By John-Henry Westen SAN FRANCISCO, September 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the discovery of an ad for a sadomasochistic street parade in San Francisco which mocked the Last Supper replacing Christ and His Apostles with leather-clad (and unclad) homosexuals, Concerned Women for America (CWA) and other groups called on California legislators to denounce the anti-Christianity. Rather than denounce the ad, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has derisively dismissed any concerns. Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s press secretary, responded to media questions on the offensive ad saying, “As a Catholic, the speaker is confident that Christianity has not been harmed.” The […]
By Hilary White LONDON, September 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The first contraceptive pill that provides a dose of active hormones every day that would halt menstruation, could be in use in Britain within a few months, according to the New Scientist. The drug, called Lybrel, is lauded for its ability to interrupt a woman’s normal fertility cycle and entirely stop her menstruation, potentially permanently. Its supporters say that once freed from their normal biological functions, women will be better able to compete with men in the workplace. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), approved the drug in May […]
By John-Henry Westen ST. JOHN’S, September 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday, September 26, the Memorial University of Newfoundland Students’ Union Board of Directors (MUNSU) voted to deny official club status to Memorial University of Newfoundland Students for Life (MUN for LIFE). MUN for LIFE President Patrick Hanlon informed LifeSiteNews.com that when the proposal to grant club status to the pro-life group came up, the chair asked for a motion to approve and none present volunteered. A motion to deny status was proposed and quickly made, seconded and passed nearly with only two abstentions. Hanlon indicated that […]
Vatican stated in 2000 "the absolute unlawfulness of abortifacient procedures also applies to distributing, prescribing and taking the morning-after pill"
* 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. Planned Parenthood’s stealth facility in Aurora, Illinois repeats historyhttps://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_18018.shtml Planned Parenthood mounts campaign to pressure Gov. Schwarzenegger into signing bill that would provide millions more in state funding for family planninghttps://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=15c0f1b2-346e-42a1-aa4b-a6d4… University president who brought feminist theologians and pro-abortion commencement speakers to Catholic university in LA gets accolade from Cardinal Mahonyhttps://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=227abc04-cef2-4d93-94ec-2f95… Teacher dismissed from Catholic school for “public participation in the procurement of abortions” now ranting against […]
By John-Henry Westen BOISE, September 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Idaho Choose Life (ICL) has issued a public call for Idaho’s Catholic Bishop, Mike Driscoll “to intervene quickly and forcefully in the brewing scandal involving Sister Helen Prejean.” Sister Prejean is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at an event to raise money for the Idaho ACLU on Friday, September 28th. (see ACLU website announcement: https://www.acluidaho.org/ ) Speaking of ACLU, ICL Executive Director David Ripley said “This nefarious organization has played a pivotal role in undermining Christian morality and the sanctity of both family and human life.” “They proudly […]
WASHINGTON, DC, September 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic League president Bill Donohue announced a national boycott of Miller Beer on this morning’s “Fox and Friends.” The boycott comes after leading Christian groups were outraged at Miller’s sponsorship of a sadomasochistic, anti-Christian homosexual parade which regularly includes full nudity and public sex acts. “Never have we experienced greater corporate arrogance than in this dispute with the Miller Brewing Company. Miller is sponsoring an incredibly outrageous and palpably anti-Christian event in San Francisco: the Folsom Street Fair,” explained Donohue. “This all started when we learned that Miller was sponsoring an event that […]
By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, September 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A lengthy article published in the Ottawa Citizen Monday, which is being seen by some as a crassly one-sided pro-abortion propaganda piece, decried wait times for abortions in the city. The article points out that the Ontario Liberal Government has given the private Morgentaler abortion centre in Ottawa enough taxpayer dollars to pay for thousands abortions this year alone. “A.G. Klei, spokesman for the Ontario Ministry for Health and Long-Term Care, says the ministry provided enough money for the clinic to perform 2,350 abortions this year,” reports the paper. […]
By John-Henry Westen LONDON, UK, September 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Popular homosexual musician Elton John, who regularly promotes homosexuality and has said he would ban Christianity, may be in hot water as police have seized one of his pieces of “art” on suspicion of breaching child pornography laws. According to media reports police seized the photographic image from an art gallery in Tyneside. Apart from promoting homosexuality, John has expressed his contempt for Christianity. In an August 2006 interview Elton John said, “I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred […]
DENVER, September 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal appeals court has issued a significant ruling saying that an employer’s concern over the use of restrooms by “transsexual” employees is legitimate, according to Alliance Defense Fund Senior Legal Counsel Brian Raum. Raum explained further that the court ruled that “transsexuals” do not qualify as a protected class under Title VII. “The court delivered a significant legal punch to political special interest groups who are demanding that persons with Gender Identity Disorder be treated as though they were members of the opposite sex. The court correctly ruled that employers have a valid […]
* 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. Libel case to accuse Planned Parenthood – Mega-clinic chief links pro-lifers to ‘violence’https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57805 From fighter pilot to courageous mother: the story of Caroline Aiglehttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10494 Brownback Bill Would Require Ultrasound before Abortionhttps://www.citizenlink.org/aaa/news1.html Brazilian baby with anencephaly now ten months oldhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10495 Conference to assist in healing men from the trauma of abortionhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10499 Billboard, highlighting campaign to ‘exterminate’ black babies, stolenhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10479 Chicago Columnist: Tobacco ‘Kills’ But Abortion […]
WASHINGTON, DC, September 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Today, people of faith and conscience from more than 80 cities in 33 states are kicking off the largest simultaneous pro-life mobilization in American history – the groundbreaking 40 Days for Life campaign,” said David Bereit, national campaign director for 40 Days for Life. 40 Days for Life is an intensive pro-life campaign that focuses on 40 days of prayer and fasting, peaceful vigil at abortion facilities, and grassroots educational outreach. The 40-day time frame is drawn from examples throughout Biblical history where God brought about world-changing transformation in 40-day periods. “The […]
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman ITALY, September 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a meeting with Nicaragua’s new ambassador to the Holy See at Castlegandolfo yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI congratulated the Nicaraguan government for maintaining the country’s absolute prohibition of abortions in the face of heavy international pressure. The pontiff expressed his “recognition to Nicaragua for its position in international forums on social topics, especially the respect for life in the face of not insignificant internal and international pressures.” The pope was referring to Nicaragua’s decision to impose criminal sanctions on all abortions in 2006, which was renewed in […]
By Meg Jalsevac MELBOURNE, September 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amnesty International is facing yet another national backlash after its recent policy decision to promote the decriminalization of abortion world-wide. All 328 Catholic schools in the Australia archdiocese of Melbourne have been counseled to withdraw all aid to Amnesty and close their school sponsored Amnesty support groups. Mr. Stephen Elders, director of the Catholic Education Office in Melbourne, sent a letter to all the schools encouraging them to “convey their disappointment” to Amnesty regarding the new pro-abortion policy. Elders explained that his office tried repeatedly but unsuccessfully to engage […]
By Meg Jalsevac PHILADELPHIA, PA, September 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As is the custom in the United States, the first Sunday of October will be honored by US Catholics as Respect Life Sunday. In honor of this, Cardinal Justin Rigali, the Chairman of the Committee for Pro-Life Activities of the United States’ Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has issued a statement to be made available at all parishes nationwide. The statement calls for US Catholics to “again pray for – and renew their resolve to bring about – a culture of life and an end to the killing […]
FRONT ROYAL, VA, September 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, STL, president of Human Life International (HLI), today blasted a gang of 16 Catholic senators for their votes on an amendment to HR 2764 to overturn the Mexico City Policy instituted by President Reagan to prevent U.S. taxpayer dollars from funding overseas abortions. “For the most part it’s the usual suspects who claim to be Catholic while their consistent pro-abortion votes amount to a betrayal of the Catholic faith. We expect treachery from them,” Fr. Euteneuer said. “But the great disappointment here is Robert Casey, Jr., whose […]
DENVER, September 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Federal Appeals Court has dismissed a case brought by abortionists and other abortion supporters against Kansas for attempting to enforce their mandatory child sex abuse reporting law. Legislators had changed one word in the statute, rendering the case moot. Kansas law requires that health care professionals, teachers, and other professionals who work with children must report all suspicion of sexual abuse. Aid for Women, a Kansas City abortion mill run by abortionist Sherman Zaremski, filed suit against former Attorney General Phill Kline after he issued an opinion indicating that abortion clinics were […]
By John-Henry Westen and Matthew Cullinan Hoffman WASHINGTON, DC, September 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday LifeSiteNews.com published a story on Kathy Saile, who was recently named Director of Domestic Policy for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Evidence on the internet and commentary on various blogs pointed strongly to the possibility that the new USCCB Director supported abortion. Calls to confirm or deny the allegations were not returned by USCCB communications official Sr. Mary Anne Walsh. In response to queries from concerned LifeSiteNews.com readers, the USCCB has now indicated that Saile is in fact pro-life. […]
1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. 2. He who laughs last, thinks slowest. 3. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t. 4. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool. 5. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong. 6. The things that come to those who wait will be the things left by those who got […]
Rotary Club criticized for supporting pro-abortion groups and promoting population controlhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10456 Melbourne’s 328 Catholic schools asked to cut ties with Amnestyhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10453 Planned Parenthood-friendly Catholic university loses big donor alumnushttps://www.renewamerica.us/columns/abbott/070921 Senator Brownback introduces Ultrasound Informed Consent Acthttps://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU07I10 Pope Urges Slovakia To Ratify Treaty With ‘Conscience Clause’ That Critics Say Would Allow Physicians To Refuse Abortionshttps://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/82758.php Pope says the crisis of the family and idea that abortion and euthanasia are “legitimate” are worrisome developmentshttps://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=10367&size=A China’s ‘perfect child’ generationhttps://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7001561.stm China To Augment Fines For Couples Who Violate One-Child Policy According To Income Levelhttps://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/82902.php Toronto Catholic […]
STATEN ISLAND, NY, September 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Leaders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, the nation’s largest network of women and men testifying to the harm they endured from abortion, said that a Wisconsin bill to help prevent coerced abortion is needed not only in that state, but across the country. “In recent months alone, we’ve seen numerous high profile news stories about women threatened and intimidated by their parents, boyfriends, and others into having abortions,” said Georgette Forney, co- founder of the SNMAC. “I know from talking to thousands of women that these are not isolated cases. I […]
By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, September 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Academy Award winning actress Ellen Burstyn known for her roles in ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ and ‘The Exorcist’ was interviewed by CFRB radio in Toronto while she was in town promoting her new book – Lessons in Becoming Myself. CFRB spoke at length about the long and eventful career of the highly acclaimed 74-year-old actress after which the interviewer asked Burstyn “what was the lowest moment” of her life. After a pause during which the interviewer prompted with her single motherhood, struggles with her son and more, Burstyn […]
By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, September 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Canada, in large part due to aggressive behind the scenes lobbying, rolls out the not-comprehensively-tested Merck HPV vaccine for girls as young as nine, a look at developments on the vaccine south of the border should cause Canadians serious concern. In the United States a similar lobby campaign by the same company launched the mass HPV vaccination of girls beginning in June last year. In just little over a year, the HPV vaccine has been associated with at least five deaths, not to mention thousands of reports of adverse […]
WASHINGTON, DC, September 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The following text is a proclamation by President Bush: Families are the cornerstone of our Nation. On Family Day, we underscore our dedication to strengthening America’s families and recognize the importance that the bonds between parents and children hold for the future of our country. Parents and family members are the first and most important influence in a child’s life. Families offer a stable and nurturing environment by providing love, guidance, support, and comfort. They help young people gain the skills they need to succeed in life and the courage and […]
* 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. Dobson says Thompson ‘not for me’ – cites candidate’s opposition to federal marriage amendmenthttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57747 All is ready for the ordination of the new bishop of Beijinghttps://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=10357&size=A Pentagon okays sale of certain porn magazines at military exchangeshttps://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/09/pentagon_okays_sale_of_certain.php Public interest group still battling to obtain Hillary Clinton’s First Lady recordshttps://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/09/public_interest_group_still_ba.php Expiating Our Eco-Sins? – a very bad idea to suggest steps to deal with environmental questions are like […]
By John Jalsevac OCEAN GROVE, N.J., September 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced on Monday that it was stripping the Methodist Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association of its tax-exempt status for part of its property. The Methodist camp made the news earlier this year after it refused, for religious reasons, to allow a lesbian couple to hold a “civil-union” ceremony at a pavilion on the camp’s property. The pavilion, said Scott Hoffman, the camp’s chief administrative officer to LifeSiteNews, “is a facility we have used exclusively for our camp meeting mission […]
* 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. Screening for Treatable Genetic Disorder May Lead to More Abortionshttps://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000005506.cfm Spaniards not asking for euthanasia; it’s only the government’s agenda, say scientistshttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10426 Pro-life groups slam Spain for aiding abortion policies in Latin America and Africahttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10402 Pro-Life As A Campaign Issue—Senator Brownback’s Role – By Paul M. Weyrichhttps://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2007/070918.aspx Anti-abortion groups set DemCon ‘08 protest planshttps://www.politicswest.com/democratic_national_convention/9101/anti_abortion_gr… Vatican excommunicates embryonic stem cell endorsershttps://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_17914.shtml After the Stem Cell […]
MINNEAPOLIS, September 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed a lawsuit last Tuesday in federal court on behalf of an Illinois clinical psychologist who lost his contract with the city of Minneapolis because of his membership with a politically conservative, pro-family organization. “Pro-family, Christian conservatives cannot be treated as second-class citizens,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Brian Raum. “Government officials do not have the right to end someone’s contract on the basis of religion or political viewpoint. The city of Minneapolis is engaging in viewpoint discrimination, and that is clearly unconstitutional.” Dr. Michael Campion, a […]
ANNAPOLIS, September 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, the Maryland Court of Appeals, in a 4-3 decision, upheld the state’s marriage law, which says “only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid in this state.” In January 2006 the circuit court for Baltimore City struck down the marriage law (Family Law Article 2-201) as discriminatory on the basis of sex, in violation of the Maryland Declaration of Rights, in the case of Conaway v. Deane. Maryland’s highest court reversed the circuit court, ruling today that the marriage law did not violate the state Equal Rights Amendment, did […]
By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, September 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When it comes to his Catholic faith, it plays no part in his political decisions. So said Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty in a campaign stop at St. Augustine’s Catholic High School, in Markham, Ontario yesterday before 130 students. “My Catholicism, my private faith, does not determine my position. My responsibility to the public interest does,” he said. The Premier has followed the example of pro-abortion former Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin in using Catholic schools as campaign stops. (see coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/dec/05120207.html ) Currently, McGuinty found it convenient to use the […]
By John-Henry Westen BRUSSELS, September 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A debate in the European Union is simmering over the upcoming World Day against the Death Penalty on October 10. The current EU President from Portugal is requesting that the EU jointly declare an EU-wide day against the death penalty on that date. However, Poland has rightly seen hypocrisy in the venture with regard to the “right to life”. The 2006 declaration by the Presidency of the EU on the occasion of the World Day against the death penalty stated: “The European Union considers the death penalty as a […]
* 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. Media Give Planned Parenthood Pass for Lying to City Re Abortion Clinichttps://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2007/09/18/media-giving-planned-… ‘Dead’ Man Wakes Up Under Autopsy Knifehttps://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3611647 Christian attorney explains his opposition to AG nomineehttps://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/09/christian_attorney_explains_hi.php Italy in “moral crisis,” bishops’ leader sayshttps://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=53586 Selective Abortions Take High Toll of Girlshttps://www.zenit.org/article-20523?l=english As families change, more children will be conceived as ‘genetic orphans’—we need to determine society’s obligation to the children it helps bring into being – […]
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman PARANA, Argentina, September 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The decision to preserve the life of an unborn child in Argentina has been overturned by a higher tribunal, and now the child’s grandfather is fighting to preserve the child’s life. Judge Claudia Salomon of the city of Parana ruled against an abortion last week for a nineteen year old mentally disabled girl who had been impregnated by a relative, when an attorney in the case made a preventative motion in the interest of the rights of the unborn child (see recent LifeSiteNews coverage at https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/sep/07090601.html). […]
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman WASHINGTON, September 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kathy Saile, who once gave a speech on promoting liberalism at a conference held by a pro-abortion group, has been named Director of Domestic Policy for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Previous to the appointment, Saile was Associate Director of Public Policy for Lutheran Services in America (USA), an organization that serves the extremely liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), which recently declared that their “clergy” were free to participate in homosexual relationships. In her official capacity as Associate Director of Public Policy […]
By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, DC, September 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic organization is launching its 15th annual International Week of Prayer and Fasting for the culture of life. The International Week of Prayer & Fasting Coalition has as its goals the conversion of nations, an end to abortion and to build a culture of life. The Coalition is asking for people to participate as individuals, families and parishes by organizing and offering the following: fasting, daily Masses and prayer to include: Holy Hours, Rosaries, Divine Mercy Chaplets and Confession. Pope John Paul II backed the international week […]
By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, September 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Xtra, a Canadian homosexual newspaper has published interviews with political party leaders from the province of Ontario. While Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty refused to answer questions but sent in a written statement, both Conservative Leader John Tory and NDP Leader Howard Hampton consented to an interview. During the interview, the paper asked about homosexual sex in a public park, and neither Tory nor Hampton took issue with the suggestion. In the interviews published September 6, the paper asked, “Xtra readers recently voted Queen’s Park the best place […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, September 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Judgment has been reserved in the “Bubble Zone” case concerning protest within a proscribed geographic area near abortion clinics. The Canadian Religious Freedom Alliance (Alliance), represented by legal counsel, Julie Owens, presented arguments Sept. 13 and 14 at the B.C. Court of Appeal in defence of freedom of speech for those protesting within the “bubble zone” around abortion clinics. This action arose from B.C. resident, Donald Spratt’s, December 1998 conviction under the B.C. Access to Abortion Services Act, on charges of making a “protest” and “sidewalk interference” resulting in a 30-day […]
PHILADELPHIA, September 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study has found that divorce, even when the kids are older, can have negative affects on the amount of care children will provide to elderly parents. And that spells trouble for the baby boomer generation. Temple University researcher Adam Davey, Ph.D. has found the impact of divorce and remarriage can predict about whether a child will provide more involved care in the future. A divorce may have happened over 30 years ago, but the changes it caused can have a long lasting effect for the child into adulthood, Davey said. The findings […]
* 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. Indian bishops urge Catholics to have more babieshttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10394 Fury as 12-year-old ‘model’ fronts world fashion show in revealing outfitshttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=482192&a… Bush announces Attorney General nominee; accused of giving in to Dems’ demandhttps://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/09/liberty_counsel_founder_accuse.php Special-interest groups control U.S. public education, says attorneyhttps://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/09/special-interest_groups_contro.php Top Republican candidates to skip ‘Values Voter’ forumhttps://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/09/top_gop_candidates_to_skip_val.php “Convergence” of newspaper and television ownership in Canada to be addressed again – Danger is too much power can […]
By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alan Keyes, a former US ambassador and articulate defender of pro-life and pro-family values, has now announced his own intention to enter the Republican presidential primary. Keyes declared his candidacy Friday and stated on the nationally syndicated Janet Parshall radio program that not only would he be joining the nine other Republican contenders in the primary, but he would also be participating in tonight’s Values Voter Debate in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “I will be participating in the Values Voter Debate on Monday as a candidate, and I […]
By Meg Jalsevac WASHINGTON, DC, September 14, 2007, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week Senator Bob Casey, Jr. (Democrat-Pennsylvania) actively contradicted his largely pro-life campaign promises by voting to approve a funding appropriations bill that would provide US funding to foreign organizations that promote and provide abortions. The funding bill (HR 2764) would effectively overturn the Mexico City Policy, a foreign aid policy which expressly prohibits the funding of overseas agencies involved in abortion. The policy was first adopted by President Ronald Reagan and continued in the presidency of Bush, Sr. President Clinton repealed the pro-life policy on the first […]
By Hilary White TORONTO, September 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) has linked the recently released statistics on the decline of legal marriage in Canada to the so-called Three Parent case. In that case an Ontario judge ruled that a five-year-old child was the legal offspring of the father, biological mother and the mother’s lesbian partner. The Supreme Court has refused to an application to appeal the 2006 case, which means that in Ontario not only the legal institution of marriage but the biological nature of the family has been overturned by the courts. […]
By Hilary White OTTAWA, September 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the announcement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper of the proroguing of Parliament, the bill to change the age of sexual consent in Canada will die on the order paper. The bill that proposed to raise the age of consent from its current 14 years to 16, had passed in the House of Commons in May this year, and was to head to the Senate. Parliamentary sources had told LifeSiteNews.com that its passage there was not certain. The legislation was to have increased the legal age for heterosexual activity […]
* 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. China Cracks Down on One-Child Violatorshttps://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RL8LK00&show_article=1 China’s one-child policy: doctors discover 23 sewing needles in woman’s head https://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2953472.ece An Abortionist’s Right to Deceive Womenhttps://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODA4MjAzMzRkMjgzNTY0OTgzOGY1ZTg5MDIwODM4YmU… Stepping on “Various Traditional Social Taboos”: Organ Donationhttps://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/September07/nv091307.html Gingrich: ‘80-20’ Odds Dems Will Win in ‘08…https://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/070913nj1.htm Abortion and mental health: The link we cannot ignorehttps://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=8f156de4-fea1-4c74-a1c3-17… Welby widow questions Vatican stand on feeding tubeshttps://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=53531 Marital breakdown soars in Irelandhttps://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=53534 […]
By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, September 13, 2007 (C-FAM.org) – The US delegation to the UN sharply scolded a top UN official this week for perpetuating the falsehood that there is a new UN mandated global goal related to “sexual and reproductive health.” The exchange came during the Executive Board meeting of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). The US also criticized UNFPA’s promotion of abortion. UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid was presenting UNFPA’s strategic plan and its proposed global and regional programs. In her report Obaid claimed “The target on universal access to reproductive health under Millennium Development […]
By John-Henry Westen SAULT STE. MARIE, ON, September 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Elected trustees of the Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board (H-SCDSB) have objected to implementing a plan to vaccinate girls in the Board’s Catholic schools with the controversial HPV vaccine. The recently developed HPV vaccine is designed to prevent the sexually transmitted disease Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), the leading cause of cervical cancer. HPV is not preventable with condom use. The vaccine has had little long-term testing and is thus of concern to some health-care professionals. “This is presuming (premarital sex is) happening and I hate like […]
By Hilary White September 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Chinese couple is suing the communist government of China for a forced ninth-month abortion. Under the provisions of the one-child policy, Chinese citizens are required to obtain a license to have a first child. Conceiving a child before marriage is an offence. A young couple, Yang Zhongchen and his wife Jin Yani, had to wait until Jin was the minimum age of 20 before being married. This meant that their first child, a girl, was illegal. Attempts to bribe local “family planning” officials failed and while Yang was out […]
By Meg Jalsevac BRITAIN, September 13, 2007, (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study conducted by individuals at the University of Aberdeen and recently published in the British Medical Journal claims to reassure women that taking oral contraceptives will, in fact, reduce their risk of getting cancer. News services throughout the world are touting the ‘medical breakthrough’ that supposedly shows that “the cancer benefits of oral contraception outweigh the risks.” In reality, the true facts of the study portray a very different result for the millions of women worldwide who use oral birth control. According to the TimesOnline, the British […]
* 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. Women Bribed to Donate Eggs for Cloninghttps://www.citizenlink.org/CLBriefs/A000005464.cfm German politician pushes euthanasia machinehttps://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=53491 Virginia school denies recognition to pro-life student club, ADF files suithttps://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4241 Stem cells from cord blood could become the standardhttps://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/story/232061.html Scientists discover how to isolate stem cells in womb tissuehttps://www.physorg.com/news108880605.html Dallas-area heart patient was helped by his own stem cellshttps://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/collin/frisco/stories/DN-f…# Abortion’s “unshakeable foe” – Presidential candidate Ron Paul visits California https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=305ed27a-8ee3-4c0e-8b19-f216… […]
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MANAGUA, September 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com)-The Nicaraguan congress voted today overwhelmingly to renew the penal code’s punishment of all abortions, striking down an amendment that would have created an exemption for “therapeutic abortion.” Although there was concern that the governing Sandinista party might renege on its 2006 campaign promise to support the anti-abortion penal code, the party kept its promise and voted to maintain the law. The three votes against were from the far-left Movimiento Renovador Sandinista (MRS), a group that split from the original Sandinista party in the 1990’s. The resounding victory followed threats […]
By Hilary White TRENTON, New Jersey, September 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Doctors in New Jersey are not required to inform women seeking abortion, that it will “kill not just a potential life, but an actual existing human being”, the state’s highest court ruled unanimously yesterday. The case was important to the ongoing attempts to install legal protections to the unborn in the US. For decades the arguments of the abortion lobby has been that a child in the womb is not fully a human being, but only a “potential” life. The question, “When does the life a human […]
FARMINGTON, September 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm today, announced that United States District Judge Victoria A. Roberts has entered a permanent injunction granting equal rights to a Bible club and its members at Farmington High School in Farmington, Michigan. The Law Center represents ALIVE, a voluntary student Bible club, its president and co-founder, Aaron Grider, and his parents. In 2006, Grider had requested that ALIVE be recognized by the school as a noncurriculum-related student group and receive the same treatment and benefits that other noncurriculum-related student groups receive at […]
By Meg Jalsevac CRACOW, Poland, September 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Second World-Prayer Congress for Life will be held this year in Cracow, Poland on October 11-14. The Congress will be held in the Shrine of the Divine Mercy and this year’s theme, similar to last year, will focus on Pope John Paul II’s words in Evangelium Vitae, “A great prayer for life is urgently needed (EV 100).” According to the Prayer-Congress website, the speaking roster will include His Eminence Cardinal Stanislaw Nagy, The Right Rev. Bishop Albin Malysiak, Dr. Wanda Póltawska Ph.D., Dr. John C. Rao (U.S.A.), […]
By Hilary White September 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With Britain facing its 40th anniversary of the legalizing of abortion, this October the issue is finding its way into the mainstream British press. Today’s Daily Mail, whose “small-c” editorial policy makes it Britain’s largest circulating daily newspaper, is carrying a series of interviews titled, “What WE think of abortion – by the women who had them…” The story covers interviews with six women, two of whom say they have “no regrets”, chronicling the horrors of abortion. But a US blogger is calling foul and asking why the Daily Mail is […]
DULUTH, GA, September 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cathy Weaver (left) and some children record a new song that they believe could possibly change the minds of expectant parents contemplating an abortion. Written by David Burke (right), “We Want to See the World” is an emotional call-and-response ballad between an angel and children who are still in their mothers’ wombs. The lyrics portray beautiful images of earth, convey messages about reaching heaven, and assure parents of God’s grace for their children. Burke sent the song to more than 15,000 Catholic churches nationwide to encourage their music ministers and Respect […]
By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, September 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Public funding for faith-based schools has become a hot topic in the Ontario election with the Conservative Party proposal to provide such funding. Even with the unwelcome condition that in order to receive public funds, all faith based schools must adhere to the Ontario curriculum and have accredited teachers, Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities are backing the proposal. This week the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops has reiterated its long-standing support for public funding of all faith-based schools, Catholic and non-Catholic alike. “Our commitment to the best education for […]
By Hilary White BELFAST, September 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The homosexual political movement in Britain was dealt a rare setback this week as a Northern Irish court ruled to curb some parts of notorious regulations. The Sexual Orientation Regulations of the Equality Act, that came into effect in January, would have allowed gay activists in Northern Ireland to prosecute people expressing religious oppositions to the homosexual lifestyle. The judge struck down the harassment provisions appearing in the legislation for Northern Ireland but supported the Regulations in general. According to the ruling, Christians or other religious people will now […]
* 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. Why I, as a feminist, abhor how the abortion law has been so abusedhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_art… Planned Parenthood’s Recent Hypocrisyhttps://townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2007/09/08/planned_parenthood%E2%80%99s… Prisons Purging Books on Faith From Librarieshttps://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/us/10prison.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Emmy Award Winnere Kathy Griffin: “Suck it, Jesus, this award is my God now”https://www.catholicleague.org/release.php?id=1326 Controversial Study: Is Change Possible for Gays?https://www.christianpost.com/article/20070911/29260_Controversial_Study%3A_Is_Ch… U.S. Teen Suicide Rate: Highest Increase In 15 Yearshttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070907221530.htm MTV to Air Bisexual Dating Show https://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ihqgjykWXaDNsOSS-oUrp4VfTyJg School […]
TOPEKA, Kansas, September 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A former patient of abortionist George R. Tiller gave jaw-dropping testimony before a joint interim legislative committee Friday, telling the detailed story of her late-term abortion experience that, as described, violated the Kansas ban on such abortions at nearly every turn. “This is perhaps the most explosive testimony that has every been heard at the Capitol. Based on this testimony alone, Tiller’s medical license should not survive to the end of the day,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “We demand that the Board of Healing Arts take immediate action to stop Tiller […]
by John-Henry Westen September 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – No write-up can adequately describe this Fox News segment from “Hannity’s America”. It accurately depicts Planned Parenthood as money hungry abortion peddlers. It follows the controversy of the largest abortion mill opening in Aurora, Illinois after having constructed the premises under false pretenses. The video plays audio recordings of Planned Parenthood employees caught on tape covering up statutory rape. See this video and send it to your friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18IKmx6wsYk
September 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Turning the Tide, the powerful DVD on euthanasia and assisted suicide, has been incredibly well received. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has sold more than 700 copies of Turning the Tide since its release in April and Turning the Tide has received positive reviews from people across Canada and the US. Turning the Tide is produced by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and Salt and Light media foundation. Turning the Tide was designed to change the way secular society perceives the issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide. Secular society views the issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide to be […]
MANAGUA, September 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Abelardo Mata, the president of the Committee for the Family of the Nicaraguan bishops’ conference, has sharply condemned the proposals of some politicians in his country to legalise so-called “therapeutic abortion”. Speaking to the international Catholic pastoral charity, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), he stated that Nicaragua had no need of “therapeutic abortion” to protect the rights of its citizens. The very use of the term “therapeutic” was an ill chosen one, he said, since in reality it was a matter of a “crime”. The majority of people in Nicaragua were […]
CHICAGO, September 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the school year getting underway, the law firm of Mauck & Baker has prepared a list of opportunities and rights to inform parents how to help reinforce the values taught in their homes in the public schools. The news has reported irresponsible behavior by public school educators, such as the Montana school district which required fifth and sixth grade students to participate in a psychological study where they were shown drawings of male and female genitalia and asked to circle the ones which most closely resembled their own genitalia. In Illinois, children […]
BRATISLAVA, September 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This year marks the 50th anniversary of the legalisation of abortion in Slovakia. In this time 1.37 million unborn children have been killed under the communist legizlation. The current population of Slovakia is only 5 million. In order to show the Slovak people the reality of abortion, and to break the conspiracy of silence which surrounds this issue, the first phase of a new national campaign, Pravo Na Zivot, was launched this week with the public display of 500 graphic abortion billboards throughout the country and similar advertising on the Bratislava transportation networks. […]
* 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. U.S. Senate Votes to Support Abortion Overseashttps://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000005427.cfm Campaign urges choice to fund abstinence educationhttps://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/09/campaign_urges_choice_to_fund.php San Diego Diocese to pay $198 million to settle abuse claimshttps://weblog.signonsandiego.com/news/breaking/2007/09/sd_diocese_settles_sexual… Time’s Jeff Israely Asks ‘Will The Pope Behave in Austria?’https://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2007/09/07/time-s-jeff-israely-asks-w… Report: China rejects Vatican picks for new bishops as anti-communisthttps://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/06/asia/AS-GEN-China-Vatican-Bishops.php Feminists, Church liberals delighted with Vatican approval of Canadian use of inclusive language NRSV bible in Mass lectionaryhttps://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=25267 China is […]
by Hilary White TORONTO, September 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ontario’s leading homosexual lobby group has cancelled a planned leaders’ “debate” due to lack of interest by leaders. The three main political parties in Ontario declined to attend the event that EGALE hoped would mimic one staged by their counterparts in the US. A pair of homosexual activist organisations in the US staged a political stunt last month in which most of the Democrat hopefuls for the presidential nomination were grilled by a panel to see which one was the most “gay friendly”. Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, […]
By Peter J. Smith WARSAW, September 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) -The European Commission’s proposal to establish a European Day Against the Death Penalty has come under sharp criticism from Poland, which says the European Union (EU) instead needs to promote a day dedicated to the protection of all human life. In the proposed declaration, the EU and the Council of Europe “stress the importance of persevering in the pursuit of actions aimed at abolishing the death penalty in the world” and “invite European citizens to support the abolition of the death penalty in the world and thereby contribute to […]
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman QUITO, September 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, has issued a firm denial that he wishes to legalize abortion in the new constitution being prepared for the country, according to press reports. “We’re not going to permit abortion nor the decriminalization of abortion. Here we are profoundly humanist,” Correa told TC Television in Ecuador today. Ecuador is currently in the process of rewriting its constitution, a project initiated by Correa. The possibility of legalizing abortion has become a major topic of debate during the campaign for representatives to the Constituent Assembly, […]
By Hilary White ROCKVILLE, Maryland, September 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Three parents’ groups have filed papers in Montgomery Circuit Court on Tuesday to request a halt to the planned start of a homosexual curriculum in county schools. Barring a court decision, the school board, after a lengthy battle, will implement a curriculum that will introduce children to the homosexual movement’s political doctrines in the eighth and tenth grade classrooms this fall. If it is allowed to go forward, the curriculum, that teaches homosexuality is caused by a specific “gay gene,” will include a lesson titled, “Respect for Differences […]
September 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At numerous North American abortion clinics dedicated prayerful pro-life sidewalk counselors attempt to save mothers and their babies from abortion. Many babies are in fact saved and their mothers helped to continue with the pregnancy and raise their saved children. What is not widely known are the often amazing, unexplainable occurrences that result in many of these successes. LifeSiteNews staff have heard numerous such stories which are sometimes enough to cause tears or raise goose bumps on one’s skin. The following is one such story about the uncanny appearance of a stranger who made all […]
By Marie Peeters-Ney, MD and Philip G. Ney, M.D., M.A., FRCP(C), FRANZCP, RPsych Originally published in Catholic Insight December 2003 Republished with permission and encouragement of authors One could speak about a worldwide “Harry Potter phenomenon,” appearing soon after the Pokemon craze. The object of this discussion is to reflect on the possible reasons for the remarkable popularity of Harry Potter. Can the current craze be only due to good marketing skills? Does this book have exceptional literary value? Could the book be an indicator of a deeper cultural trend? We wish to hypothesize that the popularity of the […]
by John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, D.C., September 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. D. James Kennedy, an internationally renowned Presbyterian minister, religious broadcaster, and outspoken advocate for life and family, passed away early Wednesday morning. He died peacefully in his sleep at approximately 2:15 a.m. at his home with his wife and daughter at his bedside. He was 76. Longtime pastor of the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Kennedy preached his last sermon on Christmas Eve 2006. Four days later, he suffered a cardiac arrest and had been unable to return to the pulpit since. On August 26, […]
By Peter J. Smith MOSCOW, September 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Russian Court has vindicated the city of Moscow’s decision to ban Gay Pride parades. On Tuesday, Moscow’s Tverskoi District Court rejected the protest filed by Pride organiser Nikolai Alekseev, ruling that the ban enforced by Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and city authorities was legal under Russian law and justifiable over security concerns. Alekseev and approximately 100 other homosexual activists including Marco Cappato, an Italian member of the EU parliament, and German MEP Volker Beck, had gathered before City Hall to protest Mayor Luzhkov’s ban of a Gay Pride […]
By Hilary White LONDON, September 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the government cloning and stem cell research regulator, published its public consultation on the creation of human/animal hybrid clones, in which it claimed the majority of people were “at ease” with the idea. It is expected to rule tomorrow on the proposal to create cytoplasmic hybrid cloned embryos from animal ova and human DNA. The HFEA had its consultation period open for a year, during which time it was subject to intense lobbying by research organisations determined to carry cloning and […]
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