Articles for Month: June 2008

Pro-life organizations and the public appear to have been deliberately blind-sided by sudden decision for major holiday weekend

By Steve Jalsevac OTTAWA, June 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Various sources are reporting that Canada’s Governor General intends to approve a bypassing of normal routine and bestow the Order of Canada on abortionist and militant atheist Henry Morgentaler on Canada Day, Tuesday July 1st. More than any other single person, Dr. Henry Morgentaler, who is referred to as Canada’s Father of Abortion and Father of Secular Humanism is responsible for the current Canadian legal situation of no law restricting or regulating abortion. “It is dreadful that this honour should even be considered for a man who’s only claim to fame […]

"The right to life constitutes the supreme value of the Constitution" says committee chairman.

By Hilary White STRASBOURG, France, June 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As pro-life advocates in Europe feared, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved a resolution today that holds up abortion as a preferred solution to the problem of the abandonment of newborn children by vulnerable mothers. Patrick Buckley of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), who spent the last few days lobbying in Strasbourg, said, “Of the assembly’s 636 members, just 65 attended the debate and only 40 voted. This is a sad reflection on what Europe in general thinks of the rights of […]

 By Hilary White DUBLIN, June 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite surveys that discounted the issue in the recent Irish referendum, new polling has found that abortion was a significant factor in the rejection of the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty. In the weeks following the referendum on June 12, European lawmakers and EU diplomats have speculated that if only the real reason could be found for the Irish rejection, appropriate changes could be made to render the Treaty more palatable for a second vote. Pressure is increasing on the Irish government to hold another vote next spring to bring back the […]

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama is being taken to task for his recent Father’s Day message in which he said that fatherhood begins at conception. A pro-family group says Obama’s seemingly “pro-family” statements stand in a stark, disturbing contrast to his radical support for abortion, which is anything but “pro-family.” The 30-second television ad by Family Research Council’s lobbying arm, FRC Action, airs today in several cities across the United States. The ad begins with a clip of Obama’s recent Father’s Day speech at a Chicago Church in […]

By John-Henry Westen QUEBEC CITY, June 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Justin Rigali, the Archbishop of Philadelphia is always ready to answer questions, even the hard ones.  He spoke with LifeSiteNews.com last week at the International Eucharistic Congress about the Church’s teaching on sexuality, in the context of the current attack on the traditional definition of marriage.   Asked why it has become more common to see some elements within the Church promoting what is contrary to official Church teaching on homosexuality, Cardinal Rigali was quick to point out that it is not ‘the Church’ but members of the Church […]

Pro-life "hero" to head to Rome to take position as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura

By Hilary White MONTREAL, June 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A prominent ethicist at McGill University has warned that the upcoming debate on legalized euthanasia will leave opponents unprepared and that a coherent secular argument has yet to be fully developed. Margaret Somerville, the Samuel Gale Professor of Law, and the Founding Director of the Faculty of Law’s Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University expressed this belief in the Ottawa Citizen. Bloc Québécois MP Francine Lalonde has tabled a private member’s bill (C-562) which would amend the Criminal Code to allow a physician to “aid a person to […]

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