Articles for Month: October 2008

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 […]

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 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 […]

Bishop immediately condemns statement

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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