March 17 News Comment

Dear readers,   There are some very significant items for your benefit in today’s news. Off the top there is a letter by the great grandson of a great 19th century hero William Wilberforce. Fr. Gerard Wilberforce writes that were his great grandfather alive today he’d be a pro-life activist.   Today is also Terri’s Day – the commemoration of a very sad chapter in the history of the United States where three years ago today Terri Schindler Schiavo died at the hands of doctors who refused her water or any food or fluids for over two weeks. Please take a […]
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William Wilberforce’s Great Grandson Says if Alive Today Wilberforce Would Fight Abortion

Editor’s Note:  The following letter by Fr Gerard Wilberforce, a Catholic priest in Exeter, who is the great grandson of the famed William Wilberforce is reproduced with the permission of Independent Catholic News. By Fr. Gerard Wilberforce March 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – I am writing as the great great grandson of William Wilberforce, who campaigned vigorously for the ending of the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, which ultimately paved the way for the abolition of slavery itself throughout the entire British Empire in 1833. I am often asked what would be the campaigns Wilberforce would be fighting if he were […]
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Students Defy University Censorship And Plead For Peaceful Freedom Of Expression

CALGARY, AB, March 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Calgary has threatened to censor one of its own student groups, Campus Pro-Life (CPL), from publicly displaying the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP), an educational exhibit that graphically compares abortion to the Holocaust.  CPL members are going to defy the university today and tomorrow as they ignore the new restrictions being placed on their group, and march onto campus to erect the signs. In a letter to Campus Pro-Life, which was copied to university’s vice-president of external affairs, Roman Cooney, the university’s legal counsel Charlene Anderson wrote, “We have received numerous […]
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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.   Earth Hour’s Soft Fascism – Check Your Brains at the Door  Masterminded by the anti-population World Wildlife Fund Earth Hour is “Far from being a harmless gesture of support for the environment”, says the National Post’s Peter Foster. He warns, “If you love civilization, freedom and the use of reason, keep on all the lights you need on Saturday.”  https://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=399189   Carbon Sense Coalition: ‘Earth Hour’ Should be Renamed ‘Dark […]
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Pro-Life Protest to be Held Saturday in São Paulo

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman   SAO PAULO, March 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life organization Brazil Without Abortion will be holding a demonstration in Sé Plaza in São Paulo to protest the proposed legalization of abortion, according to the Brazilian publication Folha Online, the website for the newspaper Folha de São Paulo.   The legislation in question is Bill 1135/91, which was originally proposed 17 years ago.  It is again under consideration, as it has around the same time of year every year since 1991, according to  Jaime Ferreira Lopes, national coordinator for the movement.   The group will also […]
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Vermont Supreme Court Upholds Lesbian’s Visitation Rights against Natural Mother’s Wishes

By Hilary White   MONTPELIER, Vermont, March 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com ) – The Vermont Supreme Court has upheld the claims of a lesbian for visitation rights to the daughter of her former partner. The court ruled that Janet Jenkins, who is no relation to the child, is legitimately the child’s other parent and dismissed an appeal from the child’s mother, Lisa Miller, saying that it had no reason to re-examine the case and calling Miller’s attempt to protect her daughter from the lesbian lifestyle “disingenuous”.   Defenders of the natural family are worried that the decision will erode the legal […]
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Famous Mexican Actress to Star in Pro-Life Play Authored by Herself

MEXICO CITY, March 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The famous Mexican actress Laura Zapata will be starring in a new play authored by herself, which she hints will show the psychological damage suffered by women who have abortions.   According to Zapata, the work will depict an encounter between the woman for whom abortion was legalized in the United States, (presumably Norma McCorvey the plaintiff in the “Roe v. Wade” Supreme Court case that resulted in the legalization of abortion in 1973), and a woman from an organization called simply “Provida” (Pro-Life). “I think this is a topic that is necessary […]
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Planned Parenthood 2006 –  289,650 Abortions, $112 Million Profit, $336 Million in Public Funds

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, DC, March 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The newly released Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) 2006-2007 annual report shows that the abortion behemoth has increased the number of abortions it committed from 264,943 in 2005 to 289,650 in 2006.  Total revenue amounted to over one billion dollars, with the organization’s profit margin – “excess of revenue over expenses” – soaring from $55.7 million in 2005 to $112 million in 2006.  Taxpayer dollars played a major role in that profit with the report acknowledging the organization received over $336 million in government grants and contracts. The massive […]
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Polish Bishops Praise Government for Refusal to Ratify Pro-Homosexual European Human Rights Charter

Thursday November 29, 2007 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Polish Bishops Praise Government for Refusal to Ratify Pro-Homosexual European Human Rights Charter By Hilary White WARSAW, November 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper reports that the government will opt out of the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, a move that has been welcomed by Poland’s bishops. Donald Tusk, who became Prime Minister on November 9 and took office on November 16, said he will honour the commitment of the previous government and join the UK as the only nations to opt out of the Charter. Tusk had indicated […]
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Just in Time for Christmas – Canadian Broadcaster Floats Show on How Christ Didn’t Really Exist

Friday November 30, 2007 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Just in Time for Christmas – Canadian Broadcaster Floats Show on How Christ Didn’t Really Exist By Hilary White OTTAWA, November 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s government funded National Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has offered its annual Christmas season refutation of Christianity, this year in the form of a documentary entitled, “The Pagan Christ” based on the book of the same name by popular Canadian liberal “theologian” Tom Harpur. The CBC webpage for the documentary asks, “So, what if it could be proven that Jesus never existed? What if there was evidence that […]
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Partial Birth Abortion Ban “Poster Child” Turns Sweet Sixteen

Tuesday November 27, 2007 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Partial Birth Abortion Ban “Poster Child” Turns Sweet Sixteen Doctors wanted to abort her at 7 months – gave hopeless prognosis By Hilary White ROGERSVILLE, Tennessee, November 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Donna Joy Vance turned sixteen yesterday but if her mother had listened to her doctors, she would have been aborted at the gestational age of seven months. Fortunately for Donna Joy, her mother, Lori Vance, refused to go along. “We’re celebrating Donna Joy’s 16th birthday,” Lori Vance said. “It’s a special day because it’s a day the doctors and so-called experts […]
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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.    China’s Strangulation of Tibet is Only Extension of Suffocation of Liberty in China Itself   Father Raymond J. De Souza writes in Today’s National Post, “Is there any other regime that still imprisons and kills bishops, priests and monks who fail to swear loyalty to the state? Is there any other country where the entire population is subject to child-bearing control, with forced sterilization and abortions for those who decline […]
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Embryo Bill in Northern Ireland Could Bring Legal Abortion in by “Back Door”

By Hilary White BELFAST, March 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life groups in Northern Ireland warn that attempts to force Britain’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) bill into the country could result in a constitutional crisis. Northern Ireland’s pro-life group, Precious Life, said the bill could be used to bring abortion into Northern Ireland by the back door against the wishes of the majority of the country’s people. Ian Paisley, the First Minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), has also warned British Prime Minister Gordon Brown that the Labour government’s bill must not be used […]
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Pro-Life Investigators Charged for Evidence Removal, Abortionist Gets Slap on Wrist

By John Connolly DETROIT, March 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leader of an investigation that discovered bodies of unborn babies and private medical records in an abortion clinic dumpster has been billed by Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for the removal of the evidence. In the meantime, the abortionist has himself escaped without any significant punishment. Dr. Monica Migliorino Miller, director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, has been billed $1,100 by the DEQ for the removal of evidence against the Lathrup Village Woman Care clinic, operated by abortionist Alberto Hodari. The evidence, discovered in dumpsters behind the clinic […]
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Ecuador Churches Submit 100,000 Signatures to Prevent Constitutional Recognition of Abortion

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman QUITO, March 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of Evangelical Protestant churches in Ecuador have reportedly delivered a petition with over 100,000 signatures to prevent the legalization of abortion in Ecuador’s new constitution. The goal of the group is to gather a total of two million signatures, which they expect to accomplish within the next few days. The group is also requesting that the new constitution continue the tradition of mentioning God explicitly, as does the preamble of the current constitution, and are seeking to exclude special “rights” for homosexuals from the new document. Pastor Francisco […]
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Brazil Teenager Murdered by Boyfriend for Refusing to Abort her Child

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman SÃO PAULO, Brazil, March 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mariana Almeida Andrade, a sixteen-year-old resident of São Paulo, lost her life for refusing to abort her unborn child, according to local police. After finding the teenage girl strangled to death in a vacant lot at a petrochemical plant in the São Miguel Paulista area, police interviewed her ex-boyfriend, who reportedly confessed that he killed her for refusing to have an abortion.  Almeida Andrade was three months pregnant at the time.  According to the police, her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, who remains unnamed in media accounts, said he did not […]
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Umbilical Cord Blood Cell Therapy May Reduce Signs and Symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease

TAMPA, FL, March 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Targeted immune suppression using human umbilical cord blood cells may improve the pathology associated with Alzheimer’s disease, a new study in a mouse model of this currently untreatable neurodegenerative condition reports. The study, led by researchers at the University of South Florida, is published online in the peer-reviewed journal Stem Cells and Development (www.liebertpub.com/scd). Following a series of low-dose infusions of human umbilical cord blood cells into mice with Alzheimer’s-like disease, the amount of amyloid-ß and ß-amyloid plaques – hallmarks of Alzheimer’s pathology in the brain – was reduced 62 percent. Amyloid-ß induces […]
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California Court Agrees to Reconsider Ruling That Made Most Homeschooling Illegal

LOS ANGELES, March 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California Court of Appeal agreed Tuesday to a request by attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund to reconsider a Feb. 28 decision making most homeschooling a crime in the state. “Parents have a fundamental right to make educational choices for their children,” said ADF Senior Counsel Gary McCaleb. “Because this ruling impacts all Californians, we believe the case deserves a second look. We look forward to presenting this case for rehearing.” Ruling against a child enrolled at Sunland Christian School, a private homeschooling program, the California Court of Appeal found, in the […]
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UN Weekly Briefing: March 17th -23rd

By CLC UN Representative   TORONTO, Canada, March 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com)   WORLD YOUTH REPORT 2007    On March 17th, the website Caribbean360.com published an exposé on the UN World Youth Report 2007 titled Young People’s Transition to Adulthood: Progress and Challenges. Issued by the department of Economic and Social Affairs, the 306 pages long document outlines the challenges of young people around the world. It presents a regional analysis of education, health, employment opportunities and other elements affecting the lives and realities of young people today.   According to Caribbean360.com, the situation of young people in the Caribbean is […]
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Leading Political Party in Belgium Calls for Euthanasia for Teens and Children

By John-Henry Westen BRUSSELS, March 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  The Leader of the Belgium Liberals, the primary Party in the Belgian coalition Government, has called for legal euthanasia to be permitted for teens and children.  The 2002 law which permitted euthanasia on newborns and terminally ill patients suffering “constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain” currently restricts euthanasia to newborns and those over 18 years of age. Bart Tommelein, Leader of Belgium Liberals, said his Party would seek approval for measures to extend euthanasia to teens and elderly disabled with dementia and thus unable to decide for themselves to be […]
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Nebraska Bans Public Funding for Destructive Embryo Research

By Hilary White LINCOLN, Nebraska, March 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – 48 of the 49 Nebraskan senators voted Tuesday to pass Legislative Bill 606 banning some human cloning. The measure was quickly signed by Governor Dave Heineman. The measure allows research grants to be given to institutions doing stem cell research without using embryos. The new law also prohibits public funding of research that creates or destroys embryos for stem cell research. The bill was passed on condition that neither side in the debate would introduce more legislation regarding cloning or stem cell research unless one of three conditions are met:  […]
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U.S. State Department Denies Passport to “Married” Homosexual Man

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MASSACHUSETTS, March 26,2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. State Department will not issue a new passport to a homosexual man under his “married” name, which is a hyphenate combining his and his partner’s surnames. The two homosexuals were “married” in Massachusetts, the only American state to have legalized same-sex marriage. The U.S. Government does not recognize same-sex marriage and rejected the man’s passport application citing the Defense of Marriage Act. “We are unable to comply with your request for a name change based on the documentation you sent because of the Defense of Marriage Act,” the letter […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes2

* 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.   Corrected Link – Catholic church in England accused of ‘lying’ over Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill – updated link  https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990861/posts  Judie Brown on ‘Cultural Consequences  https://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=27305   ACLU asks Sacramento library board to relax pornography controls on public computers  https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=331a33ba-ceca-4c69-9720-41fc5391bc2c   The Logical Extension of Hillary Clinton’s Relentlessly Political Life  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/03/25/logical-extension-her-relentlessly-political-life   CBS Exposes Hillary’s Faulty Memory Over Bosnia Trip.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BfNqhV5hg4   Women turning to natural methods of birth control  […]
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Only Two European Mayors Decline to Participate in Campaign for Gay Pride Parades

By Hilary White March 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Only two cities in Europe have refused to participate in a campaign by Europe’s leading homosexual lobby group to force the leaders of Europe’s cities to allow the homosexual “Gay Pride” demonstrations. But neither of the cities’ leaders made any objections to the goals or activities of the homosexual activist movement. On the contrary, one said that his city wished “every success” to the campaign. The mayors of Riga and Tallinn, the capitals of Latvia and Estonia respectively, have politely declined to participate in a campaign launched by the International Lesbian and […]
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Supreme Court Upholds Inmate’s “Right” to Abortion

By Michael Baggot WASHINGTON, DC, March 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court decided on Monday not to overturn a lower court ruling that protected an Arizona woman’s access to an abortion off jail grounds.  “Today’s announcement puts an end to Maricopa County prison officials’ blatant disregard of the law and failure to ensure that prisoners get the health care they need,” said Alessandra Soler Meetze, the ACLU Arizona executive director. “It’s the end of the road for Sheriff Arpaio’s campaign against reproductive freedom.” In December 2004, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio refused to transport a 19-year-old Arizona woman to […]
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Deep Sedation is Often “Slow Euthanasia”

By Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Editor’s note: The following commentary from Alex Schadenberg comes in response to a study in the Netherlands which found that 1,800 people – 7.1 percent of all deaths in the Netherlands in 2005 – were drugged into so-called continuous deep sedation shortly before dying. This compares with 5.6 percent of cases in 2001. At the same time, the use of euthanasia fell from 2.6 percent of all deaths to 1.7 percent, representing a decrease of 1,200 cases. The question of the use of deep sedation in the Netherlands as the alternative form of […]
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Nursing Association Attempts to Silence Christian Activist, Fellow Nurse at Supreme Court

By Hilary White REGINA, Saskatchewan, March 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Saskatchewan Association of Licensed Practical Nurses (SALPN) will attempt to take a Christian activist member to the Supreme Court of Canada to attempt to silence his objections to abortion, “sex education” and Planned Parenthood. Six years ago, Bill Whatcott, a licensed practical nurse, protested outside Planned Parenthood offices in Regina, Saskatchewan. SALPN retaliated by suspending his license and levelling a $15,000 fine, calling the protest “professional misconduct”. In January, after years of court battles, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ruled that the attempt by SALPN to silence Mr. Whatcott was […]
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Happily Married Men and Women Have Lower Blood Pressure, Other Health Benefits

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski March 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A report on research conducted at Brigham Young University reveals that men and women in happy marriages have substantially lower blood pressure than single individuals or couples in unhappy relationships. Psychology professor Julianne Holt-Lunstad found that men and women in happy marriages scored four points lower than single adults during the course of a 24-hour blood pressure monitoring procedure. 204 married and 99 single adults were asked to wear unobtrusive portable blood pressure monitors which recorded blood pressure at random intervals throughout the day, even while participants slept. Each participant’s blood […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes

* 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.   Catholic church in England accused of ‘lying’ over Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.  https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990861/posts   Polish PM declares boycott of Beijing Olympics Opening  https://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=20022&article=Polish+PM+declares+boycott+of+Beijing+Olympics+Opening   Muslim baptized a Catholic by Pope Benedict says the root of evil is innate in an Islam that is physiologically violent and historically conflictual.”  https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080323/wl_nm/pope_muslim_dc   Gorbachev Dispels ‘Closet Christian’ Rumors; Says He is Atheist  https://www.christianpost.com/article/20080324/31660_Gorbachev_Dispels_%27Closet_Christian%27_Rumors%3B_Says_He_is_Atheist.htm   Legislation signed Friday by Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland […]
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Archbishop Tells Catholic Church to Remove Thank-you from Transvestite ‘Sister’ from Online Version of Bulletin

Tuesday October 16, 2007 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Archbishop Tells Catholic Church to Remove Thank-you from Transvestite ‘Sister’ from Online Version of Bulletin Archbishop Aware of Parish Participation in Gay Pride Parade Featuring Full Frontal Nudity By Hilary White and John-Henry Westen SAN FRANCISCO, October 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Three days after the Archbishop of San Francisco apologized for having given Holy Communion to members of the notorious anti-Catholic homosexual activist group the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence”, the Catholic parish in the heart of San Francisco’s homosexual Castro district is embroiled in yet another scandal relating to the parish’s gay […]
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Outstanding Pro-Life U.S. Congressman Henry Hyde Died Today at Age 83

Thursday November 29, 2007 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Outstanding Pro-Life U.S. Congressman Henry Hyde Died Today at Age 83 Lauded as one of “most dedicated, eloquent and effective pro-life advocates” in US government By Steve Jalsevac WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Early this morning, former U.S. Congressman Henry Hyde, described by Colleen Parro, of the Republican National Coalition for Life, as “one of the most dedicated, eloquent and effective pro-life advocates in American government”, died at the age of 83. In addition to chairing the House Judiciary Committee, Hyde was President of the Clinton impeachment trial, a high-level participant […]
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Today’s News and Easter Greeting

Dear readers,   LifeSiteNews.com will not publish on Good Friday nor on Easter Monday, regular news service will resume on Tuesday March 25 – which is incidentally International Day of the Unborn Child.   We wish you a blessed celebration of the Resurrection of Our Lord and ask that you remember LifeSiteNews.com in your prayers during this holy time.  We are in a financial crunch currently so if you can remember us in that way it’d be very much appreciated.   In today’s news you will notice on item in another language – Spanish. A Mexican reader was so impressed […]
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Convicted Felon Abortionist is Now the Principal of a Chicago Elementary School

By Hilary White   CHICAGO, March 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A convicted felon and abortionist responsible for the deaths of at least two women has been hired at a Chicago public school as the new principal. A spokesman from Mildred I. Lavizzo School in the greater Roseland area told a pro-life advocate that the Lavizzo school council were apprised of the full background of their new principal, Dr. Arnold Bickham.      Jill Stanek, a Chicago area pro-life activist and nurse posted a letter on her website from an 8th grader at the school, who said that students and teachers “aren’t […]
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Yet Another Social Conservative Forbidden from Running for the Conservative Party of Canada

By John-Henry Westen   BURNABY, BC, March 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A revolt is brewing in the Conservative riding of Burnaby-New Westminster where the Party candidate in the last election – a strong social conservative – has been denied the opportunity to seek the nomination again despite massive local support.  Last week directors from the local constituency association held a forum discussing their concern at the Conservative Party’s decision to disqualify Marc Dalton, the Conservative Candidate of Record for 2006.    Prominent social conservative John Pacheco was similarly denied the opportunity to contest the Conservative Party nomination in 2005 which […]
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Four Times as Many Journalists Self-Define as Liberal than Conservative

 By John Jalsevac March 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A recent study by the Pew Research Center has revealed that journalists are far more likely to define themselves as liberal than the general population, and far less likely to define themselves as conservative. The massive study was conducted late last year, and surveyed the views of over 500 journalists.  “As was the case in 2004,” reads the commentary on the study by the Pew Research Center, “majorities of the national and local journalists surveyed describe themselves as political moderates; 53% of national journalists and 58% of local journalists say they are […]
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German Euthanasia Activists Announce Upcoming Illegal Assisted Suicide

Thursday November 29, 2007 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories German Euthanasia Activists Announce Upcoming Illegal Assisted Suicide By Thaddeus M. Baklinski GERMANY, November 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Uwe-Christian Arnold, the deputy director of Dignitate, the German branch of Dignitas, has announced plans to set a legal precedent by carrying out an assisted suicide in Germany. On November 9th, LifeSiteNews reported on the use of parked cars by Dignitas to carry out the assisted suicides of two Germans in Switzerland. More than half of the people who have killed themselves using Dignitas’ services in Switzerland have been Germans. The ambiguity of German […]
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Did US Bishops Punish Archbishop Burke at Annual Meeting?

Monday November 26, 2007 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Did US Bishops Punish Archbishop Burke at Annual Meeting? An auxiliary bishop defeating an archbishop for a conference chairmanship is “very unusual” by Deal W. Hudson Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Archbishop Raymond Burke (St. Louis) lost an election at the annual meeting of the U.S. bishops Nov. 13-16. Over the past three years, Burke has assumed the mantle of the late Cardinal John O’Connor in pro-life matters, challenging fellow bishops to take stronger stances in the defense of innocent life. Nominated as chairman for the Committee on Canonical […]
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LifeSIteNews.com NewsBytes

* 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.   Bin Laden warns EU, says the Pope has played a “large and lengthy role” in  “new Crusade” against Islam  https://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN1933824120080320?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&rpc=22&sp=true   Margaret Sanger would have loved Barack Obama  https://www.renewamerica.us/columns/childress/080315   In Heap of Trouble, Planned Parenthood Funds Pro-Abortion Candidates  https://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000006883.cfm   With Spitzer Out, Pro-Abortion Bill May Go Nowhere  https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200803/POL20080319a.html   Ex-doctor confesses to stealing body parts  https://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/19/ex_doctor_confesses_to_stealing_body_parts/   Abortion is now rarely debated on Catholic college campuses  https://www.newoxfordreview.org/briefly.jsp?did=0308-briefly   […]
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“Twins” Means Two Kids from the Same Father in Post-Divorce Britain

Commentary by Hilary White March 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Britain has lost “one of the most fundamental and universal features of human society”, the idea of the nuclear family where children have a profound connection to their fathers, Melanie Philips told us this week in her column in the Daily Mail. Philips was writing about Shannon Matthews, whose story occupied the attention of Britain’s tabloid readers when she went missing after school in February. Nine year-old Shannon was found last week and police are investigating what happened. But the family’s situation, in which Shannon’s mother, Karen, has had seven children […]
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Australian Study Shows Dramatic Drop in Abortion, Low Proportion of Homosexuals

 By John Jalsevac MELBOURNE, Australia, March 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An extensive study of Australian attitudes towards sexuality and Australians’ sexual behaviour has revealed that younger generations of Australian women are obtaining abortions much less frequently then the previous generation. Dr. Julia Shelley of Deakin University in Melbourne, one of members of the team of researchers conducting the study, told NEWS.com.au, “We’ve plotted a sudden decline in the abortion rate that is so low it harps right back to the time when abortion was illegal and rarely practiced.’‘ “That means that a young Australian woman these days is about as […]
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Oregon Report on Legal Assisted Suicide Admits to 341 Deaths

By Alex Schadenberg, President Euthanasia Prevention Coalition   Once again the Oregon Death With Dignity Act annual report is more about numbers than actual information. It is important to note that there are no case reports connected to the annual report on Oregon’s assisted suicides, and there is no guarantee that all the cases of assisted suicide have been reported.   The number of reported deaths has risen in 2007 to 49, from 46 reported deaths in 2006. More interesting is the fact that the number of prescriptions rose to 85 in 2007 from 65 in 2006. 3 of the 49 deaths in 2007 […]
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MaterCare International Founder Addresses US House – Urges Support for Pregnant Mothers in Third Wor

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WASHINGTON, DC, March 19,2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Robert Walley last week addressed the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, urging the U.S. to spend more to address basic health needs of children and pregnant mothers in the developing world. Citing the billions of dollars that have been spent on so called reproductive health programmes, Dr. Walley said that maternal health is the most neglected of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) the United Nations hoped to reach by 2015. “MDG number 5, ‘to improve maternal health by reducing maternal […]
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Letters to the Editor for March 18, 2008

RE: Mrs. Clinton: St. Patrick Was Pro-Lifehttps://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08031709.html Dear Editor,   My only regret is that I wasn’t there to hold up another sign addressed to Mrs. Clinton reiterating the fact that St. Patrick was pro-life.  I’m surprised the Archbishop wasn’t vocal about the pro-abortion stance of Mrs. Clinton and Gov. Rendell.   We have Senator Obama in Philadelphia today.  He is very much the abortion rights supporter.  As Mother Theresa said, “A nation that kills its children is doomed.”   Congratulations to Ms. Jalsavec and her daughter for holding up the poster.   Kathy Chominski ____________________________________ RE: Editorial: The Hope of a Sophist: The […]
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Doctors Required to Post Objections to Abortion and IVF says U.K. Rules

By Hilary White LONDON, March 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – British physicians will be required to post any “ethical objections” they may have to abortion according to a new document from the General Medical Council, the governing body for doctors in the UK. The document, “Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice”, says doctors must be “open with patients – both in person and in printed materials such as practice leaflets – about any treatments they do not provide or arrange because of a conscientious objection but which are not otherwise prohibited”. The document warns, “Serious or persistent failure to follow this guidance […]
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Samuel Golubchuk to Remain On Life Support While Trial Date Is Set

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WINNIPEG, Manitoba, March 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Samuel Golubchuk’s children are continuing the fight to keep their father alive against the efforts of hospital doctors who are determined to starve and dehydrate him to death, regardless of the family’s wishes. In February, Justice Perry Schulman of the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench granted a temporary injunction allowing Mr. Golubchuk to remain on life support until a trial could rule on the issue. The judge, in granting the injunction, said that there were sufficient grounds to doubt the hospital’s analysis of the patient’s condition. On Friday March […]
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Argentine President’s Administration Urges Parliament to Legalize Abortion, Homosexual “Marriage”

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BUENOS AIRES, March 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The administration of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s newly-elected president, has sent a letter to representatives of the national congress urging them to legalize abortion and homosexual “marriage”. The letter was sent by the president of the administration’s “National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Racism” (INADI), María José Lubertino, to members of the nation’s Chamber of Deputies. “Regarding discrimination for gender/sex, in the opinion of INADI, it would be very important for you to consider the following topics and bills in the parliamentary agenda of the Honorable Chamber of […]
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Focolare Founder Chiara Lubich Remembered for Her Pro-Life Convictions

By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, March 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chiara Lubich, the foundress of the worldwide Focolare Catholic lay movement which strives to unite people to live their lives for God, died March 14 at 88 years of age.  A funeral Mass for her was held today in Rome’s famed Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, offered by Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.  Lubich’s movement has millions of adherents and has spread into 182 countries. To a church packed with thousands, Cardinal Bertone read a message from Pope Benedict XVI which gave thanks to Christ “for the life […]
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Canadian Catholics Ask Bishops to Retract Winnipeg Statement – Recommit to Humanae Vitae

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, March 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the 40th anniversary of the publication of Pope Paul VI’s July 25, 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae approaches, a group of Catholics is challenging Canada’s Catholic bishops to revisit their official position on the document as it pertains to contraception.   The encyclical, which wrote of the Church’s prohibition on contraception, predicting accurately that it would lead to treatment of women as objects of use, was at the time rejected by many within the Catholic Church.  In 1990 the Philippine Bishops issued an apology to the nation’s Catholics for having failed to […]
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Library Employee Fired For Reporting Patron’s Use Of Child Pornography

Lindsay, CA, March 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, Liberty Counsel sent a demand letter to the Tulare County Board of Supervisors challenging the termination of Brenda Biesterfeld, a Librarian Assistant, who was fired without explanation shortly after she reported to the police that a man was viewing child pornography on a library computer. On February 28, while working at the Lindsay Branch Library, Biesterfeld noticed Donny Lynn Chrisler, a 39-year-old man, viewing child pornography on one of the public-use computers in the library. She immediately went to her supervisor, Judi Hill, who instructed her to give him a warning and […]
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Abortion Debate Rescheduled for Tonight after Student Union Quash

ONTARIO, March 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An abortion debate shut down by York University’s student union has been re-scheduled to occur today, March 18, at York University in Toronto.  Tomorrow, March 19, a similar debate will occur at Carleton University in Ottawa. Tuesday’s debate at York is the latest development since pro-abortion students cancelled the scheduled debate at the last minute. Last month, leaders of York’s student centre executive held an emergency meeting and voted unanimously to cancel an abortion debate between Michael Payton of York’s Freethinkers, Skeptics and Atheists group and Jose Ruba of the pro-life Canadian Centre for […]
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Abstinence Activist Elected to School Board that Fired Him

Tuesday November 27, 2007 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Abstinence Activist Elected to School Board that Fired Him Liberal school superintendent resigns in protest By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman PRIOR LAKE, Minnesota, November 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After being fired for promoting abstinence among students at the school where he worked, ex school supervisor Chris Lind has been elected to the Prior Lake-Savage district school board in Minnesota. Lind, who was a hallway and parking lot supervisor at a local high school and a “conservative Christian” was told by District Human Resource Director Tony Massaros that he could not discuss abstinence from […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes

* 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.   How St. Patrick changed history – Morally corrupt Rome, violent Druid pagans paved way for Patrick to become a great saint  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59126   Peggy Noonan – McCain: What exactly does he feel passionately about, what great question? Or rather, what does he stand for, really?  https://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html   Catholic voters help boost Clinton campaign  https://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2008/03/13/news/news4.txt   There is almost no chance Hillary can get the votes she needs to win the […]
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About the March 17 News

Dear Readers,   We have an interesting story today about Hilary Clinton’s participation in the Pittsburgh St. Patrick’s Day parade. Be sure to check out the photographs in the website version of the story.   Last week it was a Scottish Catholic bishop and this week an Oklahoma State Representative made some unusually blunt public criticisms about homosexual activism. In both cases the critics have refused to back down despite a barrage of intimidation orchestrated by gay activists. There appears to be a new trend of some people in leadership positions saying they have had enough of what they see […]
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UN Briefing For March 17, 2008

TORONTO, Canada, March 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com)   By Campaign Life Coalition UN Representative 2nd Meeting of the Millennium Development Goals (MGDs) African Steering Group held in New York:  On March 10th, the UN Secretary General chaired the 2nd meeting of the MDGs African Steering Group. The African continent is often the focus of many talks, especially when it comes to the ability of its various countries to meet the MDGs.   At the close of the meeting, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke at a press conference. In his address to the media, he reminded the press that “The facts on […]
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Planned Parenthood Attacks the Whistleblower after Student Group Reveals Racism

By Hilary White BOISE, March 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The underlying racism of Planned Parenthood’s policies was revealed recently when an official was caught on tape agreeing, while laughing, to take a donation for abortions specifically targeted at reducing the black population. Now the Idaho branch of Planned Parenthood has claimed that the official’s response was a “serious mistake” and has criticized the pro-life group that gathered the information. The students’ undercover investigation received national media attention when it revealed that PP officials were open about their continued dedication to their founder Margaret Sanger’s eugenic policies to “exterminate the Negro […]
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Ugandan First Lady Recognized by Parliament for Promoting Chastity in Fight against AIDS

By Hilary White KAMPALA, Uganda, March 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The speaker of the Ugandan Parliament has recognized Janet Museveni, the wife of the president of Uganda, for her outspoken activism on the AIDS epidemic. Besides receiving an award, she was mentioned in a Parliamentary resolution recognising the outstanding contributions by individuals and institutions in the fight against HIV/AIDS. At an event to mark 25 years of the disease in Uganda, Mrs. Museveni told the young people of her country to abstain from sexual activity. The First Lady was speaking to an audience of students at Kampala International University at […]
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Swiss Euthanasia Group Reopens “Clinic” Next to Country’s Largest Brothel

By John Jalsevac March 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Dignitas euthanasia “clinic” has reopened its doors in a facility located next to Switzerland’s largest brothel. Dignitas, which has repeatedly made international headlines for its unapologetic mission to assist the ill from around the world to kill themselves, was evicted from its previous facility in September of last year after fellow tenants complained of the constant stream of dead bodies leaving the building. Gloria Sonny, 53, a resident in the same building as Dignitas’ old clinic, told the Telegraph at the time, “We call it the ‘House of Horrors’.” “This is […]
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Letters to the Editor for Monday, March 17, 2008 – Responses to Baby Zeke and Perinatal Hospice stor

RE: Reporter wins National Journalism Award for Article on Carrying Ill-Fated Pregnancy to Term. https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08031304.html   To the editor,   A friend sent me the link today to your story about Lee Hill Kavanaugh of Kansas City, Missouri receiving a national journalism award for her story of baby Zeke, who was diagnosed around 20 weeks of pregnancy with a lethal birth defect. Your story was about the need for perinatal hospice services.   Your story also included a photograph of Zeke’s mother being comforted. The hand caressing her face was mine. I am the House Mother of Alexandra’s House, (https://www.alexandrashouse.com) […]
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UK Psychiatric College Finds Women who Abort at Greater Risk of Mental Illness

By Hilary White LONDON, March 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While doctors and researchers continue to track the long term psychological harms of abortion, political advocates of legal abortion have continued to insist that the only psychological reaction to abortion in women is “relief”. Now one of the most prestigious psychiatric bodies in the world has issued a warning that women are not being sufficiently warned of abortion’s potentially devastating psychological effects. The UK’s Royal College of Psychiatrists recommends, not the abolition of abortion or even taking any legal measures to reduce it, but updating the information pamphlets given to women […]
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French Woman Loses Case in Bid to be Euthanized

By John Jalsevac DIJON, France, March 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A mother of three who lives in the Bourgogne region of Eastern France has had her plea to be euthanized by her doctor rejected by a court in Dijon. The court ruled that French law does not permit a doctor to prescribe lethal drugs to patients. The case of the 53-year-old woman, Chantal Sebire, has garnered widespread sympathy in France, especially since she appeared on national television and made an appeal to French President Nicholas Sarkozy to intervene on her behalf and accede to her request to be killed. The […]
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Colorado Bills Could See Catholic Hospitals Forced to Provide Abortions or Close Down

By Michael Baggot DENVER, CO, March 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The bill HB 1173, set for a final vote on Tuesday, would allow Colorado courts to dictate how charitable organizations, including Catholic hospitals, spend their funds.  Following the January introduction of HB 1173, two other bills also were introduced in Colorado that would further limit the freedom of faith-based hospitals to practice medicine in accord with their convictions.  The three bills stem from the efforts of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System to purchase control of two hospitals from Community First Foundation, thus making Lutheran Medical Center and […]
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CORRECTION to Canadian By-Elections Report

In Friday’s story, “Campaign Life Coalition Reports on Federal By-Election Candidates”  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08031414.html, it was mistakenly reported that in the riding of DESNETHÉ—MISSINIPPI—CHURCHILL RIVER (SASKATCHEWAN) the Conservative Party selected its own candidate over the chosen candidate from the riding association.   That was incorrect. It was the Liberal Party that parachuted in a candidate to replace the candidate chosen by the local Liberal riding association.   Campaign Life Coalition apologizes for the error.
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RSS Feed Address Change, LifeSiteNews Search Working, Yahoo, Rogers Email Problem Solution

By Steve Jalsevac RS Feed Address Change   For those who have been using our handy RSS feed, we just discovered the change from LifeSite.net to LifeSiteNews.com has caused a problem. The Internet address of the LifeSiteNews RSS feed is now https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/rss/headlines.xml rather than the old url that had lifesite.net in it. Please make the change to the new url in your RSS utility so that you can continue to automatically receive LifeSiteNews reports as they are posted on our website. LifeSiteNews Search Working Again You will find that the LifeSiteNews Search is once again producing excellent results. There are […]
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Proposed Sex-Ed Lessons for D.C. Schools Said to Falsely Claim Homosexuality Innate

Wednesday November 28, 2007 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Proposed Sex-Ed Lessons for D.C. Schools Said to Falsely Claim Homosexuality Innate WASHINGTON, D.C., November 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – D.C. Public Schools’ proposed health learning standards would fail a true-false test, since many of the guidelines presented in the new standards are wrong and harmful to D.C.’s youth, according to an ex-gay advocacy group which testified before the D.C. Public School Board today. The School Board held its hearing today to listen to public comments on the new sex ed guidelines. According to Regina Griggs, executive director of Parents and Friends of […]
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Letters to the Editor for Friday, March 14, 2008

LifeSiteNews Comment on Today’s letters:   The following two emails are representative of the hundreds of emails LifeSiteNews has received from homosexual activists who oppose our alternative news reporting on events and statements related to the homosexual issue. Actually, these two recent emails are not as hate-filled and vulgar as are most of the others, which we cannot publish because of their offensive wording.   In most of these cases LifeSiteNews has been accused of “hate”, “bigotry”, “slander”, “judging”, violating “Jesus’s rule to not judge lest you be judged” and being false Christians – even when we frequently report on […]
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Belgium Parents May be Jailed for Refusing Polio Vaccine

By John Jalsevac BELGIUM, March 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two sets of parents in Belgium who have refused to vaccinate their children for polio have been sentenced to five months in prison for their crime, reports the AP. The parents, however, may yet avoid jail time, as their sentences have been delayed so as to give them one last chance to vaccinate their children. If they do not meet this last deadline, then they will serve the time in prison. The parents have also received a hefty €4,100 fine. The polio vaccine is currently the only legally mandated vaccine in […]
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Exclusive Interview: Ottawa Archbishop Explains Why Pro-Abortion Politicians are Denied Communion

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, March 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mainstream media has picked up on comments by Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast regarding reception of Holy Communion for pro-abortion politicians.  However, one part of the discussion which has received little discussion is the reason why the Church would deny politicians reception of Communion. “The Code of Canon Law says in #915 that ‘those whom the penalty of excommunication or interdict has been imposed or declared, and others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin,” explains the religious leader of Canada’s national capital,”are not to be admitted to Holy Communion’.”  “What […]
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Deal with the Devil: Catholic Healthcare Firm Joins World’s Foremost Human Cloning Company

By Michael Baggot SAN FRANCISCO, CA March 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Human cloning practitioner, Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), Inc. announced a clinical trial agreement with Chandler Regional Medical Center and Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, members of Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), on Wednesday.  The groups plan to join in clinical trials of adult stem cell techniques for the treatment of heart disease.  “The agreement with CHW signifies our readiness to begin the Phase II clinical trial,” said William M. Caldwell, IV, chairman and CEO of ACT. “We are excited to begin the trial, which has the potential to be a major […]
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Vatican Advises Philippines Bishop Not to Accept Donations from Firms that Produce Contraceptives

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MANILA, March 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A letter addressed to Philippines Bishop Gabriel Reyes from Alfonso Cardinal Lopez Trujilo, president of the Pontificium Consilium Pro Familia (Pontifical Council for the Family) said that accepting donations from those who promote abortion and contraception is contrary to the Gospel, and will greatly harm efforts to strengthen and defend life and the family. The cardinal’s letter explained that the rejection of donations from pharmaceutical companies that produce contraceptives and abortifacient drugs follows the Church’s position that funds produced from activities that are morally evil – abortion and contraception – […]
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New Poll Finds 70% Canadians Back Unborn Victims of Crime Bill Only 19% Opposed

VANCOUVER, March 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Most Canadians are in favour of proposed legislation that would make it a separate crime if a fetus dies when a mother is attacked, a new Angus Reid Strategies poll has found. In the online survey of a representative national sample, 70 per cent of respondents support the Unborn Victims of Crime Act, while 19 per cent express opposition. Critics of the bill have stated that it could become a way to restore limits on abortion in Canada because it legally recognizes the existence of the fetus as a victim. However, the survey found […]
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Obama’s Wife – an Abortion Advocate – Speaks at Catholic Villanova University

VILLANOVA, PA, March 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In another example of a Catholic university hosting a pro-abortion political figure, Michelle Obama spoke before 2,500 people at a political rally for her husband, Democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama, at Villanova University’s Jake Nevin Fieldhouse on March 13.  Mrs. Obama, an abortion advocate, endorsed partial-birth abortion in a 2004 fundraising letter for her husband.  Senator Obama supports Roe v. Wade, partial-birth abortion and embryonic stem cell research.  He has voted against parental notification and for increased contraceptive funding for teenagers. Joseph A. Esposito, director of the Cardinal Newman Society’s Center for the […]
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HLI Calls for Ouster of Notre Dame President for Allowing Vagina Monologues

FRONT ROYAL, March 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, STL, president of Human Life International, (HLI) is calling for the firing of University of Notre Dame President Father John Jenkins, C.S.C., for his approval of the presentation of the play The Vagina Monologues on campus. Father Euteneuer is a Notre Dame alumnus, Class of ‘84.   Euteneuer said, “This is really getting tiresome. For forty years Catholic university presidents have been intimidated and afraid of ‘offending’ ideological feminists and others who have undisguised contempt for the Catholic Church. These groups have been welcomed to Catholic campuses and […]
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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.   Today’s bullies – yesterday’s feminists – Barbara Kay, National Post  https://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=368477   The abortion debate isn’t over – National Post editorial  https://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=366112   Germany to Legalize Incest?  https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,540831,00.html   Peruvian archbishops support each other in fight against abortion lobby  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12050   Michigan lawmakers will soon vote on closing loopholes to parental consent laws  https://www.citizenlink.org/fnif/A000006740.cfm   Calgary Herald Editorial – Real leadership is not about relativism – The nerve of Terrence […]
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LifeSiteNews for March 13/08 – Extraordinary Developments

Dear Readers,   We have been doing this work for over 10 years but even we are astonished at the pace of developments in the world today. Every day it is amazing how the battle between good and evil is intensifying.   John Jalsevac’s Editorial on the Obama/Oprah/New Age connection is another must read. We thought Hillary Clinton was dangerous to life and family, which she is, but this new force represents a potentially greater threat to our entire Judeo/Christian culture. John has researched the story well. He makes a strong case for everyone to take a deeper, second look […]
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20 Years On – The Man Who Congratulated Canada’s First Gay Politician Reconsiders

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, March 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On February 29, 1988 Svend Robinson ‘came out’ as Canada’s first homosexual federal politician.  At that time at a party hosted by Canada’s national homosexual lobby (EGALE) Robinson received congratulations from a young man who’s catchy remark was televised across Ontario on the Global Television network.  As he shook Robinson’s hand, David MacDonald said that Robinson’s coming out on TV “was a moment comparable to when I was 8 years old and saw Neil Armstrong on TV, landing on the moon.” Robinson’s political career was marked by his campaigns for abortion, […]
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Scotland Catholic Bishop Warns of “Huge and Well Orchestrated Conspiracy” by Homosexual Activists

By Hilary White GLASGOW, March 13, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic bishop of Motherwell Scotland has called the successes of the homosexual political movement in recent years the result of a “huge and well-orchestrated conspiracy.” He said that homosexual activists have found success by equating themselves with holocaust survivors and victims of racial violence to entirely reshape public opinion and government policies. “We neglect the gay movement at our peril,” he said. Bishop Joseph Devine said the homosexual movement has succeeded in creating for itself the image of a subclass equivalent to a “race”, “as if to create for themselves […]
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Dr. James Dobson Calls for Future Generations to Rise to the Call of Pro-Life Leadership

By John Connolly NASHVILLE, Tennessee, March 13, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, called for pro-life citizens to pick up the banner for marriage and the family at the end of the National Religious Broadcasters conference on March 11. Dobson’s speech, given to a crowd of over 1,400, echoed the speech he made at the funeral of the Rev. D. James Kennedy last fall. He called on the younger generation to carry the pro-life movement into the future, noting the passing of Jerry Falwell and Ruth Bell Graham as recent significant losses […]
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Catholic Diocese Shows Horrors of Abortions to Faithful, Displays Fetal Models in Parishes

 By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman RIO DE JANEIRO, March 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro has launched an aggressive campaign to combat the “Culture of Death” in Brazil, including displays of life-size fetal models in parishes and graphic depictions of the horror of abortion. According to local reports, in at least one parish the archdiocese is showing videos of abortions to the faithful during talks that are given on the subject.  The videos include soundtracks of doctors explaining how abortions are carried out.  Audience members have reportedly become nauseated and have even vomited while watching them. The […]
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Commentary: The Boycott that Didn’t Happen

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman March 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For over two years, the 3.4 million member American Family Association ran a boycott of the Ford Motor Company, gathering three quarters of a million online signatures on a pledge not to buy the company’s products.  It ended the campaign on Monday after confirming that Ford had mostly ended its support for homosexual political causes and publications. AFA’s campaign against Ford was provoked by the company’s unusual enthusiasm for all things “gay.”  The company advertised in homosexual magazines and contributed to organizations that promote “gay marriage” and other atrocities against the […]
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Dropped UK Amendment Would Have Made it a Criminal Offence to Link Homosexuality to Paedophilia

By Hilary White LONDON, March 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill that was being examined in the House of Lords that proposes to make it a crime to draw any connection between homosexuality and paedophilia, has been ruled unnecessary and dropped. An amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill sought to create a new offence of incitement to hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation. The amendment was withdrawn after the Lords decided that current provisions of the hate crimes laws are sufficient. Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, concluded, […]
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UK Catholic Bishop Before Parliament for Insisting on Crucifixes in Every Classroom and Truly Cathol

By Hilary White LONDON, March 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Bishop of Lancaster UK today gave a spirited response to accusations by secularist MPs in a Commons Committee who accused him of trying to establish religious “fundamentalism” in his schools. Bishop Patrick O’Donoghue told the Committee that schools in his diocese should see it as their prime duty to teach the Catholic faith and to evangelise and that this constituted neither “proselytism” nor “fundamentalism”. Crucifixes in every classroom, “sex-education” based on the principles of chastity and the sanctity of marriage, no school fundraising for anti-life groups and religious education […]
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Pro-Abortion, Pro-Homosexual Spitzer Resigns After Being Caught in Sex Scandal

 By Thaddeus M. Baklinski NEW YORK, March 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Eliot Spitzer resigned from office today after being caught in a federal investigation involving a prostitution ring. The politician, infamous for his legislation attacking traditional marriage, promotion of unlimited access to abortion, and a close ally of Hilary Clinton, spent more than $15,000 for several encounters with high-priced prostitutes over the past eight months, according to a CNN report. News sources revealed that the U.S. Department of Justice began investigating Spitzer because they thought the Governor was hiding bribes in suspicious money transfers. A Justice Department official said, “We […]
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Woman Sues Hospital for Misinformation Leading to Abortion

 By John Connolly NEW YORK, March 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Senegalese immigrant is suing a hospital for aborting her unborn child after doctors in the hospital misdiagnosed her pregnancy as ectopic.  Mbayme Ndoye, 29, filed a lawsuit in the Bronx Supreme Court in January against St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, and chose to make the details of her mistreatment at the hospital public in an interview with The New York Post on March 11. Ndoye went to Roosevelt Hospital with stomach cramps on October 15, where medical staff told her and her common-law husband, Papa Tourre, that she had an ectopic […]
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More on LifeSiteNews Copyright Policy – Clarifation

By Steve Jalsevac As a result of emailed questions in response to yesterday’s notice of changes to the LifeSiteNews copyright we have updated the new copyright notice to better clarify our limited conditions.   The copyright notice now reads:   Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article or portions of it without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to “LifeSiteNews.com”. Any website publishing of complete or large portions of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com.  The link […]
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No “New Deadly Sins” – Media Perpetrating Massive Distortion

By Hilary White   March 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some of the most prominent English language newspapers in the world – the Times and the Daily Telegraph in London; the Globe and Mail in Canada; the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia; as well as Reuters news agency and ABC News and NPR in the US – have run this week with the story that the “Vatican” has “re-written” the traditional seven deadly sins and offered a “replacement” list. But Catholic journalists and media watch groups have said it is a blatant case of media distortion and the […]
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Catholic University of Notre Dame President Approves Vulgar Pro-Lesbian Play Vagina Monologues

SOUTH BEND, Indiana, March 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – University of Notre Dame President, Father John Jenkins, C.S.C., announced today that he has approved campus performances of the lurid play, “The Vagina Monologues,” on March 24-26.  It will be the sixth year since 2002 that Notre Dame has hosted the play. The Vagina Monologues is a sexually explicit and offensive play that favorably describes lesbian activity, group masturbation, and the reduction of sexuality to selfish pleasure.  In one scene, the lesbian seduction of a teenage girl is described as the girl’s “salvation” that “raised her into a kind of heaven.” “The […]
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Catholic Diocese of Little Rock Flip Flops – Now Okays Funding Group which Supports Planned Parentho

FRONT ROYAL, VA, March 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On February 7, 2008, the Respect Life Apostolate of the Diocese of Little Rock issued a statement saying that it “neither supports nor encourages participation in activities that benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure.” Now, less than a month later, the Diocese has reversed its position. The decision was made after Komen assured the Diocese that local fund-raising will not benefit Planned Parenthood. “Despite the efforts of some to make this issue sound complicated, the facts are clear,” said Douglas R. Scott, Jr., president of Life Decisions International (LDI). “The Susan […]
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Biotech Firm to Provide Ethical Alternatives to Aborted Fetal Vaccines

SEATTLE, March 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a victory for pro-life families around the world, AVM Biotechnology LLC (AVM Biotech) announced on February 29 their decision to provide ethical alternatives in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and vaccine development. Dr Theresa Deisher, AVM Biotech Research and Development Director and founder stated, “We will be working to bring commercially available, morally acceptable, vaccines to the US market and to use existing technology to produce new morally certified vaccines.  Revenues from the vaccine business will also further the research, development and commercialization of morally certified therapeutics in other areas of medicine as […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes

* 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.   ACTION ALERT: The most sweeping pro-abortion bill ever proposed in Illinois: HB-5615, the “Reproductive Justice and Access Act” heads for floor vote  https://catholiccitizens.org/press/pressview.asp?c=45370   Pope tells Luxembourg to defend life  https://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL07486402.html   Connecticut Catholic bishops back bill that would require more girls to be counseled before getting an abortion  https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/state/hc-06185656.apds.m0235.bc-ct-xgr—mar06,0,4815073.story?track=rss   Montana Board of Pharmacy dismisses frivolous complaints against pharmacist who declined to dispense so-called “morning after” pill  https://www.alliancealert.org/2008/03/10/complaints-against-montana-pharmacist-dismissed-after-adf-intervenes/   […]
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European Council to Hear Homosexual Activists for Mandatory “Gay Marriage” in Member States

By Hilary White    STRASBOURG, March 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activist organizations that lobby for the redefinition of marriage in their home states, were invited to speak to the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary hearings Friday on the legalization of same-sex “marriage”.    The Council of Europe, not to be confused with the Council of the European Union, which is the EU’s legislature, is the body that founded the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, but has no juridical force over EU member states. The Council of Europe, with 47 current member nations, is the oldest European transnational body, […]
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School Boycotts St. Patrick’s Parade over Embryonic Stem Cell Support

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski CHICAGO, March 10, 2008, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life students from a Catholic high school in Chicago’s South Side boycotted the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, after it discovered that some of the proceeds from the parade will be used for embryonic stem cell research. Several dozen Catholic parishes and schools participate in the annual South Side Irish Parade. Among the charities that benefit from funds raised by the parade is the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, which supports embryonic stem cell research in its pursuit of a cure for Type 1 diabetes. The school sought guidance on whether […]
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LifeSiteNews Search Problem, Blocking of LifeSiteNews Emails to Subscribers, Change in Copyright Req

By Steve Jalsevac   LIFESITENEWS SEARCH PROBLEMS   Readers may be noticing the LifeSiteNews Search utility has recently been producing poor results rather than the previous thorough listing of articles related to the search words entered. The problem has been occurring since mid-February.   The cause is that our recent full changeover to LifeSiteNews from Lifesite required a special submission to Google which we did not realize was necessary. The first submission was made on Feb. 24 and other submissions made this past week. The problem will hopefully be fully resolved over the next few weeks.    Once this is […]
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Oregon Patients Prescribed Lethal Drugs for “Fear” of Pain and Loss of Dignity

By Hilary White SALEM, Oregon, March 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study shows that doctors in Oregon, where physician assisted suicide (PAS) is legal, have prescribed lethal drugs to patients not actually suffering severe symptoms of their diseases. Patients have been prescribed the drugs upon experiencing only fear of future suffering and loss of dignity in the dying process, research reveals. The study says, “Some Oregon clinicians have expressed surprise at the paucity of suffering at the time of the request among these patients”. Under Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act, a terminally ill patient can request that his physician […]
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“Homosexualism does not Correspond to Moral Principles of Society”: Ukraine Parliamentary Committee

By Hilary White KIEV, Ukraine, March 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A committee of the Ukrainian Parliament is calling for a halt to the popularization of homosexuality that has become such a prominent feature of life in western European and North American societies. The Committee on the Issues of Freedom of Speech says the state must oppose the increasing promotion of “homosexualism, lesbianism, other sexual perversions, which do not correspond to moral principles of the society”. The Committee’s report said, “Propaganda and expansion of homosexuality in the country form a threat to national security, contradict national interests and undermine the authority […]
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Graphic, Profane and Vulgar Homosexual Porn Novel Given to Students at Posh Illinois High School

DEERFIELD, IL, March 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Deerfield High School, in Deerfield, Illinois, is offering the books “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes” (Part One & Two) – laced with graphic sexual content, including gay sex, pervasive expletives, religious denigration and mockery – in English classes this spring. The books contain graphic descriptions of sodomy heretofore only heard of in hardcore homosexual pornography.  With numerous uses of the ‘f’ word and vulgar sexual references to Mother Teresa, the Mother of Jesus, and God. “After almost 15 years of school advocacy and reviewing many objectionable books and curricula, […]
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Catholic College Hosts Canada’s Most Outspoken Abortion Advocate

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LONDON, ONTARIO, March 7, 2008 – Yesterday evening Brescia Women’s College at The University of Western Ontario hosted notorious abortion and homosexual “marriage” advocate Michele Landsberg, who gave a talk entitled, “The F-Word: Fearless, Funny, Fast-Forward and Fabulous…Feminism.” The talk was given as part of Brescia’s ‘Women Making Change’ conference in conjunction with International Women’s Day. Landsberg is an extremely outspoken critic of orthodox Christianity and a venomous opponent of the pro-life movement. Landsberg wrote a column in The Toronto Star a number of years ago, saying, “Will no priest or minister publicly resolve to stop […]
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The World’s “Most Dangerous” Spiritual Guru: Oprah Begins 10-Week Online New Age Class

By John Jalsevac March 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This past Monday Oprah Winfrey, considered by many to be the world’s most influential woman, began a ten-week long online course on the best-selling book, “A New Earth,” by New Age guru, Eckhart Tolle. “A New Earth” has already sold some 3.5 million copies worldwide, thanks largely to the publicity given to it by Oprah. According to Oprah, 500,000 people from across the world signed on to the first segment of the online course, to spend an hour and a half listening to Ekhart and Oprah talking about chapter 1 of the book, […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes

* 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.   An Arizona House committee voted Wednesday to stop a Tucson nurse practitioner from performing surgical abortions.  https://www.azstarnet.com/metro/228402   National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers is just around the corner – March 10 – A Hard Hitting Piece by Jill Stanek  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=58037   Dr. Dobson Outraged by California Ruling Banning Home Schooling  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000006717.cfm   Hillary: I’ve felt ‘presence’ of Holy Spirit  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=58202   Shari’a legal system is founded upon the […]
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Abandonment of Judaeo/Christian Heritage Has Left West Vulnerable to Fundamental Islam

By Steve Jalsevac   March 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the wider Muslim world a substantial percentage of the followers of Islam live a relatively peaceful and productive co-existance with other cultures and faiths. There is, however, a growing movement toward radical, fundamentalist Islam, which movement is coming especially out of the Middle East, and is now spreading to many Muslims within North America. William Federer explains that in the West multiculturism policies appear to be a major factor facilitating that radicalism and its intolerant, violent attitude to its host nations.   In an interview with LifeSiteNews Federer explained that western society is […]
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Multiculturism a Factor Turning Moderate Muslims Radical? – Preview

By Willam J. Federer   March 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Britain’s Daily Mail, Jan. 29, 2007, reported in the article “Multiculturalism drives young Muslims to shun British values”:   Multiculturalism has alienated an entire generation of young Muslims and made them increasingly radical, a report has found. In stark contrast with their parents, growing numbers sympathize with extreme teachings of Islam, with almost four in 10 wanting to live under Sharia law in Britain. The study identifies significant support for wearing the veil in public … and even punishment by death for Muslims who convert to another religion. Most alarmingly, […]
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Three Catholic Labour Cabinet Ministers to Revolt on Embryo Bill

By Hilary White LONDON, U.K., March 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Three Catholic Labour MPs – Defence Secretary Des Browne, Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly, and Paul Murphy the Welsh Secretary – have said they will defy their party and vote against the government’s upcoming Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.  Labour MPs are expected by the party to support the bill when it comes to a vote in the House of Commons. The bill will enshrine in law as legal most of the independent decisions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in recent years. These include allowing the creation of animal-human […]
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The Four Conservatives Who Voted Against the Unborn Victims of Crime Act

By John-Henry Westen   OTTAWA, March 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood yesterday in the House of Commons to cast his vote in favour of the Unborn Victims of Crime Act.  Bill C-484, which passed second reading in the Commons yesterday, was put forward as a Private Members Bill by Conservative MP Ken Epp.  Most of Epp’s Conservative colleagues supported his bill; however, four Conservatives opposed the measure.   The bill is a response to repeated calls from the families of murdered pregnant women – and from the public at large – to recognize unborn children […]
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Victims’ Families Cheer Advancement of Unborn Victims of Violence Act

OTTAWA, March 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  An organization that has represented the families of women who were killed while pregnant is pleased that the Unborn Victims of Violence Act has passed second reading in the House of Commons. “It was wonderful to see that those 147 Members of Parliament chose to speak out to protect the choice women who are victims of violence had made to become mothers,” said Marie-Christine Houle, Executive Director of Women for Women’s Health. “We firmly believe the House made its political will known and that it was a great demonstration of the strength and power of the […]
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Girl Once Comatose and Scheduled for Euthanasia Will Testify against Attacker

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BOSTON, March 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Haleigh Poutre, now 14, was so brutally beaten more than two years ago by her adoptive parents, that she was left in a coma from which she was never expected to revive. However, she may now be well enough to testify against the man accused of assaulting her. Haleigh has spent the last two years recovering at the Franciscan Hospital for Children near Boston. On Sept. 11, 2005, Haleigh was taken to hospital in “an unresponsive state”, according to court documents. “Haleigh had both old and new bruises, old and […]
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Forensic Report Indicates Manslaughter at Florida Abortion Mill – Baby Was Born Alive

HIALEAH, Fla., March 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Results of a forensic pathologist’s review of documents and slides related to the autopsy of a baby born alive during an abortion at a Hialeah clinic in 2006, reveal that non-medical workers may have committed manslaughter when they shoved the struggling baby girl into a biohazard bag and tossed her on the roof of the clinic to die.   The Thomas Moore Society, who is representing the mother of the baby, named Shanice Denise, hired forensic pathologist Abdullah Fatteh to inspect the available evidence, including the county autopsy report, microscopic slides prepared by […]
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What’s Wrong with Customers who Pray, Pay and Obey?

  What’s Wrong with  Customers Who Pray, Pay and Obey? LifeSiteNews readers are resposible and active members of their communities. They respond to the news taking place in their community, country and around the world.   Reach—your audience. Let LifeSiteNews readers know about your services.  They respond.   CHOOSE YOUR AUDIENCE Target ONLY fellow American readers, in particular states or even a certain city, or people around the world. Last year, we had over 1 million visits by American readers. See Compete.com’s report on our American audience here: https://siteanalytics.compete.com/lifesite.net?metric=uv  A NEW MARKET Let us help YOU connect to a new life, family and faithful market! Support a vital […]
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Canadian Unborn Victims of Violent Crime Bill Passes Second Reading

OTTAWA, March 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “This is a victory for Canadian women and children, for victims’ families, and indeed for all Canadians,” said MP Ken Epp, reacting to today’s vote in the House of Commons on his Private Members Bill C-484, the Unborn Victims of Crime Act.   Members of Parliament voted 147 to 132 in support of allowing the Bill to proceed to Committee Stage. “Since 72% of Canadians support this legislation, I will continue to work hard to persuade my Parliamentary Colleagues that I have no sinister motives, and that they should support the Bill at further […]
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Jesus and Muhammad’s Words, Actions, Teachings Contrasted – Preview

By William J. Federer   What motivates fundamental Muslims to violence?   Much effort has gone into answering this. Muslim apologists are quick to point out Christians have also committed violence. Secularists suggest anybody who believes in God is prone to violence, conveniently ignoring the atheistic killings of the French Revolution, Stalin’s purges and Mao Tse-tung’s Cultural Revolution.   In an attempt to uncover motivations, founders of the world’s two largest religions can be compared. According to the www.CIA.gov World Factbook, the world’s 6.5 billion people are 33.32 percent Christian and 21.01 percent Muslim.   If a computer acts up, […]
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The Implications of Fundamental Islamic Expansion in North America

By Steve Jalsevac   March 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Most North Americans have very little, if any, understanding of the beliefs and history of Islam.  The West is still coasting on the still significant remnants of our foundational Judaeo/Christian culture. One of the elements of that culture is a welcoming nature and tolerance for those who are different. Christianity holds that all persons are made in the image of God and due a natural respect.   In recent decades we have been welcoming increasingly large numbers of immigrants from Islamic, Hindu and other societies that are radically different to our […]
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Letters to the Editor for Wednesday, March 5, 2008

RE: “Airbrushing Diversity”: Parents of Down Syndrome Children Tell of Abortion Pressureshttps://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08030303.html   Dear editor,   Thank you for your article on “Airbrushing Diversity.”  As a mother of a beautiful daughter with Down syndrome, it saddens me very much to know the extent to which our society rejects these special babies before birth.     It is especially hurtful to know that influential medical organizations such as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada recommend testing the babies of all pregnant women for Down syndrome.   When a mother learns her unborn child has […]
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York University Blocks Abortion Debate between Pro-Abortion Atheist and Pro-Life Worker

 By John Connolly TORONTO, March 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An abortion debate was shut down on February 28 by a student federation at York University on the premiss that abortion is a non-debatable right. The York University Student Centre cancelled the debate, entitled “Abortion Debate: A Woman’s Right or a Moral Wrong?” a mere two hours before it started. As a result, dozens of students were turned away at the door. The debate was to have been between pro-abortion atheist Michael Payton from Freethinkers, Skeptics and Atheists at York, and Jojo Ruba of Calgary’s pro-life Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform. […]
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LifeSiteNews.com Newsbytes

* 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 rare glimpse into the secretive, unaccountable world of Canada’s human rights commissions and need to rein in these commissions and cut them down  https://ezralevant.com/2008/03/march-25th-should-be-interesti.html   Arizona Nurse Practitioner Seeks Abortion Privileges – abortion industry losing abortion providers at astounding rate  https://www.citizenlink.org/fnif/A000006689.cfm   Pro-Life Pharmacists Under Attack in Wisconsin  https://christiannewswire.com/news/902315876.html   Oregon doctors have written lethal prescriptions for patients who weren’t yet suffering serious symptoms of their disease:  https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/03/oregon-assisted-suicides-without.html   […]
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Woman Sues Jesuit Hospital to Force it to Provide Abortion

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BOGOTÁ, March 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A woman has filed suit against a Jesuit hospital in Bogotá, Colombia, to force it to perform an abortion on her unborn child, who is now late in his sixth month of gestation. The woman, Yolima Bernal, wants the abortion because doctors have told her the child has hydrocephalus and “serious deformities” according to a local news story.  Although the nation’s constitution holds that the right to life is “inviolable,” the Supreme Court has ruled that abortions are legal in cases of fetal deformity. Catholic News Agency reports that Dr. […]
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Spanish Bishops Elect Strongly Pro-Life President

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman March 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) has elected a strongly pro-life prelate, Cardinal Archbishop Antonio María Rouco Varela of Madrid, as its new president. The move is seen as a decisive expression of the Spanish bishops’ will to fight the Spanish government’s pro-abortion and anti-family policies, which the Cardinal has denounced repeatedly and clearly in many venues.  Significantly, the selection of Rouco was made only five days before the general elections in Spain, which will determine if the strongly pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality regime of socialist Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero will continue. Rouco […]
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Man Who Laced Wife’s Food with RU-486 Sentenced to Nearly Four Years

By Hilary White LONDON, February 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for lacing his wife’s food with an abortion drug. 36-year-old Gil Magira, a wealthy businessman, crushed tablets of the abortifacient drug regime RU 486 and put it into his pregnant wife’s sandwich, a bowl of cereal and a yoghurt, the Old Bailey court heard at the trial. Anat Abraham suffered bleeding and pain but her child survived. The case is the first time in 30 years the charge of “using an instrument to procure a miscarriage” has been prosecuted […]
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Editorial: Canadian Catholic Priest Politician Condemns LifeSiteNews.com Founders in Parliament

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA , March 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic priest Rev. Raymond Gravel, who, prior to the launch of his political career was already infamous for publicly opposing the Vatican on homosexuality and abortion, has recently taken pains to make himself appear pro-life in Parliament.  LifeSiteNews.com, however, has several times reported on Gravel’s heretical and anti-life statements, such as his repeated and public denunciation of the Vatican for its position on homosexuality, and his statement on radio in 2004: “I am pro-choice and there is not a bishop on earth that will prevent me from receiving Communion, not even the Pope.” […]
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Canadian Government Considers Halting Taxpayer Funding for Perverse Films

By Hilary White OTTAWA, March 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Conservative government today announced changes to the Income Tax Act that would allow the Heritage Minister to deny tax credits to film and television projects deemed offensive or not in the public’s best interest. Canadian film and television producers can claim expenses on their tax returns when their material meets certain criteria. Already disallowed are programmes deemed to be outright pornographic. Charles Drouin, spokesman for Canadian Heritage said in a statement that Bill C-10, currently at third reading in the Senate, contains an amendment to the Income Tax Act “which […]
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Letters to the Editor for March 4, 2008

RE: “Airbrushing Diversity”: Parents of Down Syndrome Children Tell of Abortion Pressureshttps://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08030303.html Dear Editor, Having just read about the couple in Wales who have a healthy baby after being given advice to terminate, I decided I must tell you the story of my son who is now 7. During my pregnancy I was told that he was malformed and all the ‘soft markers’ indicated that I would have a baby with a chromosomal disorder such as Down Syndrome or Edwards syndrome. They asked me to go and consider my options. I am a Christian and do not beleive that God […]
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Montana Catholic Bishops Will Not Support Constitutional Amendment Defining Personhood

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BILLINGS, March 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a statement issued last week, Montana bishops Michael W. Warfel and George Leo Thomas said the Montana Catholic Conference will not endorse Constitutional Initiative 100 (the Montana Personhood Amendment) that would establish conception as the beginning of life by placing a personhood amendment on the state’s 2008 ballot. Moe Wosepka, executive director of the Montana Catholic Conference said that although “the bishops agonized over this decision for several months, and did not take this decision lightly,” they determined that even if voters approved it, the ballot initiative would be […]
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Kansas Grand Jury Disbands in Planned Parenthood Case Amidst Charges of Corruption

By John Connolly OLATHE, Kansas, March 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Kansas grand jury convened to investigate Planned Parenthood for illegal activities disbanded on Monday without issuing any indictments. The grand jury was seated on December 10, and in January issued a subpoena for medical records of 16 women who obtained abortions at the Planned Parenthood clinic in 2003. Planned Parenthood filed a motion to block the subpoena, a motion that Judge Kevin Moriarty upheld throughout the sparse investigation. On Monday, the grand jury unanimously withdrew the only subpoena it had issued for the investigation. The grand jury was empanelled […]
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Court Halts Enforcement of Illinois Parental Notification Law

By Hilary White   CHICAGO, March 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortion advocates in Illinois are pleased that the US District Court for the Northern District Illinois has ruled that the state’s Parental Notification Act, first passed in 1985, will continue to not be enforced.   A 1996 court order halted the law saying that there were insufficiently clear rules regarding appeals for the notification. Courts have since then repeatedly prevented its being enforced. In 2006, however, the Illinois Supreme Court issued clarified rules for notification of parents, but on Friday, U.S. District Judge David H. Coar called these rules “contradictory […]
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Letter to the Editor for Monday, March 3, 2008

Re: There is a Way to Defeat the Enemies of Life  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/feb/08022208.html   Dear Editor,   Thanks for the excellent challenge by Steve Jalsevac.  He’s right on two fronts.  Certainly in the need to combat the pro-death spokespeople who have moved on to other more sinister issues, but also on the pro-life front too.  There has been a dearth of solid new thinking for a long time.  After a while we pro-lifers also get tired of hearing all the same old arguments.   So it is refreshing to think that maybe we will start to say some new and relevant […]
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UK Government Sex Ed Programme “Verging on Brainwashing”

By Hilary White   LONDON, March 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Three quarters of teachers polled by a quasi-official teachers’ professional journal said they think sex education should be compulsory, with parents losing their right to pull their children from the classes, the Daily Telegraph reports. The Times Educational Supplement (TES) poll found that more than 60 per cent of primary teachers and 35 per cent of secondary teachers said lessons should start as young as nine. A further quarter of primary staff said classes should begin at seven.   Gregory Carlin, spokesman for the Irish Anti-Trafficking Coalition, a group that […]
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“Airbrushing Diversity”: Parents of Down Syndrome Children Tell of Abortion Pressures

By John Jalsevac   OTTAWA, March 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday’s Ottawa Citizen featured a two page spread detailing the moving experiences of three separate families with Down Syndrome children.   In the articles three sets of parents candidly speak of their struggles to care for children with special needs, their deep appreciation for the beauty and the enrichment that their children have brought to their lives, and of Canada’s pervasive anti-disability mindset and the pressure to abort those with disabilities.   One father, Michael Shaw, told the Citizen that it is thanks only to the negligence of a doctor […]
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California Supreme Court Will Begin Hearings on Homosexual Marriage Law

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski   SAN FRANCISCO, March 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The California Supreme Court will hear arguments tomorrow on the constitutionality of the state’s homosexual marriage ban.   The California law that limits marriage to heterosexual couples is being challenged by 15 homosexual couples as well as the city of San Francisco and a homosexual-rights group, all of whom argue that the ban is unconstitutional discrimination.   Several California religious and conservative advocacy groups, including the California Catholic Conference, National Association of Evangelicals, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, and The Church of Jesus Christ of […]
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