Articles for Month: October 2008

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 […]