Articles for Month: October 2008

WASHINGTON, October 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An audio clip by Texas Auxiliary Bishop Rene Gracida was sent this morning to 2.9 Million Hispanic Voters via email.  The clip, which is also running on radio and TV in swing states, says:   Dear Friends,   We only have days left before a critical election to elect a new president.  In this moment, like no other moment in history, Hispanic votes will decide the future of the United States.  That means that we have a great weight of responsibility.       During this election, there are many Catholics who have told the Catholic […]

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman   MOSCOW, October 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On November 4th, A coalition of nationalist organizations will march through the streets of Moscow to protest abortion and homosexuality in Russia, according to the Russian news organization Pravda and organizer websites.   The march comes in response to a plummeting Russian population, which is being replaced by foreigners, especially in larger cities such as Moscow. “Since 1990, the share of the Russian population of Moscow has fallen,” notes the Russia March’s Organizing Committee. “At the same time, the number of Koreans has sharply increased – 2.3 times, Armenians […]

"Abortion issue avoided, but pro-lifers hold ground."

By Kathleen Gilbert and John-Henry Westen   October 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The priests of CallforherSOS.org have delivered what may be the most blunt directive yet to Catholic voters in the upcoming presidential election.   In three short videos, Fr. Tom Celso and Fr. Don Eder embellish little upon a simple, strict manifesto of Catholic moral teaching. “It is the mission of the Catholic Church to pass moral judgements in matters related to politics, whenever the fundamental rights of man require it,” say the priests.  “The Democratic party and Barack Obama have brought shame and horror to this nation.  Mr. […]

Says Conservative MPs "should revolt" over Harper's "trained-seal scenario" against "pro-life ethic"

October 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Northern Ireland’s leading pro-life group Precious Life have dismissed as a “publicity stunt” the tabling of a motion in Westminster calling for abortion to be legalised in Northern Ireland. The pro-life group has called on the MP who tabled the motion to “butt out and stop interfering” in Northern Ireland’s protection of unborn children. The early day motion entitled “Abortion rights in Northern Ireland” was tabled yesterday by Labour MP, Diane Abbot. Earlier this year she also tabled an amendment to extend the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland. However, her amendment failed to be […]

"If Roe is not overturned, the children I teach will grow up as part of a culture of death learning that when we had our one real chance to end this atrocity, we didn't do enough."

 Commentary by Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, President, Human Life International   FRONT ROYAL, VA, October 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Faithful Catholics in the US have been both stunned and gratified by the recent show of episcopal strength in dealing with the heretical nonsense of “Catholics” in public life who clearly misrepresent the Church’s teaching on vital issues. To date, more than fifty bishops have spoken out about this kind of misconduct or issued guidelines about voting at this critical juncture in our nation’s history. The trend is truly heartening. Let’s pray that it continues! Much more could be done, of course, […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski   BATHURST, Australia, October 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Controversial Australian priest Fr. Peter Dresser, of Coonamble in the Diocese of Bathurst, has published a booklet where he insists that Jesus was not God, and did not think he was God, and also claims that the Blessed Virgin Mary had as many as six children, Joseph was the father of Jesus, and the bodily Resurrection is not to be taken literally.   In his booklet titled “God is Big. Real Big!” Fr. Dresser says, “This whole matter regarding Jesus being God … not only does violence to […]

By Hilary White LONDON, October 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite the fact that it remains lawful in the UK for parents to spank their children as a disciplinary measure, couples who support the practice are being discriminated against by council officials in charge of foster parenting and adoptions, a recent case has revealed. An east London couple, identified in court documents only as Mr. and Mrs. A, have been refused permission to adopt a child because of their support for spanking as a form of discipline for children. The couple was rejected by adoption officials after they applied to adopt […]

By Jonquil Frankham LOS ANGELES, October 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Jeff Kent, 2nd baseman for the L.A. Dodgers, donated $15,000 to the “Yes on 8” campaign last Monday. “Yes on 8” promotes the passage of Proposition 8, which is an initiative set to be put before the Californian public this November 4 that would define marriage as being between one man and one woman. Yes on 8 has had steep opposition from the “No on 8” campaign, and both sides have spent over $30,000,000. As the L.A. Times reports, Proposition 8 is by far the most expensive ballot measure this […]

WASHINGTON, DC, October 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) –”Even after praying and fasting for 40 days – and being involved in vigils that in many cities went round the clock, seven days a week – many of the people who are participating in this campaign simply don’t want to see it end,” said David Bereit, national campaign director of 40 Days for Life. “Tens of thousands of people have prayed in front of abortion facilities, many for the first time. They see the impact of that peaceful presence, and they yearn to keep going.”  Beginning September 24, intensive 40 Days for Life […]

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica, October 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Costa Rican government has prohibited a pro-abortion campaign that urges women to use the abortifacient “morning after pill,” according to the Catholic news agency ACI Prensa. In response, pro-abortion forces within the Costa Rican government began an initiative to legalize the drug, according to local media reports. ACI Prensa reports that the decision to strike down the campaign came in response to a motion filed by the Association for the Defense of Life (ADEVI) with the Costa Rican authorities, noting that the campaign contradicted the Costa […]

Barack Obama repeatedly voted against a measure that would have prevented such babies born alive from being left to die

CHICAGO, IL, October 30, 2008 (LifeSitenews.com) – BornAliveTruth.org released its second ad earlier this week featuring abortion survivor Gianna Jessen responding to Senator Barack Obama’s direct attack on her (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1fLxy4qQeU). BornAliveTruth says that Obama’s response spot to the original Gianna ad was filled with false and misleading distortions about Gianna Jessen and Obama’s own voting record against born alive infant protections. “Senator Obama had the audacity to go after Gianna Jessen, born alive after a failed abortion, and call her and the ad she appeared in ‘a despicable lie,’” said Jill Stanek, executive director of BornAliveTruth.org. “We want to make […]

By Steve Jalsevac 1.  You send too many emails!  LifeSiteNews is a highly regarded International daily news service. Its purpose is to provide a balance to the serious distortions and omissions of the mainstream media on life, family and related issues. The mainstream media publish huge numbers of news reports not only daily, but also throughout the day, on the Internet, in newspapers and magazines and on television and radio stations. LifeSiteNews produces far fewer articles than any of the mainstream media.   LifeSiteNews usually sends only one and sometimes two emails from Monday to Friday and once in a […]

* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.   Compiled by Steve Jalsevac  Knights of Columbus in Mexico: 15 reasons to say ‘No’ to abortion  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14189   Officials order removal of abortion pill advertising in Costa Rica  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14199   Peter Singer Values Thriving by Wesley Smith  https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/10/peter-singer-values-thriving.html   U.S. Food and Drug Administration may permit clinical trials using embryonic stem cells to begin within three months, a biotechnology firm has reported  https://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=29224&ref=BPNews-RSSFeed1029   First Ever Class Action Lawsuit Filed […]

* 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. Compiled by Steve Jalsevac Barack Obama’s half-hour self-promotion last night was a flop  https://www.nypost.com/seven/10302008/news/politics/tvs_top_ad_stars_pan_bam_135962.htm   Chicago Sun-Times Greeley: Racism Will Make Obama Lose  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/10/30/chgo-sun-times-greeley-racism-will-make-obama-lose Obama Speechwriter Switches to McCain; Ignored by MSM  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/10/29/obama-speechwriter-switches-mccain-ignored-msm Obama and the Supreme Court – What’s really at stake  If Barack Obama is elected president, he will drive the Court further in the wrong direction, and the liberal judicial activists that he appoints will likely serve for […]

Coalition of 33 American organizations has formally complained to the German government

DENVER, CO, October 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Alliance Defense Fund attorneys and allied attorneys filed suit Wednesday, asking a Colorado court to cancel $18 million in illegal state contracts awarded over the last year to a Planned Parenthood affiliate and a Boulder abortion provider. “Public officials cannot toss aside the democratic process and the rule of law,” said lead counsel and ADF-allied attorney Barry Arrington of the Arvada law firm Arrington & Associates, P.C. “The governor and other state officials are not at liberty to ignore the will of the people on this matter. Colorado voters amended the state constitution […]

By Colin Mason October 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Tuesday, Americans will participate in a historic election. The stakes are high, and the campaign hard-fought. Already, in states like North Carolina and Florida, early voting has drawn a record-smashing turnout. The nation’s voters are engaged in this election to a degree rare in American history, and pro-life voters must play their part. It is of paramount importance that values voters go to the voting booth on November 4th, and that they bring their pro-life convictions with them. There are stark differences between the two candidates on the life issues. John […]

ANN ARBOR, MI, October 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) — A Federal Judge in Minnesota has signed a Stipulated Permanent Injunction this month, allowing a sixth grade student of the Hutchinson Middle School, located in Hutchinson, Minnesota, to wear his pro-life t-shirts to school. The sixth grader, referred to in the lawsuit as “K. B.” because of his age, is a Christian who wore several different pro-life t-shirts to school to proclaim his belief that abortion is the wrongful taking of an innocent life and a grave offense to the Law of God. However, the principal and several teachers, on over a […]

By Jonquil Frankham October 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The current issue of the journal “International Family Planning Perspectives” records a worldwide trend toward the legalization of abortion. The journal is published by the Guttmacher Institute, originally a branch of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and lauds this “global trend toward liberalization of abortion policies.” It reports that only two nations, El Salvador and Nicaragua, have made abortion illegal, while 16 have “increased the number of grounds on which abortions may be legally performed.” “An additional 10 countries maintained their existing grounds for abortion,” the article notes, “but adopted changes […]

By Kathleen Gilbert BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – By defending the right to life, American Catholic bishops and their flock bear witness to the “centerpiece” of Catholic teaching as well as the proper “vision of democracy,” writes Cardinal O’Malley of Boston in a statement released today. Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley wrote the statement in response to a Boston globe inquiry regarding the recent surge of U.S. bishops speaking out against abortion this election season.  “In defending the cause of life, we are not only fulfilling our vocation as Catholics, but we are also defending the vision of democracy […]

By John-Henry Westen   VATICAN CITY, October 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today Pope Benedict XVI addressed Canadians as he greeted the new Canadian Ambassador to the Holy See, Anne Leahy.   In his address, the Holy Father noted his concern for Canada’s growing lack of respect for life and family, despite the fact that Canadian culture has Catholicism as one of its cornerstones and has been recognized as a champion of human rights and dignity.  “Nevertheless, profound changes can be noticed today, which are seen in different sectors and at times cause concern to the point of asking ourselves if it does […]

Implications of HFE bill "grotesque", "horrifying" and "nightmarish"

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OMAHA, Nebraska, October 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archbishop of Omaha, Most Reverend Elden F. Curtiss, has provided the people of his diocese with a clear directive on the “serious moral obligation to promote the common good by exercising our right to vote,” which he has asked pastors to make available to parishioners this weekend. Explaining that “the core of Catholic moral and social teaching is respect for the sacred dignity of every human life,” the Archbishop joined the more than 80 Catholic prelates who have said that abortion and right to life are the defining […]

Tuesday June 12, 2007 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips Couple Chooses Life and Sextuplets By Peter J. Smith MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, June 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Minnesota couple welcomed the birth of all six of their sextuplets at St. Luke’s Hospital in Minneapolis yesterday, although the couple’s and their childrens’ story would have been far different if doctors had their way. “The babies arrived sooner than we’d hoped for, but we are optimistic,” father Ryan Morrison said in a statement. “Brianna is doing well. Thanks to all who are praying for our family. We are very happy to […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MADRID, October 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Six professors of the University of Madrid have produced and signed a manifesto in defense of the dignity of human life and natural death, which they made public at a press conference held in Madrid on Monday. The group, University Professors in Defense of Natural Death, began their manifesto with the statement, “Given the intense pressures on Spanish public opinion to approve assisted suicide and euthanasia, the need exists to defend the dignity of natural death as the proper end of every human life.” The university professors’ document may be […]

By Jonquil Frankham LONDON, England, October 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Multiple Sclerosis patient Debbie Purdy says she is “disappointed” and “surprised” at the unfavorable decision of the English High Court today. In June Purdy had asked for and been granted a full judicial review of her case, requesting clarification of English laws concerning those who assist in suicide. As LifeSiteNews reported at the time, the 45-year old woman hoped to force Sir Ken MacDonald, Director of Public Prosecutions, to clarify what criteria the government used to decide whether or not to prosecute those who aide and abet suicide. While currently […]

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., October 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a Fox News blog column last week, contributing columnist and writer James Pinkerton re-examines a low-lying, but indisputable connection in Sen. Obama’s history that, he says, voters should know about. The lines connecting Barack Obama and Saul Alinsky have in the past been explored in some detail, including in a lengthy piece published in the Washington Post in March of 2007, but have largely flown under the radar in the final leadup to November 4. “Could Lucifer play a role in this presidential election?” writes Pinkerton in his column. “It may sound […]

NEW YORK, NY, October 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com – At a dinner tonight, October 29, in New York City, despite the disapproval of New York Archbishop Edward Cardinal Egan and thousands of individuals concerned for its Catholic identity, Fordham University will bestow the Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize on Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Breyer is the justice who wrote the widely criticized majority opinion that overturned laws banning partial-birth abortion.  A joint Fordham Respect for Life – Cardinal Newman Society petition was presented today to Fordham President Rev. Joseph McShane, S.J. in a final attempt to prevent the award from being given. […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski October 29, 2008 (LifeSIteNews.com) – The user by the name of Fmsdude has pulled the series of 40 YouTube videos depicting him desecrating the Eucharist in various ways off the internet. The young man, by the name of Dominique Poulin, did so in response to an anonymous individual who found out his name, age and address, and wrote a letter to his father suggesting he encourage his son to remove the videos. The individual who located Dominique said in the letter, “I will not inform the general public about where he lives. I have informed the […]

By Tim Waggoner LONDON, October 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Selecting the sex of one’s baby is a trend that is becoming increasingly popular among U.K. couples, but in order to procure the procedure couples are often being flown to illegal foreign destination, reports a BBC reporter. After researching sex selection and discovering how many U.K. couples are illegally choosing the sex of their babies in foreign countries, BBC’s Collete McBeth took a hidden camera into a meeting with a representative from a Turkish fertility clinic she had seen advertised on a sex selection website. The Jinemed Center had set up […]

By Kathleen Gilbert SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, October 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Joseph Martino of Scranton has released a video condemning Catholic groups who have promulgated support of pro-abortion politicians as authentic Church teaching.  The bishop insists that the “Faithful Citizenship” document of U.S. Catholic bishops has been twisted by such groups, who claim Catholics can be justified in choosing the more pro-abortion candidate in an election. The diocese of Scranton’s new video, entitled “The Catholic Church and the Life Issues,” was released a week after bishop Martino crashed a St. John’s parish forum discussing a left-leaning interpretation of the “Faithful […]

By Jonquil Frankham October 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an open letter “on behalf of all Ohio parents,” American United for Life (AUL) asks Senator Barack Obama to explain his radical position on abortion, particularly regarding his promise immediately to sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), should he be elected to the presidency. FOCA is a pro-abortion piece of legislation first introduced in the late 1980’s that has since received strong support from pro-abortion politicians such as Barbara Boxer and Hilary Clinton. AUL calls FOCA a “tremendous threat to the rights of everyday Americans, to women, and to the […]

By Jonquil Frankham MADRID, October 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Casimiro Lopez Llorente of Segorbe, president of the Spanish Bishops Committee on Education, has defended the right of Spanish Catholic families to register conscientious objection to Spain’s recently introduced Education in Citizenship course, which, amongst other objectionable material, includes explicit, and socially liberal sex-education, reports the Catholic News Agency. The controversy was sparked by the introduction of the course in Spanish schools last year by the socialist government, which has imposed the course on all Spanish schools, even those operating out of other countries. The Education in Citizenship course contains explicit sexual content, […]

WICHITA, KS, October 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An ambulance arrived at George R. Tiller’s late-term abortion facility, Women’s Health Care Services this morning at approximately 7:50 AM and transported a woman to Wesley Medical Center, the third such incident in only five weeks. Eyewitness Dale Weldy, a volunteer for the Kansas Coalition for Life, reported that a woman with an IV was loaded into Sedgwick County ambulance number 30 and transported away from the abortion facility at approximately 8:05 AM. According to Weldy, the ambulance never used its lights or siren. Cheryl Sullenger of Operation Rescue was notified and arrived […]

By Hilary White LONDON, October 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com ) – Following an announcement that the Labour government will be installing mandatory “sex and relationship” education for children as young as four and five in schools, the Catholic Education Service for England and Wales (CES) has said it will not only cooperate, but is encouraging parents not to take their children out of the classes. Called “personal, social and health education” (PSHE), the government program is predicated on the idea that more and earlier “sex-education” in schools is the answer to Britain’s record-breaking rates of teenage pregnancy and abortion. This despite […]

By Hilary White EDINBURGH, October 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com ) – The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) has announced it will be opening a private abortion facility in Scotland to cover the “hundreds” of requests for late-term abortions that it says cannot be handled by the National Health Service (NHS). BPAS claimed that the facility would open to address a “huge unmet need” for late term abortion in Scotland. BPAS is the largest abortion providing organisation in the UK and specialises in late-term abortions. It carries out 80 per cent of the UK’s post-20 week abortions. Until now all the abortions in […]

Judge schedules more visitation dates despite evidence of damage to Miller's daughter

Bishop immediately condemns statement

* 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.   Compiled by Steve Jalsevac ‘Institute for Women’ created in Panama to promote abortion  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14165   Born-alive abortion movie stuns viewers -Film based on mom’s true story reaches new audiences, including Congress  https://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=79274   Award to Justice Breyer spurs Catholic protest  https://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jAwhyc-r_wt3d4S9p1G8qgv2ZfUAD942TVSO1   Advances in stem cell research – Is choosing between good science and good ethics a thing of the past?   https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/advances_in_stem_cell_research/   Bishop Olmsted’s booklet on Catholic civics […]

By Jonquil Frankham DENVER, October 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A proposed amendment to Colorado state law that would define “personhood” as beginning at conception is plummeting in popularity according to a recent poll. The proposed legislation, which comes before voters on November 4, is losing by more than a 2-to-1 ratio, according to a poll by Rocky Mountain News. The news agency reported that 68% of voters polled said they are against Amendment 48 and 27% are for it. The beginning of the proposed amendment’s campaign was promising: proponents collected over 130,000 signatures to qualify for the ballot. Colorado for Equal […]

By Kathleen Gilbert October 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Several pro-family organizations are calling for supporters to make their voices heard in protest against the abuses perpetuated by the giant pornography industry in America – symbolizing their protest with a white ribbon. The campaign kicked off its 20th annual “White Ribbon Against Pornography Week” (WRAP) last Sunday. Participants are encouraged to speak out against pornography, particularly its damaging effects on family life and on women and children, who are most victimized by pornography.  The white ribbons, like the pink ribbons of breast cancer awareness, are available as car magnets, lapels, and […]

An Overview of the Very Latest Reports on Obama, McCain, Palin and the Likely Huge Political Change That Would Result From an Obama Victory

Acceptance of polygamy creeping into Western countries in wake of successes of homosexualist movement

By Jonquil Frankham October 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, issued an open letter yesterday to all pro-abortion politicians, urging them to face the reality of abortion and to end the “holocaust.” “Are you willing to publicly describe what you think should be legal?” he asks in the letter. He then quotes abortionist Dr. Martin Haskell who describes an abortion procedure, saying, “Typically the skull is brought out in fragments rather than as a unified piece.” Another abortionist, Dr. Hylan Raymond Giles, when asked, “Can the heart of a fetus or embryo still […]

By Jonquil Frankham WASHINGTON, October 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new television ad in Washington State shows footage of an interview with a recently deceased Oregon woman whose insurance company said it would pay for the drugs with which she could kill herself, but not for a potentially helpful treatment (See: https://www.noassistedsuicide.com/) Barbara Ann Wagner was refused insurance coverage for the drugs that her doctor recommended to help treat her cancer. Instead she was sent a letter from her insurance company that offered to pay for a lethal dose of “medication.” After Wagner’s story went public, the pharmaceutical company that manufactures the […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, October 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 40 Days for Life Ottawa campaign will conclude with a rally at Ground Zero (Morgentaler Abortion Mill, 65 Bank Street) on Sunday November 2, at 6:00 p.m. The rally will be followed by a candle light procession to St. Patrick’s Basilica on Kent St. where Mass will be celebrated by Archbishop Prendergast, with a reception afterward. The 40 Days for Life Ottawa campaign has been a resounding success, with prayer for an end to abortion being offered not only by vigil-keepers on site 24 hours a day, seven days […]

Auxiliary bishop asks council: "who is being discriminated against now?"

It is likely a whole slew of left-leaning treaties will be ratified and global governance movement will advance

Pro-life Irish concerned that treaty will erode constitutional protections for unborn

By Hilary White LONDON, October 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com ) – The “forces of darkness have distorted the laws and consciences” of the British and the government’s anti-life Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) bill is the result, Keith Cardinal O’Brien of Edinburgh told a conference of pro-life advocates in Glasgow this weekend. Speaking at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), the Cardinal said that although SPUC has his full support, he is “not happy in that this Society still has to exist.” “One might hope that in the not-too-distant future we would have a […]

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman October 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Georgia man is slated to be executed despite new evidence that casts doubt on his murder conviction. Troy Davis, 40, has spent 17 years on death row protesting his innocence.  Since his trial in 1991, seven out of nine witnesses who identified him in the shooting of a policeman have retracted their testimony. Witnesses say that they were intimidated or duped into signing statements incriminating Davis, when in fact they never clearly saw him shoot Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail, 27.  One such witness says he is illiterate and that his affidavit […]

Gives Catholics the escape clauses needed to vote for a pro-abortion candidate in "good conscience"

By Tim Waggoner WASHINGTON, October 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A comprehensive list compiled by InsideCatholic.com reveals that more than 80 U.S. bishops have proclaimed abortion and the life issues to be the defining issues in the upcoming election, including 22 bishops who signed on to a joint statement by the New York bishops, and another 10 bishops who signed on to a Pennsylvania joint statement. Just three days ago, LifeSiteNews.com reported that popular Catholic writer and blogger Rocco Palmo had calculated that approximately 50 bishops have proclaimed abortion and the life issues to be the defining issues in the election; but […]

Tuesday April 25, 2000 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips PARENTS CANNOT OPT KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL CONTRACEPTIVE PROGRAM INTERLAKE, Manitoba, Apr 25 (LSN.ca) – Parents are in an uproar in the Interlake region of Manitoba where a school nurse has announced,with the backing of the province’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, that parents will have no right to prevent nurses from providing their children with contraceptives. The Winnipeg Free Press reported last week that public health nurse Sandy Phillips told a packed school board meeting in Stonewall recently that parents can’t block their children’s access to birth control […]

By Kathleen Gilbert MANHATTAN, New York, October 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Manhattan judge has ruled that a homosexual couple “married” in Massachusetts is eligible for a divorce in New York, despite the fact that homosexual “marriage” is still illegal in the state. Supreme Court Justice Rosalyn Richter cited previous court rulings as precedent, in which the state of New York recognized same-sex “marriages” contracted in Canada.  The primary case cited was Martinez v. County of Monroe, in which the court decided to recognize a same-sex “marriage” on the grounds that the “legislature has not enacted legislation to prohibit the […]

By Kathleen Gilbert CANBERRA, Australia, October 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australian House of Representatives Speaker Harry Jenkins has called for a public debate as to whether the Lord’s Prayer ought to be written out of parliamentary procedures, and replaced by an acknowledgement of the country’s Aboriginal ancestors. Jenkins questioned if the prayer was relevant to the 21st century, according to the Herald-Sun, and also suggested that it be rewritten. The Lord’s Prayer has been in the standing orders since 1901, the year the British colonies of Australia came together as a federation. But senators from several of Australia’s political parties […]

Christian ex-lesbian could face total loss of custody or jail time for defying visitation order

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski KRAKOW, Poland, October 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A gay pride parade scheduled for October 31 in Poland’s ancient capital Krakow has been cancelled because it coincided with Polish President Lech Kaczynski’s visit to attend a celebration of the 90th anniversary of Poland regaining its independence after WWI. The homosexuals had intended to march to the symbolic grave, in Krakow’s Wawel Cathedral, of King Wladyslaw III, who they claim was a homosexual, on the anniversary of his death. Wladyslaw reigned from 1434 until his supposed death, at the age of 20, at the hands of the Ottoman […]

By Jonquil Frankham WILMINGTON, October 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senator Joseph Biden’s bishop, Bishop W. Francis Malooley of Wilmington, Delaware, has publicly corrected the Democratic VP candidate on the Catholic Church’s teachings on abortion in a letter published in The News Journal. In Biden’s interview with The News Journal published October 19, the Catholic politician referred to what he claimed was the Catholic Church’s long-standing internal “debate” over the morality of abortion. “[T]hroughout the church’s history, we’ve argued between whether or not it is wrong in every circumstance and the degree of wrong. Catholics have this notion, it’s almost a […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski EDMONTON, October 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Alberta’s Atheists and Agnostics (A &A) society wants to take God off the program when students line up in caps and gowns to get their degrees this. Traditionally the chancellor’s speech to the new graduates urges them to use their knowledge for “the glory of God and the honour of your country.” Ian Bushfield, head of the university’s A & A association, objects to this and has petitioned the University of Alberta to remove the reference to God in the traditional convocation speech. Bushfield said the reference […]

By Tim Waggoner BRISTOL, U.K., October 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Gary McFarlane, a psychosexual therapist for the relationships counseling service Relate in the U.K., says he was fired for refusing to offer to give sex advice to homosexual couples.  According to the Daily Mail, the father of two claims that Relate failed to accommodate his personal faith. He is now taking his case to the employment tribunal, alleging he has been discriminated against because of his religious beliefs.  McFarlane began training as a counselor with Relate in 2003, and says he learned to feel comfortable in helping homosexual couples in dealing […]

Catholics Demand Detroit Cardinal Publicly Censure Pro-Abortion Catholic Candidate

Monday January 3, 2000 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips BUFFET DONATES MILLIONS TO POPULATION CONTROL OMAHA, NEB, Jan 3 (LSN.ca) – Billionaire Warren Buffett, who has a reputation for giving charitably only to promote population control, has donated $134 million (US) of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock to unnamed charities. Buffet’s noted investment prowess has recently taken a first-time sour turn and he issued a letter noting that the surrender of stock was a “donation” so as to counter speculation that he was dumping it. Last March the Washington Times reported that the Buffett Foundation donated more than […]

Thursday March 9, 2000 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips PRO-ABORTION MOB VANDALIZES CATHOLIC CHURCH MONTREAL, Mar 9 (LSN.ca) – On Tuesday, more than twenty activists stormed into Mary Queen of the World Cathedral burning homemade crosses, spray painting altars and walls, blaspheming, throwing condoms and attempting to overturn the tabernacle all the while calling for the “right” to abortion. Police arrested three women in their 20s, a girl younger than 18 and three men in their 20s, charging them with illegal assembly. They were released on a promise to appear in court. The police refused to name the […]

Thursday January 27, 2000 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips CANADA IS HAVEN FOR KIDDIE PORN OTTAWA, Jan 27 (LSN.ca) – In what some people say is a related story, the Toronto Star reported Tuesday that Canada has become “a world destination for people seeking children through the sex trade.” The article discusses the findings in a 72-page report by the Canadian Council on Social Development, entitled “The Progress of Canada’s Children into the Millennium.” The report reveals that “the child sex trade is increasing, with an estimated 100 offences each day in Vancouver alone.” A Save the Children […]

Wednesday May 17, 2000 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips ARCHBISHOP COMMENTS ON CBC’S SACRILEGIOUS ‘OUR DAILY BREAD’ HALIFAX, NS, May 16 (LSN.ca) – Archbishop Terrence Prendergast has reacted to the CBC airing of “Our Daily Bread” which depicts a woman sharing Holy Communion with her dog in a sacrilegious mockery of Catholic beliefs. The show was broadcast in the Maritime provinces May 1 and was aired nationally at 11:30 Sunday night. Recalling that Catholics believe that Holy Communion is Jesus, the archbishop wrote a local paper saying, “the Muslim community would be upset if the prophet Mohammed was […]

Tuesday May 30, 2000 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips CANADIAN PROFESSOR CANNED FOR BEING NON-FEMINIST WINNIPEG, May 30 (LSN.ca) – Dr. Henry Makow, PhD, 50, a former lecturer in the English department at the University of Winnipeg, has filed a complaint with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission alleging discrimination on the basis of his political beliefs, and his sexual orientation. He is heterosexual. Dr. Makow, the inventor of the popular board game Scruples, has been let go by the University of Winnipeg over being a “non-feminist.” University President Constance Rooke, told him he was “anti feminist” and that […]

Wednesday September 12, 2001 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips SHARE THIS PAGE: E-mail Print UN EXPLICITLY DEMANDS ABORTION RIGHTS IN NEPAL BRITISH GOVERNMENT AIMS FOR MORE ABORTIONS, FASTER ABORTIONS SWISS MALE NURSE ADMITS KILLING 27 ELDERLY PATIENTS REDBOOK MAGAZINE AND GENERAL MOTORS PROMOTING ABORTION MICHAEL COREN ON THE ANTI-SPANKERS LIFESITE NEWSBYTES US NEWS ROUNDUP UN EXPLICITLY DEMANDS ABORTION RIGHTS IN NEPAL GENEVA, September 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In one of the most explicit demands for abortion legalization ever issued by a United Nations committee, on August 31, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) issued its […]

Friday August 4, 2000 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips CONDOM-RESISTANT HPV IS LEADING STD IN AMERICA Causes 90% of cervical cancer, number two cause of women’s cancer deaths CHICAGO, Aug 4 (LSN.ca) – Hal Wallis, M.D. of the Consortium of State Physician Resource Councils, wrote in the Chicago Tribune July 28 that “HPV (Human Papillomavirus) is now by far the leading sexually transmitted infection in America with an estimated 75 percent of the population between ages 15 and 49 having been infected.” Dr. Wallis was responding to an article downplaying the seriousness of HPV. HPV is the cause […]

Thursday September 23, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips CONDOMS SHOWN TO BE USELESS AGAINST HPV EPIDEMIC Massive Ignorance of HPV Thanks to Condom Pushers WASHINGTON, DC, Sept 23 (LSN) – One of the most common and most deadly sexually transmitted diseases, human pampillomavirus (HPV), is little known by most Canadians and Americans, since condom-pushing purveyors have all but ignored the disease. The U.S. Family Research Council, however, held a press conference yesterday to raise awareness of this deadly virus. In presenting the FRC paper, “The Human Papillomavirus Epidemic: Condoms Don’t Work,” Robert Knight questioned why “Planned Parenthood […]

Thursday June 6, 2002 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips Canadian Alliance Could Have Stopped Bill C-415 LifeSite responds to “corrections” from Alliance Justice Critic regarding LifeSite report LifeSite Special Report OTTAWA, June 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday LifeSite reported on the soft-glove treatment Svend Robinson’s Private Members’ Bill received by all parties in the House, including the ostensibly conservative Canadian Alliance. The Bill, C-415, expands the Criminal Code definition of identifiable groups relating to genocide and hate propaganda by including sexual orientation as an identifiable group. Alliance MP Vic Toews, who, as the Justice Critic, is responsible for […]

Wednesday September 15, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips UN SEC GEN RE-APPOINTS PRO-ABORT TO HEAD UNICEF UNITED NATIONS, Sept 15 (LSN) – On Monday, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan re- appointed Carol Bellamy, the Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), to a second five-year term as head of the agency. On the occasion, Annan said “The world’s children will most certainly benefit from her continued leadership of this vital organization.” The remark could not be further from the truth when considering the unborn children of the world. Bellamy has a long history of support […]

Monday September 20, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips MP CRITICIZES NOVEMBER “CHILD RIGHTS” VOTE OTTAWA, Sept 20 (LSN) – – Today, Official Opposition Children and Families critic Eric Lowther condemned Elections Canada again for its decision to hold a National ‘Child Rights’ vote in schools and using the controversial UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as the source of information for the process. “Whether taxpaying parents want it or not, this fall Elections Canada and UNICEF are going to indoctrinate Canadian children about their ‘rights,’ inspired by a UN document which itself has never been […]

Thursday September 16, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips PENNSYLVANIA BISHOPS CITE REASONS AGAINST COHABITATION HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Sept 16 (LSN) – The Pennsylvania Catholic Conference published a document Wednesday calling unmarried couples to refrain from living together until marriage. Catholic World News reports that the document, entitled “Living Together: Questions and Answers Regarding Cohabitation and the Church’s Moral Teaching,” explained the Church’s teaching on chastity and why it leads to a better marriage relationship. “The choice to live together outside a marriage is always wrong and sinful,” says the document. But remaining chaste will “strengthen your marriage, deepen […]

Wednesday September 8, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips HOMESCHOOLING MOM JAILED FOR NOT GIVING UP SON VERMONT, Sept 8 (LSN) – Karen Maple, a homeschooling mother in Vermont, has been placed in jail for not presenting her 15-year-old child to the courts to be taken into custody by the state Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. The child was labeled as “learning disabled” so school authorities became suspicious when he began to show substantial academic improvement in testing that took place once he was being homeschooled. Mrs. Maple has been before the courts for two years in […]

Tuesday October 7, 1997 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips ONTARIO GOVERNMENT IN BED WITH HOMOSEXUALS TORONTO, Oct 7 (LSN) – The Toronto Sun revealed that Ontario Education Minister John Snobelen said it was wrong for the York Region Separate School Board to fire a teacher Joseph Stellpflug for sodomy. Stellpflug was dismissed from St. Elizabeth Catholic High School when administrators were informed that he was a practicing homosexual, a serious contradiction of Catholic principles. Snobelen went on to say that publicly funded school boards shouldn’t be discriminating against homosexuals. This is the latest indication that the Ontario “Conservative” […]

Friday March 12, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips CANADIAN GOVERNMENT SKIRTS LAW TO WOO ABORTION-PILL OTTAWA, Mar 12 (LSN) With the blessing of the radically pro-abortion BC government, Health Canada sent off a letter last year to an abortion-pill producer telling it that the climate is right to get a fair hearing for its drug in Canada. Considering that the Food and Drug Act, says it is illegal for Health Canada to ask a company to submit a drug because it would give the perception of bias, the Health Ministry is on shaky legal ground. The Globe […]

Tuesday March 16, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips PRO-GAY LAW REFORM CONFIRMED OTTAWA, Mar 16 (LSN) – A published report reveals that despite Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s assurances in January that pro-homosexual laws are “not on the agenda of the government at this time,”- such changes are imminent. Jean Lapierre, spokesman for Treasury Board President Marcel Mass, told the Globe and Mail yesterday that “Our orientation is to abolish all forms of exclusion of same-sex spouses in the pension plans”. The Globe reported that by next month the Treasury Board plans to introduce “a sweeping overhaul of […]

Monday March 8, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips MOST OREGON DOCTORS UNWILLING TO ASSIST SUICIDE SALEM, Mar 8 (LSN) – The recently released study of the Oregon assisted-suicide law reveals, from an informal state survey, that 67 percent of doctors who treat terminally ill patients would refuse to participate in an assisted suicide. Dr. Katrina Hedberg, one of the report’s authors, responded to the lack of interest by the medical profession saying that “It is extremely controversial. It’s like being an abortion doctor.” As reported by the Associated Press today, she said that “doctors who take a […]

Monday March 29, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips UK MD ON TRIAL FOR REFUSING TO REFER FOR ABORTION NORTHAMPTIONSHIRE, UK, Mar 29 (LSN) – Dr Sheila Matthews, a Christian doctor in England who has expressed her repugnance for abortion is being sued by one of her patients for failing to suggest abortion as an option. Michele Johnston gave birth in April 1989 to a child with cerebral palsy and is charging that she was not given the option to abort when she went to the doctors at 14-and-a-half weeks pregnant. For more see the BBC report at: […]

Thursday November 11, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips CANADIAN SUPREME COURT JUSTICE EXPOSES OWN BIAS KINGSTON, ON, Nov 11 (LSN.ca) – Supreme Court of Canada Justice Claire L’Heureux-Dube addressed a conference on same-sex benefits last month at Queen’s University in Kingston. “In failing to recognize and support partnerships, traditional and otherwise, are we not doing violence to the fabric of our community?” asked L’Heureux-Dube in her keynote talk given October 20. A commentary in the National Post days later asked if the justice, who “swore an oath of office to uphold the principle of judicial impartiality” should […]

Monday November 15, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips PORNOGRAPHIC PLANNED PARENTHOOD PLAY SHOWING IN SCHOOLS KITCHENER, ON, Nov 15 (LSN.ca) – Norman Eby, a trustee with the Waterloo Region District School Board has alerted parents that a theatrical play, sponsored by Planned Parenthood and being shown in high schools and senior elementary schools, should be banned for its “pornography and profanity.” Eby is asking that the play “Live Onstage Uncensored” be banned from all the board’s schools. He described one scene where “they take a Playboy centrefold and turn it around and show the audience” and another […]

Friday November 19, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips AFRICANS SPEAK ON DEVASTATING POPULATION CONTROL GENEVA, Nov 19 (LSN.ca) – At the recently concluded World Congress of Families in Geneva, Switzerland, pro-family leaders from Africa spoke on the devastation to their society resulting from United Nations population control initiatives. Maria Morfaw, Director of the Village Women’s Organization in the Cameroons said in her presentation in Geneva that “population control” in Africa involved “the expansion of family planning programs based on extensive use of demographic targets, economic incentives, forced sterilization and experimental contraceptive methods result[ing] in adverse effects on […]

Friday November 5, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips GATES TOLD FUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD = FUNDING ABORTION WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (LSN.ca) – The latest in a series of educational advertisements directed at billionaire Bill Gates by the American Life League teaches the Microsoft founder that by funding Planned Parenthood he is effectively funding abortion. The ad, titled “Life begins at conception and ends at Planned Parenthood,” points out that Gates’ foundation gave a $1.7 million grant to the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) just three weeks ago. “Every dollar given to Planned Parenthood is a dollar that, directly […]

Friday November 12, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips BILL GATES DUPED INTO POPULATION CONTROL SUPPORT SEATTLE, Nov 12 (LSN.ca) – In its ongoing effort to educate Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, American Life League has discovered that his recent support for the ‘need’ for population control reflects a change from his original views. ALL cites a 1996 Forbes magazine article, which quotes Gates as saying, “Julian Simon [population growth advocate] is right and Paul Ehrlich [population doomsayer] is wrong.” In the same article, Gates also commented: “Resources are becoming more abundant,” and “I’d rather go into a grocery […]

Tuesday November 2, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips ALBERTA PAYS VICTIMS OF ITS EUGENICS PROGRAM EDMONTON, Nov 2 (LSN.ca) – The Alberta government is accepting responsibility for a government run eugenics program which operated from 1928 to 1972 sterilizing 2,800 children who were deemed “mentally defective.” An apology and an $80-million compensation package will be given 230 victims of the program. The National Post reports that last year the government paid out $100,000 to resolve 600 victim’s claims. For more see the National Post at: https://www.nationalpost.com/news.asp?f=991102/117053 SHARE THIS STORY: E-mail Print Newsvine Digg Reddit Del.icio.us Facebook

Monday November 22, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips LIFESITE OTTAWA REPORT * ORGAN DONATION REGISTRY BILL C-227 Last Tuesday the House of Commons debated a private member’s bill (C-227) calling for the establishment of a National Organ Donation Registry. It was previously ruled non-votable so it couldn’t be passed into law, but it gave MPs the opportunity to air their concerns about the issue of organ donations. The bill, introduced by BC Liberal Lou Sekora (Port Moody-Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam), was supported by all parties in the House. Mr. Sekora and the Reform Party’s Keith Martin acknowledged the concerns […]

Friday November 19, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips EXPECT LEFTIST BIAS FROM TV ONTARIO TORONTO, Nov 19 (LSN.ca) – The Ontario government announced yesterday that former Citizenship Minister Isabel Bassett has been appointed Chair of the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (TVOntario). Records from Campaign Life Coalition Ontario indicate that Bassett is strongly pro-abortion and exerted much influence in that regard over the Ontario Conservative Party. Furthermore, in June, while still an elected official, Bassett promised to attend the Gay Pride Parade if she was able. She said “I have been on a float in the Gay Pride […]

Friday April 23, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips SHARE THIS PAGE: E-mail Print GOV’T MAY PRESSURE CANADIANS TO DONATE THEIR ORGANS “GAY GENE” DISPROVEN AGAIN PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION VICTIM BORN ALIVE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DEFEND VATICAN AGAINST CFFC GOV’T MAY PRESSURE CANADIANS TO DONATE THEIR ORGANS OTTAWA, Apr 23 (LSN) – Yesterday in the House of Commons, the Standing Committee on Health tabled a report entitled Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation: A Canadian Approach. The report contained startling recommendations implying that pressure may be exerted on Canadians to donate their organs. Eric Sorenson reported on CBC’s […]

Wednesday March 31, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips UN Cairo +5 Prepcom Delayed Due to Pro-Life Resistance MONTREAL, Mar 31 (LSN) – Speaking with LifeSite News just moments after stepping off the plane from New York, veteran UN diplomat Gilles Grondin told LifeSite that the UN Cairo+5 prepcom which was scheduled to end yesterday continues today despite sessions that went till 1:30am. The reason for the delay, says Grondin is that the G-77 countries are rejecting efforts by the West, particularly the European Union, the US and Canada to have an anti-family agenda dictated to them. “At […]

Wednesday December 22, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips EQUADOR TRIBUNAL TO PUNISH REFUSAL TO DO ABORTIONS QUITO, Equador, Dec 22 (LSN.ca) – Feminist organizations in Equador have set up tribunals operating within the legal framework of the government which will investigate violations of “gender rights” including the “refusal to perform legal abortions.” The tribunals also investigate and push for punishments for true violations against women’s rights such as forced sterilization and forced abortion. Equador permits abortions in cases where the “health” of the mother is at risk, but the legislation fails to define health so that both […]

Thursday December 16, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips MANY UNIVERSITIES USE ABORTED BABY PARTS FOR RESEARCH OMAHA, Dec 16 (LSN.ca) – Following the uproar created by the revelation that the University of Nebraska was doing federally funded experiments using baby parts from elective abortions, the World-Herald newspaper discovered that other universities also perform the immoral research. The paper reported that the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota, Yale University, the University of Colorado, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill admitted to the use of fetal tissue from elective abortions. The paper notes that […]

Wednesday December 15, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips REFORM MP INTRODUCES MOTION TO REDEFINE A “HUMAN BEING” – Garry Breitkreuz demands protection for unborn children – OTTAWA, Dec 15 (LSN.ca) – Reform MP Garry Breitkreuz introduced his long-awaited motion calling on the federal government to redefine a “human being” to include unborn children. “I still find it hard to believe that in Canadian law, babies don’t actually become human beings until they emerge alive from their mother’s womb,” said Breitkreuz, as he introduced M-360 in the House of Commons today. Back in July, when the Supreme Court […]

Friday September 3, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips Playing With the World’s Agenda Reproduced by LifeSite with permission of Lorne Gunter This story first appeared in the National Post on p. A14, Monday 30 August 1999. PLAYING WITH THE WORLD’S AGENDA Mr. Axworthy and his staff treat all potential critics of their policies the same way, says Lorne Gunter. They simply deny them funding and permission to attend international conferences Lorne Gunter The Edmonton Journal At the end of June, Jason Kenney was an American, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints […]

Tuesday July 13, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips SHARE THIS PAGE: E-mail Print UNICEF BY-PASSES CANADIAN PARENTS AND LEGISLATURES FBI DATABASE ON US PRO-LIFERS DISCOVERED STEM CELL RESEARCH QUANDRY SOLUTIONS BEARING DISABLED BABIES TO BE SINFUL UNICEF BY-PASSES CANADIAN PARENTS AND LEGISLATURES Teams up with Elections Canada to conduct children’s only vote OTTAWA, July 13 (LSN) – To mark the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF Canada and Elections Canada have teamed up for “Canada’s first national election for the rights of youth.” The vote to take place in […]

Thursday February 18, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips HOLLYWOOD SMUT DOESN’T PAY! FAMILY FILMS DO! GRAND RAPIDS, Feb 18 (LSN) – A comprehensive ten-year study focusing on the profitability of films based on their MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) rating reveals that while Hollywood produced 17 times more R-rated than G-rated films between 1988 and 1997. The average G-rated film produced 8 times more gross profit than its R-rated counterpart. The study released last month by the Dove foundation indicates that the average G-rated film produced a 78% greater rate of return on investment than the […]

Monday February 15, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips UNITED ALTERNATIVE, OR NOT? OTTAWA, Feb 15 (LSN) – Most pro-lifers and other social conservatives are approaching the Reform- instigated United Alternative convention with a great deal of apprehension. Social conservatives always seem to be expected to give the most in political negotiations and the UA convention, taking place this weekend, isn’t expected to be any different. Nevertheless, social conservatives are expected to be at the conference in good numbers to represent our views and to respectfully communicate the message that “conservatism” is not conservative unless it respects the […]

Tuesday February 16, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips NUMBERS OF LIVE BABIES AFTER FAILED ABORTIONS UP VANCOUVER, Feb 16 (LSN) British Columbia pro-life activist Ted Gerk reported a gruesome discovery last week which, not surprisingly, was ignored by the secular media. Researching BC vital statistics Gerk found increasing numbers of babies born alive after botched abortions who lived long enough to be issued birth and death certificates. According to the records at the B.C. Vital Statistics Agency, one case was reported in 1993; one in 1994; two in 1995; six in 1996; and six in 1997. Alberta […]

Thursday February 4, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips “MIRACULOUS” PRO-LIFE VICTORY IN EL SALVADOR SAN SALVADOR, Feb 4 (LSN) – Yesterday, El Salvador completed the reform of its constitution, now recognizing the “human person as a human being from the instant of conception.” Over a year ago the Legislative Assembly reformed the criminal code removing all exceptions to the criminalization of abortion. At that time the process to amend the constitution to protect life was begun. In order for that constitutional change to go into effect, that amendment had to be approved in the next legislature by […]

Friday October 29, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips WHY YOU SHOULD NOT SUPPORT UNICEF THIS HALLOWEEN UNITED NATIONS, Oct 29 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) joined three other UN organizations to launch a global policy on “safe motherhood.” UNICEF participated in a joint statement by the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Bank, launching the program at a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York. According to the statement, “safe motherhood can be advanced by respecting existing human rights and by empowering women to make reproductive choices […]

Wednesday October 20, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips ABORTION ACTIVIST MPP TRIES TO NIX PRO-LIFE GROUP FUNDRAISER TORONTO, Oct 20 (LSN.ca) – The substitution of a Halloween fundraiser for UNICEF which now goes to support the pro-life Toronto group Aid to Women, has enraged pro-abortion extremists. After an unsuccessful attempt by Kathleen Howes of the one member Canadian branch of “Catholics” for a Free Choice, to halt the arrangement last week, a pro-abortion provincial politician has stepped in. The National Post reports today that New Democrat MPP Frances Lankin sent a letter yesterday to the Toronto Catholic […]

Wednesday October 27, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips ANTI-CHOICE, PRO-ABORT ONT. MPP HARANGUES TORY MINISTER TORONTO, Oct 27 (LSN.ca) – Yesterday, New Democrat MPP Frances Lankin (Beaches-East York) brought to the Ontario legislature her fury against the Catholic School Board’s decision to raise funds for the crisis pregnancy service Aid To Women. Lankin insisted that Helen Johns, the minister responsible for women’s issues, join her in a letter to the Catholic school board demanding it stop pro-life fundraising. To her credit, Johns rebuffed Lankin’s extreme request. Johns’ first rebuff of Lankin’s request led to another more emphatic […]

Monday April 26, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips What Gay & Lesbian Activists Won’t Tell You or Your Children: Homosexual Myths and Realities By popular demand from our subscribers, LifeSite has gained the permission of Professor Hymie Rubenstein to publish his fact sheet on the myths spread by homosexualists about homosexuality. Last week militant homosexualist activists at the University of Manitoba filed a complaint with the university against Dr. Rubenstein claiming that he distributed “hate literature.” Prof. Rubenstein had the flyer handed out at a non-university meeting dealing with the introduction of homosexualist programs in public schools. […]

Wednesday May 12, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips GENETIC SCREENING TO WEED OUT DEVELOPING HUMAN EMBRYOS CHICAGO, May 12 (LSN) – Genetically screening tiny human babies within weeks of their conception in a test tube, killing those who are presumed to carry unwanted genes is now being hailed as a great advancement in medicine. Screening for devastating disorders has now devolved to searching out and destroying babies with relatively mild ailments such as sickle cell disease. The May 12 Journal of the American Medical Association reports on the first supposedly successful screening out of babies carrying sickle […]

Thursday May 27, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips STUDY: CLONING MAY CAUSE PREMATURE AGING EDINBURGH, Scotland, May 27 (LSN) – Researchers from the Roslin Institute and PPL Therapeutics in Scotland have published a study in today’s issue of the journal Nature saying cloned animals may be subject to premature aging. They found that a protective cap on chromosomes which deteriorate with age are shorter in cloned animals. The telomeres in cloned animals were found to correspond not to the age of the animal produced by cloning but to the age of the animal cloned. Thus, says the […]

Wednesday May 12, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips LIBERAL MCGUINTY VOWS GAY ADOPTION IN FIRST TERM TORONTO, May 12 (LSN) – Diverging from the primary issues of the Ontario election campaign, Ontario Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty today promised that if the Liberals win he would allow practicing homosexuals to adopt children. According to today’s Toronto Sun McGuinty promised that his legislation (which he said he would pass in his first term) would also “compel all Ontario companies to extend drug, dental and other benefits to same-sex spouses.” Last year, McGuinty spoke to the Fraternity, an organization of […]

Monday May 10, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips REGINA MAYOR PROCLAIMS RE-DEFINED “RESPECT FOR LIFE” MONTH REGINA, Sask., May 10 (LSN) – In response to the efforts of the Regina Pro-Life Association (RPLA), Regina mayor Doug Archer has declared May to be “Respect for Life Month.” While the mayor unfortunately removed a specific reference to the unborn and other vulnerable groups from the proposed declaration, Bob Waldegger, the executive director of the RPLA was still pleased with the declaration. Homosexual activists set the precedent last year for the city to declare on controversial issues by demanding the […]

Wednesday April 28, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips HEALTH MINISTER PROMISES TO BAN HUMAN CLONING OTTAWA, Apr 28 (LSN) – Yesterday in the House of Commons, MP Christiane Gagnon (Quebec, BQ) referred to the cloning of the three goats in Montreal as an indication that legislation to ban human cloning is urgently required. “Will the minister pledge to pass Bill C-247, which makes human cloning a criminal offence, before the end of the session?,” Gagnon asked Health Minister Allan Rock. Rock told her: “It is my intention to table a bill on this issue later this year.” […]

Wednesday April 28, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips SHOCK JOCK TRASHES FEMALE VICTIMS OF COLORADO MASSACRE But Toronto’s Q-107 Still Proudly Features Him DENVER, Colorado, Apr 28 (LSN) – Howard Stern, the “shock jock” featured proudly on Toronto’s Q-107 radio station has reached new lows with his comments on the Colorado high school massacre. Rocky Mountain News quoted Stern as wondering why the murderers didn’t try to have sex with some of their victims. Stern said some of the girls seen on TV escaping the school were “really good looking.” “At least if you’re going to kill […]

Friday April 23, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips “GAY GENE” DISPROVEN AGAIN New research from the University of Western Ontario (UWO) in London, published in today’s issue of Science magazine, has again disproved the existence of a genetic basis for homosexuality. In 1993, a team led by Dean Hamer of the US National Institute of Health (NIH) claimed to have found evidence for a “gay gene” by studying the X chromosomes of 40 pairs of homosexual brothers. In an attempt to replicate Hammer’s findings, Dr. George Rice and his team looked at 52 pairs of gay brothers […]

Monday January 11, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips ABORTION PROVIDER SUING PRO-LIFE GROUP MELBOURNE, Fla., Jan 11 (LSN) – Last week, Patricia Windle, owner of the abortuary Aware Woman Clinic for Choice launched a class action lawsuit against 17 pro-lifers, America Online and CompuServe. The abortion industry profiteer objected to the sidewalk counselling that was taking place and the video taping of medical emergencies caused by the activity inside the abortuary. Windle has launched similar suits at her abortuaries in Orlando and Ocala, and she is planing another at her West Palm Beach abortion mill. She boasts […]

Monday January 4, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips KEVORKIAN AS GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS CHICAGO, Jan 4 (LSN) Just after Christmas Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago, compared assisted-suicide and euthanasia activist to the grinch in the popular children’s story of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, by Doctor Seuss. “Dr. Kevorkian steals Christmas by treating life as a collection of experiences rather than a gift,” said the Cardinal. “For us the great gift is Jesus, our Savior. He comes to give us new life and to remind us that all life is a gift. And that is […]

Tuesday January 26, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips MAN CHARGED FOR INJURING UNBORN BABY WINNIPEG, Jan 26 (LSN) A Winnipeg man has been charged with impaired driving causing death and two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm. One count of bodily harm was due to the injury to a preborn baby. The Globe and Mail reported yesterday that 16-year-old Leona Anderson who was nine months pregnant was killed in the car crash last Tuesday. Her child survived and is listed in critical condition in hospital. SHARE THIS STORY: E-mail Print Newsvine Digg Reddit Del.icio.us Facebook

Tuesday June 8, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips UPDATE ON CHINESE WOMAN FORCED TO ABORT AFTER DEPORTATION MELBOURNE, Australia, June 8 (LSN) – The Australian version of “60 Minutes” has stepped into the debate surrounding a Chinese woman who at nine months pregnant had begged for refugee status in Australia so she could give birth to her second child. Instead she was forced to return to China where she was forced to abort her baby despite Australian promises that she would not be harmed. The TV program’s reporters went to China and interviewed the woman, Zhu Qing […]

Monday June 21, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips BRAIN SURGERY ON UNBORN BABY NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 21 (LSN) – On Friday, the parents of the first child who has survived brain surgery performed before birth showed off their now 5-week old son. Neal Borkowski, who was born on May 12, went through brain surgery on March 2 at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre to treat hydrocephalus (too much fluid in the brain, which leads to mental dysfunction and premature death). Neal appears to be healthy and doctors are hoping that he will continue to progress normally. See the […]

Wednesday June 9, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips BILL GATES FUNDING POPULATION CONTROL AGAIN NEW YORK, June 9 (LSN) – A June 7 press release from Planned Parenthood reveals that the Bill Gates Foundation has donated $5 million to the pro-abortion behemoth over three years. Furthermore, Bill and wife Melinda have given $20 million to Johns Hopkins University to set up the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health. Pro-Life Infonet noted that the University “will spend the next five years training academic experts to lead so-called public health initiatives in Latin America, Africa […]

Monday August 30, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips HEAD TRANSPLANTS FOR HUMANS COMING SOON CLEVELAND, OHIO, Aug 30 (LSN) – Dr Robert White of Case Western Reserve University has revealed the price tag on his proposed human head transplant operation. The head transplant for a human would cost $1.9 million (Canadian). LifeSite reported in April of 1998 that Dr. White was successful in his head transplant with monkeys who, six hours after the operation, “not only would follow us with their eyes around the laboratory, but they could hear, they could taste – they could feel about […]

Tuesday August 31, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips THE “SACRAMENT” OF ABORTION An Interview With a Retired Abortionist MELBOURNE, Florida Aug 31 (LSN) – Pro-lifers have often used the terminology of Satanic sacrifice and sacrament in order to describe the despicable act of killing innocent babies via abortion. Comments such as Joe Scheidler’s: “Today, as innocents are sacrificed on the altar of ‘choice,'” are frequently used to show the eerie similarity between the traditional Satanic practice of sacrificing innocent children and abortion. Strangely abortionists themselves have referred to abortion as a “sacrament.” In an interview Sunday with […]

Tuesday August 31, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips THE “SACRAMENT” OF ABORTION An Interview With a Retired Abortionist MELBOURNE, Florida Aug 31 (LSN) – Pro-lifers have often used the terminology of Satanic sacrifice and sacrament in order to describe the despicable act of killing innocent babies via abortion. Comments such as Joe Scheidler’s: “Today, as innocents are sacrificed on the altar of ‘choice,'” are frequently used to show the eerie similarity between the traditional Satanic practice of sacrificing innocent children and abortion. Strangely abortionists themselves have referred to abortion as a “sacrament.” In an interview Sunday with […]

Thursday August 12, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips DISNEY PREACHING AND PRACTICING POPULATION CONTROL NEW YORK, Aug 12 (LSN) – Another Disney pro-population control propaganda film aimed at children has been discovered amid allegations that Disney is forcibly contracepting employees in its Haitian sweatshops. Population Research International first reported on a 1968 Disney cartoon called Family Planning which promoted population control, and a 1996 Disney production called “Populations” continues the propaganda. The piece stars the popular children’s character Bill Nye the “Science Guy” producing misleading information and falsehoods generating Malthusian and apocalyptic nightmares of overpopulation. “We have […]

Friday August 20, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips KEVORKIAN SIDEKICK INDICTED FOR MURDER RIO RANCHO, NM, Aug 20 (LSN) – On Thursday, Georges Reding, the 74-year-old psychiatrist- turned-“mercy killer”, was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of 54 year old Donna Brennan. An autopsy has revealed that in 1998 Brennan was killed with a lethal overdose. Reding’s lawyer is claiming that Brennan contacted his client for counselling only. A conviction on the first-degree murder charge and the subsequent charges of practicing medicine without a license, trafficking in a controlled substance and evidence tampering, […]

Tuesday April 27, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips Cloning and Genetic Manipulation In Canada Humans are Next in a Country Without Regulations MONTREAL, Apr 27 (LSN) – Nexia Biotechnologies Inc., a Montreal genetics company headed by Dr. Jeffrey Turner a former McGill University genetics professor, announced yesterday that they had successfully cloned three goats from the single cell of an adult goat. The goats are the only known mammals cloned since Dolly the sheep in 1997 and have again raised fears of human cloning. The company plans to use cells from the cloned goats and genetically alter […]

Friday June 4, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips Ontario Election ’99 Pro-Life Analysis TORONTO, June 4 (LSN) – The Ontario election held last night saw Mike Harris’s Progressive Conservative government returned to power. Political commentators note that it was mainly a two-party race in most ridings with the NDP doing so poorly that it lost party status gaining only 9 of a needed 12 seats. The Conservatives won a slightly higher percentage of seats from the last election (45.1% compared to 44.8% in 1995), but they lost three cabinet ministers, in one case a major victory for […]

Wednesday January 20, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips CBC AIRS “DOCUMENTARY” REPLETE WITH BIAS TORONTO, Jan 20 (LSN) Last night’s CBC National Magazine “Thou Shalt Not Kill” was a deliberate but unsuccessful attempt to establish solid links between the always peaceful Canadian pro-life movement and a tiny fringe of U.S anti-abortionists who do not condemn violence. As a taxpayer funded organization, the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) is obliged to represent the views of all mainstream Canadians. In this case, it gave excessive coverage to the American radicals and to Canadian abortion providers who hold that the Canadian […]

Thursday July 29, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips SEX SELECTION GOING MAINSTREAM “Sexist” considerations deemed important in abortion and IVF ­ INDIA (LSN, July 29) – The Indian government is becoming increasingly concerned about the number of girls being aborted in their society which favours male offspring. An Australian Broadcasting Corporation report yesterday said that ultrasound technology is playing a key role in the sex-based slaughter. Prem Aggarwal, the General-Secretary of the Indian Medical Association, says India’s demographic patterns are being threatened. “Doctor Aggarwal says the national gender ratio stands at 927 females per 1,000 males but […]

Wednesday July 21, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips CUBAN CHRISTIAN PERSECUTED FOR PRO-LIFE VIEWS HAVANA, In their latest newsletter (July 1999), Voice of the Martyrs (VOM), an international organization which monitors Christian persecution, reports on a Christian leader in Cuba who is suffering at least in part due to his openly pro-life views. The country’s communist leader, Fidel Castro, has recently permitted evangelicals to hold special public meetings “in an attempt to convince the world that religious freedom exists in Cuba”, reports VOM. The organization, however, hopes that Western Christians won’t naively accept Castro’s behaviour at face […]

Tuesday July 13, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips UNICEF BY-PASSES CANADIAN PARENTS AND LEGISLATURES Teams up with Elections Canada to conduct children’s only vote OTTAWA, July 13 (LSN) – To mark the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF Canada and Elections Canada have teamed up for “Canada’s first national election for the rights of youth.” The vote to take place in schools on November 19,1999 will have Canadian children under 18 vote from among ten rights “for the right they feel is most important to them.” The ten rights […]

Tuesday July 13, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips BEARING DISABLED BABIES TO BE SINFUL Britain To Screen All Babies For Down’s Syndrome LONDON, July 13 (LSN) – Bob Edwards, one of a pair of scientists responsible for the birth of the first test tube baby – Louise Brown – said at a recent conference on fertility that “soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease.” The Sunday Times reported July 4th that the conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology is taking […]

Friday July 23, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips KIDDIE PORN POSSESSION CHARGES DROPPED IN ONTARIO KITCHENER, ON, July 23 (LSN) – Putting the lie claims that the B.C. case which ruled that kiddie porn possession laws are unconstitutional would not have an impact outside that province, charges of possession were dropped in an Ontario case yesterday. The National Post reported on a court ruling which found 19-year-old Andrew Guille of Cambridge guilty of distributing child pornography, with possession charges dropped because of the B.C. case. Guille was sentenced to 15 months in jail. SHARE THIS STORY: E-mail […]

Monday July 26, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips TEST TUBE BABIES HAVE RIGHT TO BIOLOGICAL PARENTS ID’S LONDON, July 26 (LSN) – In Vitro Fertilization clinics in Britain are in an uproar about proposed changes to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act that would allow test tube babies to trace their biological parents. Fertility clinic owners feel their lucrative business would suffer a loss of donors if donor anonymity were removed. The Sunday Times of London also reported that yesterday marked the twenty first birthday of Louise Brown, the first test tube baby. Brown, born on July […]

Friday April 16, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips NURSES RIGHT TO REFUSE ABORTION PARTICIPATION RENEGED? TORONTO, Apr 16 (LSN) – In a deal thought completed, eight pro-life nurses at Markham Stouffville Hospital were granted the right to refuse to participate in abortions since it was contrary to their religious faith. However, the deal which, according to the nurses and their lawyers was finalized, is still a little uncertain. LifeSite sources revealed that the parties in the dispute had negotiated a deal with the hospital committee, hands were shaken and only the final authorizing signature of the hospital […]

Tuesday September 14, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips Child’s Rights Convention Propaganda Campaign Unveiled OTTAWA, Sept 14 (LSN) – The Canadian branch of the United Nations Children’s Fund and Elections Canada have released the ten rights to be voted on by Canadian youth under 18 in a mock national election to be held November 19. As LifeSite warned in July, the rights would likely promote the often anti-family ideals of the United Nations, especially the criminalization of corporal punishment. The newly released rights “candidates” proved LifeSite’s warnings accurate. Subsumed under the right of “Education”, the first right […]

Tuesday June 15, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips Catholic Toronto Hospital Sponsors Gay Pride Week TORONTO, June 15 (LSN) – In a shocking story yesterday the Catholic Register reported that St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto has become a “bronze-level sponsor” of Toronto’s Gay Pride Week ’99. According to the article this will be the third year of involvement in the Gay Pride Week activities but the first time as a bronze-level supporter. The donation to the event must have been a substantial one since the “Catholic” hospital is only outstripped by a few corporate giants such as […]

Friday May 7, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips LATE TERM INFANTICIDE FOR HANDICAPPED BABIES CRHA Head Caught Lying During Interview CALGARY, AB, May 7 (LSN) – The Calgary Regional Health Authority (CRHA) is trying its best to stop the media frenzy over news of the news of infanticide being practiced at Foothills Hospital in Calgary. Worse still, for abortion apologists, is the fact that news of the macabre practice at other hospitals and abortuaries across the nation is beginning to spread. Police have launched investigations at both Foothills and Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital. An interview with Dr. […]

Wednesday October 13, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips PHONY “CATHOLIC” GROUP TO ADDRESS CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOARD TORONTO, Oct 13 (LSN.ca) – The notorious dissident group “Catholics for a Free Choice” CFFC is set to address the Toronto Catholic School Board tomorrow evening in order to request the removal of a fundraiser for a pro-life crisis pregnancy centre. LifeSite has learned that a member of the group surreptitiously applied and received standing before the Catholic School Board by presenting herself as an individual rather than a representative of the vocal anti- Catholic group. The CFFC member then reported […]

Thursday March 4, 1999 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips Hansard March 2, 1999 ORAL QUESTION PERIOD TAXATION Hansard (Unedited Copy) – March 2, 1999 Mr. Monte Solberg (Medicine Hat, Ref.): Mr. Speaker, this year the government went $7.6 billion over budget in its spending. StatsCan has confirmed it. Canadians are now paying the highest taxes that they have ever paid in history. Out of all of those people who are paying extraordinarily high taxes it is single income families who are paying the most proportionately. Why does the Prime Minister and his government discriminate against single income families? […]

Tuesday April 20, 2004 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips Pro-Abortion Protesters Pledge to Attack Pro-Lifers at Washington March WASHINGTON, DC, April 20, 2004 (culture-of-life.org/LifeSiteNews.com) – The Culture of Life Foundation reports today that at least one pro-abortion group has threatened to assault pro-life counter-protestors during the pro-abortion “March for Women’s Lives” next Sunday in Washington DC. The first of its kind since 1992, the March is being described by the National Organization for Women (NOW) as “the most significant and massive abortion rights march in over a decade.” In response to pro-life groups that have announced counter-protests, pro-abortion […]

Dear Readers,   On Tuesday a week, Nov. 4, one of the most important ever United States elections will take place. Little did we know even a year ago just how historically crucial this election would actually be. It seems as though ten years has passed in one year.   For those who understand the foundational importance of the protection of life and family for any healthy and safe society, the presidential choice has never been clearer. The contrast between the two candidates on abortion is extreme.   Above all, the election requires a great prayer campaign – not so […]

Apple donates $100,000 to campaign against Proposition 8

Incensed by star's support for Proposition 8 that would put traditional definition of marriage in state constitution.

Also suggests that "donor death" criteria for organ donation should be abandoned

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski October 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With only days remaining before the November 4 U.S. election, a tally has shown that over a quarter of America’s bishops have published articles, issued statements or given interviews where they have declared that the most important issue for voters in their choice of a new president is the candidate’s stance on abortion. The tally was put together by well-known Catholic journalist and blogger Rocco Palmo, and published in The Tablet, a Catholic periodical (See Rocco’s article here: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/12189). Catholics across the nation have taken the message pro-life to heart, as their […]

Conservatives "taking the path of least resistance is not leadership"

By Tim Waggoner CORAOPOLIS, PA, October 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since being nominated as the GOP Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin has made support for families of children with special needs a priority of her campaign. Today she offered her first policy speech on the issue in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. With many families with special needs children attending the talk in the airport hotel ballroom, Palin set the tone of her speech by telling her audience not to worry about the crying and jostling, saying, “That’s the sound of life.” In her remarks, Governor Palin advocated school choice opportunities for children with […]

By Jonquil Frankham GREENSBURG: October 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt of Greensburg, PA issued a statement this week disapproving of Seton Hill University’s invitation to Dr. Douglas Kmiec. Dr. Douglas Kmiec has publicly endorsed the campaign of Senator Barack Obama, and has spent time touring the States with the Democratic presidential candidate. His recent book, entitled “Can a Catholic Support Him?” argues that Catholics can vote for the radically pro-abortion candidate in good conscience. Kmiec was denied Holy Communion by a priest in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and has been widely castigated by Catholic leaders for […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LONDON, UK, October 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Anglican minister who undertook to perform a much publicized “marriage” ceremony for two of his fellow clergy in a Church of England parish last May has expressed regret for his actions, which were in direct defiance of Church of England rules, and is being let off with a slap on the wrist. Rev. Dr. Martin Dudley officiated at the homosexual “wedding” of two homosexual clergy at St. Bartholomew the Great church in London, using a slightly modified version of the Church of England’s marriage ceremony. The modified form began, […]

By Kathleen Gilbert PATERSON, New Jersey, October 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AUSCS) pounced on a Catholic bishop’s statement condemning the extreme pro-abortion agenda espoused by Barack Obama, and have asked the IRS to investigate the bishop’s tax-exempt status for alleged partisanship. The group alleges that Bishop Arthur Serratelli of Paterson, NJ, broke laws governing tax-exempt organizations, including the Catholic Church – laws that forbid official endorsement of a particular political party or candidate.  In a column written for the diocesan newspaper two weeks ago, Serratelli condemned the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) […]

By Tim Waggoner NEWCASTLE, U.K., October 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A leading U.K. adult stem cell scientist has left his post at Newcastle University and is heading to France, alleging U.K. universities and funding agencies continually prioritize embryonic stem cell research over his work – despite the superior clinical success of adult stem cells. Colin McGuckin, professor of regenerative medicine at Newcastle University, told Times Higher Education that he had to put his patients and staff first. “The bottom line is my vocation is to work with patients and help patients and unfortunately I can’t do that in the UK.” […]

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* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com.  They are presented only for your information.   Compiled by Steve Jalsevac U.S. ELECTIONGENERAL Is John McCain a perfect pro-life candidate? Of course not. But Barack Obama is a perfect pro-life nightmare – By Stanley Kurtz .  https://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3583/pub_detail.asp Obama’s Mandate for Nationalized Same-Sex Marriage  The actual Obama-Biden position on same-sex marriage goes beyond merely opposing Proposition 8. In fact, their position sets the stage for liberal federal judges to impose same-sex marriage nationwide by forcing states that have […]

By Jonquil Frankham PHILADELPHIA October 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a pastoral letter released yesterday, Justin Cardinal Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia, calls abortion the “transcending issue of our day.” The release of the pastoral letter comes only days after Cardinal Rigali released a statement in his capacity as Chair of the Committee for Pro-Life Activities for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), in which he observed that Catholics are “morally obliged” to oppose Roe v. Wade (See https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/oct/08102203.html). In his most recent letter Cardinal Rigali drives home the point that the grave immorality of abortion is not a […]

By John Jalsevac October 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The annual battle for Christmas has begun early this year, with the announcement that the internationally known fireworks company, Grucci, has pulled out of an annual Christmas event on Long Island. Grucci made the decision in protest against the town of Patchogue’s decision to break with its 15-year tradition of holding a Christmas Boat Parade and instead to rename the event the Patchogue Holiday Boat Parade.    Grucci vice president Phil Butler, a vocal critic of the secularization of Christmas, accused the parade’s organizers of “using all the themes of Christmas and […]

By Kathleen Gilbert LONDON, UK, October 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – UK government officials announced yesterday that by the year 2010, 5-year-old children will enter the first stages of a comprehensive, explicit sex education program, mandatory for schools nationwide, including faith schools. The compulsory Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) program will begin in kindergarten where Schools Minister Jim Knight says children will learn about “their differences, their friendships, and how to manage their feelings.”  Knight insisted that the earliest curriculum will not be “sexually explicit,” saying “we are not talking about five-year olds having sex.” The earliest stage of the program, […]

By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, NY, October 23, 2008 (C-FAM) – The committee that monitors states compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) opened its latest session in Geneva this week to review the reports of 12 states.  Even prior to the arrival of country delegations in Geneva, the committee had already begun questioning states on abortion, even though the treaty itself is silent on the subject.  At this session, the CEDAW committee will review the reports of Belgium, Canada, Ecuador, Uruguay, Kyrgyzstan, Slovenia, Mongolia, Bahrain, El Salvador, Madagascar, Myanmar and Portugal […]

"This is about putting the legal stamp of approval on homosexuality and imposing it with force"

 By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LONDON, UK, October 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers from the International Institute of Restorative Reproductive Medicine have published a study in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine which confirms that natural procreative technology, called NaProTechnology or NPT – a non-invasive fertility-care based medical approach to the treatment of infertility – provided live birth rates comparable or superior to more invasive treatments, including assisted reproductive technology (ART) and in vitro fertilization (IVF). NPT was developed from thirty years of scientific research in the study of the normal and abnormal states of the menstrual and […]

By Tim Waggoner VALLETTA, Malta, October 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Maltese man who has undergone “gender reassignment surgery” is taking Maltese authorities to court in an attempt to force them to issue him and his partner marriage banns. The homosexual news source, Pink News, reports that Joanne Cassar is claiming his fundamental human rights are being compromised by the Public Registry’s decision not to allow the two men to “marry.” In 2007, shortly after Cassar obtained the court order instructing the Public Registry to change his name from Joseph to Joanne and his gender from male to female on […]

By Jonquil Frankham ARIZONA, October 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Recently the New Haven chapter of the Knights of Columbus donated $100,000 to yesformarriage.com, the group campaigning in support of Arizona’s Proposition 102 – the latest in a series of generous donations that have significantly bolstered the chances that marriage will be protected in the state come Nov. 4. Proposition 102 is a motion to write the true definition of marriage into the state constitution. Same-sex “marriage” is already illegal under Arizona state law, but a constitutional amendment would prevent the possibility that it will be made legal at any point […]

Discovery of homosexual event at school lends steam to pro-marriage Proposition 8 campaign

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski DENVER, October 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an interview on Monday with Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke about how her Christian beliefs guide both her personal and public life and the impact her faith has had on the current election campaign. Governor Palin has not focused on her faith during the campaign, but is nevertheless unequivocal about publicly and openly expressing her position on faith, life and family issues. When Dr. Dobson inquired about the importance of faith in her life, Governor Palin said, “It is […]

By Kathleen Gilbert LONDON, UK, October 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a strangely counter-intuitive use of advertising, the famous atheist professor Richard Dawkins and fellow non-believers have joined forces to plaster messages on London buses that proclaim … nothing.  “There’s probably no God,” the ads will read.  “Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” According to atheist comedienne and campaign organizer, Ariane Sherine, besides the slogans “the adverts will feature the URLs of secular, humanist and atheist websites, so that readers can find out more about atheism as a positive and liberating alternative to religion.” Dawkins decided to raise money […]

By Kathleen Gilbert CANBERRA, Australia, October 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thanks to a legal loophole, Australian mothers who abort their child in late pregnancy can collect a $5,000 bonus designed to turn around the country’s plummeting birthrate, reports Australia Associated Press (AAP).  The law allows the payment – normally reserved for mothers who successfully give birth – to be awarded on compassionate grounds to women whose baby is stillborn.  But because late-term abortions are registered as stillbirths, the “compassionate” payment is available to women who choose to abort as well. The Australian parliament recently stated it would be “too expensive” […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL, October 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With large images of the homosexualist books “King and King,” and “Heather has Two Mommies” in the background, Massachusetts’s parents Robb and Robin Wirthlin warned Floridians about the detrimental effects of same sex marriage on public education and religious liberty at the Florida Press Center in Tallahassee yesterday. Florida is one of three states in the upcoming election that are considering marriage amendments that would protect true marriage. The ballot title for the Florida initiative, titled Amendment 2, says, “In as much as a marriage is the legal union of only one man […]

Homosexual activist Michael Leshner serves as Crown attorney at hearing

Protects human life from the moment of fertilization until natural death

By Jonquil Frankham Wednesday, October 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) –“I am now supportive of Senator John McCain and his bid for the Presidency,” says Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, in a newly released letter. Dobson’s letter addresses the “stark differences between the two presidential candidates” and the “critical issues that are hanging in the balance.” Of primary importance, says Dr. Dobson, is the “need to elect a pro-family, pro-life President.” Dr. Dobson, while feeling that the Republican platform does not perfectly mirror traditional values, says that it “comes closest to embracing” them. The famous family psychologist highlighted […]

By Kathleen Gilbert MADRID, Spain, October 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A baby who was grown in order to donate umbilical cord blood to his ailing brother was born last week, an event that was widely reported in Spanish media. The renewed publicity given to the case has sparked criticism from the pro-life community and the Church who, while welcoming the birth of a newborn child, condemned the utilitarian mindset that surrounded the circumstances of his conception and birth. Baby Javier Mariscal is the first “medicinal baby” to be born in Spain, carried to term in order to donate stem cells that may cure his six-year-old […]

By Hilary White WESTMINSTER, October 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.K. pro-life campaigners were deeply saddened at tonight’s vote on the Labour government’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. MPs voted 355 to 129 to pass the bill that allows human/animal embryos to be created by cloning and used in experiments.  The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) condemned the vote, saying, “Future generations would regard the bill as devaluing human life.” SPUC said they will raise the issue during the next general election. Besides allowing the creation of cloned human/animal embryos for experimentation, the bill will enshrine in law […]

By Tim Waggoner ABBOTSFORD, B.C., October 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The same B.C. homosexual couple that was handed the task of developing and implementing a homosexual curriculum in the province’s schools, which includes a policy nullifying a parents right to opt their children out of such courses, has filed a human rights complaint against the Abbotsford School District for its refusal to offer one of the couple’s “social justice” courses in the 2008-2009 school year.   According to Canadian Business Online, Murray and Peter Corren have filed a representative complaint on behalf of a number of the students and parents of the district, […]

Comments expose long-festering problem of bishop's conferences and their often liberal bureaucracies

By Jonquil Frankham CALIFORNIA, October 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Recent donations to the “No on 8” campaign have endangered the passage of Proposition 8, a measure to protect true marriage in California. The two opposing campaigns are in a fundraising race that could decide the legal definition of marriage in California, as well as the future of Californians’ freedom of speech and conscience. If passed, Proposition 8 would amend California’s constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. Whether or not the proposition passes, say commentators, depends largely on public television advertising. A poll conducted at the […]

TROY, Ohio, October 22, 20008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stand True, Christ-Centered Pro-life, just wrapped up their Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity (PLDSS) on Tuesday, Oct. 21. As of this morning Stand True has been contacted by students about 32 babies who have been saved. Student around the country are telling Stand True about girls who changed their minds and chose life after reading literature or talking to pro-life students yesterday. “I spent most of last night choking back the tears as I started to hear back from students,” said Bryan Kemper, President of Stand True Ministries. “The stories kept coming in […]

By Anita Crane October 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Eduardo Verastegui, producer and lead actor of the 2007 American film Bella, met with Senator John McCain on October 17 in Miami, where they discussed the human rights at stake in this presidential election. Now Verastegui is using his star power – and more – to help McCain and Governor Sarah Palin win the votes of Latinos. Verastegui said, “I am endorsing Sen. McCain for president because of his commitments to end abortion, protect traditional marriage and fix immigration law.” On Gov. Palin’s leadership, he said, “I love her. She’s a great […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an October 21 statement Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia and Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., said, “Our faith requires us to oppose abortion on demand and to provide help to mothers facing challenging pregnancies,” The bishops urged Catholics to study the teaching of the Church, rather than rely on statements and materials from outside groups and individuals. Cardinal Rigali, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Bishop Murphy, chair of the bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, made the joint statement in response to arguments that the Church should […]

By Kathleen Gilbert CHANTILLY, Virginia, October 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Divine Mercy Care (DMC) Pharmacy opened yesterday in Chantilly VA. The unique pharmacy is a Catholic-run business that gives customers a chance to fill their prescriptions without facing the stacks of condoms, contraceptives, and pornographic magazines that fill typical drugstores. “Divine Mercy Center has three primary tenets: they practice excellent medicine, follow the moral teachings of the Church, and see the poor,” said Robert Laird, DMC’s executive director.  “We believe that integrating our faith into our work is good for people.” Divine Mercy Care, a non-profit financial organization, opened […]

By Hilary White Update: Article written earlier in the day. The HFE bill passed the House of Commons this evening by a massive 355-129 majority. See further coverage here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/oct/08102209.html WESTMINSTER, October 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rumours swirling around Westminster in recent weeks were confirmed today when Labour’s Health Secretary tabled a procedural motion that effectively prohibits debate on abortion-related amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill. For two weeks, Parliamentary sources have been hinting that the attempt to impose legal abortion on Northern Ireland, as well as amendments that would make abortion available with fewer restrictions, would be […]

Biden, Organ donations, abortion days of reckoning, China's reckoning to come, courageous bishop, Proposition 8 battle

Media coverage "one big Oprah show" to "short circuit" moral criticism

By Kathleen Gilbert GUELPH, Ontario, October 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Central Student Association (CSA) of the University of Guelph decided unanimously to pull accreditation from a pro-life student group, deemed “unsafe to women” due to its promotion of the pro-life message. The club’s accreditation was pulled in the wake of their “Life Fair,” in which pro-life speakers addressed the audience and pro-life signs and images were displayed. Life Choice describes their group as “committed to proclaiming, celebrating and defending the dignity of all human beings from conception to natural death by educating people about pro-life issues.” The CSA, which […]

By Kathleen Gilbert VATICAN CITY, October 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During an audience given to the Italian Society of Surgeons, Pope Benedict XVI exhorted the medical community to recognize the dignity inherent in the medical profession, and never to abandon patients, no matter how incurable or hopeless their condition. In what appeared to be a veiled criticism of the movement towards legalized euthanasia, the Pope urged physicians to recognize especially the dignity of all patients, including the apparently incurable. Referring to the surgeon conference’s theme, “For a Surgery That Respects the Sick,” the Holy Father explained that the foundation of […]

"No matter how you slice it, aggressive 'population control' exacts a huge price in future economic growth "

By Jonquil Frankham PATERSON, New Jersey, October 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Arthur Serratelli of Paterson, NJ penned a column for his diocesan website this week, warning his diocese of the possible implementation of the radical Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), particularly under a possible Obama presidency. In the article Bishop Serratelli compares Barack Obama to King Herod, the king during the life of Christ who ordered the beheading of John the Baptist in order to keep a promise he had made to Salome. Much like Herod, writes Serratelli, Obama has made a promise – to pass the Freedom of […]

By Hilary White LONDON, October 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill, put forward by the UK government, would allow tissue taken from people who lack the “mental capacity” to give consent to be used to create clones. The warnings of pro-life campaigners were vindicated when it was revealed in the Daily Telegraph this weekend that under the amendment tissue for cloning may be removed from children, those in comas, or those with dementia who are incapable of understanding what is being proposed. The amendment also allows tissue previously donated for unrelated reasons by […]

By Tony Gosgnach TORONTO, October 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Veteran pro-life demonstrator Linda Gibbons was remanded in custody to the Mental Health Court at Toronto’s Old City Hall, 60 Queen Street W., Room 102, tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. for a “mental health assessment” after a bail hearing at the Ontario Court of Justice at College Park today. The unrepresented Gibbons declined to speak to a duty counsel lawyer who had appeared on her behalf, leading the presiding justice of the peace – apparently unaware of Gibbons’s practice of remaining silent in court out of solidarity with voiceless preborn human […]

Many "no voters" could change votes based on possible effects of 8's failure

By Jonquil Frankham PIERRE, S.D., Tuesday, October 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In 2006 the South Dakota House and Senate voted in favor of HB 1215, a law that would criminalize virtually all abortions in the state. The bill did not become law, however; instead pro-abortion activists gathered enough signatures on a petition to put the issue to a public vote. In a late 2006 statewide referendum the measure was rejected 56% to 44%.  This November, however, the issue will be put before South Dakotans once more in the form of “Measure 11.” Measure 11, unlike its predecessor, provides for access […]

By Tim Waggoner WASHINGTON, October 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday’s episode of “Ellen,” Catholic Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden flip-flopped on his homosexual “marriage” stance, telling lesbian hostess Ellen DeGeneres that he would vote against Proposition 8, which seeks to define marriage in California as being between one man and one woman. Biden told DeGeneres, “If I lived in California, I would vote against Proposition 8.” This statement stands in stark contrast to an earlier assertion Biden made during the vice-presidential debate, when he claimed he was opposed to same-sex “marriage.” “Barack Obama nor I support redefining from a […]

* Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily   represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information.   Compiled by Steve Jalsevac LIFE ISSUES  Attacks on conscientious objection are part of an international campaign to make abortion a basic human right.   https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/doctors_orders/   UK – Human tissue could be taken from the infirm without their consent and used for research  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/3224172/Human-tissue-could-be-taken-from-the-infirm-without-their-consent-and-used-for-research.html   Abortion ban returns to ballot in South Dakota  https://apnews.myway.com/article/20081018/D93T2PBG1.html   Pope: doctors must always defend patient’s dignity, even if he is incurable  https://new.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=13532   […]

* 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.   Compiled by Steve Jalsevac OBAMA   Powell endorses Obama: says “I would have difficulty with two more conservative appointments to the Supreme Court, but that’s what we’d be looking at in a McCain administration.”  https://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14714.html   Awful: LAT Op-Ed Claims Obama a ‘Bridge Builder’ on Abortion – A “bridge builder” on abortion? Is Kmiec kidding?? Douglas Kmiec was once a respected member of the Catholic community. He is no […]

By Jonquil Frankham October 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The abortion ship “Aurora” arrived in Valencia, Spain last Thursday evening to the protests of 400 pro-life demonstrators. Many of the protesters belonged to Catholic youth groups, as well as to the Valencian pro-life group “Provida.” The Aurora provides abortions on demand in international waters around nations where abortion remains illegal or restricted, drawing international media attention and putting pressure on the countries where it docks to legalize abortion. Spain’s abortion laws, unchanged since 1985, allow access to abortion at any time during pregnancy, providing there is a threat to the psychological […]

By Kathleen Gilbert October 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A campaign launched by several pro-life leaders has recently received media attention for its simple message: Those who vote for Obama vote to fund unlimited abortions with their own tax dollars. The campaign, formed by Operation Rescue, Christian Defense Coalition, and Christians for Social Justice, greets visitors to its website with an image of Obama superimposed on the traditional Uncle Sam image: “Obama wants you.”  Those who click to enter the site find the other half of the message: “Obama wants you to pay for abortion!” (www.obamawantsyou.com) The website dedicates several pages […]

If abortion really is what we say it is do our actions reflect that belief?

MPs warned that Northern Ireland amendment could scupper peace process

By Hilary White   BELFAST, U.K. October 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life people from all over the island came to support Northern Irish MPs and MLAs who have told Westminster that they will refuse to implement any new law that attempts to push unwanted legalized abortion onto the province. Despite pouring rain, pro-life organizers are hailing a rally in Belfast on Friday as a triumph. Although the sparse mainstream media coverage downgraded the turnout as a mere “few hundred” event organizers said they were pleased with the nearly 5000-strong crowd.    The rally was organized after a group of six radical […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, October 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Almost 300 people showed up to the 40 Days for Life midpoint rally in Ottawa yesterday between 2 and 3 p.m., enjoying bright sunshine, the chance to get to know each other over coffee and doughnuts, and presentations from campaign leaders and participants. One participant wrote, “This was an important day because most of the vigilers don’t personally know each other. By the time it’s all said and done, there will probably be over 1000 participants in the campaign. “Even when we see one another, rarely do we introduce ourselves […]

Says she feels that in giving interviews with mainstream media "you set yourself up to just continually be mocked"

SANTA CLARA, CA, October 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At a celebration tomorrow evening, October 21, Santa Clara School of Law, a Catholic Jesuit-affiliated school, will bestow its Justice and Human Rights Award upon pro-abortion former congressman and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, who serves on the University’s board of trustees. The award will be presented at the University’s fifth annual “Diversity Gala: A Celebration of Diversity in the Legal Profession.” Leon Panetta’s terms as a US Congressman were stained by his pro-abortion voting record. He co-sponsored the dangerous Freedom of Choice Act in 1990. During his tenure as White […]

Stand True hosts 5th annual Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity Tuesday, October 21st

By Hilary White BRUSSELS, October 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vladimir Spidla, the Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, has backed away from suggestions that EU member states will be coerced to recognise same-sex partnerings. In an interview for Destination Equality magazine, Spidla said that it is up to individual member states to decide whether to legally recognise same-sex partnerships. Speaking of the EU’s new “anti-discrimination” directive, Spidla said, “Within European legislation we have gone as far as we can go. If a state accepts the equality of these relationships then that state cannot discriminate. And there are already […]

By Hilary White BELFAST, October 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com ) – While the politicians and public of Northern Ireland gear up to fight an effort to bring legal abortion into the province, the Catholic Bishops of Northern Ireland have issued a media release condemning the move. The Catholic bishops said that the attempt is a direct attack on the democratic process, since “all the main political parties in Northern Ireland have expressed their opposition to the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act.” In July, a group of six radical pro-abortion MPs, none of whom represent Northern Ireland constituencies, put forward an amendment to […]

By Kathleen Gilbert OLYMPIA, Washington, October 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Washington’s battle over euthanasia “rights” closes in on election day, anti-euthanasia groups are fighting to maintain their grasp on a thin margin of voters while fearing that dried-up revenues may cause all to be lost in the final hour. Recent polls have shown that a slim majority of voters now reject Initiative 1000, which would classify assisted suicide as a legitimate medical procedure.  Advertisements against the ballot measure, particularly one featuring Martin Sheen, have resonated with voters, and have widely publicized the dangerous pitfalls of such legislation. In the ad Sheen […]

Finn says, "A significant new attack on innocent human life will likely send us into a moral freefall that would rival any financial decline"

WASHINGTON, DC, October 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This week, the 40 Days for Life fall campaign reached its halfway point. “By our best estimates, tens of thousands of pro-life people in more than 175 communities in 47 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa and two Canadian provinces are participating,” said Shawn Carney, national outreach director of 40 Days for Life. “Local campaign coordinators report that thus far, at least 268 mothers have left abortion facilities without having abortions.”   In addition, pro-life pregnancy resource centers are reporting a significant increase in their client numbers, and more mothers are choosing life for […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski October 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A series of 40 Host desecration videos originally pulled from YouTube after an outcry of protest from Catholics, then reposted the same day, have been “age-gated,” which means the videos are not available to the general public – age confirmation is required. Moreover, the viewer is now informed that the material may not be appropriate. A press release from the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights said that president Bill Donohue spoke with an official from YouTube’s headquarters and was told the age-gating was a “preliminary step” in an ongoing […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MONTREAL, October 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The new mandatory Ethics and Religious Culture program that was introduced this fall in Quebec schools has parents fuming, with many complaining that the program effectively removes their right to choose the kind of religious education their children receive. To show their displeasure a group of Quebec parents has organized a protest march for tomorrow, Saturday, October 18. Three years ago, the clause in the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms that guaranteed freedom of religious instruction and parental rights (parents have “the right to require that, in the […]

By Kathleen Gilbert LANCASHIRE, United Kingdom, October 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Public homosexual activity in parks and public bathrooms must not be impeded by law enforcement officials except as a last resort, says a new set of draft guidelines for UK police. Deputy Chief Constable Michael Cunningham of Lancashire Police, who drew up the 21-page report, titled “Guidance on Policing Public Sex Environments”, wrote, “In any event it is not for the police to take the role of moral arbiter.” Rather than arresting those who have sex in public, the police should instead guard the “human rights of those people […]

By Hilary White October 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A spokesman for the organisers of the Catholic youth conference in Rome told LifeSiteNews.com today that although former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair was invited to deliver the keynote address at the conference, he ultimately declined to attend. Conference organisers confirmed that Blair had been invited to deliver the address by conference organisers, despite his position as one of the “principal architects” of what the late Pope John Paul II called the world-wide “culture of death.” The spokesman told LifeSiteNews.com that Mr. Blair had been considered as a speaker for the conference, […]

Brazil calls for eradication of "lesbianphobia

Push on to change world ban and allow "therapeutic" cloning or clone and kill

John Smeaton: Blair is one of the worst possible role models to present to young people."

By Kathleen Gilbert SACRAMENTO, California, October 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a shocking turnaround, a recent poll has shown Proposition 8’s fierce battle for acceptance has resulted in a 10-point swing, giving the natural marriage amendment a slim edge among voters in the final countdown to election day. Last week’s poll, which was conducted on behalf of four California television stations, shows 47% in favor of Proposition 8, with 42% opposed. The poll marks a distinct turn in the tide since a Sept. 25 SurveyUSA poll found 44% in favor, 49% opposed.  While the “Yes on 8” campaign has managed […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, October 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday at about 2 p.m. several women participating in 40 Days for Life Ottawa and keeping vigil at the Bank St. abortuary were violently assaulted. A woman began yelling obscenities at the pro-life volunteers and then became physically aggressive, throwing food at one of the vigil participants and then throwing punches and kicking. Eyewitnesses said that the woman came with her lunch and sat between two ladies who were praying. She then shouted out repeatedly, “You’ve had your protest, now I’m going to have mine,” whereupon she threw her food at one […]

By Kathleen Gilbert CANBERRA, Australia, October 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Australian Senate has passed a bill that grants unmarried long-term couples, including homosexual couples, the same legal process provided to divorcing married couples. The bill must now be returned to the lower house for final approval. Homosexualist activists hailed the bill as the next step in the long-term overhaul of Australia’s legislation to eliminate all distinctions between homosexual unions and married couples. The latest Rudd Government legislation lets all unmarried couples access federal family law courts on property and maintenance matters in the event that they separate.   Attorney-General Robert […]

By Hilary White LONDON, October 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – There are effectively two religions being practised in the Church of England, a leader of the evangelical or traditionally Protestant wing of the Anglican Church said this week. On one side are the theologically ultra-liberal leadership who support not only women’s ordination but homosexuality, while on the other are those who hold to traditionally Christian and biblical principles. The Rev. Rod Thomas was speaking to the annual conference of the Reform movement in London this week. Thomas said that at least twenty-five parishes, representing up to 3000 practising Anglicans in the […]

"Simply put, our concern for the dignity of the human person already born is rendered moot if we do not place first concern on the right of that person to be born."

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Martin D. Holley, Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, issued a statement responding to a report by Planned Parenthood’s Guttmacher Institute showing that black women have abortions at five times the rate of white women. “The number one cause of death in the African American community has been abortion. We have lost over 13 million lives. To put that in perspective, it is one third of our present Black population,” wrote the bishop.  “It [abortion] clearly must be at the heart and center of our discussion of the survival of African American people.” Bishop […]

"We have to change the culture of America," said McCain. "Those of us who are proudly pro-life understand that."

By Jonquil Frankham October 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishops Kevin J. Farrell of Dallas and Keven W. Vann of Fort Worth issued a joint letter on October 8 to the members of their dioceses in which they write that abortion is the “defining issue” of the upcoming election. They observe that all other rights are predicated upon the right to life, which is gravely violated by abortion. The public acceptance of abortion, therefore, renders any attempts to “further the common” good impossible, “‘It is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to life, upon which […]

By Kathleen Gilbert BALTIMORE, Maryland, October 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At St. Thomas More Academy in Buckeystown, Maryland, students read classical literature and recite the rosary daily as part of an integrated, Catholic curriculum. The school is one that parents typically choose for its outstanding fidelity to Church teaching. But when the young Academy recently petitioned the Archdiocese of Baltimore for official status as a diocesan Catholic school, they were told this was impossible unless Thomas More implemented the Archdiocese’s “Human Sexuality” course.  The course is a curriculum for elementary-age children that teaches sexuality “in a spiritual and developmental context […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski CHARLOTTE COUNTY, NB, October 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Parents of students in local high schools in a southwestern New Brunswick district have succeeded in persuading school board officials to change their minds about inviting homosexualist author Alex Sanchez to speak to their children. Sanchez was scheduled to speak to high school students in St. Stephen, St. Andrews and St. George on Oct. 21, but opposition from the communities resulted in the homosexual activist being disinvited. Keith Pierce, School District 10 Superintendent, said he changed his mind about allowing the author to speak in area schools after […]

By Hilary White October 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Australian doctor, known around the world as “Dr. Death” for his advocacy of legal euthanasia, was refused a venue in Northern Ireland last week. Dr. Philip Nitschke, who is touring Britain with a suitcase of “Exit Bags” giving lectures on how to commit suicide, had an invitation to speak this Sunday at Queen’s University in Belfast rescinded for fear that his lecture would encourage suicide. A university spokesman said, “The Northern Ireland Forum for Ethics in Medicine and Healthcare has withdrawn its invitation to Dr. Philip Nitschke to address Forum members […]

By Kathleen Gilbert HIALEAH, Florida, October 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A civil suit has been launched against the owner of an abortuary for the murder of a newborn baby girl who, having survived an abortion, was stuffed into a medical waste bag filled with bleach and discarded. The girl’s funeral was held in Ft. Lauderdale yesterday, two years after her death. Florida lawyer Tom Pennekamp Jr., former president of the Dade County Bar Association and an expert in major personal injury cases, has joined forces with the Thomas More Society of Chicago to press charges in the case surrounding the […]

By Kathleen Gilbert LONDON, October 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A man who was found guilty of murdering his unwilling elderly wife by smothering her with two plastic bags has escaped a jail sentence in a ruling by London’s Central Criminal Court. Eric Norton, 86, was apparently in high spirits at the end of last week’s trial, and blew a kiss to supporters in the public gallery on his way out of the courtroom, according to Independent Television News. Last November, Norton smothered his 84-year-old wife Betty, an Alzheimer’s sufferer who was in the hospital for stomach pains. Other hospital patients […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, October 15, 2008 (LifeSIteNews.com) – A new poll conducted for the Knights of Columbus by the Marist College Institute of Public Opinion between Sept. 24 and Oct. 3, 2008 showed that almost all Americans think abortion should be restricted. The pollsters conducted over 1700 interviews with Americans across the country. The purpose of the poll was to enable comparisons of the views of Catholic voters with those of the general electorate. The poll asked respondents to state which of six statements came closest to describing their opinion on abortion. Only 8% chose option 1, which […]

By Hilary White WINNIPEG, Manitoba, October 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a brief message, the Catholic archdiocese of St. Boniface in Manitoba has apologized for carrying an ad for a fundraising event in support of one of the world’s most notorious abortion and condom promoters. Last week, LifeSiteNews.com reported that the archdiocese of St. Boniface was including on their website an ad for a gala dinner in support of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, to be held at the Winnipeg Convention Centre on Saturday. The event is being put on to raise funds to bring more condoms and condom promotion to […]

Historically low voter turnout for "election to nowhere"

By Tony Gosgnach TORONTO, October 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life activist Linda Gibbons was remanded in custody to Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 10 a.m. in Room 507 of the Ontario Court of Justice at College Park in downtown Toronto after a brief appearance in that same courtroom this morning. Handcuffed and wearing drab green prison coveralls, Gibbons did not acknowledge supporters in the courtroom and declined to speak to either the duty counsel or the presiding justice of the peace during the hearing. Her lawyer was unable to be present and had asked the court earlier for an adjournment. Gibbons […]

By Hilary White October 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Legal documents have shown that the manufacturer of one of the world’s most popular long-term contraceptive drugs has paid out at least US $68.7 million in out-of-court settlements over side effects of the drug. Bloomberg.com reported yesterday that Johnson and Johnson, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of health products, has not released to its investors the financial records of hundreds of settlements over the Ortho Evra long-wear hormone patch. Twenty women have died, and 4000 have filed complaints in state and federal courts, alleging that Ortho Evra caused deep-vein thrombosis, or […]

By Hilary White QUEBEC, October 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a recent article appearing in “Vita e Pensiero,” the magazine of the Catholic University of Milan, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Primate of Canada and archbishop of Quebec City, called for an end to the “secularist fundamentalism imposed by means of public funding,” and said that Quebec is “ripe for a profound new evangelization.” “Québec’s real problem,” said the Cardinal, is the “spiritual vacuum” sponsored by an increasingly aggressive anti-Christian state. Cardinal Ouellet wrote of the “religious and cultural rupture,” and the “substantial loss of memory” that is ongoing in Quebec, “which […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WINDSOR, Ontario, October 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Retired Windsor police detective and Order of Canada member Frank Chauvin has launched a legal challenge against the Advisory Council for the Order of Canada that granted the award to abortionist Henry Morgentaler. The Windsor Star reports that Mr. Chauvin bases his challenge on irregularities in the decision process regarding Morgentaler’s appointment, and that Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin, who chairs the council, should have removed herself from the process because Morgentaler is a litigant in a court case against the government of New Brunswick. Mr. Chauvin’s lawyer, […]

MANASSAS, Va, October 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In just two weeks, more than 1,100 Fordham University alumni and others have signed a student-sponsored petition opposing the Catholic University’s plan to honor Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer with a legal ethics award. The open letter to Father Joseph McShane, S.J., president of Fordham University, is posted online at www.CardinalNewmanSociety.org.  All concerned individuals and organizations are being encouraged by the Cardinal Newman Society to sign the petition.  A drive for more campus signatures is scheduled for the end of this week by Fordham Respect for Life, the campus pro-life students who organized […]

By Hilary White LANCASTER, October 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An adoption agency in Lancaster has decided that there is no need for recourse either to Catholic teaching or to the approval of its bishop to continue calling itself Catholic. Catholic Caring Services of Lancaster has told their bishop that they will go ahead with plans to include homosexual partners as prospective adoptive parents and at the same time continue to retain their “Catholic” character. Jim Cullen, chief executive of Catholic Caring Services announced that the registered religious charity will consider homosexual partners and at the same time, “will remain a […]

By Kathleen Gilbert HARTFORD, Connecticut, October 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Connecticut bishops on Friday reacted with outrage to the state Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the state’s ban on same-sex “marriage.” The bishops called upon citizens to vote “yes” for a Constitutional Convention to democratically consider the marriage law and protect natural marriage from the incursions of activist judges.  The Connecticut Catholic Conference, the public policy office of the bishops from each of the state’s four dioceses, issued a statement the same day as the Supreme Court decision, in which they expressed dismay at the ruling, which they said hijacked the democratic […]

WASHINGTON, October 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Parents and Friends of Ex- Gays & Gays (PFOX) is suing the Washington DC Office of Human Rights for failing to protect former homosexuals under its sexual orientation anti-discrimination law. “The ex-gay community is the most bullied and maligned group in America, yet they are not protected by sexual orientation non-discrimination laws,” said Regina Griggs, PFOX executive director. The DC Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on “sexual preference,” “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” and “gender expression.” The Office of Human Rights maintains that homosexuals, bisexuals, transgenders, and cross-dressers qualify for protection under this Act, […]

SAN FRANCISCO, October 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the same week that the No on 8 campaign launched an ad that labeled as “lies” claims that same-sex “marriage” would be taught in schools to young children, a first grade class took a school-sponsored trip to a same-sex “wedding.” Eighteen first graders traveled to San Francisco City Hall last Friday for the wedding of their teacher and her lesbian partner, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. The school sponsored the trip for the students, ages 5 and 6, taking them away from their studies for the same-sex “wedding.” According to the Yes […]

October 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It appears that Christians distinguish between loving the sinner and hating the sin according to the results of a study published in the latest issue of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. The researchers from the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Baylor University found that people who scored high in religiousness do distinguish between same sex attraction and same sex behavior in the way they respond to others. The study involved 100 female participants who were scored for interest in religion. The participants were led to believe that they were working with […]

MANASSAS, VA, October 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an October 9 article, the Hartford Courant reports that Pamela Trotman Reid, president of St. Joseph College in West Hartford, Conn., a Catholic college, “sees in [Sen. Barack] Obama a kindred spirit” and is concerned about future Supreme Court decisions affecting “the right of women to make choices about their own health.” The Courant reports that Reid, who is African American, thinks that she and presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama probably had similar experiences of racial bias growing up.  Not only does she regard Obama as “a kindred spirit,” but she also […]

"A vote for Barack Obama would give the ultimate power over the issue of life to a politician who has never once done anything to protect the unborn."

Tuesday October 3, 2000 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS TAKE PRO-FAMILY GROUP TO COURT VANCOUVER, Oct 3 (LSN.ca) – A human rights tribunal met yesterday to hear the complaints of homosexual activists against the pro-family group Citizen’s Research Institute (CRI). In 1997, nine homosexual activists made a complaint to the B.C. Human Rights Commission claiming that a document produced by the CRI was hateful and discriminatory. The document – Declaration of Family Rights – was issued so that parents could use it to prevent the imparting of information by activist teachers that may be discriminatory or […]

* 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. The Five Non-Negotiables  https://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2008/10/the-five-non-ne.html   Fr. McBrien and the mythological “one issue bishops”  https://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2008/10/fr-mcbrien-and.html   Young Catholics not turning to sanctity of life and marriage as voting issues, poll finds  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14008   Will the Church Split Along Red and Blue Lines? by Deal W. Hudson -List of 40 bishops who have made public statements about Catholics in politics in this election  https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4663&Itemid=48   Supreme Court Denies Review Of Several Abortion-Related Cases […]

* 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. Farrakhan on Obama: ‘The Messiah is absolutely speaking’ – WorldNetDaily  Says to youth, “You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn’t care anything about. That’s a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking.” “Brothers […]

"Christians, in particular, must think of what Christ will say to them at the Last Judgement if they support "pro-choice" candidates"

Interview with Mary Ellen Douglas, National Organizer for Campaign Life Coalition

Jonquil Frankham   October 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Excitement continues to rise among pro-lifers across North America—and distress among Planned Parenthood advocates—as the number of rescued babies rises to a total of 114 throughout the 170 communities participating in the 40 Days for Life.   David Bereit, national campaign director for the 40 DFL, writes that peaceful protesters with California’s San Fernando Valley chapter of the 40 DFL had some “very encouraging news” to relate. An absent abortionist, unusually low numbers of scheduled abortions, and 40 DFL pilgrims from far and wide were mere preliminaries to the day’s excitement, during […]

Spokesman says Cardinal O'Malley signed petition "in a moment of weakness"

New charge a radical departure from past practice

By Hilary White WINNIPEG, Manitoba, October 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Catholic archdiocese of St. Boniface, Manitoba is advertising on their website a fundraising event for one of the world’s most prominent anti-Catholic abortion and condom campaigners. St. Boniface archdiocese is carrying an advert for the “Friends of Uganda, Stephen Lewis Fundraising Dinner,” to be held at the Winnipeg Convention Centre on Saturday, October 25. Stephen Lewis, one of the world’s most vigorous campaigners for abortion and the use of condoms to stop the AIDS virus, will be speaking at the $100 per-person gala evening. The purpose of the event […]

By Kathleen Gilbert PORTLAND, Oregon, October 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied a father’s appeal to keep his six frozen embryos alive, and ordered that the embryos be destroyed by thawing, as ordered by his ex-wife.  The court also ruled that the embryos’ fate fell under the issue of “property rights.” The court unanimously agreed that the father, orthodontist Dr. Darrell Angle, had no right to “impose a genetic parental relationship” on his ex-wife, pediatrician Dr. Laura Dahl, who did not wish to be considered the mother of the preborn children in the event that […]

By Tim Waggoner WASHINGTON, October 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an exclusive LifeSiteNews.com interview, Erin Bethea, co-star of the recently released pro-marriage film “Fireproof,” addressed the role the film has played in her life and the challenge actors and actresses face in striving for success without sacrificing morals and issued advice to young people on how to stand up for what they believe in. When asked about her current “faith walk”, Bethea revealed how “Fireproof” had strengthened her call to carry out God’s will in the media industry. “It was a reaffirmation of what I feel like I am called to […]

By Hilary White LONDON, October 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life groups in the UK are preparing for a final push against the Labour government’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill, which is set to return to the House of Commons for a vote October 22nd. What the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has described as “radical pro-abortion amendments” will be voted on on that day; the bill as a whole is scheduled to come to a vote later in the day. John Smeaton, Director of SPUC, said today, “We are immensely grateful for these efforts. We need, however, […]

 By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BRAMPTON, Ontario, October 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Liberal Leader Stephane Dion is scheduled to appear at a rally at Brampton’s St. Edmund Campion Catholic Secondary School this evening between 6:30 and 8 p.m. Though being billed as “an evening celebrating Canada’s multicultural heritage,” the appropriateness of a Catholic school hosting an openly pro-abortion politician, particularly one so well known as a party leader, is being called into question. In the US, the Catholic Bishops Conference has issued a statement (https://www.usccb.org/bishops/catholicsinpoliticallife.shtml) titled “Catholics in Political Life,” which gives clear direction on the issue of Catholic institutions providing […]

October 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Host desecration videos originally pulled from YouTube have been reposted. The 40 separate desecration videos – originally posted in mid-August – showed the Host being flushed down a toilet, stomped on and fed to ducks. In response to a petition spearheaded by America Needs Fatima, the desecration videos were pulled from YouTube on October 1, but were then reposted the same day. Robert Ritchie, director of America Needs Fatima, explained: “As Catholics, we believe the Host is the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ. Witnessing the desecration of the Host causes anguish to Catholics […]

By John Jalsevac   October 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In spite of the outcry of thousands of Canadians, the Governor General presented Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s “father of abortion,” with the official Order of Canada snowflake medal this morning in a ceremony at the Citadel of Quebec in Quebec City. He was scheduled to receive the award along with 20 other recipients. A statement released by Rideau Hall, the office of the Governor General, on Thursday commended Morgentaler for increasing “health care options for Canadian women,” and for “influencing public policy nationwide.” No mention was made of abortion in the release, despite the fact that […]

October 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The following is the complete statement by Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins on the awarding of the Order of Canada to Henry Morgentaler, set to take place in Quebec City today: “Tomorrow (Today), our Governor General will preside at a ceremony in which Henry Morgentaler will formally be received into the Order of Canada. This is a sad moment in Canadian history. “The Order of Canada was created to recognize the outstanding achievements of citizens who have desired and helped to create a better country. Is a country made better when those who are most vulnerable […]

By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.        NEW YORK October 9, 2008 (C-FAM) – A recently released document from the United Nation’s (UN) top health and human rights agencies promotes a litigious approach to enforcing controversial new rights through a broad “right to health.” The document re-interprets existing human rights treaties to assert that states are already obligated to provide rights such as “sexual and reproductive health services” for adolescent girls, rights for “intersex” children, non-discrimination on the basis of “sexual orientation.” The document claims that in order to realize these rights nations should change national laws, restrict businesses, limit intellectual property […]

By Samantha Singson          NEW YORK October 9, 2008 (C-FAM) – A month after the campaign was first reported in the Friday Fax, pro-abortion group Marie Stopes International has removed the ticker keeping track of names for their web-campaign calling for “Global Safe Abortion.”   The Friday Fax reported last month that after a year of campaigning the Marie Stopes abortion petition had garnered fewer than 600 signers. A month later, a count of campaign signatures reveals that only 50 more people have added their signatures to the Marie Stopes petition.   Conversely, a pro-life initiative that began less than […]

By Hilary White LONDON, October 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The largest UK teachers’ union wants the government to decriminalise sex with students who are over the legal age of consent. Chris Keates, the general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), said that teachers who have sex with pupils over the age of consent should not be placed on the sex offenders register. Keates called prosecution for statutory rape “a real anomaly in the law that we are concerned about.” NASUWT complained that media reports had misrepresented their position. “To describe the NASUWT’s comments on […]

By Hilary White October 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations has issued a stern warning to the UK on “homophobic bullying.” The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), meeting this week, said that “children belonging to minority groups, continue to experience discrimination and social stigmatisation.” Among these “minority groups” were included children who are “lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender.” To avoid “discrimination and social stigmatisation” against these groups, the CRC said that the UK’s government must “take all necessary measures to ensure that cases of discrimination against children in all sectors of society are addressed effectively, including […]

 By Hilary White BRUSSELS/LONDON, October 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activists within the European Parliament have this week tabled a declaration demanding that all member states recognise the same-sex “marriages” and civil partnerships of all other member states.  The declaration was tabled today by British Liberal Democrat party Member of European Parliament (MEP) Sharon Bowles. It instructs, “Member States with existing same-sex partnership legislation to recognise the arrangements of other Member States that have also made provisions for same-sex partnerships,” and for “guidelines for such mutual recognition by Member States with existing same-sex partnership legislation.” The declaration was tabled days […]

By Kathleen Gilbert PHOENIX, AZ, October 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix has published the second edition of his “Catholics in the Public Square,” a booklet available nationwide outlining the privilege and duty of Catholics to engage the social and political sphere in light of their Catholic faith. The booklet, part of the Shepherd’s Voice series and published by Basilica Press, was originally written in 2006.  Parishes througout the diocese of Phoenix will receive over 100,000 copies of the booklet, including 7,500 Spanish copies. In the booklet, Bishop Olmsted helps lay Catholics recognize their unique call to […]

By Jonquil Frankham October 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Charges filed by Ottawa’s First Place Pregnancy Center against Planned Parenthood Ottawa (PPO) have been dropped following a settlement out of court on September 16, 2008. The joint settlement between the two organizations states, “First Place, a respected community organization, and PPO have resolved the litigation concerning the SENSational Tree Raffle in 2007 and agree to focus their resources on serving the public in accordance with their respective missions.” The case was initiated on May 20, 2008, when First Place pressed charges with the Ontario Supreme Court of Justice against Planned Parenthood […]

By Kathleen Gilbert ROCKFORD, IL, October 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leaders of Heartland Christian Church have issued a letter of apology to Rockford Life Chain after a Heartland employee demanded Life Chain participants to leave the church’s vicinity, saying that the church “does not support your message.” “The leadership of Heartland Community apologizes to the Rockford Life Chain and the participants of last weekend’s Lifechain event,” states the letter.  “We offer our apology to those who were offended by our actions and ask their forgiveness. “We have no disagreement with Lifechain on the sanctity of human life,” said the […]

By Kathleen Gilbert DUBLIN, Ireland, October 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a series of court battles, ending in the Supreme Court of Ireland, an Irish woman has been denied the right to have her own frozen embryos implanted in her womb because the law does not consider the embryos children, reports Ireland’s RTE News. In Roche v. Roche, a woman sued her now-estranged husband for refusing to let her use their embryos; the man said he does not want to father any more children. The woman argued that the protection offered in the Irish Constitution to the unborn child included […]

By Hilary White BELFAST, October 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Attempts by Westminster to force legalised abortion onto the province of Northern Ireland could spark a constitutional crisis, say MLAs. Assembly Member, Pat Ramsey (SDLP), called it “outrageous that British MPs are attempting to impose abortion against the clear wishes of the people of Northern Ireland.” Such a move “could collapse the entire Assembly,” he told the Irish Catholic newspaper. “I don’t think there’d be much point in having an assembly where all the parties are opposed to abortion, but the British Government imposes it anyway.” Jeffrey Donaldson (DUP) agreed, saying that […]

By Kathleen Gilbert October 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 21st annual Life Chain drew hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers onto the streets this past Sunday. Motorists in over 1,600 locations in America and Canada witnessed protesters peacefully holding signs decrying the brutality of abortion. “On the whole, the Life Chain was a great success,” said Suresh Dominic of Canada’s Campaign Life Coalition about the 2008 campaign.  This year’s Life Chain saw the most participants and locations since the campaign began in 1987.  Over 1,400 cities officially joined Life Chain, many with several locations. Participants in the Life Chain spread themselves […]

By John Jalsevac October 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the Conservatives continue to fall in the polls, party leader Stephen Harper has again extended the olive branch to social liberals, announcing his intention to abandon Conservative plans to cut tax credits for films deemed to be offensive or not in the public’s best interest. Bill C-10, an act to amend the Income Tax Act, currently includes a controversial clause that would allow the Canadian Heritage Minister to deny tax credits to extremely offensive films. But in his recently unveiled re-election platform Harper said that, despite the fact that “these proposals […]

By John-Henry Westen   QUEBEC CITY, October 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com has learned that abortionist Henry Morgentaler will be awarded the Order of Canada on Friday at 10am in Quebec City.  Official announcement is planned only for Thursday late afternoon.   LifeSiteNews.com broke the story on Morgentaler’s nomination to the Order of Canada two days prior to the official proclamation, launching a media frenzy.  The news service has since published over 70 news articles on the subject.   Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) the political arm of the pro-life movement has led the public outcry against the nomination with a […]

Dear readers, At the International Pro-Life Conference over the weekend, the leaders of the pro-life movement in Poland brought with them a traditional Polish knight’s shield which they awarded to Campaign Life Coalition President and International Right to Life Vice-President Jim Hughes who celebrated thirty years of service to the pro-life movement yesterday.    Retired Canadian Liberal politician Pat O’Brien also spoke congratulating Hughes. “I would like to acknowledge the leadership of Jim Hughes in the pro-life movement for many years,” said O’Brien.  He noted that while many have left active struggle with few successes, Hughes “remained faithful and continued […]

By Hilary White LONDON, October 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the latest installment of a long saga, the Catholic hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth and Cormac Cardinal Murphy O’Connor are under fire for having reportedly agreed on a code of ethics that does not exclude abortion referrals or contraceptive prescriptions.  The hospital, known popularly as “John and Lizzie’s,” is fashionable with celebrities and is situated in a posh leafy suburb of London. Over the last two years, the hospital and the Westminster archdiocese has been locked in a struggle over the former’s ethics code. Last week, the hospital […]

By Hilary White LONDON, October 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The rector of two traditionalist Church of England parishes in London posted a note to his blog the other day in which he joked that active homosexuals should have a health warning tattooed onto their backsides. He suggested the slogan, “Sodomy can seriously damage your health.” The response to his satirical recommendation has been howls of outrage from homosexualist groups and demands for his resignation. Rev. Peter Mullen, rector of St. Michael’s, Cornhill, and St. Sepulchre in London’s financial district, wrote, “In addition the obscene ‘gay pride’ parades and carnivals should […]

"A Conservative Government will not initiate or support any legislation to regulate abortion."

By Kathleen Gilbert LEXINGTON, MA, October 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After mounting a ferocious battle to preserve traditional marriage values, David Parker could only watch helplessly as the United States Supreme Court left intact a lower court ruling that allowed Massachusetts schools to promote homosexuality in the classroom without telling parents or allowing them to opt out. “The Federal Supreme court of the United States has tragically decided to deny our case from moving forward,” said Parker in a statement following the Supreme Court rejection.  “We have exhausted all our legal options in the Federal system for the protection of young children in […]

Editorial by John-Henry Westen  Editor-in-Chief LifeSiteNews.com  OTTAWA, October 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper went on a verbal rampage against the right to life of unborn children last week, promising not only that a Conservative government would not open the abortion issue, but that it would prevent anyone else from raising it.     Asked by a reporter if Harper could give assurances to pro-abortion groups, who are accusing the Conservatives of engineering a stealth pro-life campaign, Harper said that he could.  “The answer is yes.  This government will not open, will not permit anyone to open the […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, October 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, in an interview with Zenit, addressed the challenges faced by religious voters who wish to bring their beliefs to bear during Canada’s election. The Archbishop spoke about the issues he believes are most relevant to voters, the foremost being the right to life. He referred especially to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ election study guide which gives four main points for consideration for voters, in descending order of importance: 1) The right to life as the foundational principle grounding all others;   2) Giving priority […]

Commentary by Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition   OLYMPIA, October 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – People in Washington State need to be aware that if the I-1000 assisted suicide Initiative is passed, people who experience depression will not be protected under “Oregon Style” guidelines.   The recently published study by Ganzini et al. proves that 26% of people in Oregon who requested assisted suicide were experiencing depressive disorders. Even though many of those people were incompetent or unable to “freely choose” assisted suicide, they were nevertheless given a prescription for lethal drugs and died by ingesting those drugs.   The […]

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Editor’s Note: The following are excerpts from Michael O’Brien’s full essay which is available on LifeSiteNews.com here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/oct/08100805.html   OTTAWA, October 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Much of current fashion, especially for women, is an assault upon the ultimate good of those who wear such clothing. It is cunningly designed for attraction, enticement, and seduction, reinforcing the great lie which dominates modern consciousness. This lie tells us that the body is simply an object which we possess as our own, to do with as we like.  “Semi-nudity has become commonplace on magazine covers, advertisements, at swimming pools and beaches. Total nudity is […]

Many Catholics will finally realize, and admit to, the power of the political left in their Church

 By Tony Gosgnach   TORONTO, October 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Veteran pro-life demonstrator Linda Gibbons was again arrested by Toronto Police around 11 a.m. this morning outside the Scott “Clinic” abortion site on Gerrard Street East, which is covered by an unprecedented 14-year-old “temporary” court injunction banning pro-life activity within a 20-metre zone around it. The diminutive grandmother has spent about five of the past 14 years in prison in connection with peaceful and prayerful demonstrations outside Toronto abortuaries. On this latest occasion, she was accosted by four uniformed police officers and a sheriff’s officer who arrived in two marked vehicles […]

By Michael O’Brien “Grace never casts nature aside or cancels it out. Rather it perfects it and ennobles it.” – John Paul II, On the Dignity and Vocation of Women October 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – I’ve been pondering recently, as I have so many times over the years, what Our Lady meant precisely in the messages of Fatima when she spoke about the offences through the clothing fashions that would develop in the years following the apparitions. Appearing to Blessed Jacinta Marto between December, 1919 and February, 1920, she said, “Certain fashions will be introduced that will offend Our Lord […]

* 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.   Dr. Dobson: ‘This Election is About the Future of the Nation’  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000008357.cfm   California: 52% back a proposal to require that a teenage girl’s parents be notified before she obtains an abortion  https://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=5e90d7ac-9340-45f1-b1cb-5a12607dd09e   China denies Bishops trip to Rome: Vatican  https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/China_denies_bishops_trip_to_Rome/articleshow/3557120.cms   Mosul, the relentless slaughter of Iraqi Christians  https://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=13397&size=A   Cardinal Lozano: Yes to scientific advances but not at the cost of human dignity  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13986   ‘Bride’ and […]

WASHINGTON, DC, October 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A chance encounter on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building brought together the United States’ pro-life community and one of the leading figures in China’s human rights movement.  Li Fangping, the Chinese attorney famous for his defense of human life, and a group of 12 Chinese human rights activists were visiting Washington, D.C. They chanced upon American Life League’s Pro-Life Memorial Day vigil on the steps of the Supreme Court building Oct. 6 while touring the city.  As the Chinese visitors stood listening to speeches from the nation’s leading pro-life activists, […]

* 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.   Sin – the root of America’s economic problems – Bailout contains an “outrageous” amount of pork and raises the federal debt limit to $11.3 trillion.  https://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=275010   Pope: financial crisis shows futility of money  https://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hNV-TZsR2t6J_r62x1iWaWT-2iaAD93KUD7O2   No Morality, No Markets – thousands of Main Street borrowers lied about their income, assets, and liabilities when applying for subprime loans.  Likewise, many lenders failed to do even the most rudimentary checks on […]

* 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. Newsweek: Palin Too Common, Too Stupid to be VP, She’s ‘Dangerous’  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/10/06/newsweek-palin-too-common-too-stupid-be-vice-president-shes-dang Crackpot Bardot and Bad Role Model Madonna Hate Palin   https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/10/crackpot-bardot-and-bad-role-model.html Biden Tells 14 Lies During VP Debate  https://townhall.com/columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2008/10/03/biden_tells_14_lies_during_vp_debate Palin Comes Out Swinging and keeps hope alive for McCain by Fred Barnes   https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/659yzjhq.asp A Plausible Vice President – Sarah Palin did more than merely survive the debate by Stephen F. Hayes   https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/642oflyc.asp Palin: A Modern Day Esther  […]

* 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. LIFE ISSUES   Washington Medical Association Brochure Against I-1000 and Assisted Suicide   https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/09/washington-medical-association-brochure.html   Angel of Death and her Supervisor – Two nurses were indicted in April for causing the death of five patients at the McHenry County Nursing Home in 2006 in Woodstock Illinois.  https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2008/09/angel-of-death-and-her-supervisor.html   Asian abortion practices common in U.S.  https://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=270748   Open letter asks King of Spain not to sign decree allowing aborted babies to be […]

Defends "right and obligation" of Church to speak out on political issues

By Hilary White LONDON, October 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ruth Kelly, formerly Gordon Brown’s Secretary of State for Transport, in an exclusive interview with the Times newspaper this week denied that she stepped down from the Cabinet because of what she said was her opposition to the government’s plans over embryonic stem cell research. She reiterated that the real reason was to spend more time with her family. The Labour government has been heavily criticised by Catholic Church leaders and pro-life advocates over its proposed Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) bill that allows the creation of human/animal hybrid clones and the […]

By John-Henry Westen    CORNWALL, ON, October 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some of Canada’s most outspokenly pro-life bishops are urging the Bishops of Canada to attend the March for Life en masse with representatives from each diocese.  The 2009 March for Life, to be held on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 14, will mark 40 years since the omnibus bill of Pierre Trudeau which opened the floodgates to abortion in Canada.  A Catholic Register report from Deborah Gyapong of Canadian Catholic News detailed the discussion among bishops at the meeting of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (CCCB) annual […]

 WASHINGTON, October 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Obama campaign and its allies have adopted an extensive “messaging strategy” that seeks to persuade religiously committed Americans that Obama has a middle-of- the-road position on abortion policy and will promote “abortion reduction.”  Douglas Johnson, longtime legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) and author of an article published today on National Review Online, titled “Unholy Messaging,” calls the Obama effort “a brazen scam.” “The scam depends on the Obama campaign, with cooperation from the mainstream news media, deflecting attention away from Obama’s actual record, and from his extensive commitments to […]

By Hilary White LANCASTER, UK, October 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic adoption agency in northwest England will face possible eviction from diocesan properties if its trustees do not reconsider a decision to comply with government demands to place children with homosexual partners. Bishop Patrick O’Donohue, head of the diocese of Lancaster, has warned Catholic Caring Services that it may not be as easy as they think to secularise their activities. In a second vote, the trustees of Catholic Caring Services approved an “open policy” under which it will accept homosexual and lesbian partnerships for consideration. Bishop O’Donohue wrote in […]

 By Kathleen Gilbert ROCKFORD, IL, October 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a sad irony, the huge stretch of over 500 Rockland, IL pro-lifers participating in the annual LifeChain met the fiercest opposition, not from the infamous Rockland abortion mill nearby, but from the area’s largest Christian church.  The Heartland Community Church of Rockland attempted to prevent the participants in this year’s LifeChain from spending one hour of anti-abortion protest near its property.  Part of the LifeChain extended past the new Heartland church, which recently bought a facility in close proximity to LifeChain’s usual position on Alpine Road. Lifechain had spread […]

As governor Whitman vetoed a partial-birth abortion ban; her veto was later overturned by the legislature

By Tim Waggoner OTTAWA, October 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In light of the upcoming Canadian federal election, Natale Gallo, the President of the Canadian Association of Knights of Columbus, and Yvon Robert, the State Deputy for Ontario, have sent a letter to the 230,000 members of the KofC affirming the need to cast a vote that will “build a Culture of Life.” After addressing the moral obligation of citizens to promote the common good by means of their right to vote, Gallo and Robert said that the most important piece of information to know about a political candidate is “where […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WASHINGTON, DC, October 7, 2008 (LifeSIteNews.com) – The U.S. Senate passed a bill Saturday that extends funding for Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) through September 2009, reports citizenlink.com. Ashley Horne, federal policy analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said this is good news for U.S. students. “We are pleased that the abstinence-until-marriage funding remains in place through next September, but we understand that the work to keep the funding in place will continue with a new Congress,” she said. The development and implementation of CBAE programs to encourage teens to remain chaste has been singularly successful […]

 By Kathleen Gilbert October 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court has left in place a January Appeals Court ruling allowing Arizona Life Coalition’s “Choose Life” license plates to be made available in the state.  The pro-life coalition sued the state of Arizona after the Arizona License Plates Commission rejected an application by the group to have the license plates approved. Although a district court judge originally ruled in favor of the state, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later ruled that the state license plate commission violated the group’s free speech rights by rejecting its application. With the […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski SAN DIEGO, October 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The suit filed against the city of San Diego by four firefighters who were commanded against their wills to drive a fire truck in the city’s “gay pride” parade has ended in a deadlock among the jurors; a mistrial has been declared. Charles LiMandri, West Coast director of the Thomas More Law Center and attorney representing the firefighters, called the mistrial “extremely frustrating” and is awaiting a new trial scheduled for January 16, according to a San Jose Mercury News report. The firefighters were ordered to ride in the […]

By Kathleen Gilbert STEUBENVILLE, OH, October 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canon legal scholar Dr. Nicholas Cafardi resigned yesterday from Franciscan University of Steubenville’s board of trustees, after publicly supporting pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Franciscan University sent Lifesitenews.com an updated statement acknowledging the resignation, stating, “University President Father Terence Henry, TOR, accepted his resignation on behalf of the Board of Trustees, expressing his gratitude for the many ways Dr. Cafardi has assisted and advised Franciscan University over the years.” Last week Dr. Cafardi, a “staunchly anti-abortion” professor at Duquesne University, published his reasons for endorsing Barack Obama, whom some […]

Commentary by John Jalsevac October 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The polls and the pundits are agreed that Joe Biden won Thursday’s vice-presidential debate. And yet, a political debate is not to be judged like any other: for in the end the winner is determined, not by a panel of experts who base their judgments on a set of weighted criteria, but by the audience, and well after the fact, at the ballot box. The real question, then, is not whether Palin beat Biden, but whether Palin gave Americans enough of a reason to vote for McCain over Obama.   Apply conventional debate standards […]

* 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. THE VIDEO THAT COULD COST OBAMA THE ELECTION YouTube video of Barack Obama in Kenya supporting Marxist associated Raila Odinga, the election and violence afterwards. THE KENYA CONNECTION – BARACK OBAMA KENYA REPORTEDLY DEPORTS AMERICAN AUTHOR OF ANTI-OBAMA BOOK THE AUDACITY OF OBAMA PLANTING SEEDS OF DISASTER – ACORN, BARACK OBAMA, AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY By Stanley Kurtz, National Review Obama supported ACORN. And ACORN, far more than we’ve recognized up […]

By Hilary White SAN FRANCISCO, October 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco has announced it will be cutting ties with the adoption agency, Family Builders by Adoption, which focuses on placing children with homosexuals.  Jill Jacobs, executive director of Family Builders by Adoption, told Our Sunday Visitor, “The funding from Catholic Charities is ending this [budget] year.” Catholic Charities provides two staff members to the organization, at an annual cost of US $250,000. Family Builders by Adoption advertises itself as “the gayest adoption agency in the country,” that is committed by contract to “increasing […]

Abortion has no place in African cultures and traditions

   CHARLOTTE, N.C., October 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For more than 60 years, evangelist Billy Graham has preached the good news of God’s love in-person to nearly 215 million people at hundreds of events and countless millions more via television and radio. Graham is a hero to pro-life advocates for his life-long staunch opposition to abortion. Now, all of the individuals, churches and ministries he has impacted have a unique opportunity to say something in return. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) announced today it is collecting stories and birthday wishes for the evangelist, who turns 90 on November 7, […]

By Kathleen Gilbert PITTSBURGH, October 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Franciscan University has emphatically disowned the views of Dr. Nicholas Cafardi, a prominent, avowedly pro-life Catholic legal scholar and Franciscan University of Steubenville trustee who recently justified supporting Obama saying, “We have lost the abortion battle.” According to Cafardi, the next president of the United States would “not be able to affect abortion very much.”  Cafardi, a law professor and the former dean of the Duquesne University Law School, is considered an expert on canon law, has spent thirteen years as the general counsel for the Diocese of Pittsburgh, and three years […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VATICAN, October 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI expressed his thanks and appreciation to the Board of Directors of the Knights of Columbus, on the occasion of their recent pilgrimage to Rome, for their tireless efforts in promoting the culture of life. “I express my appreciation of your efforts to provide a solid formation in the faith for young people, and to defend the moral truths necessary for a free and humane society, including the fundamental right to life of every human being,” said the Holy Father. Pro-life initiatives launched by the Knights of Columbus […]

WASHINGTON, October 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 16th International Week of Prayer and Fasting (October 5-13, 2008) featuring Immaculee Ilibagiza, Rwandan genocide survivor, Congressman Chris Smith, Sister Briege McKenna, Fr. Frank Pavone and others, aims to build up the Culture of Life through prayer and fasting centered around a conference in Washington D.C. The International Week of Prayer and Fasting Coalition said in a press release that they have gained huge momentum due to the current financial crisis and the election. Coalition Chairperson Maureen Flynn says he believes the mission of organizing prayers for world peace, life issues, economic stability […]

Liberals seek to legalize abortion throughout country; conservatives propose stronger pro-life legislation

By Austin Ruse WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 2008 (C-FAM) – The platforms of the two major American parties show a stark difference in how each presidential candidate would approach United Nations (UN) issues. The Republican platform explicitly rejects various UN treaties while the Democratic platform makes clear its support for the agenda of wider access to abortion and a strengthening of the UN system of enforcing abortion rights. The Republican platform rejects by name two UN treaties that have been used by UN Committees, UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to promote abortion—the UN Convention on the Elimination of All […]

By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, NY, October 6, 2008 (C-FAM) – According to news reports, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has issued a new directive requiring several African countries to stop providing United States-funded contraceptives to Marie Stopes International (MSI), one of the world’s leading abortion providers. USAID decided to take action and pull support for MSI in Africa because of the organization’s collaboration with China’s draconian population program. Under US law, any organization that “supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization” is prohibited from receiving American foreign aid.  […]

 By Hilary White KANSAS CITY, Missouri, October 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City, Mo. has issued a pastoral warning to his flock that the proposed Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) would “immediately make null and void every current restriction on abortion in all jurisdictions.” The federal legislation, introduced in April 2007, would, the bishop warns, “unleash – on a national level – a complete and unrestricted access to abortion.” A leading US pro-abortion organisation agrees with the bishop’s assessment. The National Organization of Women (NOW) said that FOCA “would sweep away hundreds of anti-abortion laws, policies.” […]

By Kathleen Gilbert CALGARY, Alberta, October 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – St. Mary’s University College in Calgary, a Catholic institution, has invited Heather Mallick, a virulently pro-abortion and anti-Catholic author and columnist to address students as part of their 2008-09 speaker series. Ms. Mallick is scheduled to deliver her talk, “A Liberal Arts Education: Worth Its Weight in Gold” to St. Mary’s students on January 22, 2009. Mallick, a well-established feminist column writer, has an undisguised antipathy toward Catholic teaching and morals, particularly concerning abortion and sexuality. In an article published last year on CBC News, Mallick railed against the Vatican’s […]

By Kathleen Gilbert ALBANY, New York, October 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The bishops of New York State have issued a document calling upon Catholics to “exercise our cherished right and our solemn duty as Americans and as Catholics” to vote to support pro-life and pro-family values. “We Catholics are called to look at politics as we are called to look at everything – through the lens of our faith,” wrote the bishops on Wednesday.  “We should be guided in evaluating the important issues facing our state and nation by the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the teachings of His Church.” […]

By Hilary White MALMO, Sweden, October 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 34 year-old man in southern Sweden, who had been convicted of rape and child pornography charges after he filmed himself having sex with a 14 year-old girl, has been awarded 157,000 kronor, the equivalent of Cn $24,170, in compensation for wrongful conviction. The Local, an English language newspaper from Sweden, reports that the man, who was not named, was convicted by a district court but had the conviction of rape overturned on appeal. The Swedish age for sexual consent is 15 and the man claimed not to have been […]

 By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, October 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The reports and stories from Ground Zero (in front of the Morgentaler abortuary, 65 Bank Street) of the Ottawa branch of the largest pro-life mobilization in history, 40 Days For Life, keep pouring in. 40 Days for Life Ottawa is maintaining a daily blog detailing its efforts, including its ongoing vigil outside the Morgentaler abortion mill (https://40daysottawa.blogspot.com/). Yesterday several individuals spoke of the deep symbolism they saw and felt watching a workman at the mundane task of washing the exterior walls of the building which houses the abortion mill. “He […]

 By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, October 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a September 29 letter sent to Campaign Life Coalition National President Jim Hughes, the Liberal Party of Canada has affirmed that the Party “opposes reopening of the debate concerning a woman’s right to choose.”  The letter, signed by Party President Doug Ferguson, adds, “The Liberal Party of Canada will not support any legislation that undermines a woman’s right to choose or that threaten a woman’s ability to access safe abortion services in Canada.” On euthanasia and assisted suicide the Party says it recognizes that they “are illegal in Canada.”  The […]

By Kathleen Gilbert PHILADELPHIA, October 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In preparation for Respect Life Sunday, Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia issued a statement Tuesday in which he praised the successes of the culture of life in America, but strongly warned that the proposed Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) threatens to “obliterate virtually all the gains of the past 35 years.” Cardinal Rigali, Chairman of the United States Committee of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, said that during Respect Life Month this October the Church will sponsor pro-life initiatives that are “integral to the Church’s ongoing effort to help […]

NEW YORK, NY, October 2, 2008 (CNSweb) – Less than two weeks after The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS) broke the story that pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is the intended recipient of the Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize, Fordham University students are working feverishly to collect signatures petitioning President Rev. Joseph McShane, S.J. to rescind the honor. The Fordham Respect for Life club penned an open letter to Father McShane, and is now asking the general public to join them in their petition. At the request of Respect for Life, an electronic petition (https://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/OpenLettertoFatherMcShane/tabid/392/Default.aspx) has been added to The Cardinal Newman […]

SPRING GROVE, Penn., October 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, responding to a worldwide protest from Catholics, the internet video sharing site YouTube removed 40 videos showing desecrations of the Holy Eucharist from its site. The account of the author was also suspended. A video removal petition was circulated by the Catholic group America Needs Fatima and 18,201 people signed it in only seven days. For over a month, an individual from Canada had posted 40 videos showing the Holy Eucharist being stepped on, burned, stapled, smoked and nailed to a stick – even flushed down the toilet. The videos shocked […]

By John Jalsevac September 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Judicial Council (CJC) last week dismissed a complaint filed against Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin for her role in nominating arch-abortionist Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada. The complaint, filed by the Canadian Family Action Coalition (CFAC) on behalf of 42 groups, which CFAC claims have an estimated combined membership of over 1 million, alleged judicial misconduct on the part of McLachlin. According to the Order of Canada Constitution, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court serves as the chair of the Order’s Advisory Committee, which makes the […]

TORONTO, October 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s disturbing statements to the media that he will undemocratically not permit anyone to reopen the debate on abortion are a stark betrayal of conservative principles and should prompt his electoral defeat in Calgary Southwest in the coming federal election, says the editor of Canada’s national Catholic magazine of news, analysis and opinion. In addition, Father Alphonse de Valk, editor of Catholic Insight magazine, is calling for the removal of Harper as Conservative party leader. “For Mr. Harper to state that he would not personally support a law limiting abortion is […]

"In 1967, Trudeau asserted that as far as he was concerned, god had nothing to do with secular affairs"

By Hilary White   TORONTO, October 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s homosexual newspaper X-Tra and its affiliates have published a 16-page insert listing the candidates running in the October 14th election who are regarded as activists in the homosexualist political cause.   An Ottawa event organized this week by homosexualist activists, was noted for its absence of a candidate for the Conservative party. Tim Shufelt, writing in the Ottawa Citizen, said that with no Conservative present, the positions of the candidates from the other mainstream parties, “differed by mere degrees of agreement”. Represented at the debate, sponsored by Capital X-Tra and […]

By Hilary White WASHINGTON, October 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Barack Obama’s campaign has produced a radio ad claiming that John McCain and Sarah Palin are opposed to embryonic stem cell research, a claim that the non-partisan factcheck.org says is false. “John McCain’s out of touch with women today,” says the ad’s narrator. “McCain wants to take away our right to choose. That’s what women need to understand. That’s how high the stakes are.” “Stem cell research could unlock cures for diabetes, cancer and Alzheimer’s, too. But John McCain has stood in the way. … He’s opposed stem cell research,” the […]

By Kathleen Gilbert NEW ORLEANS, October 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Representative John LaBruzzo (R – Metairie) recently proposed fixing the welfare problem in New Orleans by offering poor women $1000 to be sterilized, a suggestion that New Orleans Archbishop Alfred Hughes has condemned as “blatantly anti-life” and eugenic in nature. Louisiana Rep. LaBruzzo proposed the plan last week, which may also include vasectomies for poor men as well as a tax incentive for richer, better-educated citizens to have more children.  LaBruzzo aims to steer the demographic away from welfare recipients, who he claims are reproducing too fast, saying, “We’re on […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WINDSOR, Ontario, October 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The people of St. Aidan’s Anglican parish in Windsor have voted to break away from the local diocese and join the Anglican Network in Canada (ANIC), which is part of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone that oversees churches in most of South America. St. Aidan’s is the seventh Anglican church in Ontario, and the eleventh nationally, to secede from the Anglican Church of Canada over doctrinal issues focused on acceptance of homosexuality. Members of the parish said they wanted to return to a more orthodox and traditional […]

By Kathleen Gilbert PORTLAND, October 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Portland Archbishop John Vlazny has criticized Democratic Gov. Ted Kulongoski of Oregon for bringing scandal to fellow Catholics by hosting an abortion rights fundraiser only two days before Portland’s annual “Respect Life” Mass.  Kulongoski and his wife, both professed Catholics, are the honorary hosts of a two-day fundraiser for NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon. “This is a source of embarrassment for our church and a scandal for the Catholic community,” Vlazny said in a statement. “For a Catholic governor to host an event of this sort seems a deliberate dissent from the teachings […]

By Anita Crane Los Angeles, October 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Saturday, September 27, the Mexican superstar of Latin America, Eduardo Verastegui, and several of his friends joined the 40 Days for Life prayer campaign outside Family Planning Associates, an abortion business at 601 S. Westmoreland Avenue. He went there for two reasons: to help mothers and their unborn children, and warn people about the number-one abortion celebrity, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). Verastegui is cofounder of L.A.-based Metanoia Films and lead actor in the company’s first feature film, Bella (https://www.amazon.com/Bella-Eduardo-Ver%C3%A1stegui/dp/B0014BQR6U), which premiered in American movie theaters last October. Until November 2, […]

TORONTO, ON, October 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday Interim Publishing released the e-version of its book on Canada’s human rights commission, Tyranny of Nice: How Canada Crushes Freedom in the Name of Human Rights (and why it matters to Americans) by Kathy Shaidle and Pete Vere. Internationally renowned columnist and author Mark Steyn writes the introduction. The book exposes how when it comes to the human rights commissions the “process is the punishment,” provides a thorough account of the two major cases from the past year that have made human rights commissions a hot topic and examines some the less […]

By John Jalsevac October 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a wide-ranging interview with CBS’ Katie Couric, Gov. Sarah Palin responded to a series of tough questions on a variety of controversial topics, including abortion, homosexuality, global warming, evolution and contraception. Throughout the interview Palin largely stood by her strong pro-life convictions, although a distinct shift in tactic was notable, particularly in her repeated efforts to find “common ground” by suggesting that her primary goal is simply to ensure there are “fewer abortions” – a line frequently used by both Democrats and Republicans seeking to garner bipartisan appeal. At one point, however, Palin said that she would counsel […]

Christians said to represent "the sleeping giant of Canadian politics"

WICHITA, Kansas, October 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A life-threatening abortion complication landed a patient of late-term abortionist George R. Tiller in the hospital last Thursday. The woman has come forward to tell of her harrowing, near-death experience at Tiller’s Women’s Health Care Services (WHCS).   Patient S. has alleged that on Tuesday, September 23, abortionist Shelley Sella may have botched an injection into her abdomen, causing sepsis, a systemic infection that rapidly spreads throughout the body and can cause rapid death. She also accuses Sella of misdiagnosing her pregnancy at 19 weeks, even though previous medical examinations placed her pregnancy […]

250,000 women/year left infertile from abortion complications

WASHINGTON, DC, October 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – National Life Chain Sunday 2008, is a peaceful public prayer witness to be held October 5 in over 1375 U.S. and Canadian cities and towns (that provide over 1600 Life Chain locations due to multiple Chains in the larger cities). Serious prolifers will line local sidewalks to seek God’s forgiveness and intervention, while holding signs that read Abortion Kills Children; Adoption: The Loving Option; Abortion Hurts Women; and Jesus Forgives and Heals.    For the Life Chain hour and location see:  https://www.LifeChain.net For Ontario LifeChains see:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/events/lifechain/2008/

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