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Dear Readers,    The UN and other international AIDS agencies are undoubtedly shaken by the possibility that India might reject their terribly failed AIDS strategy advocating condoms and explicit sex education. It is about time. India has vastly more influence and economic and political independence than Uganda which finally caved in to intense pressure. The international elites may find they cannot also bully India. Let’s all hope this is the beginning of a dramatic new trend for the benefit of all nations.   John Jalsevac lambasts the UN’s deadly obsession with condoms and its total rejection of abstinence and fidelity […]
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Cincinnati “Stop Planned Parenthood” Yard Signs Stolen

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A campaign by citizens on Cincinnati’s west side who displayed their opposition to the opening of a branch office of Planned Parenthood by posting yard signs which read, “Save Our Children, Stop Planned Parenthood,” has been the victim of what appears to be an organized effort to steal all the signs in an attempt to silence the protest. A press release from Protect Cincinnati, a grass-roots group organized to halt the encroachment of Planned Parenthood in the Western Hills and Greater Cincinnati community, states, “Only a few (signs) are […]
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20,000 Gather in Opposition to Legalizing Homosexual “Marriage” in Costa Rica

By Jenna Murphy SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, July 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over 20,000 people gathered in the streets of San Jose last Saturday to voice their opposition to a legislative proposal that, if passed, will legalize same-sex “marriage” in Costa Rica. Despite heavy pressure from homosexual activists, Costa Rican courts ruled homosexual “marriage” unconstitutional in 2006; but the issue is now being re-examined by the legislative assembly. “We’re calling out against the law that the Legislative Assembly is considering, to allow for homosexual civil unions,” said march participant Reynaldo Salazar, according to CostaRicapages.com. Earlier this month, the Bishop’s conference […]
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A Gay Pride Celebration of the Order of Canada for Abortionist Morgentaler?

 By John-Henry Westen ST. JOHN’S, NL, July 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to an announcement by Planned Parenthood in St. John’s, there will be a celebration of the nomination of abortionist Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada today at a pub at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.  (See coverage of the announcement in The Telegraph: https://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=157824&sc=79) Participants in a scheduled Gay Pride trivia night and open mic on the same night at the same pub will likely  also be inclined to join the Morgentaler festivities and vice-versa. Activists from both movements are often seen to attend and support each […]
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Two Saved Babies Baptized – From Abortion Mill to Baptismal Font

Commentary by Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life July 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “God chose us in Christ, before the world began, to be holy and blameless in his sight” (See Ephesians 1:5). On Saturday, July 12, I had the joy of baptizing three babies, chosen by God from all eternity to live. A cause of particular joy and celebration was that two of these babies were rescued from abortion. Their mothers had gone to an abortion mill in Allentown, PA, but sidewalk counselors intervened and helped them to find the strength to say “No” to abortion […]
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In Rare Move Bishops Openly Criticize Catholic Professor over Nutrition and Hydration Articles in Je

MANASSAS, VA, July 31, 2008 (CNSweb) – Articles about end-of-life ethics by two college professors, including a bioethics professor at Loyola University of Chicago, have prompted a rare public correction by the leading American bishops responsible for pro-life activities and Catholic doctrine. Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia and chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., chairman of the USCCB Committee on Doctrine, raise their concerns in the August 4 issue of the Jesuits’ America magazine. The bishops write that two previous America articles […]
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Catholic Virginia Governor and Possible VP Candidate Supports Abortion

By Tim Waggoner RICHMOND, VA, July 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a Wednesday interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose, which was covered by ABC, Catholic Virginia Governor and possible vice-presidential candidate Tim Kaine proclaimed his support for the notorious Roe vs Wade decision and said he does not think abortion should be recriminalized in the US. The Catholic Governor said that while he is “personally opposed” to abortion, he feels the outcome of Roe vs Wade – the decriminalization of abortion in the US – is necessary to preserve the “personal liberty” of Americans. “Roe vs. Wade is ultimately about saying […]
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2008 UNAIDS Report: Condoms, Condoms, Condoms (Did We Mention Condoms?) and…Drugs

Commentary by John Jalsevac July 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In its 2008 report, released on Tuesday, UNAIDS, the UN body responsible for preventing and treating HIV/AIDS globally, presents its multi-phase solution to the AIDS epidemic – the result of years of research, on-the-ground experience and hundreds of millions of dollars in funding. First phase: condoms. Lots and lots of condoms. Heaps of condoms. Bajillions of condoms. Condoms for every man, woman, and child. Second phase: when the condoms fail UNAIDS is prepared with…drugs. Lots of drugs. Lots and lots of expensive drugs. And what miracle of modern science can these […]
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Abortion Linked Condition Contributes to Growing Number of Infant Deaths

By Tim Waggoner OTTAWA, July 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to new statistics released today from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), premature babies – babies born too soon and too small – accounted for a growing proportion of infant deaths. When linked with previous studies that have shown that abortion increases a woman’s chance of having a baby prematurely, the conclusion is that women who have had abortions are more likely to bear children who die as infants or suffer from severe health issues. According to “Infant Mortality Statistics from the 2005 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set,” […]
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California Attorney General Heavily Biases Ballot Initiative Wording in Favor of Same-Sex ‘Marriage’

By John-Henry Westen LOS ANGELES, CA, July 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – California Attorney General Jerry Brown has shown his true colors in a move to derail efforts aimed at protecting the man-woman definition of marriage in his state.  Brown has been threatened with a lawsuit by marriage defenders for altering the wording of the marriage ballot initiative to grossly bias it in favor of homosexual “marriage.”  Promoters of Proposition 8 collected signatures of more than 1.1 million Californians to have the Constitutional Amendment Proposition put on the November ballot.  The original wording of Proposition 8 read that the measure would amend […]
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Female Anglican Bishop at Lambeth Conference Accuses Fellow Bishops of Wife Beating

By Hilary White CANTERBURY, July 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishops of the developing world are wife beaters, a senior female bishop of the US branch of the Anglican Communion said today. The Rt. Rev. Catherine Roskam, Suffragan Bishop of New York, told the bishops gathered at the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury that domestic violence is acceptable in “some parts of the world”  and indicated that it is likely that some of the bishops of the Global South group beat their wives. “Culturally, many of our bishops come from places where it is culturally accepted to beat your wife. In that […]
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Newfoundland Approves Over-the-Counter Access to Morning-After Pill

By Jenna Murphy ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland, July 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a three month waiting period, Plan B, the so-called morning after pill (MAP), used to prevent or to terminate pregnancies within 72 hours of having had sex, hit the shelves in Newfoundland’s pharmacies last week. In its May 2008 ruling, the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities (NAPRA) gave Plan B (Levonorgestrel) full over-the-counter status. Though the decision was effective immediately in most provinces, Newfoundland was given three months to consider changing the drug’s status from schedule III to schedule II, which eliminates the need for pharmacist consultation. In […]
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Massachusetts Passes Bill Allowing Same-Sex “Marriage” for Out-of-Staters

By Tim Waggoner BOSTON, July 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, the Massachusetts House voted 119-36 to pass a bill that will strike down a 1913 law blocking out of state homosexuals from “marrying” in the state.  “With that protective barrier removed, out-of-state same-sex couples who marry here will sue to seek recognition in their home states-creating a flood of costly lawsuits and further eroding the people’s right to define marriage democratically,” said the Massachusetts Family Institute in a press release. “Now, just after California allowed out-of-state same-sex couples to marry, it appears our legislators are suffering from ‘gay marriage envy’ […]
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Virginia Court to Revisit Decision against Partial Birth Abortion Ban

RICHMOND, VA, July 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in a 6-4 decision has agreed to rehear a case involving the constitutionality of Virginia’s partial birth abortion ban.  The full court will reconsider a previous decision by a three-judge panel that determined the ban was unconstitutional. “No one should be allowed to decide that an innocent life is worthless.  Virginia has legitimately chosen to protect innocent life from a terrible procedure, and the court is right to revisit the decision against Virginia’s law,” said Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence.  “The decision […]
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Unearthed: 1968 Vatican Letter to Bishops with Pre-Release Copy of Humanae Vitae called for Unity

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, July 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During the tumultuous years of the 1960’s Pope Paul VI published a controversial encyclical, Humanae Vitae, which addressed the issue of birth control in light of the arrival of the birth control pill. Today LifeSiteNews.com is publishing a recently unearthed letter which was sent to Bishops with a pre-release copy of the encyclical.  The letter, dated July 19, 1968, is signed by the late Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani, who was then-Secretary of the Vatican Secretariat of State.  The outright defiance of many priests and even bishops to Pope Paul VI’s encyclical […]
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Canadian Media News Blackout on Massive Poll Showing Majority Oppose Morgentaler Award

By John-Henry Westen July 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week, Campaign Life Coalition, the political arm of the pro-life movement in Canada, released the results of a massive poll (over 13,000 respondents) which found that 56% of Canadians oppose the nomination of abortionist Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada.  Despite the fact that the subject was still very much in the Canadian spotlight, the mainstream media in Canada gave no coverage to the poll whatsoever.  However, extensive coverage was given to a poll conducted ten days earlier with only 1000 respondents which found that some two thirds of Canadians […]
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BC Couple Makes International News with Birth of 18th Child

By Hilary White ABBOTSFORD, July 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Romanian immigrant couple in British Columbia has become the subject of media fascination this week as they welcomed their 18th child into the world. Livia and Alexandru Ionce came to Canada in 1990, and with the birth of their youngest daughter their family has became one of Canada’s largest families. Their daughter Abigail weighed in at seven pounds, 12 ounces when she was born in the hospital on July 22. The family now has 10 girls and eight boys. The couple joked that they had hoped to have one more […]
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Congress Passes Massive PEPFAR Program without Former Abstinence Funding Requirement

By John Jalsevac July 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A hugely expanded version of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has been passed by both the House and the Senate, and President Bush has indicated that he is eager to sign the legislation as soon as possible. In a 303-115 vote in the House on Thursday, legislation was passed that would triple the size of the PEPFAR program. The program was first initiated in 2003, and involved a commitment of $15 billion over 5 years to help fight the scourge of AIDS internationally. The new $48 billion bill nearly […]
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Federal Children’s Health Program Partners with Planned Parenthood Abortion Chain

Washington, D.C., July 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, designed to provide needy moms and young children with nutritious foods and health care referrals, is referring those same moms and kids to Planned Parenthood. “It is absolutely outrageous that the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program that WIC sponsors would refer mothers to the nation’s largest abortion chain for health care,” commented Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League. “Planned Parenthood kills more children than any other single organization in the country. How can a program for children associate with it?” The WIC […]
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Filipino President Says She’s With the Church against Contraception and For Life

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MANILA, Philippines, July 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During yesterday’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo reaffirmed her support for natural family planning over artificial methods such as condoms and pills, and declared her endorsement of the Catholic Church’s position on reproductive health issues. In her eighth State of the Nation Address, the President denounced the campaign aimed at promoting the use of artificial contraception and said her administration’s adherence to natural methods had actually trimmed the country’s population growth rate. “By promoting natural planning and female education, we have curbed population growth to […]
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Letter to the Editor for Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Dear Editor, I think it was G.K. Chesterton who said “when reason is eclipsed, monsters are unleashed.” I once asked a university professor to define “reason”, and he said, “It is the ability of the human mind to know truth.” The American Constitution says that “all men are created equal”, but still the Americans had a legal system that upheld slavery (see the Dred Scott case).  The truth was eclipsed and lies were enforced legally, by the state.  Monsters were unleashed – life was violated and enslaved. The Canadian legal system legalized the killing of the unborn in 1988 (editor […]
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Unearthed Letter Included with Pre-release Version of Humanae Vitae Sent to Bishops

From the Vatican, July 19, 1968 Segreteria di Stato di Sua Santita To the Presidents of Episcopal Conferences To Local Ordinaries Your Excellency, When directing me to transmit to Your Excellency the enclosed document, publication of which is imminent, His Holiness strongly recommended that I draw your attention to its importance, and to the necessity of a concerted effort on the part of the entire Catholic Episcopate, in order that the doctrine it contains be explained with care in full to the Christian people, and in order that it be courageously put into practice by all as, thanks be to […]
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Poll: Support for Homosexual “Marriage” Grows in US

By Hilary White July 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A US poll suggests that support for homosexual unions, including homosexual “marriage,” is on the increase. Angus Reid found in a survey of 1,783 US voters that 32 percent said they would vote to allow homosexual partners to contract legal marriages. Only 29 percent said they would grant homosexual partnerings no legal recognition. 33 percent said they supported some form of civil unions, and 56 percent of respondents said they would oppose amending the United States Constitution to ban same-sex “marriage.” The poll has been released at the same time that pro-family […]
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Case Attempting to Force Ireland to Legalize Abortion to be Heard in European Court of Human Rights

By Hilary White DUBLIN, July 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A suit brought by an Irish abortion lobby group to demand that the Republic of Ireland drop its legal protections for unborn children will be heard in the European Court of Human Rights. The Ireland Family Planning Association (IFPA) has been told today by the Court that the case, first launched three years ago, will go ahead. The action in the European Court was brought by the IFPA, a member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, as only one aspect of a larger legal and lobbying attack on Ireland’s constitutional protections […]
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Anglican Head Surprises Lambeth Conference: Affirms Traditional Christian Doctrine on Homosexual Sex

By Hilary White CANTERBURY, July 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the midst of the maelstrom of the 14th Lambeth Conference Dr. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, has affirmed the classical Christian doctrine on sexual morality. Dr. Williams said last week, “I do not believe that sex outside marriage is as God purposes it.” He was quoted in the Times saying he remains “committed” to the Anglican Church’s official stance against “gay sex.” Williams is being widely criticised for lack of leadership in the lead up to Lambeth, which nearly a third of the Anglican Communion’s bishops have declined to […]
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Judge Upholds Kansas Post-Viability Abortion Ban: Tiller Will Face Charges

WICHITA, Kansas, July 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – District Court Judge Clark V. Owens released a 35-page opinion today on the constitutional challenge to the Kansas post-viability abortion ban, saying that the ban “survives all of the constitutional challenges” presented by notorious late-term abortionist George Tiller. As such, Tiller’s motion to dismiss the 19 criminal charges against him was denied.    This ruling will send Tiller to trial to face allegations that he illegally aborted 19 viable babies without first having obtained the second concurring opinion from an unaffiliated Kansas physician. If convicted, Tiller faces the possibility of 19 years in jail. “We […]
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15 Filipino Bishops Lead 12,000 in Prayer Rally Celebrating 40th Anniversary of Controversial Humana

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MANILA, Philippines, July 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Mass and vigil was held on Friday at the University of Santo Tomas to mark the 40th anniversary of the encyclical letter of Pope John Paul VI on human life, Humanae Vitae. One goal of the rally was to pressure lawmakers into abandoning the proposed Reproductive Health and Population Development Act, which has passed the committee level in the Philippine House of Representatives. The Act would create a new agency called the Commission on Population (POPCOM) which would “encourage” families to have only two children, and promote the […]
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Court Orders that Pro-Homosexual Proselytism by Students be Permitted in Schools

By John Jalsevac July 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A judge in Holmes County, Florida, has ruled that the school board cannot forbid students from “wearing or displaying t-shirts, armbands, stickers, or buttons containing messages and symbols which advocate the acceptance of and fair treatment for persons who are homosexual.” The case that led to the ruling surrounded incidents at Ponce de Leon High School in Holmes County. According to court documents, a 12th grade student – called “Jane Doe” by the court – went to school officials last year to complain that she was being taunted by a group of […]
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Canada’s Greatest Defender of Humanae Vitae Calls on Bishops to Reject Dissenting Document

By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, July 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the upcoming edition of Catholic Insight magazine, Canada’s greatest defender of the Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae – 92-year-old Monsignor Vincent Foy – concludes his lifelong championship of the papal position on birth control.  Released today, on the 40th anniversary of the encyclical, Monsignor Foy calls on the Bishops of Canada to revoke their “Winnipeg Statement”, which he says is an unacceptable document of dissent. Humanae Vitae presents the teaching against contraception as stemming from the law of God, not the Church, and thus as universally applicable not merely […]
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Letter to the Editor for Friday, July 25, 2008

Dear Editor, Order of Canada recipients who renounce their award are twice blessed. Initially they were honoured for a contribution to the country and then they are honoured again by refusing to be associated with a serial killer. Ironically, when they return the snowflake they prove how much they deserved it in the first place. Lise Anglin  Toronto ON ____________________________________________________ To write a letter to the Editor: E-mail your letter to [email protected]. Write “letter to the editor” in the subject line. Include your name, city and province or state of residence, as well as your phone # (the phone # […]
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German Government must Recognise “Sex-Change” of Married “Transsexuals”

 By Hilary White KARLSRUHE, Germany, July 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A German high court has ruled that those who have undergone “gender reassignment” therapy can now change their legal name and sex while they are still in legal marriages. Previously, the law only allowed the recognition of “sex-changes” if the person was unmarried. Married “transsexuals” who wanted to change their designations on birth certificates and other official documentation had to first obtain a divorce.   The case was brought by a man, not named in the press, who underwent “sex-change” surgery in 2002, but who says he did not want to […]
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Nurse Suing Fort Worth Catholic Charities over Condom Prohibition

By Hilary White FORT WORTH, Texas, July 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Charities of the diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, is being sued by the former director of its HIV/AIDS program because the organization refuses to make condom use a part of its prevention programs. Barbara Beaty, a registered nurse, oversaw the Lady Hogan Project which offers medical assistance to people who are infected with HIV and AIDS. She says she was “improperly fired” when she refused to cooperate with a change of policy that disallows staff from encouraging condom use for AIDS prevention. The suit says not promoting […]
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Vatican Cardinal: Damage to the Church from the Dissent on Paul VI Contraception Doc Continues Today

By John-Henry Westen VATICAN, July 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, on the 40th anniversary of the signing of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae (HV), one of the highest ranking Americans in the Vatican has written an eye-opening and deeply personal retrospective on the world-shaking events which took place in the wake of the document’s publication.  The deadliest thing to hit the Catholic in the last 40 years, he says, was not the encyclical which reiterated the Church’s stand against contraception – but the dissent from it.  Cardinal James F. Stafford, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary – the head […]
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Spanish Pro-Family Group Files Charges Against Homosexual Groups for “Hate Speech”

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman SPAIN, July 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Spanish pro-family activist group, HazteOir, has filed charges against the organizers of the 2008 Madrid “Gay Pride” march for “hate speech,” according to the group’s website. HazteOir accuses the march organizers of making hateful statements against Catholics, pro-family organizations, and those politicians opposed to the Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party (PSOE) .  The PSOE, which currently occupies the position of Prime Minister and holds a majority in the Spanish Parliament, supports special “rights” for homosexuals. Amongst numerous other things, “Gay Pride” marchers in Madrid held a banner depicting Pope Benedict XVI […]
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Man Booted from Leadership in Monarchist League for Objection to Morgentaler Order of Canada

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OAKVILLE, Ontario, July 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A statement from the Monarchist League of Canada regarding the appointment of Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada has led one officer of the League to resign his membership after he was dismissed from his position of Niagara Regional Chair. Calvin Arnt, of St. Catherines, Ontario, objected to the Monarchist League issuing the statement which, though cautiously worded, seemed to be an endorsement of Morgentaler’s appointment to the Order of Canada. The statement quoted the citation accompanying the announcement of Dr. Morgentaler’s appointment: “For his commitment to increased […]
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules that Homosexual ‘Hate Crimes’ Law Violates Pennsylvania Constitutio

By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, July 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a short per curiam order, in which it agreed with the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania that the state legislature violated the Pennsylvania Constitution when it added “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to Pennsylvania’s “ethnic intimidation” law. Eleven Christians of the evangelical group Repent America were arrested due to that same law in 2004 for reading the Bible and singing hymns at Outfest, a homosexual rally. Though the case was eventually dropped, Repent America filed legal action in 2005 against the act, citing its […]
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Lawsuit: Wayne State University Denied Funds, Access to Pro-life Student Group

DETROIT, MI, July 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed suit Wednesday after officials of Wayne State University refused to allow a pro-life student group the same access to student fees and facilities that other student groups have. “Student groups shouldn’t be discriminated against for their beliefs,” said ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Joseph Martins.  “Access for these groups to funding and facilities must be provided without regard to the group’s viewpoint.  When a public university enforces a viewpoint-discriminatory policy, the school violates the Constitution.” The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of the school’s student fee policy, which precludes student […]
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Appeals Court Approves City Council Ban on Prayer ‘In Jesus’ Name’

WASHINGTON, July 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled that the city council of Fredericksburg, Virginia had proper authority to require “non-sectarian” prayer content and exclude council-member Rev. Hashmel Turner from the prayer rotation because he prayed “in Jesus’ name.” Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, writing the decision, said: “The restriction that prayers be nonsectarian in nature is designed to make the prayers accessible to people who come from a variety of backgrounds, not to exclude or disparage a particular faith.” Ironically, she admitted Turner was excluded from participating solely because of the […]
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UN Secretary General Nominates Abortion Advocate for Top Human Rights Post

By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, NY, July 24, 2008 (C-FAM) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to name abortion advocate Navanethem “Navi” Pillay of South Africa as the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) this week, despite reservations from the United States. According to the New York Times, the United States has privately raised concerns about Pillay’s nomination to the top human rights post because of her strong support for abortion. Pillay is a founding member of the international non-governmental organization Equality Now, a group that has spearheaded campaigns for abortion access in Poland and Nepal. Pillay […]
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California Public Guardian Attempts to Dehydrate Woman to Death over Wishes of Family

Commentary by Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition FRESNO, CA, July 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Janet Rivera, 46, is the center of a new battle over the ethics of intentionally dehydrating a person to death. Rivera has been in coma for the past two years, resulting from a heart attack. Rivera’s husband was recently replaced as her public guardian, after he experienced medical problems. The appointed Fresno County Public Guardian, David Hadden, decided that because she is unlikely to recover, Rivera’s fluids and food would be removed. This decision was against the wishes of the Rivera family and Janet’s […]
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Congressional Olympic Resolution Urges China to Halt Forced Abortion

WASHINGTON, July 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With just two weeks to go to the Olympics, the House Foreign Affairs Committee has unanimously approved legislation calling on the Chinese government to immediately “end abuses of human rights of its citizens” in order to ensure that the Olympic games take place “in an atmosphere that honors the Olympic traditions of freedom and openness.” Rep. Chris Smith, the lead Republican cosponsor of the bill (HRes 1370), urged his colleagues to support the resolution and added two amendments: one which calls on the Chinese government to abandon its coercive population control policy that includes […]
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Anglican Communion Suffering Spiritual Alzheimer’s and Ecclesial Parkinson’s: Vatican Observer

By Hilary White CANTERBURY, July 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Anglican Communion is suffering from a form of spiritual Alzheimer’s and ecclesial Parkinson’s disease, said a Vatican official in a speech that was described by Damien Thompson, a British Catholic journalist as “one of the rudest things a Vatican prelate has said to Anglicans since the dawn of the ecumenical era.”  Ivan Cardinal Dias told the Anglican bishops gathered at the Lambeth Conference that the current state of chaos and disunity, brought on by the member churches from the wealthy western nations abandoning their Christian moral and scriptural basis, is […]
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Neurologist Calls Withholding Hydration from Patients in “Vegetative State”“Euthanasia by Omission”

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VATICAN CITY, July 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Withholding artificial nutrition and hydration from a patient in a persistent vegetative state amounts to “euthanasia by omission,” said the former president of the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, Dr. Gian Luigi Gigli. Dr. Gigli, a professor of neurology at the University of Udine, Italy, spoke to the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, yesterday about the case of an Italian woman who has been in a vegetative state for 16 years. The woman, now 37, was injured in a car accident in 1992. She needed a respirator for three […]
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Internet Service Providers Unite to Shut Down Child Pornographers and Predators

NEW YORK, July 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) AT&T and AOL-Time Warner joined Time Warner, Sprint, and Verizon in shutting down child pornography Web sites from their servers. The announcement came through New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Time Warner, Sprint, and Verizon have donated $1.1 million to the Attorney General’s ongoing child pornography investigations. Officials initiated an eight-month investigation into child pornography on the Internet and found 88 different news groups that were devoted to child porn. All 88 of these news groups are being shut down by the aforementioned cable/Internet providers. Child pornographers […]
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Last Abortion Clinic in South Dakota Closes after Law Requires Patients be Informed of Possible Side

SIOUX FALLS, SD, July 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday, July 21, eight women arrived at the Planned Parenthood office in Sioux Falls in South Dakota for abortions, but were instead met with locked doors and a hand-written note indicating the only abortion clinic in South Dakota was closed. Planned Parenthood closed its doors after their abortionists, who are flown in from other states, refused to work under the new law that went into effect last Friday. The law orders abortionists to inform patients of the humanity of their babies and that the procedure could affect their mental health two […]
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Sex-Selective Abortions Happening on Wide Scale in United States: Population Research Institute

FRONT ROYAL, VA, July 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute (PRI), says that America has a hidden problem of sex discrimination, but a form of discrimination that feminists refuse to address. In PRI’s latest YouTube video, Mosher decries the practice, common in East and South Asian countries, of sex-selective abortion. According to the United Nations, this practice has already claimed the lives of over 100 million girls worldwide. The video goes on to cite a recent study published by the National Academy of Sciences, saying that many American groups, particularly those of Asian descent, […]
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Pro-Abortion MPs Attempting to Force Abortion on Northern Ireland through Back Door

By Hilary White WESTMINSTER, UK, July 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of six pro-abortion activist MPs have tabled a motion in the House of Commons to try to force the legalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland, a move that is opposed by all the major political parties of the province, as well as the majority of the public. The amendment proposed would use the Labour government’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill to extend the British Abortion Act into Northern Ireland where abortion remains illegal. The MPs, Diane Abbott, Dr. Evan Harris, John Bercow, Jacqui Lait, John McDonnell, and Katy […]
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Ruling Socialist Party Leader Wants to Begin Debate on Homosexual “Marriage” in Portugal

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman PORTUGAL, July 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The parliamentary leader of Portugal’s ruling Socialist Party, Alberto Martins, has suggested that homosexual “marriage” should be on the agenda for the coming legislative session. Speaking at the 16th Congress of Socialist Youth, Martins congratulated the group for its own endorsement of the idea, and stated that “it is a topic of debate that should be discussed in the next legislature.” Durarte Cordeiro, newly-elected to the presidency of the Socialist Youth, added that legalizing homosexual “marriage” would contribute “to the fulfillment of the aspirations of thousands of Portuguese and will represent […]
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Order of Canada Advisory Committee Member Also Strong Embryonic Stem-Cell Research Advocate

By Hilary White OTTAWA, July 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The advisory council for the Order of Canada has been heavily criticised in recent weeks for its pro-abortion and far-left bias, especially since the decision to award the “centrepiece of Canada’s honours system” to Canada’s most notorious abortionist, Dr. Henry Morgentaler. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin, who heads the advisory council, is under severe criticism for having “brutishly” honoured Morgentaler by bulldozing the nomination through the advisory committee at the last minute. Another member of the advisory council with connections to a major section of the anti-life movement […]
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Lengthy Globe and Mail Article Explores Women’s Experiences with Abortion

By John Jalsevac July 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A lengthy opinion piece printed in Saturday’s Globe and Mail, one of Canada’s national newspapers, asks why – 20 years after the legalization of abortion, and at a time when some 100,000 abortions a year take place in Canada – most women are reluctant to speak about their abortion experiences. In the title the author asks, “Why not just talk about it?” Cate Cochran, the pro-abortion author of the Globe piece, explains that in 1987, at the age of 30, she nearly went through with an abortion. She describes the turmoil of […]
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Pro-Life Leaders Say Call President Bush Today to Ensure Conscience Rights for Doctors

WASHINGTON, July 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  Pro-life leaders in the United States are urging supporters to call the White House immediately to ask that President George Bush protect the conscience rights of health care workers. The number to call is (202) 456-1414 (ask the switchboard operator to be put through to the public comment line).   Pro-life supporters can also call Michael Leavitt, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services at (202) 690-7000.  Pro-abortion groups led by Senator Hilary Clinton are up in arms over a proposed Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulation which would ban individuals […]
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World Premiere Documentary Spotlights Life-Saving 40 Days for Life Campaigns

WASHINGTON, DC – “This Friday, a brand-new, world-premiere documentary about 40 Days for Life – filmed by an Emmy-award-winning director – will be airing in 128 million homes around the world,” said David Bereit, national campaign director of 40 Days for Life. “The latest installment of beingHUMAN airs Friday on the EWTN global television network at 6:30 PM Eastern.” This program, the second in the beingHUMAN series, will help launch the fall 40 Days for Life campaign, which is scheduled in communities from coast to coast from September 24 through November 2. This episode, being HUMAN: 40 Days for Life […]
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U.K. Police Constable Fights Back against Pro-Homosexual Police Force over Discrimination

By Hilary White WYMONDHAM, Norfolk, July 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Graham Cogman, a 49 year-old police constable living in North Norfolk, claims that his professional life is being turned into a “nightmare” because he objects to the support of the police force for the homosexual political agenda. “The blatant support for homosexual rights in Norfolk Police makes being a Christian officer extremely difficult,” he told the Evening Standard, claiming that a “small number” of colleagues are using the police internal investigations system to intimidate him.  Cogman attends the Church of England and has served in the police for over 15 […]
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Letters to the Editor for Tuesday, July 22, 2008

RE: Why is the pro-life movement so Christian, and should it be?(https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08071510.html) Esteemed Editor, Thank you for bringing such a rich discussion piece into the fore. I am twenty-four and have worked on the pro-life front in New York, London and in my own country Ireland. I believe I am called to actively serve (in my own human and flawed way) the unborn and their mothers and in essence the whole of society. You asked why pro-lifers are predominantly Christian (this is an undisputed fact), but the answer I believe is in Who does the calling. I believe Jesus Christ […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for July 22, 2008

* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. U.S. POLITICS   McCain To Meet With Jindal  https://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/07/mccain_to_meet_with_jindal.html   Obama: I’ll Be President For ‘The Next 8 to 10 Years’?  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/07/20/obama-ill-be-president-next-8-10-years   McCain’s Lead Among Evangelicals Smaller than Bush’s in ‘04  https://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=322   Dr. Dobson Re-Evaluates Sen. McCain  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000007859.cfm LIFE ISSUES   Fighting for parental consent to abortion  https://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=184060   Truth Truck ‘Held Hostage’ at St. Louis Planned Parenthood  https://christiannewswire.com/news/611897237.html   Father: ‘System’ killing my disabled daughter. ‘If they had […]
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Pill Wars: Catholic Bishops and Senator Clinton Clash over Conscience Rights for Doctors

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Catholic Bishops are now entering the political fracas over a Bush Administration plan to protect the conscience rights of health care professionals that object to abortifacient contraception, crossing swords with Sen. Hillary Clinton and other abortion-supporters in the process. “This issue provides self-described ‘pro-choice’ advocates with an opportunity to demonstrate their true convictions,” stated Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee (USCCB) on Pro-Life Activities. “Or is the ‘pro-choice’ label a misleading mask for an agenda of actively promoting and even […]
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Chicago Suburb Tries to Quietly Issue Permit to Largest Planned Parenthood in the Nation – Appeal Fi

 AURORA, IL, July 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On July 1, the City of Aurora quietly issued a Final Certificate of Occupancy to the 22,000-square-foot Planned Parenthood facility, which has been mired in controversy since July of last year. Unlike the now-expired Temporary Certificate of Occupancy under which the facility had been operating, the Final Certificate would grant permanent legal status to the facility.  In response, yesterday, July 21, lawyers from the Thomas More Society of Chicago filed appeals to both the Aurora Building Code Board of Appeals and the Zoning Board of Appeals on behalf of Fox Valley Families Against […]
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Northern Irish Christian Politician Embattled for Voicing Christian Views on Homosexuality, Abortion

By Hilary White LONDON, July 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Iris Robinson, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP for Strangford, has been attacked in the press and the Northern Ireland Assembly, after she told a radio host that the government has a duty to “uphold God’s law” and prohibit abortion. She made her comments to BBC Radio Ulster’s Stephen Nolan programme on Thursday in a debate with socialist journalist Eamon McCann, who wants to see the extension of the 1967 British Abortion Act to Northern Ireland. “The government have the responsibility to uphold God’s law morally,” said Mrs. Robinson. “Abortion is […]
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Operation Rescue Releases Names of Tiller Abortionists/Mill Workers

WICHITA, Kansas, July 22 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Operation Rescue has released the most up-to-date list of abortion clinic workers employed by George R. Tiller at his late-term abortion mill, Women’s Health Care Services, in Wichita, Kansas. The list includes twenty-two people, including three out-of-state abortionists who travel to Kansas to do abortions, including late-term procedures that are illegal in their home states. “We are releasing this list of abortion workers in order to expose them to the community, and to elicit prayers for their repentance,” said Operation Rescue Senior Policy Advisor Cheryl Sullenger.  “As Christians, we are concerned about them as people, […]
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South Dakota Law Goes Into Effect: Women Must be Told They Are “Terminating the Life of a Whole Sepa

By Jenna Murphy PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA, July 22, 2008, (LifeSiteNews.com) – This past Friday, a law mandating that South Dakota’s physicians tell all women seeking an abortion that they are “terminating the life of a whole separate, unique living human being” went into effect. Though the state law was passed in 2005, Planned Parenthood successfully challenged the legislation in the courts, causing a preliminary injunction to be established that prevented the law from being put into effect. That injunction, however, expired on Friday, and now all physicians performing abortions at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls – the state’s only acknowledged […]
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“The CRY” National Prayer Movement to Hold Rally in Ottawa

OTTAWA, July 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The CRY, an initiative emphasizing prayer, worship and fasting for the spiritual welfare of Canada, will be held in the nation’s capital this August 23rd, 2008, beginning at 9:30am. The CRY is a Christian inter-denominational national event that was first held in 2002. It is the brainchild of a group of Christian leaders who hoped to raise up a movement of young people in Canada that would petition heaven for God’s mercy and favour on Canada. The call went out and over 10,000 gathered on Parliament Hill in that first event. Four years later […]
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Poll Indicates Majority of French Now Favor Adoption, Marriage for Homosexual Couples

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman FRANCE, July 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An opinion poll commissioned by the French publication Le Journal du Dimanche (The Sunday Journal) last month indicates that a large majority of the country’s population apparently now favors homosexual “marriage,” and a small majority now seems to support adoption for homosexual couples. If they are indeed an accurate reflection of the general public mood, the poll results represent a huge shift of opinion in only two years. According to the survey, 62% of respondents were in favor of allowing homosexual “marriage,” up from 45% in a similar survey conducted […]
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2008 World Youth Day Brings Together Largest Crowd in Australian History

By John Jalsevac SYDNEY, July 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI’s weeklong trip to Sydney Australia for the 2008 World Youth Day ended spectacularly on Sunday with a mass attended by some 400,000 pilgrims at Randwick Racecourse and Centennial Park, making it the largest gathering in Australian history. Similar numbers of pilgrims, both international and local, attended many of the central events throughout the week. It was estimated that in excess of half a million pilgrims and locals came out to welcome Benedict XVI on Thursday 17 July for his official arrival on boat-a-cade and motorcade at Barangaroo. The […]
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Philippines in Struggle Against Abortionist Population Control Initiative

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MANILA, July 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Filipino religious and pro-life organizations are locked in a struggle with pro-abortion groups over a legislative initiative to institute a massive regime of population control that would employ abortifacient contraceptives, sterilization, and sex education. The legislation, called the “Reproductive Health and Population Development Act of 2007,” would create a new agency called the Commission on Population (POPCOM) which would “encourage” families to have only two children, and promote the use of a variety of abortifacient drugs, including the IUD and the pill. POPCOM would also require all public and private […]
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German Lawyer Helps Elderly Woman to Commit Suicide

By Hilary White WUERZBURG, July 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A former German politician has sparked outrage after releasing a video revealing that he had assisted in the suicide of an elderly woman, prompting some German lawmakers to call for a review of laws on assisted suicide. Roger Kusch, a former secretary of justice in the Hamburg city council, admitted publicly this weekend that he helped a 79-year-old woman from the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg to commit suicide. Kusch is the founder of the organization Assisted Death. He said that Bettina Schardt, a retired X-ray technician, was neither terminally ill nor […]
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A Nation that Condemns “Beautiful and Blameless Unborn Babies” is “Ethically and Politically Untrust

 By Hilary White GLASGOW, Scotland, July 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The work of the Church to protect the unborn, to assist “frightened young” pregnant women and to help to “secure a better standard of living and greater opportunities for the poor,” far from being mutually exclusive, are closely interrelated works that cannot be separated from each other, according to the Catholic bishop of Motherwell. Joseph Devine, the fourth bishop of the diocese that encompasses parts of Glasgow in Scotland, said, “Indeed, a nation that condemns to abortion our beautiful and blameless unborn babies betrays itself as morally, ethically and politically […]
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Nurse who Gave Abortion Drug to Wrong Patient Will not Lose License

By Hilary White BIRMINGHAM, UK , July 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UK nurse who administered an abortion drug to the wrong woman at an abortion facility in Birmingham will not lose her license to practise, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has decided. The incident occurred when a woman, identified as “Patient A”, came into the facility on October 13, 2006 for an initial consultation. The nurse on duty, Ann Downer, gave the woman a dose of the abortion drug Mifepristol after failing to check her identity. According to the Daily Telegraph on Friday, the woman was called back to […]
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Interview With a World Leader in AIDS-Prevention

By John Jalsevac UGANDA, July 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the same time news has broken that the U.S. government has authorized the massivey increased, multi-billion dollar PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) program, LifeSiteNews.com spoke with one of Africa’s foremost AIDS prevention experts – the co-chair of Uganda’s AIDS-prevention Committee, Rev. Sam L. Ruteikara. Besides co-chairing the prevention committee, the Anglican clergyman holds numerous other leadership positions with AIDS-fighting organizations. Rev. Ruteikara stirred up controversy in the United States several weeks ago with the publication of an impassioned article “Let my People go, AIDS Profiteers,” in the Washington […]
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Spanish Gynecologists Denounce Post-viability Abortions

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MADRID, July 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of the Spanish Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (SEGO) gave a press conference earlier this month stating that when fetuses older than 22 weeks gestation are killed in their mother’s womb, the procedure should not be called an “abortion” but the “destruction of a viable fetus,” underscoring the belief of the society that there is no valid reason to intentionally kill a post-viability unborn child. Currently in Spain , abortion is legal up to the time of birth in cases of physical or “psychological” risk to the mother.   […]
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Court Rules Bush Admin Wrong to Fine CBS for Super Bowl Janet Jackson Striptease

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, July 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A three-judge panel of the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today against the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) fine imposed on CBS for airing footage of singer Janet Jackson’s nude breast during the 2004 Super Bowl.  The nearly 90 million viewers tuned into CBS during the Superbowl halftime show heard Justin Timberlake sing the line, “Gonna have you naked by the end of this song,” as he removed a key part of Jackson’s garments in what was claimed by the station to be a “wardrobe malfunction.” Federal judges, Anthony J. Scirica, […]
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Let My People Go, AIDS Profiteers

The co-chair of Uganda's AIDS-prevention Committee issues a damning indictment against the West's interference in his country's successful AIDS-prevention program
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for July 18, 2008

* 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.   Only 24 Republican senators voted on Tuesday for an amendment to the global AIDS bill to prohibit AIDS funds from being used to pay for forced abortions and sterilizations in Communist China.  https://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2008/ss_politics0334_07_16.asp   The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming.  https://www.dailytech.com/Myth+of+Consensus+Explodes+APS+Opens+Global+Warming+Debate/article12403.htm   Obama’s Faith Base: […]
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Canadians, Americans, International – Sign the On Line Petition: “Rescind Order of Canada From Morge

a) Canadian Petition – English:  https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Morgentaler/   b) Canadian Petition – French:  https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/MorgentalerRetirez/   c) American and International Petition:  https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/MorgentalerAmerican/   There is also a downloadable printable version of petition for churches and those who do not have email  https://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/documents/Morgentaler_Petition.pdf   See the special web page “Henry Morgentaler Order of Canada Controversy”  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008_docs/Morgentalerorder.html See previous stories on the petition:   Over 2000 Have Signed “Rescind Order of Canada From Morgentaler” Petition in First 24 Hours  Some of numerous comments noted here – French version added tonight  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08070413.html   National Group Launches Petition Calling for Morgentaler Order of Canada Appointment to be […]
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Catholic University of San Diego Changes Mind – Rejects Radical Non-Christian Feminist For Theology

By Peter J. Smith SAN DIEGO, July 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a stunning reversal, the University of San Diego has informed LifeSiteNews that it has rejected the selection of a radical eco-feminist theologian to an honorary chair in its Catholic theology department.   Just last week LifeSiteNews had reported that Professor Rosemary Radford Ruether, who calls God “Gaia,” supports abortion and contraception, and a host of other views that put her in conflict with essential Catholic and Christian beliefs was going to assume USD’s honorary Monsignor John R. Portman Chair in Roman Catholic Theology for the 2009-10 academic year. […]
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NJ Assemblyman Proposes Legislation that Could Fund Embryonic Research through Back Door

Trenton, NJ, July 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite last year’s referendum in which the public soundly defeated a measure to give public funding to research that destroys human embryos, a New Jersey assemblyman has introduced legislation that could do just that. Last November, New Jersey voters rejected a scheme to borrow $450 million for stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research. Now, however, Assemblyman Neil Cohen has announced plans to introduce legislation to create the “New Jersey Stem Cell Research Assistance Program,” purporting to jumpstart financing for stem cell research in the State. The plan would include taxpayer assistance for private […]
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McCain Takes Obama to Task on Abortion, Still Defends Embryo Destroying Research

By Peter J. Smith KANSAS CITY, Missouri, July 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain came out swinging at Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama at a town hall meeting in Kansas City Missouri over the latter’s stand on abortion, reports the Wall Street Journal. McCain brought up his pro-life record on abortion at the meeting on Thursday, after a discussion about the problem of sexually graphic material on the internet. “I also would like to say one other thing very quickly to you – that is, I am proud of my record of protecting and advocating the […]
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Traditional Anglican Bishops of Canada Protest Giving Order of Canada to Abortionist Morgentaler

 By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, July 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada, part of the worldwide Traditional Anglican Communion, has added its name to those protesting the nomination of arch-abortionist Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada.  In a letter to LifeSiteNews.com, Bishop Peter Wilkinson said: “I write to include the names of the Anglican Catholic Bishops of Canada to the list of those who have protested the award of the Order of Canada to Morgentaler.” “They are Bishop Carl Reid, the Auxiliary Bishop of Central Canada; Bishop Craig Botterill, the Auxiliary Bishop of Atlantic Canada; and […]
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Is the Pro-life Movement Too Christian? – Letters to the Editor for Friday, July 18, 2008

Re: Why Is the Pro-Life Movement So Christian, and Should it be?( https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08071510.html)   Dear Editor, Often when a pro-life group is struggling for membership, they will question the way they do business.  This process can bring great fruits, but it can also lead to a dead end. John’s article puts up a clear warning sign against one common “dead end” – compromising our Christian identity.  The battle against a Culture of Death is a religious one, and we want Christ leading our way. We welcome others to stand with us, and hopefully our Christian witness in this movement can be […]
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Homosexual High School Clubs Increase Risk of Suicide says Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Quoting a recent study, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) is warning of the increased risk of suicide that is linked with young people who identify themselves as homosexuals before achieving full maturity – a process encouraged by many homosexual high school clubs. The Washington Post recently ran a sympathetic article about a 15-year-old boy named Saro who described his homosexual feelings and how Gay Straight Alliance student clubs help such gay teens to deal with discrimination and bullying in high school and middle school. “What the article failed to describe,” said […]
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Same-sex “Marriage” Will Not be Counted in 2010 U.S. Census

By Jenna Murphy WASHINGTON, July 18, 2008, (LifeSiteNews.com)- The American Census Bureau has announced that the 2010 federal census will not recognize homosexual “marriages” in the nation’s 10-year count, despite the fact that Massachusetts and California currently permit same-sex ceremonies to take place. The director of the Census Bureau, Steven Murdock, told the AP on Thursday that the agency cannot recognize such “marriages” because of the Defense of Marriage Act. The 1996 federal law, he said, “has that effect, in terms of being a federal agency. We are restricted by it.” The Defense of Marriage Act says that for agencies of […]
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Dutch Replace Maiden Name with “Birth Name” to Accommodate Homosexual “Marriage”

By Jenna Murphy AMSTERDAM, July 18, 2008, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Dutch civil service announced on Wednesday that the term ‘maiden name’ is not an appropriate legal term given the 2001 legalization of gay marriage in the Netherlands, reports the pro-homosexual news website, Pinknews.com. The traditional term for the last name of a woman prior to marriage is being officially replaced with the word ‘Geboortenaam,’ which translates as ‘birth name.’ The Dutch Language union decided that the use of the traditional term is an embarrassment for homosexual men who may wish to take the surname of their partner after getting “married.” […]
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San Jose Professor Fired for Answering Question about Genetics and Homosexuality

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A former San Jose City College biology professor is suing the college after she was fired for answering a student’s question on the relationship between homosexuality and heredity. On June 21, 2007, June Sheldon, an adjunct professor teaching a human heredity course, answered a question about how heredity affects homosexual behavior by citing the class textbook and a well-known German scientist.  She noted that the scientist found a correlation between maternal stress and homosexual behavior in males but that the scientist’s views are only one set of theories in the nature-versus-nurture debate […]
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The Physiology of Motherhood: Studies Show ‘Natural High’ in Brains of Mothers Looking at Their babi

By Jenna Murphy HOUSTON, July 17, 2008, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Recent brain imaging studies conducted in The Human Neuro-imaging Laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas show that a mother is triggered physiologically by as little as a picture of her child. The brain images captured while 28 different first-time mothers looked at their infant showed that the brain’s reward centers are activated by an increased blood flow, thus creating a “natural high” effect. These same areas (associated with thinking, movement, behavior and emotion) are activated in many cases of addicts when their addiction is satiated. Observers have inferred from […]
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Texas Bishop “Saddened” By Allegations of Abortion and Sterilization at Catholic Hospitals

By Peter J. Smith AUSTIN, Texas, July 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Texas Catholic Bishop has stated he is “saddened” by an anonymous report that implicates Texas Catholic hospitals in performing abortions and sterilizations, which allegations the Texas bishops are currently investigating. “Although the Diocese of Tyler is blessed to have two faithful Catholic Hospitals serving our communities, Trinity Mother Frances in Tyler and Christus St. Michael in Texarkana, I was greatly saddened to hear of a report that alleges Catholic Hospitals have engaged in sterilizations procedures that are immoral,” said Bishop Corrada, SJ. The two hospitals in the Tyler […]
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Virgin Mobile Solicits Youth to Strip for Charity, Posts Videos on Website

By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, July 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US mobile phone provider Virgin Mobile has come up with a novel idea to help the homeless and has asked the youth of America to help by filming themselves “taking it off” and posting their strip-teases online for charity. This way the company says it will donate one article of clothing for every five viewers of each strip video posted on its website. Virgin Mobile’s donation drive is called “Strip2Clothe” and has adopted the slogan, “You take yours off, we donate ours.” The 30-something strip-teases that have been uploaded so far show […]
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No Hope for a Return to Orthodox Christianity from Lambeth: US Traditional Anglican Leader

By Hilary White CANTERBURY, England, July 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The opening yesterday of the fourteenth Lambeth Conference, the once-in-ten years meeting of the bishops of the Worldwide Anglican Communion, holds no hope of major reforms of the Anglican Church, according to the leader of the traditionalist movement in the US. Nearly one third of the Communion’s bishops have declined to attend Lambeth in protest. That third of the episcopate, however, represents 30 million of the Anglican Church’s 55 million active adherents worldwide, or well over half. “[W]e may be participating in the demise of the third largest Christian communion in […]
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Filipino Catholic Church Plans Massive National Demonstration Against Abortion Bill July 25

By Tim Waggoner MANILA, Philippines, July 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Church in the Philippines is pulling out all the stops in its efforts to fight a proposed law that would see the country legalize abortion. According to Asia News, Fr. Melvin Castro, Executive Secretary of the Episcopal Commission for Family and Life, is invoking all Catholics in the Philippines to demonstrate their opposition to the proposed legislation through a public protest scheduled for July 25. The national event will be filled with “prayers and marches on behalf of life” as bishops, priests, nuns and lay people take to […]
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Knights of Columbus Calls on All 230,000 Members to Demand Morgentaler Award be Revoked

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, ON, July 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a letter sent to the Canadian Governor General yesterday, Natale Gallo, the President of the Canadian Association of Knights of Columbus, demanded that the Order of Canada, which was awarded to abortionist Henry Morgentaler on Canada Day (July 1st), be “rescinded immediately.” In addition, the Knights have called on all their 230,000 members and families in Canada to lobby to demand that the decision to award the Order to Morgentaler be revoked. The letter, a copy of which has been obtained by LifeSiteNews.com, speaks of the “hundreds of thousands” […]
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“Human Rights Watch” Expresses Frustration over Peru’s Refusal to Decriminalize Abortion

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman WASHINGTON, July 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Apparently frustrated by the failures of the international abortion lobby to decriminalize the killing of the unborn in Peru, the pro-abortion organization “Human Rights Watch” is lashing out at the country in a new report that critics say distorts and misrepresents the truth about Peruvian law and the nation’s maternal health. Despite an ongoing campaign funded by multi-million dollar organizations, the Peruvian government has resisted all attempts to establish abortion as a legal “right” by means of a “protocol for therapeutic abortion” – an official document demanded by pro-abortion groups […]
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UN Committee Pushes Abortion on Slovakia, Lithuania, Northern Ireland

By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, July 17, 2008 (C-FAM) – At the most recent session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) meetings in New York, committee members pressed countries on abortion in the guise of talking about maternal mortality, family planning and contraceptive prevalence. Lithuania, Nigeria, Finland, the United Kingdom and Slovakia were all questioned on their abortion laws during their reviews by the committee.       While abortion is not mentioned in the treaty, in recent years the CEDAW Committee has questioned more than 60 nations on their abortion legislation. The committee has even gone […]
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“Disorder of Canada” Website Launched To “Encourage Canada’s Best To Return These Abortion Tainted M

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VERNON, B.C., July 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – James Love, a former United Church minister and convert to Roman Catholicism, has launched a website (https://www.disorderofcanada.com/) “to facilitate legal, non-malicious, and civil discourse between average Canadians and members of the Order of Canada. The sole purpose of this site is to, in a highly respectful and peaceable manner, persuade members of the Order of Canada who oppose the recognition of arch-abortionist Henry Morgentaler in the Order to return their Medals.” Mr. Love explains his personal reasons for creating the site (https://www.disorderofcanada.com/about_us.php) and expresses his hope that ordinary Canadians […]
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North Carolina Bishops: Oppose School “Bullying Bill” which Includes Sexual Orientation

By Tim Waggoner Raleigh, NC, July 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Peter J. Jugis of Charlotte and Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Raleigh, who recently founded Catholic Voice NC, an organization created to give the state’s Catholics a greater voice in the political process, have invoked North Carolinians to support the Senate version of a “bullying bill” – but not the House version. In a letter posted on the Catholic Voice website, the bishops affirmed that they support the Senate version of the School Violence Protection Act, because it “protects all children under the law without raising any group to a […]
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Pope to World Youth Day: “The Womb – Has Become A Place of Unutterable Violence”

By John-Henry Westen SYDNEY, July 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his address to the hundreds of thousands of youth who welcomed him at Barangaroo, Sydney Harbour today, Pope Benedict XVI issued one of the strongest challenges he has yet made to work for the right to life of unborn children.  “How can it be that the most wondrous and sacred human space – the womb – has become a place of unutterable violence?” he said. During his address to the young people, the Holy Father remarked on the natural beauty of Australia, leading into a short discourse on the need […]
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Australian Cardinal Challenges World Youth Day Pilgrims to ‘Get Off the Fence’

By Jenna Murphy SYDNEY, Australia, July 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  On Tuesday, His Eminence George Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, welcomed pilgrims to the “Great South Land of the Holy Spirit” as he delivered an ice-breaking homily at the Opening Mass of the 24th World Youth Day celebration. Cardinal Pell challenged those gathered to embrace the fullness of their humanity by renouncing the spirit of neutrality which has gained such a firm grip on many members of society, many Catholics included. “Our task is to be open to the power of the Spirit, to allow the God of surprises to […]
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Comments on July 16 News

Dear Readers,   Two opinion pieces have generated a lot of interest in the past few days. I would urge you, if you have not yet had the chance, to read them. One is “Death Wish: The Impending Suicide of a Once Great Nation” By Rev. John A. Corapi (https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08071404.html) and the other is “Why Is the Pro-Life Movement So Christian, and Should it be?” by John Jalsevac (https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08071510.html).   Fr. Corapi very bluntly warns of the great danger the U.S. and really most of the West is now in. John Jalsevac brings to the surface an issue that has […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for July 16, 2008

* 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. ABORTION   I blanked out the emotions after each of my SEVEN abortions  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1035053/I-blanked-emotions-SEVEN-abortions.html   The NAACP and Black Abortions: How is it that black leaders so aggressively support the accelerated abortion of the black population?   https://catholiccitizens.org/press/contentview.asp?c=47161   Girl, 16, says mother forced her to have abortion, Galena Park police search for fetus  https://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=8658698   Moral order is easy to tear down, hard to build – David Warren  https://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=8d8634f7-4b2d-4847-8e5b-be440ce5c2ec   […]
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Priest Expert Says Infanticide is 50 Years Away from Being Normalized

 By Tim Waggoner SYDNEY, July 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic organization, Regnum Christi, ran a workshop in Sydney over the weekend, leading up to World Youth Day, in which physician and bioethicist Father Joseph Tham predicted that, unless a dramatic change came about, in 50 years infanticide would be a normal reality. As reported by Special Broadcasting Services, Father Tham, who did his PhD thesis on bioethics, said that there is a growing belief in society that religion has no place in science. “Because of secularization, the Church is having less and less say on these debates,” he said. “What we […]
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Grand Jury Issues Indictment Against Abortionist in Patient’s Death

HYANNIS, Mass., July 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Barnstable County Grand Jury issued an indictment today against abortionist Rapin Osathanondh for Involuntary Manslaughter in the death of 22-year old Laura Hope Smith. According to Smith’s mother, Eileen, efforts to cover up details of her daughter’s death came to light during the grand jury investigation. Mrs. Smith told Operation Rescue that a Sheriff’s Deputy in another county had provided Osathanondh and his abortion clinic staff with CPR training, then backdated the session to a date prior to Laura’s death, with the full knowledge that someone had recently died at the clinic. […]
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McCain Camp Backpedaling Fast from Strong Stand on Gay Adoption

By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, July 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After getting flack from homosexualist lobby groups, the McCain campaign is now backing away fast from the Republican senator and presidential nominee’s strong stand against same-sex couples adopting children. Sen. John McCain told the New York Times in an interview published on Sunday’s front page that he was very much opposed to adoption by homosexual couples. The Republican candidate also appeared to reject the notion that a child’s adoption by a homosexual couple would be better than remaining in the orphanage until adoption by a traditional heterosexual couple. (https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08071408.html) […]
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Croatia Bans Sunday Shopping and Encourages Citizens to Devote Time To Family and Mass

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski ZAGREB, Croatia, July 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The parliament of the predominantly Catholic country of Croatia is urging its citizens to reclaim Sunday as a day for celebrating the Eucharist, for family, and for rest. The Croatian parliament passed a law yesterday requiring most businesses to close on Sundays. The law does, however, allow Sunday shopping during the summer tourist season and Christmas holidays. The new law also allows stores in hospitals as well as those in gas, bus and train stations to open on Sundays year-round. Bakeries, newsstands and flower shops are also exempt from […]
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Christian Groups who Evangelise Cannot Also do Social Service Work: Labour Secretary

By Hilary White LONDON, England, July 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last year, the Charities Commission instituted a new criterion under which religious charities must prove that what they do is of “public benefit”, or face the loss of their tax status. Now a secretary of the Labour government has said that those Christian charities that engage in religious evangelisation will not also be allowed to conduct social service work. Hazel Blears, the Labour government’s Communities Secretary is the author of a White Paper entitled ‘Communities in control: real people, real power’, that lays out the criteria for participation by Christian […]
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Friday is Fast and Pray for Morgentaler’s Conversion Day

By Tim Waggoner OTTAWA, July 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stephanie Gray, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform, is invoking Canadians to mark this Friday on their calendars as a day of fasting and prayer for the conversion of Dr. Henry Morgentaler. “What if Henry Morgentaler became pro-life?  What if he converted?  What if he had a Saul to Paul-type transformation?  What if the people who gave him the award for his deeds of killing babies, had to watch him reject the award on the day of delivery because he regretted and repented, with his whole heart and […]
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Businesses that Support Late-Term Abortion Named

WICHITA, KS, July 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today Operation Rescue released the latest list of businesses that help abortionist George R. Tiller continue his questionably legal abortion business. The project, called the Abortion Collaborators, was first launched in 2004 with a list of over 50 businesses that did work for Tiller’s late-term abortion clinic, Women’s Health Care Services. Since then 25 businesses, or 50%, have stopped collaborating with Tiller. Today’s list contains 30 business listings. This announcement follows on the heels of the decision by two physicians and the Wichita Clinic to stop providing the required second signature for Tiller’s […]
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Family Advocates Take McDonald’s Boycott to Home of the Golden Arches After “Hate” Smear

By Peter J. Smith OAK BROOK, Illinois, July 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The boycott against McDonald’s over its public support of a gay lobby group pushing same-sex “marriage” has now escalated, as the pro-family groups the global hamburger giant accused recently of “hate” have brought the fight right to the home of the famed Golden Arches. The American Family Association (AFA), Americans for Truth, the Illinois Family Institute, and the legal advocacy group Liberty Counsel held a joint press conference Wednesday in front of the McDonald’s restaurant across from McDonald’s corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois to protest the corporation’s statements […]
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Pro-Abort Obama Bruised from Both Sides of Abortion Debate: Now Falls into Dead Heat with Rival McCa

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Barack Obama has now slipped from a five point lead into a dead heat with Republican presidential rival John McCain according to the latest national polls. One contributing factor is likely that the Democratic presidential nominee’s recent attempts to put a more conservative spin on his extreme pro-abortion views have backfired among his core supporters; at the same time Obama has also come under attack from pro-life organizations who are calling him “the abortion president.” NEWSWEEK reports that in just under a month Obama has plummeted to a mere […]
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Philippine Catholic Bishops’ Official Oks Condom Use for AIDS Prevention over Official Church Teachi

By Hilary White MANILA, July 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has told media, in defiance of established Catholic teaching, that the use of condoms by HIV and AIDS-infected spouses is morally permissible. The Philippine Star reports that Fr. Edwin Corros, executive secretary of the CBCP-Episcopal Commission for Pastoral Care for Migrants and Itinerant People (ECMI) said that condom-use should be a “last resort” only after fidelity and abstinence have failed. “But you see by using that (condom) we are not actually endorsing condom use. We would like to prevent deaths […]
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Why Is the Pro-Life Movement So Christian, and Should it be?: Commentary

by John Jalsevac July 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life movement is an almost exclusively Christian movement. Most pro-life events begin and end with Christian prayer, almost all prominent pro-life leaders are outspoken Christians, and a great deal of the rhetoric of the pro-life movement is explicitly Christian. Some pro-life advocates, however, are distressed by this. They would like to exorcise open Christianity from the movement, relegating religion to the background. These activists, who are usually devout Christians themselves, are motivated by a sincere desire to see the pro-life cause triumph, and their arguments are not without merit. Above all, […]
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Bush Administration Seeks to Forbid Federal Aid Discrimination against Pro-Life Health Care Professi

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Bush Administration has proposed new rules to guarantee that all recipients of federal aid under federal health programs will not discriminate against hiring doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals who have moral objections to abortion and abortifacient birth control according to a report by the New York Times. The proposed regulations would require that hospitals, clinics, researchers, and medical schools sign “written certifications” before receiving federal funding under any program run by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HSS). The rules would also apply to […]
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World Bank Promotes Abortion

By Tim Waggoner OTTAWA, July 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US-led World Bank released a statement last week promoting the need in developing counties for “contraception and family planning” measures, which includes abortion. In the statement, Joy Phumaphi, the World Bank’s Vice President for Human Development, said that there are “population issues” and that the answer is to provide women in developing nations with “access to modern contraception and family planning.”  This latest move reaffirms the World Bank’s long-standing goal to flood developing countries with abortions and contraceptives. It has been documented that the Bank has required countries to implement these […]
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Half of Americans Would Choose Death over Disability: Survey

By Hilary White July 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More than half of people in the US would rather be dead than disabled says a new survey. A US website for disabled people ran the survey which asked, “Which would you choose: Living with a severe disability that forever alters your ability to live an independent life, or death?” 52 per cent of the respondents chose death. The survey, run by the online community and website Disaboom, found that differences in attitude toward disability were based on age, income, geographic location, and level of education. 63 percent of younger Americans chose […]
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Strong Public Message On Chastity Running In Australian Press Leading up to World Youth Day

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski AUSTRALIA, July 15, 2008 (LifeSIteNews.com) – The Australian media are capitalizing on the influx of thousands of Catholic youth to their country in anticipation of the beginning of World Youth Day by promoting the Catholic Church’s teaching on the beauty of chastity and the problems associated with pre-marital and extra-marital sex. Articles in The Australian yesterday gave first hand accounts by two women, one who had remained chaste from her youth and another who followed the predominant view of our over-sexualized culture, but later decided to embrace chastity. Ruth Russell, of Adelaide, South Australia, said her […]
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Success: After Public Exposure, Psychiatrist Quits Signing Off on Late Term Abortion

WICHITA, KS, July 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Less than eight hours after Operation Rescue released his name to the public, Burt Odenheimer and another physician have agreed to no longer provide the second opinion for George Tiller’s late-term abortion patients.  A press release from the Wichita Clinic, where both Odenheimer and the other doctor had been secretly seeing Tiller’s patients, confirmed that, until this morning, the Clinic had no knowledge that the doctors were doing so. It also confirmed that both Odenheimer and the other physician had been providing the second opinions and that both agreed to stop. “We have […]
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Eminent Transplant Doctor Investigated for “Organ Trafficking” at Mexican Hospital

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman GUADALAJARA, Mexico, July 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The chief of the organ transplant program at Guadalajara’s Civil Hospital is under investigation for receiving up to one million pesos ($100,000) in a personal bank account in exchange for prioritizing transplant surgeries, according to local news reports. Dr. Luis Carlos Rodríguez Sancho reportedly required patients to deposit the money in exchange for moving patients up the transplant list, despite the fact that the Civil Hospital is a government institution, and, according to state regulations, transplants are free of charge. The payments made to Sancho have been confirmed by […]
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Pro-Abort Politicians “Must” be Refused Communion: Philippines Archbishop

By Hilary White OZAMIZ, Philippines, July 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Philippine bishop has reiterated the teaching of the Catholic Church that politicians who support legal abortion “must” be refused Holy Communion at Mass. Archbishop Jesus Dosado of Ozamiz archdiocese issued a pastoral letter this weekend saying priests should tell such politicians, “until they bring to an end the objective situation of sin” that they should not present themselves at Mass to receive Communion. Priests are to give pro-abortion politicians instructions in the Church’s teaching, and if the politician persists in his error, he should be told not to present himself for […]
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Crisis in Jamaica: Campaign to Legalize Abortion Continues

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 14, 2008 (LifeSIteNews.com) – The campaign to legalize abortion on demand in the Caribbean nation of Jamaica is heating up. Earlier this month the Joint Select Committee of the Jamaican Parliament held the first of three hearings to discuss the liberalization of the abortion law. On Thursday, July 10th, the second hearing took place. At this second session, the pro-abortion Ministry of Health presented its views. Pro-life groups and concerned individuals have been invited to make written submissions to Parliament today, in anticipation of the third hearing this week and continued debate when […]
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“Premature Sexualisation” Pushing Young Girls into Depression and Self-Harm: New Study

By Hilary White July 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “When I was 11, I read a teenage magazine for the first time and that is when it kind of clicked, ‘I should be like this’,” says one young girl surveyed in a study by Girlguiding UK and the Mental Health Foundation, that has revealed three leading potential “triggers” for serious mental health problems in girls: premature sexualisation, commercialisation and alcohol misuse. More generally, the report reveals a loss of childhood innocence and says girls today experience high levels of “stress, anxiety and unhappiness”. The study found that premature sexualisation and pressure […]
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Norway Trial Court Finds Missionaries Guilty for Spreading Gospel

By Peter J. Smith OSLO, Norway, July 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two Christian missionaries, arrested by Norwegian police in May for spreading the gospel during an Oslo parade celebrating the birthday of the country’s constitution, have been found guilty by a Norway trial court. US evangelist Larry Keefer from Tampa, Florida, and Norwegian evangelist, Petar Keseljevic were attending the May 17 national event in Oslo, celebrating the 1814 ratification of Norway’s constitution, when police arrested the Christian missionaries as they were conversing with several members of the crowd beyond the parade lines. (see https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/may/08052208.html)  LifeSiteNews has learned from the International […]
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Oral Contraceptives May Be Linked to Atherosclerosis

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski   July 12, 2008 (LifesiteNews.com) – Evidence continues to increase about the harmful effects of oral contraceptive use.   An article by Dr. David Brownstein (https://www.drbrownstein.com/blog.asp?id=124) refers to a study on oral contraceptive use and the link to increased arterial plaque, reported by LifeSiteNews.com earlier this year (Birth Control Pill Linked to Hardening of the Arteries, https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/apr/08040807.html).   The study revealed that each 10 year use of oral contraceptives was associated with a 42% increase risk of bilateral carotid (the arteries in the neck) plaque. There was also a 34% increase risk of femoral artery (leg) […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for July 12, 2008

* 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.  ESPECIALLY NOTABLE ARTICLES   We Shall Not Weary, We Shall Not Rest – By Richard John Neuhaus  https://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1117   China’s coercive one-child policy has resulted in sex-selection abortions of some 40 million baby girls and leads to about 70,000 children being sold every year  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69207   Abortionist: I cancel human souls before they become babies – Former Clinton OB-GYN makes admission in e-mail  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69054   Paul Weyrich – There is no […]
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Commentary on July 11 News

Dear Readers,   We did not plan it, but today LifeSiteNews has published more stories that even before on one day. Whew! We don’t ever recall so much news happening at once. At least it is a weekend which gives you more time to read the reports that interest you.   The Uganda story is one that should disgust everyone. The international AIDS industry is to a significant degree a killer and a destroyer in the Third World. That view is inescapable after reviewing the devastating evidence of the past few decades. We suggest that large numbers of deaths and […]
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8th Canadian to Return Order of Canada Because of Morgentaler Award

By Tim Waggoner   WINDSOR, ON, July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Retired Police Detective Frank Chauvin has announced his intention to return his Order of Canada decoration.   Chauvin revealed his decision to the Windsor Star on Thursday morning: “Yes, it’s definitely going. I don’t want to be painted with the same brush as Morgentaler. It’s definitely going back.”   Chauvin is a retired police detective, renown for his dedication to serving the poor in international communities, such as when he founded an orphanage for abandoned girls in Port-au-Prince. “It’s a bittersweet decision,” said Chauvin. “It was a wonderful thing to […]
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Study Finds Lesbians 50 Times More Likely to Self-Harm than General Population

By Hilary White   July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The habit of “self-harming” is 50 times more likely to occur in lesbians than in the general population of women, a Scottish study has shown. 20 per cent of lesbian and bisexual women, of a total of 500 women surveyed in Scotland had deliberately harmed themselves in the last year, compared to 0.4 per cent of the general population.   The study, Prescription for Change, was conducted by the homosexual lobby organisation Stonewall. It also showed that five per cent of lesbian and bisexual women have attempted suicide in the last […]
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Portuguese Physicians Capitulate to Pressure to Change Ethical Code to Allow Abortions

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After months of conflict, the leadership of the Portuguese Order of Physicians has capitulated to government pressure to allow abortions in their ethical code. At a meeting held earlier this week, the organization’s National Executive Council proposed new language that, while condemning any destruction of human life, would no longer specify when that life begins. While the existing code states clearly that “the practice of abortion constitutes a grave ethical failure,” the new code strikes that language, reportedly stating that life constitutes the highest value, and that “it is absolutely impossible […]
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Massachusetts Gets Ready to Repeal Law Forbidding Same-Sex “Marriage” to Out-of-Staters

By Peter J. Smith BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Massachusetts State Senate will vote as soon as Tuesday on legislation that would repeal a 1913 law used by former Gov. Mitt Romney to forbid out of state homosexual couples from getting “married” and then returning to challenge their home state’s laws protecting true marriage. The Senate will consider on Tuesday the bill S800, “An Act Concerning Marriage Laws,” which would effectively repeal the 1913 regulations that prevent out of state homosexuals from getting “married” in Massachusetts. Should the Senate pass the measure next week, the House then […]
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McDonalds Strikes Back at Family Boycott with Charges of “Hate”

By Peter J. Smith OAK BROOK, Illinois, July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fast food giant McDonald’s is returning fire against a pro-family boycott, saying family advocates opposed to their affiliation with pro-homosexual organizations are guilty of “hate.” The American Family Association has led the boycott of McDonald’s restaurants since July 3, after the global hamburger empire refused requests to remain neutral in the culture wars and to withdraw their public support from the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), a homosexual lobby that pushes same-sex “marriage.” Instead, McDonald’s spokesman Bill Whitman told the Washington Post that the boycott […]
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Imam Who Launched Human Rights Complaint Now Confronts Commission for Threatening Religious Freedoms

By Pete Vere SAULT STE. MARIE, ON, July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Syed Soharwardy, the Calgary-based Imam who launched and later withdrew a human rights complaint against Ezra Levant and the Western Standard for having published the infamous Danish cartoons depicting Mohammed, issued a statement today expressing deep concern over how Canada’s human rights commissions are treating Christians. “In listening to the experiences of Bishop Henry and Pastor Boissoin, I realized how precious religious freedom is to our country and how easily freedom is lost,” Soharwardy said in a statement to SooToday.com. The Imam cited the Alberta Human Rights Commission’s […]
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New Poll Showing Voters More Likely to Vote for Presidential Candidates who Support Marriage Amendme

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, Family Research Council released the results of a commissioned national survey demonstrating the potential for significant political impact of marriage protection amendments on the November ballot in California, Florida, and Arizona. The survey conducted by Wilson Research Strategies asked likely voters if they “would be more or less likely to vote for a presidential candidate” who supports measures on the November ballot that would define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The results of the poll demonstrate that marriage is an issue that many American voters care deeply […]
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Abortion Decriminalization Bills Overwhelmingly Rejected in Brazilian Congress

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BRASILIA, July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two bills to decriminalize abortion in Brazil were defeated for the third time in recent weeks, in what may be the final blow to legislation that has been under consideration for over 17 years in the Brazilian National Congress. The latest defeat was dealt by the Constitution, Justice, and Citizenship Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, Brazil’s lower legislative house, in a crushing 30-4 vote, after the head of the committee, Eduardo Cunha, rejected the legislation on June 26th. “The right to life constitutes the supreme value of the Constitution, […]
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Homosexual Man Sues Bible Publishers over Scripture Verses against Homosexuality

By Peter J. Smith NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A homosexual man upset by biblical verses condemning homosexuality as a sin has decided – in lieu of suing God or claiming damages from the Holy Spirit – instead to go after two Christian publishers for their versions of the Bible, which he says violate his constitutional rights and have caused him emotional pain and mental instability. Bradley LaShawn Fowler of Canton, Michigan filed a suit in US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on July 7 against Zondervan Publishing House Corp. seeking $60 million. Fowler also filed […]
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House Representatives Issue Call for Defunding of “Wal-Mart of Big Abortion” – Planned Parenthood

WASHINGTON, July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday Representatives Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) organized a special order on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to call for an end to federal taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is the nation’s number one abortion provider, providing 290,000 abortions last year.  Planned Parenthood provided nearly one in five abortions nationwide in 2005, the latest year nationwide abortion statistics are available. “The idea that Planned Parenthood cares one whit about reducing the ‘need for abortion’ is absurd,” said the President of the Susan B. Anthony List, Marjorie Dannenfelser.  “But […]
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$600,000 in Prizes to be Awarded to Best Pro-Life Organizations or Individuals this Year

WASHINGTON, July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Gerard Health Foundation has unveiled Life Prizes, a program that will award up to $600,000 to those who have succeeded in awakening the conscience of America to uphold and preserve the sanctity of human life through their leadership and advances in public advocacy, scientific research, outreach and public disclosure activities, legal action and other noteworthy achievements.  The inaugural award will be named the “Norinne A. and Raymond E. Ruddy Memorial Pro-Life Prize” to memorialize Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Ruddy, strong believers in the pro-life cause and parents of Raymond B. Ruddy, a […]
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Vienna Cardinal Awards Papal Knighthood to Notorious Pro-Abortion Austrian Politician

By John-Henry Westen VIENNA, July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On June 25, Vienna Archbishop Cardinal Christoph Schönborn awarded Vienna Deputy Mayor Renate Brauner the Pontifical Order of St. Gregory the Great, one of the highest honors conferred by the Catholic Church. While the US Bishops Conference has agreed not to confer honors on supporters of abortion, European bishops have not yet addressed the issue. In their 2004 document, Catholics in Political Life, the US Bishops’ Conference states: “The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honour those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be […]
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Gay Pride Clubs Erupt in Catholic Schools in Board Embroiled in Homosexuality Controversy

Thursday November 29, 2007 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Gay Pride Clubs Erupt in Catholic Schools in Board Embroiled in Homosexuality Controversy By John-Henry Westen WATERLOO, November 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Ontario Catholic school board approached by a family issues group concerned about pro-homosexual materials in school libraries, is now facing the opening of homosexual student clubs in its high schools. The Waterloo Catholic District School Board was approached early this year by the group Defend Traditional Marriage and Family concerned about a teacher resource book promoting homosexuality as well as some thirty similarly objectionable books, videos and pamphlets available […]
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Comments on July 10 News

Dear Readers,   It is refreshing to report on the straightforward, unapologetic statements of African Cardinal Tumi on the West’s fear of Third World populations and the obligation of Christians to “disturb” consciences. No mushy platitudes, no psychobabble, no fear of hurting feelings or offending political correctness or “diversity” with the truth – all of which have added to the mess we are now in.   The Morgentaler award controversy continues much to the consternation of his rabid, often irrational supporters who grossly exaggerate the statistics of deaths caused by illegal abortions in the past and ignore those of the […]
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Catholic University of San Diego Honors Radical Non-Christian Feminist With Theology Chair

By Peter J. Smith   SAN DIEGO, July 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This year the University of San Diego (USD) has awarded an honorary chair in its Catholic theology department to a radical eco-feminist theologian, who calls God “Gaia,” supports abortion and contraception, and a host of other views that put her in conflict with essential Catholic and Christian beliefs. The selection comes just months after the Pope’s April visit to the United States in which he told Catholic educators to be faithful to Church teachings.   The USD Department of Theology and Religious Studies says Professor Rosemary Radford Ruether […]
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Eleven-Year-Old Romanian Girl Receives Late-Term Abortion in London

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman LONDON, July 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An 11 year old girl over 21 weeks pregnant has received an abortion at a London hospital after pro-lifers in Romania lost the struggle to save her child’s life. Abortions are illegal in Romania after the 14th week of gestation, unless physicians rule that the pregnancy is a threat to the mother’s health.  A hospital ethics panel in Romania denied permission for an abortion after ruling that the girl and her baby were healthy, and the pregnancy was proceeding without complications. However, after weeks of media-generated controversy, the Romanian government […]
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Pro-Life Group Holds Protest in Newfoundland against Morgentaler Decision

By Tim Waggoner ST. JOHN’S, NFLD, July 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Newfoundland Right to Life Association held a public protest yesterday in opposition to the appointment of Dr. Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada. Over 40 protestors gathered in front of the lieutenant governor’s house with signs that read, “abortion kills children” and “God save us and our nation.”  They did so in solidarity with the protest that was going on in Ottawa at the same time. Patrick Hanlon, president of the Right to Life Association, told CBC News that the members of his association are opposed to […]
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State’s Most Pro-Abortion Judge on the Board of Catholic University

By Tim Waggoner MINNEAPOLIS, July 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews has learned that a notorious abortion advocate and Appeals Court Judge is holding an executive position at a large Catholic university in Minneapolis. Judge Diana Murphy is the chairwoman of the Executive Committee for the Board of Trustees of the Catholic University of St. Thomas. However, throughout her tenure as a judge with the Eight Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals, she has consistently overturned legislation seeking to further the Culture of Life. On September 11, 2000, the appeals court judge ruled against multiple legislators, pro-life groups, physicians and citizens, […]
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US Rejects Participation in Danish Campaign to Put Abortion in Millennium Development Goals

By Samantha Singson       NEW YORK, NY, July 10, 2008 (C-FAM) – The United States has rejected an invitation to join a new campaign launched by the Danish government that calls on governments “to accelerate implementation of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3” which calls for “gender equality and women’s empowerment.” It is believed that the Danish Campaign will go beyond the mandate of the MDG’s and be used to promote a new MDG on reproductive health, something that has been rejected by UN member states, yet repeatedly pushed by advocates of abortion.       Earlier this year, the Danish government initiated […]
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Study: Despite Greater Social Acceptance Divorce Still Seriously Damages a Child’s Prospects in Life

By Tim Waggoner LONDON, U.K. July 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the 50th anniversary of a British longitudinal social study, researchers have revealed that the years of collected data indicate that a child whose parents are divorced is more likely to struggle academically, emotionally and in future relationships of their own, reports the Daily Telegraph. “Divorce has repercussions that reverberate through childhood and into adulthood. Children from disrupted families tend to do less well in school and subsequent careers than their peers. They are also more likely to experience the break-up of their own partnerships,” the researchers said. “The National […]
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UK Tribunal Rules that Christian Cannot be Forced to Conduct Gay Partnership Ceremony

By Hilary White LONDON, July 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Islington Council, by trying to force a civil marriage registrar to participate in homosexual domestic partnership ceremonies, perpetrated a “violation” of her dignity and “created an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.” In unexpectedly strong language, the Central London Employment Tribunal has ruled that Lillian Ladele, a Christian civil marriage registrar, cannot be forced to act contrary to her conscience in conducting homosexual domestic partnership ceremonies. The panel ruled, “Islington Council rightly considered the importance of the right of the gay community not to be discriminated against but did […]
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Philippines Bishop Urges Government to Teach Natural Family Planning

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MANILA, July 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his homily during the mass marking the 40th anniversary of the Encyclical Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life) at the Manila Cathedral, Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), urged the Philippine government to teach natural family planning methods in public hospitals and local health centers. “What does Humanae Vitae teach us? It doesn’t prohibit family planning. But family planning should be done the right way, not the sinful way,” Archbishop Lagdameo said. “The use of artificial contraceptive methods like birth control pills and […]
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Comment on July 9 News

Dear Readers,   The protest at Rideau Hall, the official residence of Canada’s Governor General, was a great success as you will read today. It is a very unusual occurrence in Canada. The Morgentaler Order of Canada issue is definitely still very much alive and indications are that more people than the public is aware have returned or are planning to return their Order of Canada medals – another most unusual development. It will be interesting to see how things develop in the days ahead. Rabbi Levin’s comments on the issue are refreshingly blunt and honest. Canada could use such […]
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Suspended Bishop and President-Elect of Paraguay Selects Two Pro-Abortion Ministers

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman   ASUNCION, Paraguay, July 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Suspended bishop and president-elect of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo, has selected two pro-abortion ministers for his future cabinet, sparking protests from pro-life organizations.   The two nominees, Gloria Rubin and Lilian Soto , have been named to lead the Ministry of Women and the Ministry of Public Function respectively.  According to Paraguayan pro-life organizations, the two have made repeated statements affirming their support for decriminalizing abortion.   The Federation of Associations for Life and Family, together with numerous other groups, denounced the nominations in an open letter to Lugo. “The selection […]
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Virginia Authorities Will Investigate – But Not Prosecute – Catholic Charities for Illegal Abortion

By Peter J. Smith   RICHMOND, Virginia, July 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Attorney for the Commonwealth of Virginia says he will investigate, but has no intentions of prosecuting, Commonwealth Catholic Charities of Richmond (CCR) for their involvement in procuring an illegal abortion for a 16-year-old Guatemalan girl in their care.   Only the CCR staffer who forged the consent form for the girl’s abortion will be the subject of Commonwealth Attorney Michael N. Herring’s investigation. The staffer would face a Class 3 misdemeanor punishable by a $500 fine for signing a consent form without authority to do so under […]
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Homosexual Acts “Natural” for Homosexuals and Must be Accepted: Anglican Primate of Ireland

By Hilary White   LONDON, July 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexuality is “natural” for homosexuals and must be accepted by the Church, the Anglican Primate of Ireland said this week.   Archbishop Alan Harper of the Armagh Anglican diocese, called for his Church to reassess the traditional orthodox Christian interpretation of scriptural passages prohibiting and condemning homosexual activity. His comments are being seen as a direct challenge to the traditional bishops, particularly of the African branches of the Anglican Communion, who hold that the scriptural prohibitions, as well as the natural moral law arguments, are inerrant and clear.   Harper […]
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No Abortions on P.E.I. Soil, says Premier

By Tim Waggoner CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I., July 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the wake of Dr. Henry Morgentaler’s induction into the Order of Canada, the Premier of P.E.I. has affirmed that his government will not revisit the province’s abortion policy. Current policy forbids abortions from being performed in the province, but states that the P.E.I. government will cover the cost of an abortion if the woman procures it in a hospital in a different province and under the recommendation of two doctors. Despite criticisms from pro-abortion organizations, the Chronicle Herald has reported that Premier Robert Ghiz has maintained that he has […]
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Child Services Seizes Children from Parents in Bizarre Manitoba Case

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski and John Jalsevac WINNIPEG, July 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The bizarre story of a Winnipeg mom who had her children seized last March by Manitoba’s Child and Family Services Ministry, after her daughter went to school with a swastika drawn on her arm, has become a focal point for the debate over how much say government should have in how parents raise their children. Conservative commentators who believe that Canada’s courts and governmental authorities are becoming dangerously overzealous in their interference in the affairs of private citizens are condemning the decision to remove the children from […]
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German Chancellor Merkel Opposes “Every Form of Assisted Suicide”

By Alex Schadenberg,   Executive Director Euthanasia Prevention Coalition BERLIN, Germany, July 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Deutche Welle reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken out in the strongest terms against euthanasia in the wake of the suicide of an elderly woman.  Merkel, said that she is against “every form of assisted suicide,” regardless of the circumstances. Merkel’s stance was echoed by Germany’s Health Minister Ulla Schmidt. “I reject this path categorically,” she said. “The correct path is to offer assistance to those who are dying instead of helping those free from terminal illness to commit suicide.” Controversy was sparked after […]
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Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II: Demographic Crisis Can Only be Overcome by Morality not Money

by Irina Strizhov  From The orthodox Book of Russia (link towww.pravkniga.ru)  Translated by Andrey Bystrov, www.stop-abort.ru July 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The supreme governance and administrative body of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Bishops’ Council, which is held every four years, was opened on June 24th in Moscow, presided over by His Holiness Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia. In his report to the Council on the opening day, in the section “Orthodoxy and Family Care”, his Holiness spoke on the crisis of the family in modern society. In particular Alexy II pointed to the increasing practice of […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for July 7, 2008

* 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.   Abortion Is a No-Win Issue for Obama  https://pajamasmedia.com/blog/abortion-is-a-no-win-issue-for-obama/   Pro-life GP cleared of bullying women out of abortion  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2262294/Pro-life-GP-cleared-of-bullying-women-out-of-abortion.html   Grand Jury Refuses to Indict Abortionist Tiller  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000007764.cfm   Where Are Europe’s Babies?  https://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=1181   Conservatives to battle McCain over platform – Activists don’t want his views on warming, stem cells, other issues adopted  https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25561143/   Obama to accept before 75,000+  https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11558.html   New resource from Concerned Women for America […]
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List of Who to Call, E-Mail, Write to Get the Morgentaler Appointment Revoked

By Steve Jalsevac   TORONTO, Ontario, July 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com ) – The following detailed list of individuals to contact in order to have the Order of Canada appointment of Henry Morgentaler revoked has been circulating on the Internet over the past week.   Campaign Life Coalition, Ontario’s Family Coalition Party, 4MYCANADA and others are strongly encouraging emails, telephone calls, faxes and letters to these people demanding that the appointment of Morgentaler be revoked.   The minimum contact that has been suggested, as previously reported on LifeSiteNews, is to the Prime Minister, the Governor General and the individual Members of […]
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More Highlights from the Morgentaler Order of Canada Media Debate

By John Jalsevac July 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The deluge of editorials, opinion pieces, letters, interviews and news reports in Canadian media has barely (if at all) slowed since it was announced on Canada Day, last Tuesday, July 1, that Henry Morgentaler, was to receive Canada’s highest civic award – the Order of Canada. Here are yet more highlights from just a few of the articles that have appeared in print media since we did our last such roundup last Friday. How Morgentaler exposed the chasm between elites and the rest of Canada by David Warren – Columnist – The […]
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Obama’s Rightward Drift Sparks Outcry from Democrat Abortion Extremists

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sen. Barack Obama has the Democratic Party’s pro-abortion political base incensed and up in arms over recent overtures designed to soften the candidate’s image as the party’s most pro-abortion presidential candidate ever. The presumptive nominee has followed recent calls for continuing faith-based initiatives by voicing a position in favor of abstinence education and prohibiting abortion in certain cases. Sen. Barack Obama has been trying to enhance his appeal to voters by moving closer to the political center at the same time as pro-family and pro-life groups have been drawing attention to […]
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Delaware House Approves Resolution Protecting Woman from Dehydration/Starvation

By John Jalsevac DOVER, Delaware, July 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Delaware House of Representatives has passed a resolution supporting Randy Richardson in his bid to protect the life of his 24-year-old daughter, Lauren Richardson, Richardson, who at one time was the valedictorian of her high school class, suffered a brain injury after a heroine overdose in 2006, which left her severely handicapped. Doctors diagnosed Richardson, whose plight is being compared widely to that of Terri Schiavo, as being in a Permanent Vegetative State (PVS). At the time of the accident Lauren was three months pregnant. After the birth of Lauren’s child, […]
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Busloads Expected Wednesday at Ottawa Picket Against Morgentaler Receiving Order of Canada

OTTAWA, July 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since the news about Henry Morgentaler’s nomination for the Order of Canada was made public, people who believe in the dignity and sanctity of human life have been outraged. Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), the political arm of the pro-life movement, has been overwhelmed with requests from supporters to take action. In response, CLC has organized a protest at the residence of the Governor General, Rideau Hall (1 Sussex Drive), Ottawa, which will take place on Wednesday July 9 from noon until 2:00 pm.  Countless organizations are speaking out against this honour being given to someone whose […]
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Bloody Photos Hit Streets in Protest of Order of Canada Announcement

CALGARY, AB, July 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For the last four days, the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR) cruised Calgary streets, with an 11-meter-long box-bodied truck displaying bloody photos of aborted human beings.    Stephanie Gray, executive director of CCBR said this initiative is particularly important given the recent decision to award abortionist Dr. Henry Morgentaler the Order of Canada. In the wake of this controversial news, CCBR, known for its public display of graphic abortion images, has brought out its “Reproductive ‘Choice’ Campaign.” “Since Canada has chosen to bestow its highest civilian honour to an abortionist, we thought it […]
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Chris Kempling to Quit BC Teachers’ College after Years of Harassment for Christian Beliefs

By Hilary White   QUESNEL, BC, July 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Chris Kempling will be leaving his position in the public school system after years of harassment for his Christian beliefs and his moral stand against the campaign to  promote homosexuality in schools. Kempling has announced he will be taking a job at St. Ann’s Academy in Kamloops. Earlier this year Kempling received a fresh list of citations for “conduct unbecoming a member” of the BC College of Teachers (BCCT) for his exposition of the Christian position on homosexuality, which fact Kempling said drove him to leave the College of […]
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Alberta Pastor Convicted of Hate Speech Appeals Human Rights Commission Ruling

By John Jalsevac July 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alberta Pastor Steve Boissoin has filed an appeal to the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal ruling that convicted him of hate speech. The pastor was found guilty last November of having written a letter to the editor in the Red Deer Advocate that was “likely” to expose homosexuals to hatred. The appeal was filed on June 26 with the Queen’s Bench of Alberta. A hearing has preliminarily been set for September 9, although that date could change during negotiations between the involved parties. LifeSiteNews spoke with Boissoin’s attorney, Gerald Chipeur, who said that […]
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Bishops: What “Achievements” of Morgentaler’s are Being Recognized?

By Tim Waggoner OTTAWA, July 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop James Wingle of St. Catharines and Archbishop Raymond Roussin of Vancouver have spoken out strongly against the decision to grant Dr. Henry Morgentaler the Order of Canada, both asking why Canada is honouring a man who has caused so much harm among so many Canadians. Given the fact that the Order of Canada is meant to recognize “a lifetime of outstanding achievement,” Bishop Wingle asked, “What outstanding achievement or service has Henry Morgentaler contributed to the betterment of Canada?”  Morgentaler has boasted that he has performed over 100,000 abortions, many […]
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Doctors and Families Asked to “Just Say no to New Aborted Fetal Vaccine!”

TENNESSEE, July 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Children of God for Life is calling on the Medical Profession to “just say no” to the newly US licensed aborted fetal vaccine, Pentacel, made by Sanofi Pasteur.  On June 26th the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended the vaccine be added to the immunization schedule for children, despite the fact that moral alternatives have been used in the US for years. “We find it strange that the ACIP would recommend Pentacel in particular when children are already receiving untainted versions of these vaccines in their routine series of shots,” said Debi Vinnedge, […]
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Letters to the Editor for Friday, July 4

RE: The logic of Mr. Morgentaler   I recall seeing an episode of  TV Vision’s in-house programme, “Credo,” that featured Dr. Morgentaler (produced in 2002) talking  about his family’s experiences in the Holocaust.   In this program he stated that he saw the Holocaust first hand, and the damages that could be done by ‘an unwanted child’ – I assume in reference to Hitler.  Now, he said, it is his mission in life to ensure that unwanted children are not born, so as to save humanity from another Holocaust.   Tragically, it is Mr. Morgentaler’s black logic that has created what is now […]
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Bishops Investigate Report: 39 Abortions, 9684 Sterilizations Performed in Texas Catholic Hospitals

By Tim Waggoner AUSTIN, TX, July 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An anonymous report providing evidence from government statistics has indicated that 23 Catholic hospitals in Texas performed 39 abortions and 9684 sterilizations between 2000 and 2003. As reported by Our Sunday Visitor, the State of Texas makes all hospital inpatient records publicly available.  An anonymous group used this data to compile a report on the alleged immoral activities taking place in Catholic hospitals and released it to the website, Wikileaks, which operates in order to house this kind of information.  A spokesperson for the group said they released the information […]
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LAPD Sued for Alleged Discrimination against Officer’s Religious Beliefs

By Tim Waggoner LOS ANGELES, July 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An LAPD officer has sued the City of Los Angeles, the LAPD and others, alleging that his First Amendment rights were violated and that he was religiously discriminated against after he issued off-duty statements regarding the Bible’s teachings on homosexual acts. The LA Times has reported that Sgt. Eric Holyfield preached against homosexual acts during the eulogy for a fellow officer in 2006.  Holyfield, who is a pastor for a Christian community, quoted Bible passages and explained that “men should not lie with men; women should not lie with women. […]
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President Bush and Senator McCain Address National Right to Life Conference

By Tim Waggoner ARLINGTON, VA, July 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During yesterday’s National Right to Life Conference, President George Bush and Republican presidential candidate John McCain gave video addresses to the audience, in which they expressed their support for the unborn’s inherent right to life and their unity with the country’s pro-life movement. LifeNews.com reports that after thanking the audience for their “commitment to protecting the unborn,” the President exclaimed, “The nation’s Declaration of Independence exists to give the right to life to the unborn.” “I have proudly stood with you to make sure this nation stands up for this […]
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Golden Arches Awash in Rainbow Colors: Family Group Boycotts McDonalds for Support for Homosexual Ag

By Peter J. Smith OAK BROOK, Illinois, July 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An American pro-family group has launched a boycott of McDonald’s until the global fast food giant declares neutrality in the culture wars and guarantees that it will no longer support the homosexualist agenda. The American Family Association, which has at least 2.2 million members, declared the boycott of McDonald’s after the company refused repeated requests to withdraw McDonald’s name, logo, and endorsement from the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) website, which lists McDonald’s as a “Corporate Partner.” The AFA has stated that McDonald’s status as a […]
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Formal Request Filed to Terminate Morgentaler’s Appointment to the Order of Canada

OTTAWA, July 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On behalf of the 41,000 members of Canada Family Action Coalition and the “hundreds of thousands of like-minded Canadians,” on July 3rd, 2008, CFAC filed a formal request in accordance with the Paragraph 25(c) of the Constitution of the Order of Canada for the Advisory Council to recommend that the Governor General terminate Henry Morgentaler’s appointment to the Order of Canada. Dr. Charles McVety, CFAC President, said, “Henry Morgentaler’s conduct is unbecoming a member of the Order of Canada, violating paragraphs 3(b)(i) and (ii) of the Constitution of the Order of Canada, thereby, tarnishing […]
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UK Contraception and Abortion Promoters calling for Sex Ed for Four Year-Olds

By Hilary White LONDON, July 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com ) – Explicit sex education ought to be compulsory for children as young as four, says a pair of abortion-promoting organisations in the UK. The Family Planning Association, the UK’s answer to Planned Parenthood, and Brook, both registered charities, are calling for children of pre-primary age to be indoctrinated into the new sexual mores. Speaking to BBC Radio’s Newsbeat today, Brook’s Chief Executive, Simon Blake said, “If we get high quality sex and relationships education in every primary and secondary school across the UK all the evidence shows teenage pregnancy rates will […]
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Comments on July 3 News

Dear readers,   There has been a heavy emphasis on Canadian news for the past few days, but for good reason. Be assured that all the crucial international developments are also a priority while we are covering the astonishing Order of Canada development that has put the abortion issue high in the public consciousness again in Canada.   There has been an unprecedented response to the story that arch-abortionist Henry Morgentaler was appointed to receive the highest national civilian award. Campaign Life Coalition, the political arm of the pro-life movement in Canada has performed yeoman service on the issue, providing […]
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National Group Launches Petition Calling for Morgentaler Order of Canada Appointment to be Revoked

By Steve Jalsevac   TORONTO, Ontario, July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com ) – Canada’s national pro-life political organization, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), in response to the wave of opposition to the Morgentaler Order of Canada appointment, has developed an Internet petition by which all citizens and even non-Canadians may jointly call for the appointment to be revoked by the Governor General. See:    a) Canadian Petition:   https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Morgentaler/   b) American and International Petition:   https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/MorgentalerAmerican/   Since the organization broke the Morgentaler story in a press release this past Saturday at noon, CLC has been inundated with telephone calls. National Organizer Mary Ellen […]
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Bishop in Center of Catholic Charity Scandal Says He Forbade Minor’s Abortion

By Peter J. Smith RICHMOND, Virginia, July 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Richmond Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo has revealed that he expressly forbade an abortion from taking place back in January, but neither the diocese nor the Commonwealth Catholic Charities (CCC) has told the press what “erroneous information” prevented the bishop and the director of Commonwealth Catholic Charities from taking action to stop the abortion. The scandal broke after The Wanderer, a national Catholic weekly, and The Washington Times exposed Catholic Charities’ complicity in a 16 year-old Guatemalan girl’s abortion. The girl was a ward of the Office of Refugee Resettlement […]
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Letter to the Editor for Thursday, July 3, 2008

RE: Morgentaler Awarded Order of Canada Dear Editor, So the Queen’s representative will confer the country’s highest honor – the Order of Canada – on an arch-abortionist. There’s no one more dishonorable in all Canadian history than someone responsible for the death of tens of thousands of our country’s children, including over 6,000 in New Brunswick. Compared to him, Paul Bernardo is a saint. What kind of value statement this is for young people: Kill one or two, they throw you in jail; kill thousands, you’re a national hero! Don’t get me wrong: I don’t hate the man. As a […]
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Morgentaler Order of Canada Protest Set for July 9 in Ottawa

OTTAWA, July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campaign Life Coalition is organizing a demonstration for concerned Canadian citizens to protest the awarding of the Order of Canada to abortionist Henry Morgentaler and to seek its revocation. WHERE: Rideau Hall – official residence of the Governor General of Canada – 1 Sussex Drive, Ottawa WHEN: Wednesday July 9, 2008 from 12:00 noon to 2:00pm. CONTACT: Paul Lauzon [email protected] 613-729-0379   WHO: People who agree that Henry Morgentaler is an inappropriate choice for the Order of Canada will be attendance
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Canadian Cabinet Minister Kenney “Deeply Disturbed” that Abortion Doc Awarded Order of Canada

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper briefly signaled his displeasure with the nomination of abortionist Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada yesterday.  “My preference, to be frank, would be to see the Order of Canada be something that really unifies, that brings Canadians together,” he said at a press conference.  That theme of divisiveness has been repeated by most Conservative MPs who have spoken on the matter since the announcement on Canada Day – July 1st. Today Conservative MP Jason Kenney, a Minister in the Department of Canadian Heritage, spoke with […]
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Human/Pig Hybrid Clones Approved for UK

By Hilary White LONDON, July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Doubtless in anticipation of the apparently imminent passage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, the UK’s embryo research authority has granted a license to scientists to begin work to create human/pig cloned hybrid embryos. The Labour government’s proposed bill, however, would, if passed into law, do away with the necessity of researchers even asking for individual licenses. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) granted the license to the Clinical Sciences Research Institute, University of Warwick, who want to make the embryos in order to produce embryonic stem cells. Professor Justin St. […]
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Online Polls Show Strong Opposition to Morgentaler Order of Canada

By John Jalsevac July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday seven different news organizations conducted online polls seeking the opinions of Canadians on the question of whether or not arch-abortionist Henry Morgentaler should have been awarded the Order of Canada. The results of six of the seven polls showed a heavy majority being strongly against Morgentaler’s having been named to the Order. The seventh poll, which was the only one that did not offer a simple “yes” or “no” option, still showed a larger number of respondents being against Morgentaler’s receiving the award than were in favour. While such online polls […]
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LA Sherriff’s Department Violated Pro-life Group’s Freedom of Speech: Federal Appellate Panel

LOS ANGELES, July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal appellate panel ruled Wednesday that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department violated the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform’s (CBR) free speech rights. Two CBR associates had been forced by the Sherriff’s Department to move a mobile billboard display of enlarged photos of early-term aborted fetuses away from a Rancho Palos Verdes middle school campus. The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR), a non-profit pro-life educational foundation, sued the LA County Sheriff’s Department and an assistant principal at Dodson Middle School, claiming civil rights and First Amendment violations. The mobile billboard truck was part […]
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Order of Canada Members Return their Awards Over Morgentaler Decision

By Hilary White LONDON, Ontario, July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com ) – Father Lucien Larre, a Catholic priest in British Columbia, is returning his Order of Canada, saying that Morgentaler’s investiture into the highly prestigious Order was “a terrible mistake”. Fr. Larre said he did not want to “condemn” Dr. Morgentaler, but felt “compelled in conscience to return my Order of Canada.” He added, “I believe in my heart that he is horribly wrong and the advisory committee made a terrible mistake.” Even the usually reticent Prime Minister Stephen Harper has indicated he is not happy with the choice to honour […]
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Abortionist Tiller Likely to Escape Late Term Abortion Charges

By Tim Waggoner WICHITA, KS, July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The citizen-called grand jury that investigated late-term abortionist George R. Tiller was dismissed today without issuing an indictment.  Pro-life groups led a petition drive that resulted in the convening of the grand jury in January to investigate if Tiller’s late-term abortion business violated the Kansas ban on post-viability abortions at 22 weeks gestation or later. In the statement released by the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office, the jury found that, “After six months of conducting an investigation that included hearing extensive witness testimony, reviewing volumes of documents and medical records […]
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Amnesty International Pushes Mexican High Court to Uphold Legal Abortion

 By Piero A. Tozzi and Juan Carlos Perez July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com/C-Fam) – Global human rights group Amnesty International (AI), which officially abandoned its neutrality on abortion in 2007, has authored a pro-abortion legal memorandum addressed to the Supreme Court of Mexico asking the high court to uphold liberal abortion in Mexico City. The memorandum directly contradicts AI’s previous position that “there is no generally accepted right to abortion in international human rights law.” AI’s memo supports a liberalized first-trimester abortion law passed last year by Mexico City’s Legislative Assembly that has been challenged by Mexico’s Attorney General. AI cites […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes for July 3, 2008

* 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. ABORTION   Opposition to Morgentaler’s Order is wide and deep and intense – National Post Politics Editor  https://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2008/07/03/kelly-mcparland-opposition-to-morgentaler-s-order-is-wide-and-deep-and-intense.aspx   Court affirms law calling unborn ‘living human beings’ – Ruling lifts Planned Parenthood injunction against South Dakota’s abortion statute  https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=68387   Woman gets year in jail for forging girl’s abortion parental notice  https://www.christianexaminer.com/Articles/Articles%20Jul08/Art_Jul08_12.html   A federal appeals court ruled that South Dakota can begin enforcing a law requiring doctors to tell women […]
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Britain’s Pathway to Euthanasia – NHS Protocols for Dehydrating Disabled Patients to Death

By Hilary White July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British “end of life” care protocol approved for use by the National Health Service (NHS), has created a systematic, and legal, method of euthanising elderly and disabled patients, even while “mercy killing” remains officially illegal, says a prominent expert in elder care. The “Liverpool Care Pathway” will be used to eliminate patients deemed to be “blocking beds” in the increasingly financially strapped public health system. For years, Dr. Adrian Treloar, a psycho-geriatrician and senior lecturer at the Greenwich Hospital and Guys’, King’s and St. Thomas’s Hospitals in London, has been sounding […]
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Abortionists in South Dakota Now Required to Admit Abortion Kills a “Whole, Separate, Unique, Living

SIOUX FALLS, SD, July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in a 7-4 decision, will allow South Dakota to begin enforcing a state law that requires abortion providers to tell women, in writing, that the abortion procedure “will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.” In Planned Parenthood v. Rounds, the Court vacated a temporary injunction that had been issued by the trial court, which had blocked the law from going into effect. The opinion addresses the important issue of whether South Dakota can enforce its 2005 informed […]
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LifeSiteNews Now on Facebook – Join the Group, Spread the Word

Dear Readers, Yesterday LifeSiteNews.com inaugurated its own Facebook group, called “Fans and Friends of LifeSiteNews.com.” Readers can join the group by going to: https://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=4651&uid=23237399461#/group.php?gid=23237399461. If you are not already a member of Facebook, you will have to open up an account before you can join. Facebook is the fastest growing online networking utility and in many cases is having a surprising impact on important issues around the world. By joining LifeSiteNews’ Facebook group, friends and fans of our news service will be able to gather together in one place, to post and respond to various discussion topics, to engage in debate on […]
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Morgentaler Award Ignites Widespread Protest

Dear Readers,   In Canada, the awarding of the nation’s highest civilian honor to notorious abortionist and actively hostile foe of all religion, Henry Morgentaler, has ignited protest against the suitability of such a person for the award. There appears to be widespread disgust, even among many Canadians who are not ardent pro-lifers, over the Order of Canada Advisory Committee’s sneaking through of this unexpected recognition of the abortion activist during Canada’s major national long holiday weekend.   Adding insult to injury, the head of the Advisory Committee, Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin, actively participated in the […]
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Lesbian Couple Plotted Death of Mother for Opposing Relationship

SAO PAULO, Brazil, June 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A teenage lesbian, Tainá de Campos Rosa, has been arrested in Brazil for plotting the death of her mother for opposing her relationship with another woman, according to Brazilian press reports. After questioning Campos Rosa, 18, and her lesbian partner, Renata Alves da Silva, 21, police received conflicting stories about the authorship of the plot.  However, reports agree that at least one of the two offered two hit men 5,000 reais (3,119 USD) each to kill Campos Rosa’s mother, Carmem Silva de Campos Rosa, 45, with the knowledge of the other. The […]
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Home Schooling Family Takes Fight for Rights at European Court of Human Rights

By Peter J. Smith STRASBOURG, France, July 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A German family that fled to Canada for refuge from Germany’s persecution of home-schooling is taking its case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The family escaped Germany after police made an unsuccessful attempt to storm their home and seize the children to put them into state custody. The International Human Rights Group, a legal organization that has been representing Germany’s persecuted home-schooling families, filed an application at the European Court on behalf of Andreas and Kathrina Plett. Nearly two years ago, German police stormed into […]
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Morning After Pill Prohibited by Argentine Province

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman TIERRA DEL FUEGO, ARGENTINA, July 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A judge in the province of Tierra del Fuego in Argentina has ruled that the sale of the “morning after pill” is illegal, because it causes abortions. Judge Guillermo Penza of Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, reportedly issued his ruling in response to a suit brought by the public defender of Ushuaia, Julián De Martino, against the province. The ruling follows a similar ruling in 2007 by Judge María Rapossi, of the same jurisdiction, who prohibited the use of the pill in public hospitals.  The new ruling extends […]
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Tobacco Smokers Please Butt Out, but Weed Still OK in the Netherlands

By Hilary White   AMSTERDAM, July 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lovers of cannabis and hashish will still be able to both purchase their drug of choice in Dutch “coffee bars” and smoke up, but tobacco smokers should beware that their habit is too politically incorrect for the Netherlands. The Dutch government has passed a law banning all tobacco smoke in cafés and restaurants.    In an interesting twist, smokers of cannabis have complained that the ban means they must take their dope “neat” and may no longer “cut” their drugs with tobacco to limit its effects.    Dutch coffee shop owners […]
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Morgentaler’s Order of Canada Opposed by the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada

By Tim Waggoner OTTAWA, July 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bruce J. Clemenger, President of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada wasted little time in vocalizing the Evangelical community’s opposition to Dr. Henry Morgentaler’s appointment to the Order of Canada.  In a statement released yesterday, he allied the Evangelical community with the many prominent Canadians who are condemning the decision and pointed to what he called the “shameful” absence of laws in Canada protecting the unborn. “In awarding Dr. Henry Morgentaler the Order of Canada, an honour has been bestowed upon someone who participates in, promotes and, for many, symbolizes the moral […]
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Online Polls Ask Whether Morgentaler Should Have Been Awarded Order of Canada

By John Jalsevac July 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the last-minute announcement that Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s most notorious abortionist, has been named to the Order of Canada – Canada’s highest civilian honor – various news publications have posted online polls on the issue. Thus far, seven different news organizations in Canada are polling readers on the question of whether or not Morgentaler should have been given the award. CTV.ca asks readers “Should Dr. Henry Morgentaler have been named to the Order of Canada?” As of the writing of this article, 57% of respondents (5375 votes) have said no, while 43% […]
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