Articles for Month: February 2008

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski   CORNWALL, UK, February 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A young woman, who was considered a talented artist, loved to paint and had sold a number of paintings, was found dead in her home in Helston, Cornwall, UK.   Emma Beck committed suicide on February 1, 2007 after aborting her twin babies in September 2006. She left a suicide note which said, “Living is hell for me. I should never have had an abortion. I see now I would have been a good mum. I told everyone I didn’t want to do it, even at the hospital. […]

By John Connolly   BOSTON, February 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Massachusetts Attorney General responded to a pro-life challenge to a 2007 buffer zone law on Wednesday, claiming that the law does not violate free speech in any way.   Martha Coakley, Attorney General of Massachusetts, filed a brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, opposing Operation Rescue Boston’s claim that the new law violates free speech. Coakley said in her brief that the law did not violate free speech, because the law did not prohibit what could be said, just where it could be said. […]

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"Baby is judged to be better off dead than forced to endure the only kind of life it can ever have," say authors

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman   BRASILIA, Brazil, February 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The first Encounter of Pro-Life Legislators and Governors, which was held on Wednesday in Brazil, has resulted in a pro-life manifesto and a petition for the creation of a parliamentary committee to monitor the problem of clandestine abortions in Brazil.   The meeting was organized by Brazil’s Parliamentary Front for Life, a nationwide organization of pro-life legislators, in response to a proposed law now making its way through the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. Bill 1135/91 would legalize abortion completely, eliminating criminal penalties in the nation’s penal code.  It […]

By John Connolly   HYANNIS, Massachusetts, February 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An abortionist responsible for the death of a 22-year-old woman permanently resigned his medical license in the United States on Wednesday. Dr. Rapin Osathanondh, a gynecologist from Massachusetts, relinquished his medical license in an effort to avoid an investigation by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine. Osathanondh was responsible for the death of Laura Hope Smith, a 22-year-old woman who went to Osathanondh’s clinic for an abortion on September 13, 2007.   Although early reports indicated that Laura Hope Smith died of hemorrhage from the abortion, her mother, […]

In response EGALE accuses Catholic schools of homophobia

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By Hilary White   NASHVILLE, February 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill meant to stop discussion of homosexuality in elementary and middle school classrooms in Tennessee has failed, but its sponsor insists it is necessary. State Representative Stacey Campfield, a Republican of Knoxville Tennessee, said that efforts around the country to bring such instruction into schools now require attention in Tennessee. The House Education K-12 Subcommittee voted to allow the state Board of Education to examine the bill, a move that Campfield said effectively killed it.   After the bill was defeated, Campfield continued to insist it is a necessary […]

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