoting Pope […]
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Massive March in Puerto Rico Protests Plan to Permit Homosexual Civil Unions

By LifeSiteNews.com staff   SAN JUAN, June 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two weeks ago 20,000 Puerto Ricans took to the streets in  San Juan to protest legislation seeking to permit homosexual civil unions.  Coalicion de la Familia, the island’s largest pro-family organization, organized the march and rally and invited US pro-family activist David Parker to speak to the crowd.   In April, 2005, David Parker of Massachusetts was arrested and brought to jail after protesting the refusal of school officials to notify him when homosexuality or transgenderism was to be discused with his son in kindergarten. The incident made national news in America, […]
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“Abolish Abortion”, the Number One Wish for Canada

TORONTO, June 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leaders of pro-life organizations across Canada have been saying for decades that the majority of Canadians are not in favour of abortion on demand despite the mainstream media’s bias in favour of abortion absolutism.     Nevertheless, for many years now the abortion debate has been routinely silenced and dismissed as a ‘done deal’ in Canadian society; but when given the opportunity, it often resurfaces as one of the most poignant and impassioned national discussions. Recently, the CBC’s Great Canadian Wish List page on Facebook sparked a national debate about abortion that has been raging since its launch on May 28th.   […]
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* Disclaimer: 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.   A New (Unconstitutional) Religious Test for a Presidential Appointee? – By Paul M. Weyrich  https://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2007/070627.aspx   Will it now be necessary for a nominee to deny the teachings of his or her own church in order to be confirmed by the United States Senate?  https://www.bpnews.net/BPFirstPerson.asp?ID=25979   Only four countries in Europe offer gynecology degrees without requiring abortion  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=9752   Kansas AG Morrison Clears Planned Parenthood in Abortion Records Investigation  https://www.christiannewswire.com/news/532533501.html […]
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Ontario Government Distributes Al Gore Climate Change Film to Public Schools

By Hilary White TORONTO, June 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former US Vice President Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, criticized by many in the scientific community as a piece of environmentalist agitprop, will be distributed to schools that request it by the Ontario government, the National Post reports today. Gore has remade himself the world’s most prominent spokesman for the radical environmental movement, with his film becoming the focal point of the environmental movement that proposes human overpopulation as the central factor in “climate change.” The Ontario initiative was spurred by the donation of hundreds of DVD copies of the […]
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Catholic Vice President of Kenya Encourages African Leaders to Ratify Abortion Protocol

By Elizabeth O’Brien   NAIROBI, Kenya, June 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leaders of ten African states met at an international conference for women leaders yesterday to discuss the legalization of abortion, ostensibly in order to reduce maternal mortality, Kenya’s Daily Nation (DN) reports.   The conference centered around the controversial Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, also known as the Maputo Protocol. Part of the African charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the document calls for abortion in cases of “sexual assault, rape, incest and where the continued pregnancy endangers the mental and physical health of the […]
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Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Threatens to Cut Funding to Nicaragua Over Abortion Ban

By John Jalsvac June 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation for the Netherlands has threatened Nicaragua, saying that the country which recently banned all abortions may only receive EU and Dutch funding in the case that it reverses its comprehensive abortion ban, reports CNA. According to CNA, Bert Koenders made the remarks while addressing the Dutch Platform of Millennium Goals. “Even if an abortion is medically necessary, it still remains illegal in Nicaragua,” said Koenders, “which results in the death of women. We should emphasize that this is completely unacceptable.”   Koenders, who said […]
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Jesse Ramirez, Considered a “Vegetable” Like Terri Shiavo, Now on His Way to Recovery

By Peter J. Smith CHANDLER, Arizona, June 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Written off by doctors as a hopeless “vegetable”, an Arizona man would not now be on his way to recovery from an accident caused by a marital quarrel if not for his family’s unrelenting struggle for his life. The Arizona Republic reports that on Wednesday, Jesse Ramirez, awoke from his nearly month long persistent vegetative state (PVS) and now “can hug and kiss, nod his head, answer yes and no questions, give a thumbs-up sign and sit in a chair.” If not for the past few weeks’ legal battles […]
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Huntington Society of Canada Supports Embryonic Stem Cell Research

By Elizabeth O’Brien   KITCHENER, June 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Huntington Society of Canada (HSC), a Kitchener-based organization that is committed to finding the cure for Huntington disease, officially supports embryonic stem cell research.   A June 2002 Board Policy Decision, entitled “Stem Cells and Huntington’s Research: Where We Stand,” written by Dr. Harold Robertson, Chair of the Research Council for the Huntington Society, and Shawn Mitchell, Director of Communications, outlines the organization’s reasons for favouring embryonic stem cell research.   Posted on the HSC main website, the documents states, “One of the primary missions of the Huntington Society […]
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CORRECTION: ARTICLE ON GERMAN PASTOR LERLE RETRACTED

The LifeSiteNews.com story published Tuesday on the jailing of Pastor Lerle in Germany has been retracted after LifeSiteNews.com was informed that we were working with false information from trusted news sources.  While Pastor Lerle has in the past been jailed for anti-abortion activities his current one year imprisonment stemmed solely from charges of holocaust denial and not from comparing abortion to the Nazi Holocaust as we erroneously reported Tuesday.   My sincere apologies for this serious error.   John-Henry Westen  Editor  LifeSiteNews.com 
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RCMP Opens Investigation into Nova Scotia Woman’s Assisted Suicide

By Hilary White HALIFAX, June 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the request of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, RCMP in Halifax are investigating the death of a Nova Scotia woman at the infamous euthanasia ‘clinic’ in Switzerland, called “Dignitas.” Depending on the outcome of the investigation, charges of aiding or counselling to commit suicide may be laid against the woman’s husband, Eric MacDonald, who was with her when she died of an overdose of barbiturates in the Zurich facility. Elizabeth Jeanette MacDonald of Windsor, 38, who died June 8, suffered from severe multiple sclerosis and was confined to a wheelchair. MacDonald […]
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Proposed Council of Europe Report Calls Creationism “Dangerous,”“Threat to Human Rights”

By Hilary White BRUSSELS, June 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The French socialist politician and mathematics professor, Guy Lengagne, has written in a report for the Council of Europe’s Committee on Culture, Science and Education, that says that “creationism” and its biblically rooted Christian worldview represent a threat to human freedom and must be suppressed. But members of the European Council’s Committee on Culture, Science and Education have temporarily rejected the current draft of the report and declared freedom of thought and discussion a “fundamental value.” Titled, “The Dangers of Creationism in Education,” the report said, “If we are not careful, creationism […]
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New Zealand High Court Rules that Pregnancy is an “Injury”

By Elizabeth O’Brien WELLINGTON, New Zealand, June 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New Zealand High Court recently upheld a District Court ruling that an unwanted pregnancy, occurring after a failed sterilization attempt, is considered an “injury” to the woman’s body. The lawsuit involved a mother who “accidentally” became pregnant with her fifth child after undergoing sterilization four years ago, the New Zealand Herald reports. According to Lawyer magazine, Judge Jillian Moore mentioned stretch marks, nausea, vomiting and other signs of the physical and hormonal changes that a woman undergoes during pregnancy. Referring to these symptoms, Moore stated, “if these kinds […]
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Pope Endorses Adult Stem-Cell Research in Wednesday Audience

By John Jalsevac   ROME, Italy, June 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During the weekly Wednesday audience held earlier today, Pope Benedict expressed his approval for adult stem cell research, distinguishing adult stem-cell research from destructive embryonic stem-cell research, which the Catholic Church strongly condemns.   According to ABC News, the Pontiff made the remarks while greeting members of a conference organized by La Sapienza University about the use of adult stem cells to treat cardiac problems. “On this matter the position of the Church, supported by reason and by science, is clear,” said the Pope. “Scientific research must be encouraged and promoted, […]
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Teenage U.K. Girl Sues School in High Court for Banning Her Chastity Ring

By Elizabeth O’Brien HORSHAM, England, June 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sixteen-year old Lydia Playfoot from West Sussex went to the High Court on Friday to sue her school for forbidding her from wearing a chastity ring. The Millais School in Horsham forbade Miss Playfoot from wearing the ring last year, saying that it went against the school dress code. She explained, however, that it was a symbol of her religious commitment that people should wait until marriage before having sex. Nevertheless, the school refused to allow the ring, saying that it was not an “integral” part of the Christian religion. […]
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Louisiana Law-Makers Ban Partial-Birth Abortion

By John Jalsevac BATON ROUGE, June 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Louisiana has become the first state to ban partial-birth abortion since the Supreme Court held up a federal ban on the gruesome procedure earlier this year. Legislation that would ban partial-birth abortion in the state passed by a landslide 104-0 vote in the Louisiana House of Representatives yesterday. The same legislation was passed by a 36-0 vote in the Senate on Monday. Planned Parenthood argued against the ban, reports the ABC, but was not well received by legislators. Only one representative voted against the ban in committee and floor votes, […]
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Waterloo Catholic School Board Found Supporting Pro-homosexual Groups and Literature

By Elizabeth O’Brien WATERLOO, June 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since a complaint was first made in March, an investigation and two anonymous complaints have revealed that the Waterloo Catholic District School Board (WCDSB) is allowing a surprising amount of pro-homosexual material within Catholic schools. Jack Fonseca, Communications Director for Defend Traditional Marriage & Family (DTMF), wrote to the WCDSB Director of Education, Roger Lawler, and voiced the complaints of two concerned School Board staff who had contacted him. The first complaint regarded a Waterloo School Board memo that described a workshop for Principals and Vice Principals that would take place […]
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Hybrid Embryos Must be Given Right to Life Say UK Catholic Bishops

By Hilary White LONDON, June 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In April, the British government tabled draft legislation that proposes to allow experiments to create human/animal hybrids. Now the Catholic bishops of England and Wales have responded by saying that any embryos created by combining human and animal DNA are human beings with full human rights, including the right to natural birth. The bishops have made a submission to the parliamentary committee examining the proposed legislation and have said that the genetic mothers of these “chimeras” should be able to raise them. There are many ways of creating embryos derived from […]
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Supreme Court Rules Against “Bong Hits 4 Jesus”

By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, D.C., June 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court yesterday ruled against former high school student Joseph Frederick, who was suspended by his school principal for unfurling a large banner in public that said “Bong Hits 4 Jesus.” Frederick and a number of friends unfurled the cryptic banner as the Winter Olympic torch relay passed by his school in 2002 in Juneau, Alaska. Frederick has said that he intended to convey no definite message with the banner, but simply wanted to grab the attention of the media so as to get on television, and that the words […]
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Ohio Teachers May Refuse Dues Because of Union Abortion Support: Ohio Court

By Hilary White June 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Once Carol Katter, an Ohio teacher, had rejected the suggestion by a union official that she “change religions” in order to be able to claim the right to conscientious objection about the destination of her union dues, she took her case to court. Katter objected to the fact that teachers in Ohio must pay union dues to the Ohio Education Association (OEA), a portion of which dues goes to support abortion. Yesterday, however, an Ohio federal district court ruled as unconstitutional a rule restricting to particular denominations the right to religious-based objection to […]
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Supreme Court Sides with Wisconsin Right to Life, Overturns Key Campaign Finance Restrictions

By Peter J. Smith   WASHINGTON, D.C., June 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court loosened the muzzle placed over pro-life groups and other grassroots lobbyists by McCain-Feingold campaign finance laws yesterday, saying such groups had a constitutional right to name federal candidates up for election in broadcast ads.   In a 5-4 ruling, the Court overturned a key portion of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform laws that forced a broadcasting blackout on American citizens 30 days before a primary and 60 days before the federal elections by preventing them from naming candidates in ads.   Wisconsin Right to […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes

* 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.   Pope takes Blair to task over Iraq, abortion and stem cells  https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/the_blair_years/article1979342.ece   More than 200 votes were not enough to keep tax dollars from foreign abortion providers  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004896.cfm   Pro-Life Activists Gear Up for Fall Campaign  https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200706/CUL20070625b.html   Nuns to pray for Pope’s letter on China and full religious freedom  https://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9650&size=A   Connecticut Governor Vetoes Medical Marijuana Bill  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004888.cfm   High court upholds grassroots lobbying ads; pro-life group ecstatic  […]
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South African Nurse Continues Fight for Right to Opt Out of Abortions

By Hilary White PRETORIA, June 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A South African nurse, who in 2004 had been banned from the operating room because of her opposition to abortion, has had her case referred to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA). The CCMA is an independent juristic body established after apartheid to settle disputes using consensus and arbitration. Sister Wilhelmien Charles filed suit three years ago when the hospital she worked in as a senior nurse barred her from working when she objected to abortion on religious grounds. Her case was heard this week by the Labour Appeals […]
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Massachusetts Catholic Church Announces State-Wide Initiative to Promote Marriage

By John Jalsevac   June 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Sean O’Malley has announced that the Catholic Church in Massachusetts is launching a state-wide initiative to promote marriage in response to plummeting marriage numbers, as well as corrosion in the understanding of what true marriage is in the liberal state.   On the Cardinal’s personal blog, he writes, “We were very enthusiastic about the launching of a new statewide educational campaign on the meaning and importance of marriage and we were very glad that the bishops in the state’s other dioceses are collaborating with us in this effort. We hope […]
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New York Times Runs Column Noting Pro-Abortion Position has Led to Democrat Defeat

By John Jalsevac NEW YORK, June 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the most liberal newspapers in the country, the New York Times, has run an op-ed piece that argues that by standing immovably by the “pro-choice” position, the Democratic party and presidential candidates are alienating the fundamental voter demographic that might ensure the party victory in 2008. In a piece entitled “Why Pro-Choice is a Bad Choice for Democrats”, Melinda Henneberger (author of “If They Only Listened to Us”) points out that the common belief of the liberal Democrat—that abortion is a settled issue and is only opposed by […]
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No Theological Opposition to Homosexual Unions, but No Same-Sex Blessings:  Canadian Anglicans

By Hilary White WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At their General Synod in Winnipeg this week, the Canadian branch of the Worldwide Anglican Communion has unexpectedly voted against blessing same-sex unions by the thinnest possible margin, despite strong support for the move among the laity and clergy and many bishops. Twenty-one members of the House of Bishops voted against the motion to bless homosexual partnerings, ensuring that the motion failed by a slim majority of 21-19. The proposal had to pass all three governing Houses, including the laity and clergy, to be accepted by the Church in general. An […]
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Pro-Life Position Showing Steady Rise Among US Voters

By Hilary White LODA, Illinois, June 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study by a private opinion research firm has shown that since the height of the “abortion wars” in the 1980’s and 90’s, public opinion in the US has made dramatic changes towards the pro-life position. Christopher Blunt, co-author of the study and founder of Overbrook Research, wrote that the analysis shows a complete turnaround in the support for abortion in the last fifteen years. The study, Turnaround on Abortion, cites the debate over partial birth abortion and the move towards a less confrontational approach as one reason for a […]
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Bobby Cutts Jr. Charged with Two Murders – Girlfriend and Unborn Child

By Elizabeth O’Brien CANTON, Ohio, June 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canton policeman, 30-year old Bobby Cutts Jr., was charged today with the murder of his girlfriend, Jessie Davis. He was also separately charged with a second murder—that of Jessie’s unborn child. Davis was nearly nine months pregnant with a baby girl, due on July 3. Davis’ mother alerted the police after she found her daughter’s 2-year old son alone in a devastated apartment last weekend, the Associated Press (AP) reports. Policemen and thousands of friends participated in a week-long search for the young woman until her remains and those […]
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Majority of “Unbiased” Journalists in MSM Favor Leftist Candidates and Causes

By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, June 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Many mainstream journalists claim they are “unbiased” in their reporting, but a new report by MSNBC shows their checkbooks don’t make such distinctions and heavily favor liberal candidates and causes. The MSNBC report by investigative journalist Bill Dedman reveals that out of 144 journalists, 125 gave money to support liberal Democratic candidates and liberal political organizations. The information came from public records kept by the Federal Election Commission tallying donations made from the 2004 campaign season to the start of the 2008 season. Dedman’s investigation covered journalists from local […]
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Australian PM Bans Aboriginals from Porn in Effort to Stem Societal Collapse

By John Jalsevac SYDNEY, Austrlia, June 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For decades now Australian officials have become increasingly aware of what has been termed a devastating societal breakdown within Australia’s aboriginal communities. Earlier this month, a report came out entitled Little Children are Sacred that documented the evidence for the continuing collapse of the aboriginal communities, including widespread and ever increasing alcohol and other substance abuse, gambling and violence, amongst other things. Most disturbingly, however, the report exposed a society in which young children are frequently and brutally sexually abused, and exposed to explicit sexual behaviors from an extremely young age. […]
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Fertility Clinic Patients Prefer to Donate Left-Over Embryos to Stem Cell Research than to Adoption

By Elizabeth O’Brien   BALTIMORE, Maryland, June 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A recent survey of 1,020 American couples who visited fertility clinics shows that 60% would be willing to donate their extra embryos to destructive stem cell research.   Researchers from Duke University and Johns Hopkins University approached nine different fertility clinics throughout the United States and sent questionnaires to more than 2,000 couples, over half of whom responded, Kaiser Network reports.   Of these couples, 49% admitted that they would be willing to donate at least some of their left over embryos towards research. This number climbed to 60% […]
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House Democrats Pass Contraceptive Aid Funding for Developing Countries

By Hilary White WASHINGTON, June 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democrats in the US House of Representatives lifted a prohibition yesterday on allowing government donations of abortifacient and other contraceptives to abortion-promoting foreign aid organizations. President Bush has twice said he will veto any legislation that weakens protection for life in the Mexico City Policy. The policy dates to the Reagan administration and prohibits any funding for any purpose to abortion providers in developing countries. The amendment passed by a vote of 223-201, with 207 Democrats and 16 Republicans voting to allow the contraceptive funding. Rep. Nita Lowey, the New York […]
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Canadian Anglicans Will Not Be Excluded from World-Wide Communion Because of Same Sex Blessings

By Hilary White WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “No scenario could emerge” from any decision made by the Canadian Anglican Church this week that would prompt the church’s expulsion from the World Wide Anglican Communion says a top spokesman of the Church of England. Canadian Anglicans are meeting now in Winnipeg at their General Synod and are expected to vote in favour of the blessing ceremony for homosexual partners that has already been in use in some Canadian Anglican dioceses. Kenneth Kearon, secretary general of the Anglican Communion told CanWest News, “There’s no question the Anglican Church of […]
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Costa Rican Lawmaker Introduces Same-Sex Union Bill

By John Jalsevac SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, June 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Costa Rican lawmaker has introduced a bill that would grant homosexual couples many of the same legal privileges that are currently afforded to heterosexual married couples. “This is a bill that guarantees the respect and tolerance for couples that are of the same sex,” said bill co-sponsor, Andrea Morales, a member of the opposition party, Citizens Action Party, according to Reuters. The bill, reported Reuters, would grant privileges like bereavement leave, inheritance, and medical decision-making power. The main sponsor of the bill, however, has said that she […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes

* 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.   Abortion Supporters Have Taken #1 Spot in Facebook Wish Contest – See Right-hand Sidebar for info on how to vote  https://www.bluewavecanada.blogspot.com/   How the West Really Lost God  https://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/7827212.html   Michael Moore Espouses Jesus, Yet He Mocked the Crucifixion, Supports Pro-Choice, And  https://newsbusters.org/node/13628   The Irrationality of Richard Dawkins  https://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=776   A brilliant exploration of one of the great monsters of history – Josef Stalin  https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/mystery_of_malignity/   Networks Convey Excitement […]
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California Woman Dead After Abortion Attempt – Mother Sues

By Hilary White RIVERSIDE, California, June 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Edrica Goode died of toxic shock syndrome at the age of 21 after an abortion at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Riverside, California. Her mother, Aletheia Meloncon, has filed a wrongful death and medical malpractice suit against the abortionist group. “I’m hoping to shed light and expose the negligent and improper care my daughter received,” Meloncon said Wednesday at Schuler’s Riverside office. “I hope this sends a message to Planned Parenthood.” Goode had gone for an abortion on January 31, 2007 but was taken to hospital after developing a fever. […]
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Permanent Vegetative State (PVS) Diagnosis Often Inaccurate More Data Shows

By Hilary White RHODES, June 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – News-Medical.net is reporting on a series of studies that show a high rate of misdiagnosis and inaccuracy in patients deemed to be in a “permanent vegetative state” (PVS). The researchers say that the problem is grounds for “extreme caution” in decisions that might “limit the life chances” of patients. The pretext of a PVS diagnosis is commonly put forward by the euthanasia movement as a reason to allow euthanasia by dehydration, as in the case of Terri Schiavo.  Researchers at the University of Liège in Belgium examined data on over 5900 patients […]
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Vatican says Prostitution Does “Violence Against Women In the Area of Sexuality”

By Peter J. Smith VATICAN CITY, June 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Besides tackling Christian rules for the road with its latest “10 Commandments for Drivers”, the Vatican has demanded that the Church and the world make renewed efforts to liberate women from the violence of sex-trafficking. The “Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road” has received the most attention for its inclusion of the driver’s decalogue, but in the document-which is much broader in scope than simply tackling road rage and the like – the Vatican points out that the automobile plays a major role in facilitating modern prostitution. […]
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Archbishop Chaput: The Time for Behind-The-Scenes Diplomacy with Politicians Is Over

By John-Henry Westen   NEW MEXICO, June 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At a meeting of US Catholic Bishops in New Mexico this week, Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput spoke with the Associated Press about dealing with Catholic pro-abortion politicians in the upcoming 2008 election.  “I think being more aggressive, more assertive doesn’t in any way violate the principles we have to follow,” said the Archbishop, referring to laws regulating involvement of charitable institutions in politics.   In his remarks to AP Chaput noted that revisions were necessary in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops document on Catholic involvement in politics, […]
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Obituary Notice Leaves Evidence That Canadian Woman Was Killed at Zurich’s Assisted Suicide Clinic

By John-Henry Westen   HALIFAX, June 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Elizabeth Jeanette MacDonald of Windsor, Nova Scotia recently died at the Dignitas assisted suicide clinic in Zurich Switzerland, possibly with the help of the Right to Die Society of Canada. MacDonald, who lived many years with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), died on June 8, 2007.   An obituary listed in the Halifax Chronicle Herald on June 20, 2007 concluded: “Last, but not least, we would like to thank Herr Ludwig Minelli, and the members of Dignitas in Zurich (Bernard and “Gaby”, in particular), for helping Elizabeth deliver herself from the burden […]
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Nurses in Katrina Euthanasia Case Offered Immunity for Grand Jury Testimony

By Hilary White NEW ORLEANS, June 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nurses Cheri Landry and Lori Budo, who have admitted to administering lethal doses of medication to patients during the hurricane Katrina disaster, are being offered immunity from prosecution by the Louisiana Attorney General. CNN reports that in two weeks the two will testify before a Grand Jury that four patients died after being administered what Louisiana’s Attorney General, Charles Foti Jr., called a “lethal cocktail” of drugs. In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in late August 2005, rumours began to fly around the Internet world […]
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Portugal Offers Free Abortions for Women Followed by Mandatory Education on Contraception

By Elizabeth O’Brien LISBON, Portugal, June 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Portugal threw away some of the strictest restrictions on abortion in Europe after a new law offering free abortions up to the tenth week of pregnancy went into effect June 15, reports the International Herald Tribune. Previously, abortion was illegal except for cases of rape, incest, malformation of the fetus or if the health of the mother was seriously endangered. Abortion was only permitted up to the twelfth week of pregnancy (see https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/apr/07041001.html). At present, the new law permits abortion on demand up to ten weeks into pregnancy. Abortions can […]
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Last Minute Heroics Stave Off Homosexual Bill in Colombia

By Peter J. Smith BOGOTA, June 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A band of Colombian lawmakers rallied enough support at the eleventh hour to defeat a bill that would have given certain rights and benefits enjoyed by married couples to homosexual couples. The bill, backed by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, would have made Colombia the first nation in Latin America to provide homosexual couples rights to health insurance, inheritance rights, and social security benefits. Pro-family leaders and the Catholic Church warned that the bill was a first step toward same-sex “marriage” and homosexual adoption, which Uribe denies. However, just as the […]
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Bush Signs Executive Order Encouraging Ethically Questionable “Pluripotent Stem-cell Research”

By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, D.C., June 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While President Bush pleased pro-life advocates today by proving willing once again to defend human life by vetoing a bill that would have allowed federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, he has also left them scratching their heads after he simultaneously issued an executive order supporting so-called “pluripotent” stem-cell research. That research, some argue, is nothing more than embryonic stem cell research under a different name. The scientifically complex—and consequently, seemingly morally muddy—source of stem-cells known as pluripotent stem-cells involves “reprogramming” adult cells to act like embryonic stem-cells through a process called […]
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Gay Pride Set for Jerusalem Tomorrow; Religious Leaders Urge Prayerful Opposition Not Violence

By John Jalsevac   JERUSALEM, Israel, June 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As tension in the Holy City increases, with thousands of homosexual demonstrators set to march through the streets of the city held sacred by the world’s three major monotheistic religions, religious leaders are encouraging their followers to oppose the homosexual event peacefully, and primarily with prayer. A number of leading Rabbis have jointly issued a statement against participation in the “protests and similar events” that are taking place in Jerusalem, some of which have turned violent, reports Arutz Sheva, an Israeli news source. “We again warn regarding the gathering of […]
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Pro-life Candidate Thompson Now Leads Republican Nomination

By Peter J. Smith NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For the first time, a new poll shows leading pro-abortion Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani has lost first place in the GOP presidential running, to a pro-life and as-yet undeclared candidate, Fred Thompson. The latest Rasmussen Poll shows the former Tennessee lawmaker and actor in the TV drama “Law and Order” draws support from 28% of likely Republican voters, while Rudy Giuliani places a close second at 27%. Rasmussen reports that while Thompson’s lead is “statistically insignificant” it is the first time this year that “anybody but Giuliani has been […]
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Bush Vetoes Embryonic Stem Cell Bill…Again

By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, D.C., June 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For the second time during his presidency, George W. Bush has chosen to invoke his privilege of a presidential veto to veto a bill that, if signed into law, would lift the ban on federal funds being used for the purpose of destructive embryonic stem-cell research. Congress had already passed an almost identical bill about a year ago, which President Bush also vetoed. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized Bush for his latest veto with strong words in an e-mail sent to supporters on behalf of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, […]
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New York Daily News Promotes Pro-Abortion Language in Writers Guidelines

By Elizabeth O’Brien NEW YORK, June 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New York Daily News (NYDN), the sixth largest newspaper in the United States, uses a set of writer guidelines that favor abortion through choice of language. The paper’s writing requirements promote an anti-life mindset by instructing writers to avoid certain words when dealing with the abortion issue. The words “pro-life” and “pro-lifers”, for example, must be replaced with ‘abortion foes”, “abortion opponents” or in the case of constricted title space, “abort foes”. The positive terms “pro-life” and “pro-lifers” may be used only within direct quotations. On the other hand, […]
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Robin Williams Mocks Catholics Priests on Tonight Show

By John Jalsevac BURBANK, California, June 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Last night on the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” comedian Robin Williams plugged his upcoming movie, “License to Wed.” In the film, Williams plays a Protestant minister who forces an engaged couple to go through a grueling marriage preparatory course. But last night Williams went off on Catholic priests, painting them as pedophiles. Williams pretended to be playing a game where the pedophile is hidden under a cup, suggesting that this was an image of the Church’s attitude towards dealing with “pedophile” priests. “Here we go. Find the priest, find […]
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Toronto to American Homosexuals: “We’re as Gay as it Gets”

By John Jalsevac TORONTO, Ontario, June 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Toronto’s tourism board has launched a new campaign to attract big-spending homosexual American tourists. The catch-phrase of the newest effort to paint Toronto as the place to go for homosexuals is: “Toronto: As gay as it gets.”   According to Tourism Toronto, which has been working with Gay Marketing Advisory Group to develop the new initiative, the intention is to show that Toronto is more than simply accepting of, or friendly towards homosexuals. Homosexual activist Councillor Kyle Rae, who is playing a central role to the new strategy, said, “The […]
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American Bishop: Pro-Choice Equals No Communion For Catholics

By Peter J. Smith PATERSON, New Jersey, June 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-choice Catholics, not just Catholic politicians, must not receive Communion if they knowingly support legalized abortion says an American Catholic bishop. “By steadfastly choosing to be pro-choice, a Catholic—politician or not—excludes himself or herself from communion,” wrote Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli in the June 7 edition of the Beacon, the Paterson diocese newspaper. In his column Serratelli rebuked “pro-choice” Catholic politicians and those who “arrogantly insist that the Church does not have the right to her own teaching” and who claim a right to Communion at the same time. […]
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Men Conceived Through Fertility Treatment Have a Sperm Count Half the Normal, Danish Study Reports

By Elizabeth O’Brien COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study conducted in Denmark found that the sperm count of men who are conceived by fertility treatments is up to 50 percent lower than normal. Published in March 1 by the American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE), the study was entitled, “The Fertility Treatment and Reproductive Health of Male Offspring: A Study of 1,925 Young Men from the General Population.” The AJE explains that all 1,925 Danish participants were undergoing compulsory medical testing at the time for army fitness requirements. The volunteers were required to give both a semen sample […]
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Bill in Canadian Senate Seeks to Eliminate Parents’ Right to Use Spanking as Discipline

By Elizabeth O’Brien OTTAWA, June 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In response to a debate on spanking that took place yesterday before the Senate Committee of Human Rights (SCHR), the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada (IMFC) presented a research report indicating their disapproval of the proposed new legislation. The debated bill, S-207, would take out Section 43 of the Criminal Code (allowing spanking), thereby forbidding parents to spank their children, effectively making it criminal behaviour.  The IMFC report begins by outlining some of the evidence in favour of spanking. After Sweden outlawed it in 1979, for example, links were established […]
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* 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.   Traditional Values Coalition’s Lou Sheldon backing Romney for president  https://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/06/tvcs_lou_sheldon_backing_romne.php   Fred Thompson Record on Abortion Scrutinized  https://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/6/17/214454.shtml?s=ic   ‘Today’ Crowns Hillary as ‘Unbeatable’  https://newsbusters.org/node/13540   Partisan politics have stranded Bush appellate court nominee in the Senate Judiciary Committee – “an outrage of the first order.”  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000004858.cfm   Stem Cells, God and Caesar  https://www.zenit.org/article-19902?l=english   Full Incriminating Interview Discussing Tiller Abortion Records  https://www.operationrescue.org/?page_id=664   British body backs inter-species clones  https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070617/sc_nm/stemcells_chimeras_dc_1 […]
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NSW Parliament Threatens Cardinal Pell, Places Him Under Investigation for “Meddling” in Politics

By Peter J. Smith SYDNEY, June 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New South Wales’ Parliament has ratcheted up the heat on Sydney Archbishop George Pell, placing him under parliamentary investigation for “meddling” in the lower house’s vote on embryonic stem-cell research. Greens MP Lee Rhiannon requested that the Cardinal’s “outburst of muscular Catholicism” be referred to the privileges committee for allegedly intimidating Catholic parliamentarians by saying there would be “consequences” for their spiritual lives. “The archbishop has refused to cease his special brand of meddling,” said Ms. Rhiannon, urging the committee to move since Pell was attempting “to exert influence over […]
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Pro-Family French President Wins Majority for a Second Time, but Loses Ground to the Socialists

By Elizabeth O’Brien PARIS, France, June 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNew.com) – Recently elected French President, Nicholas Sarkozy, won the legislative elections by a wide majority this Sunday.   Polls predicted that Sarkozy’s Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) would win 470 seats out of 577 in the National Assembly, the Globe and Mail reports. The final results were not quite as high, but the party still finished with a 345-seat majority. They lost 14 seats from the 359 total in the presidential election, whereas the Socialists and their allies boosted their number from 149 to 207.   Sarkozy also suffered a […]
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Princeton Scholar Peter Singer’s “Inhuman” Views Have Him Rejected as Speaker at Noted European Conf

By John Jalsevac GNIEZNO, Poland, June 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Every so many years some of the world’s most eminent scholars and religious and political leaders meet in the Polish city of Gniezno to discuss matters pertaining to Europe, especially the uniquely European view of spirituality and the nature and dignity of man. The Gniezno Congress—which traces its roots back to the year 1,000 when Otto III arrived at the tomb of bishop martyr St. Adalbert in the city of Gniezno—is regularly attended by numerous presidents of European Countries, and, in 1997, was attended by the Holy Father John Paul […]
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BBC Report Admits Liberal Bias on Abortion

By Elizabeth O’Brien LONDON, England, June 18, 2007 (LifesiteNews.com) – After one year’s investigation, an official BBC report reveals that the BBC shows a strong liberal bias through its disproportionately large coverage of certain “single-issue” concerns. Commissioned last year by the BBC managers and board of governors, the report concludes that political events and daily news are covered fairly. The Daily Telegraph reports, however, that the agency has given a heavily biased portrayal of issues such as poverty, climate change and religion. The report also admitted that the BBC has missed some excellent opportunities and had “blind spots” in past […]
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Activist Group Asks IRS to Investigate Bishop Critical of Pro-abort Rudy Giuliani

By Peter J. Smith PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of the Diocese of Providence in Rhode Island is under fire from an  activist group that claims his recent column in the diocesean newspaper criticizing Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani for his position on abortion violated the Church’s tax-exempt status. Americans United for Separation of Church and State has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate Tobin to determine whether he violated the Church’s tax-exempt status. The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, the group’s executive director, said in a news release that Tobin “appears to […]
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Bush Praises National Right to Life Committee Conference

By Hilary White KANSAS CITY, Missouri, June 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a taped message, US President George Bush praised the National Right to Life Committee—currently meeting at their national convention in Kansas City, Missouri—as “fearless shepherds of the innocent and the unborn” and called abortion “one of the greatest moral issues of our time”. To almost 1000 members and supporters of the Committee, Bush said, “You’ve helped our citizens understand that the mark of a great nation is that it has respect for human life. You have welcomed the unborn in life and protected them in law.” Bush spoke […]
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Hillary Clinton Campaign Withdraws Copyrighted Mother Teresa Picture from Ad-Campaign

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senator Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has officially withdrawn a controversial photo featuring Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta with the then-First Lady from a campaign ad. The pro-life nun’s order, the Missionaries of Charity, directed them to cease and desist using the copyrighted image for political purposes. Sister Nirmala, the Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity, requested the Hillary for President campaign to stop using the image that appeared scandalously to link the abortion activist candidate with the order’s humble founder, who was renowned for her advocacy on behalf […]
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Ontario Premier McGuinty Visits Catholic School After Mocking Catholic Principles, Again

By John Jalsevac OTTAWA, Ontario, June 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In October of 2003 Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty visited a Catholic school only several weeks after publicly contradicting Catholic teaching on a serious matter of faith and morals by coming out in support of homosexual “marriage.” Now, only several weeks after publicly contradicting Pope Benedict on a similarly serious matter of the Catholic faith, Dalton McGuinty has again made an appearance at a Catholic school. Last month McGuinty joined the furor of dissident North-American Catholic politicians in criticizing Pope Benedict for supporting the decision of the Catholic Bishops in Mexico, […]
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Philadelphia Reverses Decision to be Officially “Pro-Choice”: Cardinal Applauds Decision

By Elizabeth O’Brien   PHILADELPHIA, June 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The City Council of Philadelphia voted to repeal the recent decision to be named an officially “pro-choice” city, Catholic News Service Reports. The original vote, which slid by at 9 to 8 only seven days ago, was overturned by a 13 to 4 vote yesterday.   Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia, issued the following statement: “I applaud the members of Philadelphia City Council who worked to rescind last week’s troubling resolution.” He said, “The members who supported today’s resolution are to be commended for reflecting carefully upon this issue […]
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* 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.   Infanticide, Abortion Responsible for 60 Million Girls Missing in Asia  https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,281722,00.html   Tiller abortion files blown open  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56164   Bill Clinton Earns $10M on Talk Circuit  https://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8POP8F00&show_article=1   Freedom, not climate, is at risk – By Vaclav Klaus  https://www.ft.com/cms/s/9deb730a-19ca-11dc-99c5-000b5df10621.html   Teachers’ free speech trumps union politics  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56178   President Bush’s Policies Save Lives in Kenya  https://www.cwalac.org/article_511.shtml   A Resurgence of Active Opposition to Federal Judicial Nominations  https://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2007/070613.aspx   Lightning Rod: […]
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CBC’s Wish List Re-Opens Abortion Debate, Infuriates Abortion Activists

By Hilary White OTTAWA, June 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) –The CBC has inadvertently allowed pro-life Canadians a voice on abortion, a rare opportunity in Canada’s largely pro-abortion media landscape. Online abortion advocates are complaining that the “Great Canadian Wish List,” a contest described by the CBC as a way for Canadians to express what they hope for the country, has been “highjacked” by “right-wingers,”“anti-choicers” and “fetus fetishizers”…in other words, Canadians wanting an end to abortion. Since abortion has been legalized in Canada, politicians and news editors have asserted that the issue is closed despite the consistent poll results showing that as […]
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Key Advisor to Cardinal O’Malley Writes Pro-Gay ‘Marriage’ Column in Boston Newspaper

By Peter J. Smith and John-Henry Westen   BOSTON, June 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Gay marriage is just another step in “natural social evolution” writes a high profile lay advisor to Boston Archbishop Cardinal O’Malley. The advisor, Peter Meade—one of seven members of Catholic Charities in Boston who resigned over the Archdiocese’s decision to ban same-sex couples from adopting—maintains his position on the committee O’Malley appointed to recommend which parishes in the Archdiocese ought to be closed. “On May 17, 2004, the day marriage was made legal for everyone in Massachusetts, we looked out our window to see – contrary […]
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Media Ignores President’s Commemoration of the Deaths of 100 Million Victims to Communism

By Elizabeth O’Brien WASHINGTON, DC, 14 June 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Tuesday President Bush condemned the past and present evils of communism during the official commemoration of a new memorial. Shaped like a woman holding a flame, the statue was dedicated in honor of over 100 million people who died within just one century as the result of communism. During his commemoration speech, the president said that the number of victims sacrificed to this ideology is “staggering”. Communism has swept through many nations, including China, the Soviet Union, North Korea, Cambodia, Africa, Afghanistan, Vietnam and Eastern Europe.  Bush commented, “Some […]
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Massachusetts Legislature Falls Five Votes Short of Allowing Citizens to Have Say on Gay ‘Marriage’

By Elizabeth O’Brien   BOSTON, June 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government of Massachusetts narrowly lost an opportunity to allow a public vote that could potentially ban gay ‘marriage’ within the state. Only 50 votes were needed for a constitutional ban of same-sex marriage to be on the Massachusetts State ballot for the November 2008 vote.  The vote today was 151 against the amendment versus 45 in favor.   According to the Boston Globe, House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, Senate President Therese Murray and Governor Deval Patrick waited until they had just enough votes to prevent the measure from going […]
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Vatican: Catholics and Catholic Organizations “Must” Withdraw Support of Amnesty International over

By Elizabeth O’Brien   ROME, June 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for justice and Peace, has called on all Catholics to stop funding Amnesty International because of its recent support of abortion.   The nearly 50 year-old human rights organization gave its official stamp of approval to abortion in cases of “rape, incest and extreme risk to the health of the mother”. However, the new policy, which AI had attempted without success to keep from the public, calls for the universal decriminalization of abortion, thereby making the AI policy effectively advocate for abortion on demand.    The Cardinal […]
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June 21 Gay Pride Parade in the ‘Holy City’ Gets Final Go-Ahead From Jerusalem Police

By John Jalsevac JERUSALEM, June 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A spokesman for Israeli police has said the police have decided to allow a proposed gay pride parade to take place in Jerusalem next Thursday, despite massive opposition from residents of the city. “Police had decided to allow a march of homosexuals in the centre of Jerusalem which will finish with a party in a public park,” said spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. Another police spokesman, however, said that it it still possible the police could cancel the event if they deemed it necessary for public safety and security.  Previously authorities had issued […]
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Faithful Christian Anglicans in US May have Alternate Structure by July

By Hilary White LONDON, June 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Anglicans who adhere to Christian moral doctrine are being offered an option that may allow them to remain in the Anglican Communion, despite pressure by homosexuals to marginalize them. The UK’s Telegraph reports that a coalition of “conservative” primates, based in Africa, is attempting to create an alternate episcopal structure to give shelter to those in the US church under siege by “progressive” supporters of homosexuality. The Telegraph reports that six Anglican primates are planning the consecration of a prominent American cleric as a bishop in order to create a parallel […]
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Massachusetts Marriage Amendment Faces Critical Vote Tomorrow

By Hilary White BOSTON, June 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Massachusetts legislators face a crucial vote tomorrow in efforts to bring forward a state constitutional amendment restoring the definition of natural marriage. In 2003, gay activists succeeded in using a court case to overturn the traditional definition of marriage. Last year, legislators voted narrowly to bring the amendment forward. On the last day of the last legislative session, the vote passed with 61 in favour and 132 against. The measure required only 25 percent, or 50 votes, of the legislature to pass. Tomorrow’s special joint session will be a constitutional convention […]
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Judge Throws out Infanticide Case at Request of Clinton Lawyer Mark Geragos

By Peter J. Smith LOS ANGELES, June 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Los Angeles judge threw out infanticide charges in a case against a USC student who dumped her newborn son into a dumpster a mere 42 second drive away from a “safe-surrender” station that could have saved her son’s life. Holly Ashcraft, a 22-year-old architecture major at the University of Southern California (USC) has stood trial since her arrest in October 2005 after DNA evidence proved the newborn’s body, found by a homeless man sifting through trash behind the 29th Street Café, was her own son. Los Angeles Superior […]
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UK Royal College of Ob/Gyn Forbids Disabled Person to Present Petition on Infanticide

LONDON, England, 13 June, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) London, today refused to let wheelchair-user Alison Davis present a petition on the infanticide of disabled babies. Officials told Ms. Davis, leader of the No Less Human disability rights group, that she could not come in because she would need someone to push her wheelchair, and the RCOG would only let one person into its London headquarters. Alison Davis, who has spina bifida, said: “It would be comical if it weren’t also tragic that the RCOG, which has asked for a debate on the killing […]
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President Bush Addresses Southern Baptist Convention Highlighting Veto of Pro-Abortion Bill

By John-Henry Westen   SAN ANTONIO, June 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. President George W. Bush addressed the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention via satellite this morning telling attendees that he very much appreciated their prayers and strong voice in the public square.  Bush was received warmly and made to wait through several bursts of lengthy applause and standing ovations as he addressed the crowd of 8,500. “Southern Baptists have committed to building a culture of life, and my administration shares that great goal,” said Bush.  “Since taking office I’ve signed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, and […]
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Church Mounts Offensive After Cleared by Mexican Government of Illegal Participation in Politics

By Peter J. Smith MEXICO CITY, June 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Mexican government has exonerated the Catholic Church from accusations of illegal interference in politics for warning Catholic lawmakers for Mexico City that they incur automatic excommunication for supporting the legalization of abortion. The victory has motivated the Church to fight to overturn a current law important to anti-life politicians trying to silence the Church’s influence in Mexico. On June 8, the Ministry of Internal Affairs ruled that Cardinal Norberto Rivera of Mexico City, and his spokesman, Father Hugo Valdemar, had not violated the Religious Associations law and Public […]
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Organization of American States Supports New Homosexual Agenda

By Elizabeth O’Brien PANAMA, June 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At a meeting presided over by Jose Miguel Insulza, the president of the Organization of American States, various representatives from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transvestite, transgender, transsexual and inter-sex (Lgbttti) groups met to discuss and seek recognition of “rights”. As the Catholic News Agency Reports, it was the first time that various activist leaders have voiced specific concerns before the OAS. Marcela Martinez, representative from the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Transsexual People described how transsexuals allegedly suffer violence and discrimination through forced medical treatments and in some cases, assassination. The Catholic […]
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“Comprehensive” Sex Education is Ineffective: Abstinence Works, Major National Study Shows

By Elizabeth O’Brien SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A major report on teen sex education, released by Dr. Stan Weed of the Institute for Research and Evaluation in Salt Lake City, shows why abstinence is the most successful method of preventing physical and emotional complications resulting from pre-marital sexual activity. His research is based on the results of many studies that have followed the education and behavior of over 400,000 adolescents in 30 different states for 15 years (see https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007_docs/CompSexEd.pdf).  The final report, entitled “Abstinence” or “Comprehensive” Sex Education? begins by pointing out the flaws in […]
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Homosexual Activist Sends Three More Bullets and 2nd Death Threat for Pro-Marriage Bishop

By Peter J. Smith GENOA, June 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, the leader of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, has now received his second death threat–3 bullets this time—from an anonymous militant homosexual activist enraged at the Catholic Church’s campaign to defeat civil union legislation in Italy. The package arrived Saturday at the Genoese Archdiocese. The first mailed threat had contained just one bullet. Police, however, told the Associated Press that they did not believe the danger to the Archbishop’s life had escalated. Parishioners, on the other hand, observed Bagnasco accompanied by four bodyguards near the altar at the […]
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Cardinal O’Brien to Britain: Let Scotland Make its Own Laws on Abortion

By Elizabeth O’Brien EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, stated yesterday that the Parliament of Scotland should be able to decide important national issues such as abortion for itself, the Scotsman reports. Cardinal O’Brien indicated that the recent turn-over in the government of Scotland reflects a growing dissatisfaction among Scottish citizens about the limits that are currently in place on the Scottish Parliament. He was referring to the May 3 elections in which the Scottish National Party (SNP), the party working for independence from Britain, was voted into power, replacing […]
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Ontario Conservatives Scrap Parental Tax Credits for Private Schooling, Try to Force Sex Ed on Faith

By John-Henry Westen and John Jalsevac   TORONTO, June 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an attempt to attract votes in the upcoming October 10 provincial election, the Opposition Conservative Party of Ontario under Leader John Tory has released a new Party Plan book outlining a proposal for full public funding of faith-based schools.  The plan eliminates the former Conservative policy of offering parental choice in education through the use of tax credits for parents who choose to send their children to private schools.   By constitutional right, Catholic schools receive public funding from the education taxes paid by Catholics in […]
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* 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.   ‘Natural Family,’ ‘Marriage’ as Hate Speech?  https://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070610-111445-6957r.htm   National Ex-Gay Group Defends Surgeon General Nominee Holsinger and Ex-Gay Community Attacked by Gay Groups  https://www.christiannewswire.com/news/148233373.html   ‘Educational apartheid’ destroying British schools  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml?_DARGS=/core/search/genericSimpleSearch.jhtml   The state does decide what makes a parent  https://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=9bbe03ee-c70c-4f5e-8d9f-ea090f95783b   Blair ‘may become a Catholic deacon’  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=461032&in_page_id=1811&in_a_source=   Fred Thompson called out on his profession of faith  https://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56112   Why England is rotting  https://www.macleans.ca/world/global/article.jsp?content=20070611_106150_106150   One of most […]
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New Hampshire Middle School Children Take Field Trip to Planned Parenthood Abortuary?

By John Jalsevac MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, June 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Approximately 20 Jr. High students were seen entering Manchester’s Planned Parenthood building during school hours on a weekday, according to New Hampshire Right to Life. According to witnesses the event, which occurred last Wednesday, had all the appearance of being an official school field trip. “I understand that 20 or so Jr. High students from Park Side and South Side Schools were escorted through a group of pro-life witnesses,” said NH Right to Life President Darlene Pawlik. “They were inside half hour or longer….there was one male chaperone with […]
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Destruction of Human Embryos a “Gift from God” says Catholic House Speaker

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ability to destroy human embryos to cure diseases is a “gift from God” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a self-described “devout Catholic”, referring to the recent bill passed to fund human embryonic stem-cell research. “Science is a gift of God to all of us and science has taken us to a place that is biblical in its power to cure,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). “And that is the embryonic stem cell research.” Pro-life and Catholic leaders, however, have found Pelosi’s statement shocking for its suggestion that […]
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Defiant Austrialian Pro-Cloning MPs Line Up for Communion Despite Archbishop’s Exhortations

By Peter J. Smith SYDNEY, June 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic Parliamentarians in New South Wales lined up for Communion on Sunday despite warnings from the Sydney Archbishop, Cardinal Pell, that they would face consequences for their pro-cloning votes, reports the Brisbane Times. Deputy Premier John Watkins and National party MP Adrian Piccoli were among the Catholic politicians who dismissed Pell’s warning of consequences for voting for embryonic stem cell research as mere bluster and received Communion at Sunday Mass. Watkins said he went to Mass with his family and received Communion as usual. The parish priest told him he […]
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New Poll Finds 71% of Canadians Support Assisted Suicide

By Alex Schadenberg  Executive Director  Euthanasia Prevention Coalition   TORONTO, June 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On June 10, 2007, the Ipsos Reid polling company released the results of a poll that was done between June 5 – 7, that included two questions related to assisted suicide. The results of the poll indicated that 71% of Canadians supported doctor-assisted suicide and 76% supported the concept of the “Right to Die”. The second question, however, concerning the “Right to Die,” is a bogus question due to the mixture of meaning related to the terminology.   On November 7, 2000 in the State of Maine, […]
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City of “Brotherly Love” Declared Officially “Pro-Choice” by City Council

By Elizabeth O’Brien PHILADELPHIA, June 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A motion narrowly passed by Philadelphia’s City Council has given the city the new official title of “pro-choice”. During and after the contentious vote, a storm of controversy raged in the council and divided city leaders about whether “pro-choice” is a name that truly represents the city. The Philadelphia Enquirer explains that the title supports, “women’s reproductive rights and freedom” as well as “the right to choose a legal and safe abortion as a final but critical option for women.” After much debate the resolution only squeezed by with a 9 to 8 majority. Archbishop Justin Rigali, […]
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Vatican Ambassador to the UN to Present Award to Proponent of “Contraceptives”

By John-Henry Westen   NEW YORK, June 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tomorrow the Vatican ambassador to the United Nations, known officially as the Holy See Permanent Observer to the United Nations, will be presenting an award to Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, president of the 61st session of the U.N. General Assembly.  The Vatican ambassador, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, will be presenting the award on behalf of the Path to Peace Foundation, over which he presides as President. A press release from the Holy See Mission at the United Nations states that the award is for Al Khalifa’s “dedicated efforts on behalf […]
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Latest Legal Challenge to Mexico Abortion Law Pushes for Human Rights of “Conceived Persons”

By Elizabeth O’Brien MEXICO CITY, June 11, 2007 (LifesiteNews.com) – The government of Mexico will review a “Declaration of Conceived Person’s Human Rights” that may effect Mexico City’s new abortion law, reports the California Catholic Daily. The document was brought forward by Familia Eucarística (Eucharistic Family) and other pro-life groups and explains how scientific findings in the area of human DNA demonstrate that each embryo is a human person. A series of scientists, analysts and scholars compiled the document, which calls for the recognition of every unborn life as a person. The authors of the Declaration base their claim on specific findings […]
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Patients Who Would Choose Assisted Suicide Would Do So Not Because of Pain, but Depression/Fear of B

By John Jalsevac June 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to a recent study that interviewed 379 Canadian patients who were receiving palliative care for cancer between 2001 and 2003, over half of those patients (62.8%) believed that assisted suicide should be legalized. But of the 238 participants in the study who argued that assisted suicide should be legal, only 22 (5.8%) said they would actually exercise the option right away if it were legal, and over half of those 22 said they would do so, not because of heightened levels of pain associated with their illness, but because they felt […]
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Sen. Brownback Asks Catholic Men’s Conference: “Is [Rape] Made Any Better by Killing an Innocent Chi

By John Jalsevac TAYLORS, S.C., June 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a talk to the National Catholic Men’s Conference this past weekend, Senator Sam Brownback criticized the commonly held notion that abortion should always be allowed in cases of rape, reports the Associated Press. “Rape is terrible. Rape is awful,” Brownback said to the approximately 500 conference attendees, but then asked, “Is it made any better by killing an innocent child? Does it solve the problem for the mother that’s been raped?” “We need to protect innocent life. Period.” The June 9th conference was hosted by St. Joseph’s Covenant Keepers. […]
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* 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.   Newspaper Poll on Cardinal Pell and Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians:  https://www.smh.com.au/polls/politics/form.html   Catholic University of Argentina: “right to abortion” non-existent  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=9545   Mexican Cardinal Sandoval: promoters of abortion are “children of darkness”  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=9555   Praise in Chile for pharmacies that refuse to sell morning-after pill  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=9566   Bill Would Force Pharmacists to Dispense Plan B  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004799.cfm   Assisted Suicide Bill Dies Peacefully in California Assembly  https://www.christiannewswire.com/news/713663351.html   Faithful Reason About Stem […]
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Czech Poll: Public Support for Homosexual Adoption Falls but Rises on Abortion and Euthanasia

By Elizabeth O’Brien          PRAGUE, June 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  More than a year after the Czech President took a public stand against benefits for homosexual couples, including allowing them to raise children, public support for homosexual adoption has dropped.   A CVVM Czech poll published yesterday shows that public support for homosexual “marriage” and adoption by same-sex couples has decreased over the past two years. The Prague Daily Monitor reports that since 2005, the numbers supporting same-sex marriage went down from 42 to 36 percent. In the same amount of time, support of adoption by same-sex couples decreased […]
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Congress Attempts to Lift Ban on Federal Funding for Embryo Research –  Again: Bush Will Veto

By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For the second time in a year Congress has passed a bill that, if signed by the President, would see the ban on federal funds being used for embryonic stem cell research lifted. In 2001 the Bush administration authorized federal funding for embryonic stem cell research on already existing lines of embryos, while forbidding any such funds from being used to create new embryonic human beings for the purpose of research and therefore destruction. Although the Administration’s policy bans federal funds from being used for such research, there is no federal […]
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600 Miles Later Canada’s Crossroads Walk Still Going Strong: Walkers in Calgary for the Weekend

By John Jalsevac CALGARY, Albert, June 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since the six walkers of the Canadian version of the pro-life Crossroads walk began their cross-Canada trek on May 19 with a lap around Vancouver’s Stanley Park, they have walked over 600 miles across some of the most difficult terrain that they will encounter until they arrive in Ottawa over two months from now. Yesterday LifeSiteNews.com spoke at length with two of the participants, 20-year-old British Columbia native Etienne O’Toole and 21-year-old Saskatchewan native Gregory Roth. The pair are on this week’s night shift. Because there are only 6 walkers on the […]
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Australian PM Opposes Homosexual Adoption

By Gudrun Schultz MELBOURNE, Australia, June 8, 2007, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australian Prime Minister John Howard said he does not support homosexual adoption of children, speaking on Southern Cross radio earlier today. PM Howard said heterosexual adoption was in the best interests of children. “It gives children the best opportunity in life,” he said, according to a report in the Herald Sun earlier today. “I know for some that sounds harsh. I don’t think it’s harsh, I think it’s something that most people believe is the desired, the ideal outcome.” The prime minister’s comments follow yesterday’s recommendation from the Victorian Law […]
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Bush’s Choice for Surgeon Gen. Said Homosexual Practices “Unnatural and Unhealthy”

By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A doctor tapped by President George Bush for the position of Surgeon General has been attacked by homosexual activist groups for saying homosexual activity is unnatural and unhealthy. Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr. wrote a paper in 1991 entitled “The Pathophysiology of Male Homosexuality” for a United Methodist Church committee that was studying homosexuality. The article was an overview of peer-reviewed scientific studies showing the many diseases and physical damage that frequently accompanies homosexual activity. In the paper Holsinger stated that engaging in homosexuality was physically dangerous as well as […]
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Major Report to Euro Parliament Says “A child is aborted every 25 Seconds” in Europe

By Samantha Singson   NEW YORK, June 7, 2007 (C-FAM.org) – The Madrid-based Institute for Family Policies (IFP) has issued a report to the European Parliament warning about “the deterioration of the family panorama.” Citing demographic, sociological and economic evidence from a team of experts, IFP called on EU delegations to make the family a policy priority and promote the traditional family as an institution, recognize the fundamental right of parents to educate their children and to adopt policies that support the development and well-being of the family.   Entitled “The Evolution of the Family in Europe 2007,” IFP presented […]
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Israeli Parliament Gives Initial Approval to Bill Forbidding Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem

By Elizabeth O’Brien   ISRAEL, June 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, held a conscience vote on two bills that restrict public homosexual displays within Israel. Both bills passed first reading with a wide majority, but two more votes are scheduled before final passage.   Proposed by MK Eliahu Gabbay (National Union-National Religious Party) and MK Yitzhak Vaknin (Shas), the first bill forbids gay parades or any other perverse displays within the holy city of Jerusalem. The second bill restricts such homosexual demonstrations within all of Israel.   The Prime Minister’s Bureau opposed the legislation.  “The prime […]
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Australian Archbishop Under Investigation for Telling Anti-Life Catholic Politicians not to Receive

By Elizabeth O’Brien   PERTH, Australia, June 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Barry Hickey of Perth is under parliamentary investigation for a supposed “threat” against Catholic politicians who vote for embryonic stem cell research. A State Committee will examine remarks made by the pro-life archbishop that support Church teaching on embryonic stem cell research.   Archbishop Hickey told the West Australian newspaper, “Catholics who vote for the cloning of embryos destined for destruction are acting against the teaching of the Church on a very serious matter and they should in conscience not vote that way, but if they do in […]
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Brazilian Soccer Heartthrob’s Response to Supermodel’s Anti-Catholic Outburst: I Was a Virgin When I

By John Jalsevac June 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen is receiving widespread media coverage after an outburst in which she criticized the Catholic Church for its teachings on premarital sex, abortion and contraceptives.  Bundchen’s remarks follow closely on the heel’s of Pope Benedict’s visit to the Catholic country, during which visit he repeatedly restated the Church’s teachings on social issues, exhorting Brazilians to live up to the ideals that their faith professes. Bundchen, however, called the Church’s teachings “ridiculous” in an interview with a Brazilian newspaper. At one point she made the unsubstantiated claim that in the […]
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Husband and Wife Victims of China Forced Abortion Permitted to Seek Asylum in US: Federal Appeals Co

By John Jalsevac SAN FRANCISCO, CA, June 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A man and his wife are permitted to seek asylum after the woman underwent a forced abortion in China, the San Francisco based 9th Circuit Federal Appeals Court decided on Wednesday. Zi Zhi Tang (“Tang”) and his wife Li Zhen Tang (“Li Zhen”) were previously refused asylum by an Immigration Judge after the judge determined that the couple had not sufficiently proved that the abortion that Li Zhen underwent was truly “forced.” The Federal Appeals Court, however, overturned the Immigration Judge’s decision, determining that Li Zhen had undergone a […]
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TV Viewing Hazardous to Moral Health, CMI Study Finds

By Gudrun Schultz ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Heavy television watching parallels a decline in moral values and a sense of personal responsibility, a new study by the Culture and Media Institute of the Media Research Center has found. In a new Special Report entitled “The Media Assault on American Values,” released by the CMI June 6, a clear correlation was shown to exist between an increase in the number of hours a viewer spent watching TV and a decline in the strength of personal moral values. The report explored the findings of the National Cultural Values Survey, […]
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British Medical Association Backs Abortion on Demand, by Midwives

By Gudrun Schultz United Kingdom, June 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British Medical Association is pushing for abortion on demand and permission for nurses and midwives to carry out abortions, in a briefing paper issued by the BMA ethics committee June 5. The paper supports changes to the Abortion Act that would allow women less than three months pregnant to go directly to an abortion clinic without obtaining approval from two doctors, as is currently required. Under the proposed changes women in the first trimester of pregnancy would not have to meet any medical criteria for abortion—as the law stands […]
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U.S. House Turns Back Stealth Attempt by Democratic Leadership to Pass “Clone-and-Kill” Bill

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday rejected a bill, deceptively labeled as a ban on human cloning, that actually would have allowed large-scale cloning of human embryos solely for purposes of research.   The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) condemned the measure as “a clone-and-kill bill,” and strongly opposed it.  After the vote, NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson commented, “The House Democratic leadership tried to ram through a bill to pave the way for cloned human embryo farms, but their scam failed.”   The White House issued a statement before the vote that said in part, […]
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Faithful Catholics Upstage “Call-to-Action” Agitators

By Peter J. Smith LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More than 100 faithful Catholics in Lincoln arrived on an hour’s notice to upstage a radical Call-to-Action protest over Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz‘s refusal to participate in a national sex-abuse audit. The rogue group “Call-to-Action” has repeatedly said it represents the majority of “faithful” Catholics, but favors altering the Church’s teachings on human sexuality as well as women in the priesthood and electing bishops. The Journal Star reports that Call to Action Nebraska, members who had been excommunicated by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, had planned a demonstration in front of his […]
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Catholic Australian Politician Would Rather Go to Hell Than Back Down on Embryonic Stem-cell Researc

By Peter J. Smith SYDNEY, Australia, June 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic politician in New South Wales has told the Archbishop of Sydney he would rather go to Hell than oppose legislation legalizing human cloning for embryonic stem-cell research. Several other politicians are persisting in publicly defying Australia’s Cardinal Pell, who condemned embryonic stem-cell research and the decisions of those who support such research in unequivocal terms. Archbishop George Cardinal Pell, leader of the Catholic Church in Australia, told Catholic state lawmakers Tuesday that human cloning and destruction of embryos for research was a “serious moral matter” and their votes would have “consequences” for their lives in the […]
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CBS News Anchor Bryant Gumbel Says He Was Right to Call Pro-Family Advocate a F***ing Idiot

ALEXANDRIA, VA, June 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, while filling-in for Regis Philbin on Live with Regis and Kelly, CBS News Early Show anchor Bryant Gumbel actually boasted about once calling conservative culture-critic Robert Knight “a f***ing idiot”. Gumbel used the actual word at the end of a June 29, 2000 interview on CBS’s The Early Show about whether active homosexuals should work as scoutmasters in the Boy Scouts. Mr. Knight, then with the Family Research Council, is now the director of the Media Research Center’s Culture (MRC) and Media Institute.   After the first incident, the Media Research Center […]
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President Bush Signals He Will Veto Bill to Allow Human Cloning Posing as Cloning Ban

By John-Henry Westen   WASHINGTON, June 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a surprise move late yesterday, Democratic Representative Diana DeGette introduced H.R. 2560, a “clone-and-kill” bill.  The deceptive legislation, which is being debated today and tomorrow in the House is titled “The Human Cloning Prohibition Act.”   However, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) explains that the legislation, in fact, “does not ban any human cloning at all.”    A letter referring to the bill was sent to Congress today from the Executive Office of the President warning that the bill would be vetoed if passed.  “If legislation were […]
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Democrat-Dominated California Assembly Passes Homosexual Marriage Bill

By Gudrun Schultz SACRAMENTO, California, June 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – California Assembly Democrats voted Tuesday to pass a bill that would legalize homosexual “marriage” in the state. The legislation was pushed through on the strength of just one vote over the minimum required. Assembly Bill 43 would strike the words “male” and “female” from the marriage code, substituting the phrase “two persons” in the definition of marriage.  The bill was introduced by homosexual Assemblyman Mark Leno as the latest addition to a string of legislation he has brought forward over the past five years in an effort to legalize homosexual […]
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United Nations CEDAW Committee Pushes Syria to Permit Abortion

By Hilary White   NEW YORK, June 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Reporting for the first time to the ‘committee of experts’ overseeing the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the UN delegation from Syria agreed to drop objections to article 2 of the Convention.   In meetings with the delegation from Syria, Ferdous Ara Begum, the expert from Bangladesh who serves as the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs for the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, noted that abortion was illegal in Syria. She said the country must […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes

* 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.   Appeals Court Hears Arguments in Case Challenging U.S. Policy Requiring Overseas HIV/AIDS Groups To Oppose Commercial Sex Work  https://www.nysun.com/article/55636   Atlanta Governor signs umbilical cord stem cell donation bill  https://savannahnow.com/node/291967   Associated Press Failed to Identify Politician Indicted for Bribery as a Democrat  https://newsbusters.org/node/13220   Vote for “Abolish Abortion” at CBC Facebook Contest   https://bluewavecanada.blogspot.com/2007/06/vote-for-abolish-abortion-at-cbc.html   U.S. House Set to Vote on Embryonic Stem-Cell Research  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000004772.cfm   Texas Supreme Court […]
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New Catholic Bishop Expected to Bring Orthodoxy and Opposition to Homosexual Agenda to Minneapolis

By Peter J. Smith MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, June 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The installation of a new Catholic archbishop known for his orthodoxy has liberal Catholics and homosexual activists fraught with worry that their novel creeds will no longer find welcome in the Minneapolis-St. Paul diocese.   Bishop John Nienstedt has been appointed coadjutor archbishop, or archbishop in waiting of Minneapolis, and will share duties with current Archbishop Harry Flynn after his Welcoming Mass on Friday, June 29. Next year he will take over the administration of Archbishop  Flynn, known for its ambiguous attitude toward open dissent from Catholic moral teachings, […]
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Successful Adult Cell Trials for Blindness Lead to Possibly Dangerous Embryo Stem Cell Experiments

By Hilary White   LONDON, June 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A team of researchers at University College London’s Institute of Ophthalmology plans to begin trials with embryonic stem cells to develop a routine surgical treatment for a disease of the eye that has previously yielded to adult stem cell treatment.   Dr. Lyndon Da Cruz, a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Moorfields eye hospital in London, pioneered the successful technique to treat Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) using differentiated cells taken from the patients’ own eyes and transplanting them into the damaged areas of the retina.   AMD affects to some degree […]
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Rick Hansen’s “Wheels in Motion” Supports Embryonic Stem Cell Research

By Elizabeth O’Brien   VANCOUVER, 5 June 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rick Hansen is the President and CEO of the Rick Hansen Foundation, an organization that supports research to find the cure for spinal cord injury. Paralyzed in a car crash at the age of fifteen, former-athlete Hansen has raised over $26 million dollars towards this goal. In 2003 the Rick Hansen Wheels in Motion was launched and since then has raised over 5.6 million dollars towards helping injury victims.   While the Rick Hansen Wheels in Motion Fund Drive failed to return repeated calls from LifeSiteNews.com seeking their position on […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes

* 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.   President Bush has torn the conservative coalition asunder – Peggy Noonan  https://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110010148   The Nation Slams Global Warming: ‘Greenhousers Strike Back, and Strike Out’  https://newsbusters.org/node/13124   ABC’s Global Warming Piece Ignores Decades of Hysteria from NASA’s James Hansen  https://newsbusters.org/node/13114   Philadelphia booting Boy Scouts from HQ  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55964   Pro-aborts pushing baby carriage?  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55950   Children – Shock troops in the culture wars  https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/shock_troops_in_the_culture_wars/   Why are they throwing brickbats at […]
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Abortion Support Inconsistent with Reception of Communion Britain’s Head Prelate Says

By Hilary White   WESTMINSTER, UK, June 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The most senior prelate in the Catholic Church in England and Wales in a statement today, told Catholic politicians that politicians supporting abortion must “educate themselves about the teachings of the Church” on the sanctity of life and go to confession before receiving Holy Communion.    In preparation for the UK Church’s Day of Life, July 1, Cormac Cardinal Murphy O’Connor said that the Church holds all human life to have been created in the image and likeness of God. “This means that all life is sacred, with value and meaning […]
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Louisville Archdiocese Accepts “Right” of Catholic University to Have Pro-Abort Commencement Speaker

By Hilary White   LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, June 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky has no objection to the appearance of pro-abortion Rep. John Yarmuth as commencement speaker at a local Catholic university. Yarmuth will give the address and receive an honorary doctorate from Spalding University, a nominally Catholic school, despite his position as a board member of Planned Parenthood.   Archdiocesan spokesman Cecelia Price was quoted by the Courier Journal saying that the archdiocese had no difficulty with Yarmuth’s appearance and that it was the “right” of the university to invite him.  “We understand that it is not unusual […]
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Brownback Backs Micro-Evolution, Rejects Macroevolution as “atheistic theology posing as science”

By Elizabeth O’Brien   NEW YORK, 1 June 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, The New York Times published a column by Presidential Candidate, Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, in which he explained the important role of faith in relation to evolution theory.   During the first Presidential Republican Debate in early May, all candidates who believed in evolution were asked to raise their hands. Brownback raised his hand, but he specifically stated that the matter is not merely a divide between two positions: first, all creatures came from a single cell, or second, “God created the world and everything in it […]
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Philly City Council Ends 79-Year Boy Scout Lease Over Refusal to Accept Homosexual Leaders

By Gudrun Schultz   PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, June 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Philadelphia City Council voted yesterday to end a nearly 80-year-old lease held by the Boy Scouts local branch over the group’s adherence to a national policy banning actively homosexual leaders.   The ongoing dispute pitted the Scouts’ Cradle of Liberty Council against homosexual activists over the organization’s refusal to adopt an official policy welcoming homosexuals into leadership. The City, under pressure by activist groups, wants the Scouts to either alter the organization’s policy or start paying market rent for the use of the historical Beaux Arts building, where the […]
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Homeschooled Child Wins US National Spelling Contest

By Elizabeth O’Brien   WASHINGTON, D.C. 1 June 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Yesterday evening, Evan O’Dorney, a 13-year old homeschool student from Danville, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington. The San Francisco Chronicle notes that throughout round after round of constant challenge, he hurtled through words such as “schuhplattler”, “Bewusstseinslage”, rascacio”. Edmonton champion Nate Garke misspelled the word “coryza” and lost closely before Evan finished with “serrefine”, or “A small spring forceps used for approximating the edges of a wound, or for temporarily closing an artery during surgery.”   Beating 285 other top spellers from throughout the country, Evan won […]
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Wisconsin Assembly to Adjust State Partial Birth Abortion Ban Deemed Not Enforceable Under Federal B

By Gudrun Schultz   MADISON, Wisconsin, June 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Partial birth abortion opponents in the Wisconsin Legislature have pledged to act quickly to bring the state ban on the procedure into line with the federal ban, after the Attorney General said it would likely not be enforceable as it stands.   Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch and Senate Minority Leader Scott Fitzgerald requested a legal opinion from Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen on the status of Wisconsin’s law against the late-term abortion procedure. Van Hollen issued an informal opinion Thursday, saying the state ban would likely remain unenforceable since […]
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Schwarzenegger: “I am a Catholic and a very dedicated Catholic, but” I support Research on Human Emb

 TORONTO, June 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking at a press conference at the MaRS Discovery District research centre in Toronto yesterday, actor-turned California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger defended his support for embryonic stem cell research seen as controversial in light of his self-professed Catholic faith.  “I always said that you should not have your religion interfere with government policies or with the policies of the people,” said Schwarzenegger.  “I am a Catholic and a very dedicated Catholic, but that does not interfere with my decision-making because I know that stem-cell research, the way we are doing it in California … is […]
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