Commentary on June 30 LifeSiteNews – D&P issue a big one, Obama out of the closet on homosexual issu

Dear Readers, The first June 30 report is an unusually lengthy one. If the subject of the Canadian Bishops' Conference report on Development and Peace and the report's rebuke of LSN is not of interest to you, then please skip to the other stories. For those who are interested, after reading the CCCB report you will likely agree that our detailed response is necessary. President Obama has come fully out of the closet on the homosexual issue. Some starry eyed social conservative Obama supporters thought the abortion president had begun to listen to the concerns of the people on the […]
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Letters to the Editor – Readers Respond to Development and Peace Scandal

Re: Development and Peace, Archbishop Weisgerber statements and Conference of Catholic Bishops Report Dear Sir, Thank you for your excellent investigation of the issues surrounding D&P and the funding of groups around the world.   Despite how uncomfortable it may be for some in Episcopal authority to hear it, you are doing no more than your duty according to canon law, which instructs the faithful as follows:   Can 212 §3 They have the right, indeed at times the duty, in keeping with their knowledge, competence and position, to manifest to the sacred Pastors their views on matters which concern the […]
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New Documentary Exposes Link Between Failing Global Economy and Demographic Winter

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A newly released documentary claims that the current global economic crisis is in part symptomatic of a global population crisis that the documentarians call a “demographic winter.” SRB Documentaries has announced the release of “Demographic Bomb: demography is destiny,” the sequel to 2008 documentary “Demographic Winter: the decline of the human family.” (see coverage here) The phrase “demographic winter” refers to the contemporary phenomenon of a worldwide rapid decline in birthrates. The new documentary makes a forceful case that the loss of millions due to population control efforts has meant […]
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Catholic College Leaders Delete Paragraph Calling for Withdrawal of USCCB “Catholics in Political Li

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A portion of the Association of Catholic Colleges and University's latest newsletter, which called for the withdrawal of the U.S. Bishops' document prohibiting pro-abortion politicians from being honored at Catholic schools, has now been deleted. The paragraph, originally appearing in the Summer 2009 version of the newsletter “Update” and coinciding with the bishops' meeting in San Antonio, read: “ACCU's directors informally concluded that it would be desirable for the USCCB to withdraw 'Catholics in Political Life' … A successor document, if any, should distinguish between 'honors' and 'platforms' and should acknowledge more clearly […]
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Obama Assures Homosexualist Leaders He’s a “Champion” of Their Cause at Private White House Receptio

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Barack Obama reassured homosexual advocates gathered at the White House yesterday that he was not dragging his heels on implementing their agenda, but merely patiently biding his time in order to ensure success in the long run. Obama hosted hundreds of homosexual activists at the White House on Monday in the East Room, in order to celebrate LGBT Pride Month as well as the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots that are regarded as the inception of the homosexual rights movement. The President specifically recognized several special guests, […]
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Homosexual Duke U. Director Charged with Offering Adopted 5-Year-Old for Sex

By Kathleen Gilbert DURHAM, North Carolina, June 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An openly homosexual Duke University official has been charged with delivering up his 5-year-old adopted African American son to sexual predators online. Frank Lombard, the 42-year-old associate director of the Center for Health Policy and a licensed clinical social worker, was arrested Wednesday after he invited an undercover police officer to take advantage of one of his two sons, whom he had adopted with his male partner.   The Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI conducted the sting operation. Investigators were tipped off to Lombard's criminal activity by […]
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First Clinical Trials Completed of Adult Cardiac Stem Cell Repair

By Hilary White LOS ANGELES, June 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Doctors at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles have announced the successful completion of the first human trials in growing new heart tissue from adult cardiac stem cells, which the researchers hope will be successful in repairing damage due to heart attacks. In a cutting edge procedure the patient's own heart tissue is used to grow specialized heart stem cells that are then injected back into the patient. The first patient to actually receive the infusion of cells is heart attack victim Ken Milles, who underwent the procedure on Friday. […]
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Planned Parenthood Employee in Alabama Admits ‘Bending the Rules’ of Mandatory Reporting for Sexual

BIRMINGHAM, June 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Planned Parenthood counselor in Birmingham was caught on hidden camera telling an alleged 14-year-old statutory rape victim that the clinic “does sometimes bend the rules a little bit” rather than report sexual abuse to state authorities. This is the seventh Planned Parenthood clinic implicated in a multi-state child abuse scandal involving the deliberate and unlawful suppression of evidence of statutory rape. (View video here) Lila Rose, 20-year-old UCLA student and president of the non-profit Live Action, went undercover at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Birmingham and told a counselor that she was 14-years-old, […]
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Suit Filed Challenging Distribution of Morning After Pill to Minors Over-the-Counter

BROOKLYN, New York, June 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alliance Defense Fund attorneys together with a Mineola attorney filed a motion to intervene Thursday to challenge a federal court order requiring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow the abortifacient Plan B drug to be sold over the counter to minors.  The FDA announced in April that it would not appeal a New York district judge's decision in favor of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which sued the federal agency for requiring 17-year-olds to get a prescription for Plan B.  The FDA was also asked to reconsider allowing girls of […]
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Is Pro-Choice the New Pro-Life?

Commentary by Colin Mason June 30, 2009 (PRI) – Is pro-choice the new pro-life? According to the New York Times, it doesn't really matter, because you probably don't understand the terms anyway. According to the Times the recent Gallup Poll showing that a majority of Americans are pro-life is faulty at best, and downright sinister at worst. The poll, conducted May 7-10, found that 51% of Americans are now “calling themselves 'pro-life' on the issue of abortion and 42% 'pro-choice.' According to Gallup, this is “the first time a majority of U.S. adults have identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup […]
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Co-Discoverer of Natural Selection Believed in “Overruling Intelligence” Guiding Evolution: New Book

By Hilary White June 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The life work of Alfred Russel Wallace, a contemporary of Charles Darwin and the unsung scientist who “co-discovered” evolution, suggests that there is no necessary conflict between the theory and religious belief in a divine intelligence, a new book has said. In fact, the book proposes, it was Wallace's lifetime of objective investigations that led him in the end to a belief in an “overruling intelligence” guiding the development of life, a belief similar to that of contemporary supporters of Intelligent Design theory. Michael A. Flannery, author of the book “Alfred Russel […]
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Toronto Cancels Canada Day Celebrations but “Gay Pride” Takes Place as Planned

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, June 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Toronto's sordid display of homosexual licentiousness, the 'gay pride' parade, which annually features acts of public indecency, including full nudity, took place this weekend as planned; but Toronto city officials have announced that all city-run Canada Day events and celebrations, including the fireworks display, planned for July 1st have been cancelled due to the continuing strike by municipal workers, which has left many streets and city parks with an accumulation of rotting garbage. Conservative blogger Joel Johannesen blasted the decision by Toronto's officials to abandon the celebration of Canada's 142nd birthday […]
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White House Hosts Homosexual Leaders Today

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Barack Obama is hosting hundreds of homosexual activists at the White House today, in order to celebrate the Stonewall Riots that are regarded as being the birthplace of the homosexual movement. The riots occurred on June 28, 1969, when homosexuals and transvestites reacted violently to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a homosexual bar located in New York City's Greenwich Village. The White House intends the invitation to act as a celebration of the achievements of homosexual Americans; but it no doubt also intends it as a […]
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Operation Rescue Office Security System Attacked – Group Complains of Police Apathy

By Kathleen Gilbert WICHITA, Kansas, June 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An unidentified man has been caught on video attacking Operation Rescue's headquarters Friday afternoon. The man allegedly disabled one of the building's security cameras and attempted to assault Operation Rescue president Troy Newman before fleeing the scene. (Watch security camera footage of the attack here)  Operation Rescue reports that Newman heard a suspicious noise outside his office and observed the suspect through the security cameras attempting to gain access to the roof. Newman rushed outside and confronted the man, who then allegedly tried to punch Newman. When that failed, the suspect flung his […]
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Swedish Parents Won’t Tell if Child is Boy or Girl as Gender Experiment

By Hilary White June 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an interview with newspaper Svenska Dagbladet in March, a Swedish couple said they are refusing to disclose whether their two-and-a-half-year-old child, called “Pop” in the media, is a boy or a girl. They said that their decision, made at the time of the child's birth, was based on the feminist theory that “gender” is a “cruel” “social construct” that forces children into artificial roles. “We want Pop to grow up more freely and avoid being forced into a specific gender mould from the outset,” Pop's mother said. “It's cruel to bring […]
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Supreme Court Overrules Sotomayor Decision against White Firefighters

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Supreme Court decision today overturning a ruling issued by Sonia Sotomayor has fueled criticism of President Obama's Supreme Court nomination. Critics are pointing to the ruling as further proof of Sotomayor's penchant for leftist identity politics.  If confirmed, Sotomayor would likely bring a pro-abortion vote to the top of America's judicial system in replacing Justice David Souter, who retires from the Supreme Court today.   The case Ricci v. DeStefano involved eighteen New Haven white firefighters, including one Hispanic, who complained of “reverse discrimination” after the city refused to grant […]
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Ireland to Institute Same-Sex Civil Partnerships within the Year

By Hilary White DUBLIN, June 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government of Ireland announced on Friday that a bill giving statutory rights to homosexual partners will come into effect by the end of the year. The bill will insert new wording into the Civil Registration Act of 2004 that will create legal equivalency to marriage in nearly all but name. Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said in a statement, “This bill provides legal protection for cohabiting couples and is an important step, particularly for same-sex couples, whose relationships have not previously been given legal recognition by the state.” Under the bill's […]
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Lithuania President Vetoes Law Banning Homosexual Propaganda in Schools

By Alex Bush VILNIUS, Lithuania, June 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The President of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus, has vetoed a law that would have prevented homosexual propaganda from entering into schools or other public places that could be seen by young people. The veto came after the Siemas, the Lithuanian parliamentary body, voted 67-3 in favor of the legislation, with four abstentions. The law would have prohibited the dissemination of public information that is recognized in general to have a negative effect on the mental, physical, intellectual, and moral development of youth. This includes the spreading of information that “agitates for […]
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Boston Catholic Hospitals Pull Out of Abortion Venture at 11th Hour

By Kathleen Gilbert BRAINTREE, Massachusetts, June 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the prompting of Boston Cardinal Seán O'Malley, the Boston archdiocesan health care system, known as Caritas, which has been embroiled in a scandal over plans to provide the state's abortion-covering insurance, has pulled out of the deal just days before the plan was set to begin. The move followed months of outcry from Catholic groups who were angered at the hospital system's lucrative participation in the plan.  While the American Life League has expressed satisfaction with the turnaround, a Massachusetts group is continuing to call for the hospitals' complete dissociation […]
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Pope: It is a Childish Faith to Oppose the Church Teaching on Life and Family

By John-Henry Westen ROME, June 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Closing the Year of St. Paul yesterday evening, Pope Benedict XVI reflected on the writings of the famed convert to Christianity. With reference to Paul's letter to the Ephesians (4:14), the Pope explained what Paul meant by his statement that Christians should not remain “children at the mercy of the waves, transported here and there by every wind of doctrine.” “Paul wants the Christian faith have a 'responsible', an 'adult faith,” said the Holy Father. “The word 'adult faith' has in recent decades become a popular slogan. It is often used […]
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European Nations Demand World Bank Continue Forcing Abortion on Developing Nations

Wednesday April 25, 2007 European Nations Demand World Bank Continue Forcing Abortion on Developing Nations Stephen Mosher asserts that forcing population control on poor nations via financial pressure is “economic assassination” By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, April 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For decades the World Bank has been pressuring developing nations into implementing population control in order to qualify for receipt of loans. That program accelerated during the Clinton era in the 1990s as the Bank, which is controlled by the United States, more openly insisted countries wishing to receive funding permit abortion, and institute ‘family planning’ programs. The current Administration […]
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Spain’s Juridical Council Condemns Proposed Law Establishing Abortion as a “Right” as Unconstitution

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MADRID, June 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) -  The Juridical Council of Spain, a committee of legal experts charged with reviewing legislation before it is debated in the national Parliament, has condemned proposed legislation to establish abortion as a “right.” The council states in its 6-5 opinion that the measure is unconstitutional because of “the lack of protection of the unborn that is observed in the text regarding the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court on the topic.” “In purity one cannot speak of a right to abortion, because it would assume the recognition of the right to eliminate […]
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Editorial: Archbishop Weisgerber is Wrong – Vatican Stopped its Donation to UNICEF in 1996

Editorial by John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Seeking to justify the giving of Catholic monies to groups that do not follow church teaching on abortion and contraception, Archbishop James Weisgerber recently used as an example the Vatican's yearly contribution to UNICEF.  Ironically, however, the Winnipeg archbishop, who is currently the head of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), only managed to disprove his own point, since the Vatican actually halted its yearly donation to UNICEF in 1996, precisely because the organization was found to be promoting abortion and contraception. Journalist Michael Swan reported Monday in both Catholic News Service  and The […]
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Louisiana Healthcare Conscience Protection Law Passes State Lawmakers

By Kathleen Gilbert BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Louisiana lawmakers Wednesday approved a law affirming the conscience rights of both private and public healthcare workers in the state who object to performing abortion or physician-assisted suicide, or administering abortifacient drugs. The Healthcare Workers Conscience Act (HB-517) won approval in the Senate with a 31-2 vote, and the House 88-12. “Any person has the right not to participate in, and no person shall be required to participate in any health care service that violates his conscience to the extent that patient access to health care is not compromised,” […]
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Pro-Life Democrats Unite to Protect Unborn Children in Healthcare Restructuring

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nineteen pro-life Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday issued a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urging that the president’s healthcare reform package not place unborn children in more danger by including abortion in the federal healthcare plan. “As the debate on health care reform continues and legislation is produced, it is imperative that the issue of abortion not be overlooked,” wrote the lawmakers.  “Plans to mandate coverage for abortions, either directly or indirectly is [sic] unacceptable.” The congressmen said that they would only accept a healthcare plan […]
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Homosexualist Real Menard Announces Departure from Canadian Federal Politics

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MONTREAL, June 26, 2009 (LIfeSiteNews.com) – Bloc Quebecois Member of Parliament and publicly professed homosexual Real Menard announced Thursday that he will abandon his federal political career to run in the next municipal election. He will be running for the separatist Vision Montreal party as the candidate for borough mayor of Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. Menard, who was first elected to Parliament for the Bloc in 1993 and has won five consecutive terms, gained notoriety by admitting publicly to engaging in homosexual relations while working as a Member of Parliament, joining the ranks of fellow openly homosexual MPs Libby […]
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Huckabee Hashes Out Abortion Arguments with Comedian Jon Stewart

By Kathleen Gilbert June 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The June 18 episode of the Daily Show featured an unusual topic for a late-night comedy segment: abortion.  Host Jon Stewart, who said he blamed guest Mike Huckabee for the choice of topic, dejectedly pulled out a bottle of whiskey as the segment began. But the ensuing discussion proved both civil and hard-hitting as the former Arkansas governor hashed out the logic of the pro-life position and explored common ground with his left-leaning host. “I think sometimes this is an issue where people get, maybe – generating a lot more heat than […]
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Government of Trinidad and Tobago: No Homosexual “Weddings,” No Abortion

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski PORT OF SPAIN, June 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government of the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago has made a strong statement in favor of maintaining the role of traditional marriage in the country's cultural and social fabric, and said it will not relax its restrictions on abortion. In the latest draft of the “National Policy on Gender and Development of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago,” which was approved by the Cabinet yesterday, the government affirms that it is opposed to same-sex relationships and will not endorse same-sex “marriage,” and has rejected a proposal […]
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Indian Women March against Sex-Selective Abortion

By Michael van der Mast and Hilary White COIMBATORE, India, June 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thousands of women marched in Coimbatore, southern India this week to protest the practice of sex-selective abortion. Ten thousand students participated in the three kilometer long march carrying signs reading “Do not kill us” and shouting, “Adoption against abortion,” and “No discrimination against girl child.” The march was organised by the All India Association for Abolition of Discrimination Against the Girl Child and the Michael Job Centre for Orphan Girls in Coimbatore. It was supported by local colleges and schools as well as local and […]
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Pro-Lifer Attacked with SUV, Alleged Attacker Charged

By Alex Bush CHICO, CA, June 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – James Canfield, a regular pro-life protester of a Planned Parenthood and Women's Health Center in Chico, California, was almost run down during a protest last Wednesday, according to the Chico Enterprise Record.  His alleged attacker, Matthew Haver, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Witnesses reported that a man driving an SUV attempted to strike Canfield, who dove out of the way and was not seriously injured.  The license plate of the SUV was taken down and was traced back to Haver, who was then arrested. According to Chico […]
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Australian Conservatives Fear “Human Rights Charter” Will Suppress Religious and Democratic Freedoms

By Hilary White June 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australian life and family advocates are deeply concerned with plans by a government agency to institute new “human rights” legislation modelled on that of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Endeavour Forum, a national pro-life and pro-family advocacy group, has submitted a brief to a consultative committee, warning that since the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has “consistently failed” to protect the Christian values of the majority of Australians, “its probable recommendations will diminish, not enhance, our freedom.” The AHRC is conducting national consultations on a proposed Human Rights Charter that […]
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Holy See Not To Contribute To UNICEF In 1997

Archbishop Renato Martino Vatican City, Nov 4, 1996 (VIS) – Following is the complete text of a press release published today by the Holy See Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations, following the announcement by Archbishop Renato Martino at the UN that the Holy See this year cannot offer a contribution to UNICEF activities: “The Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations announced today at the Pledging Conference for Development Activities, held at the United Nations in New York, that it 'cannot offer any symbolic contribution to UNICEF' this year. “It indicated that the annual […]
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Bishop: Denying Communion to Obstinate Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians “in many cases becomes the right decision and the only choice”

Wednesday January 31, 2007 Bishop: Denying Communion to Obstinate Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians “in many cases becomes the right decision and the only choice” By Steve Jalsevac Photos also by Steve Jalsevac Washington, D.C., January 31, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews counted 37 Catholic bishops, including four cardinals, participating in the March for Life events Jan. 20-22 in the U.S. capital. Many have been coming to the events for years to express their commitments on the issue. Strong support from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has been a major factor in the large turnout of bishops and several hundred seminarians, priests […]
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COMIC BOOK GIANT PRODUCES GAY SUPERHERO COMICS

Tuesday February 29, 2000 COMIC BOOK GIANT PRODUCES GAY SUPERHERO COMICS WASHINGTON, Feb 29 (LSN.ca) – From the makers of the famous Batman, Superman and comic book series’ comes a comic book about gay superheroes who are depicted smooching and in bed together. DC Comics, has produced The Authority whose characters Apollo and Midnighter, are described as “a loving couple who cohabit in a giant spaceship.” Although the Authority series has been running since last year, next month the gay couple will “come out of the closet”. The comics are devised and drawn by homosexual activists bent on making homosexual […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes – Life Issues, Religion, Notre Dame, Climate Change, Homosexuality, Misce

* 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 The Basement of the Culture of Death by Deal W. Hudson  With a pro-abortion president in the White House, new sub-groups in the broader “culture of death” are coming into view. Anyone who describes herself as pro-choice but has any impulse to protect the unborn is “anti-choice.” Thus is revealed the darkest recesses in the “culture of death,” when all compassion for the unborn child […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes – Obama, Obama and Truth, Obama Health Care Plan

* 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 Christians, here come the lions – The end of our religious freedom in America could be at hand.https://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100930 Are you freer today than you were before Obama? Survey shows grave concerns by Americans about Big Brotherhttps://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=101266 Worried about the involvement of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, in next year's census. https://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/17/exclusive-minn-lawmaker-fears-census-abuse/ Majority now cosponsors Ron Paul's Fed audit – Demand for transparency […]
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Porn to Purity: Christian Couple Shares their Battle with Sin in New Ministry

By Patrick B. Craine RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two years ago, Jeff and Marsha Fisher's world fell apart after their denominational leaders discovered Jeff's addiction to pornography. Jeff, who had been pastor of a plant church in Buffalo, had to leave his position, and they moved with their two young children from Buffalo to Raleigh. Now, they are using their experience for God's glory through a new online ministry, Porn to Purity, where they share their story and their continued battle through a blog and podcasts. About a year after starting the new church plant, Jeff was confronted […]
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Abortion Proponents See Red after Senator Proposes “Office of Unborn Children’s Health” in Healthcar

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortion proponents are reacting with fury after Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) filed an amendment this month to the President's healthcare reform package authorizing the institution of an Office of Unborn Children's Health. The Office is one of hundreds of amendments filed so far with the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee as they examine the Affordable Health Choices Act. Abortion proponents lambasted the amendment by the “anti-choice” Coburn, who is also a medical doctor. “With so many Americans lacking basic health care, it is unconscionable that Sen. Coburn […]
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CCCB President on Websites Confronting D&P: “they’re not part of the church, they’re not Catholic”

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite a June 22 press release stating that neither the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) nor Development and Peace (D&P) would be commenting on the results of a recent investigation of five of D&P's Mexican partners until the results were made public, the President of the CCCB, Archbishop James Weisgerber, has been making the rounds of the media in the last several days, giving numerous interviews on the topic.  The archbishop has given separate French and English language interviews to Salt and Light Television, as well as interviews to Zenit […]
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EXCLUSIVE: African Hospitals Funded by U.S. PEPFAR Program Accused of Forcibly Sterilizing HIV-Posit

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA, June 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – African AIDS patients say they are being forcibly sterilized in hospitals funded by the United States’ international AIDS program PEPFAR, LifeSiteNews has learned. Dozens of women in Namibia claim that personnel in the PEPFAR-funded public hospital system used various methods to force or coerce them into receiving tubal ligations because of their HIV-positive status. Women's activists in the country believe the total number of victims is far greater. Amon Mgazateme, an attorney representing several of the women, told LifeSiteNews (LSN) that all of the victims who have approached him […]
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New UNFPA Annual Report Prioritizes “Reproductive Health”

By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, NY, June 25, 2009 (C-FAM) – Last week, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its annual report for 2008, highlighting the organization's work on maternal health and its “continued efforts to ensure the universal access to reproductive health and the right of all people to decide the number and timing of their children.” Though UNFPA refuses to subject its books to an independent audit and also refuses to share specific budget reporting to its board of directors, its annual report asserts that in 2008, almost half of UNFPA's program expenses went to “reproductive health” programs, […]
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Amnesty International Tars Poland over Abortion Access

By Piero A. Tozzi, J.D. NEW YORK, NY, June 25, 2009 (C-FAM) – Amnesty International recently issued its 2009 survey of what it considers to be the state of human rights throughout the world. Of particular interest to social conservatives is Amnesty's continued campaign to advance a “right” to abortion globally. In its entry on Poland , Amnesty raps the country for its “Denial of access to abortion for eligible women,” citing criticism that Poland received from the Human Rights Council (HRC) in May 2008. It further faulted the government for failing to implement a 2007 ruling by the European Court […]
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Quebec Court Hears Jesuit School Case against Quebec’s Mandatory Religion Course

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MONTREAL, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Loyola Catholic High School has finished presenting its case in court against Quebec's mandatory Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) program. The case was launched after the Department of Education refused to allow the school to continue teaching its own Catholic-centered religion course. The private Catholic boys' school objects to the province's mandatory course on the grounds that it conflicts with the school's Catholic character and presents a relativistic world-view of religion. “Our parents send their sons to us because of our mission and the values that we hold as a Catholic, […]
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Obama to Celebrate “Birthday” of Homosexual Movement – Stonewall Riots

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The White House has confirmed that President Obama has invited leaders of the homosexual lobby to the East Room of the White House on Monday to celebrate the “birthday” of the homosexualist movement. Obama is expected to make an appearance at the event. The goodwill gesture, which the White House has not publicized, follows growing dissatisfaction from the homosexual lobby towards Obama's handling of various issues. Activists have decried Obama's failure to aggressively attack the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and the military's “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy banning open homosexuals, […]
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Abortion and Contraception Key Tools in Black Genocide: New Film

By Hilary White June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Planned Parenthood and similar groups have been using abortion and artificial contraception to control and reduce the African-American population of the US in a slow but deliberate and planned “genocide” that has been ongoing for 150 years, a new documentary claims. The recently released documentary, “Maafa 21,” produced by Life Dynamics Incorporated, the Texas-based pro-life investigative group, traces the history of the contraception and abortion industry from its origins in the racist eugenics movement of the early 20th century that un-apologetically targeted the black population and other groups it regarded as inferior. Planned […]
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New Website Argues Nationalized Health Care Dangerous for Disabled

ARLINGTON, Virginia, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Students for Life of America's (SLA) Executive Director, Kristan Hawkins, launched a website Wednesday pointing out some of her concerns with nationalized health care. In particular HealthcareforGunner.com highlights the reasons why Hawkins believes a nationalized health care plan would hurt her infant son, Gunner, who was diagnosed in March with the deadly genetic disease cystic fibrosis (CF). The website walks readers through Gunner's disease, his current health care plan, and President Obama's proposed nationalized health care system changes. It provides arguments that national health care has failed cystic fibrosis patients in countries like […]
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Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Provides Package for Lobbying Canadian MPs over Euthanasia Bill

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) has prepared an extensive package that includes information on euthanasia and assisted suicide to be given to Members of Parliament, talking points to share with one's MP, and a questionnaire to be completed during a meeting with an MP. The package is a national response from the EPC to Bill C-384 – the bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide for people who are physically or mentally suffering or terminally ill. The bill was introduced by Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament Francine Lalonde in May 2009. […]
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YouTube Bans New Video of Planned Parenthood Telling Customer Abortion Photos “Not Real”

By Kathleen Gilbert LOS ANGELES, California, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Live Action Films, the investigative group responsible for uncovering the illegal practices of Planned Parenthood employees, has released another video showing a Planned Parenthood employee denying that widely disseminated photographs of aborted children are real. However, the video-sharing site YouTube quickly and without explanation removed the video, and the group says YouTube issued Live Action's account a “warning strike.” The video first plays undercover footage of a Planned Parenthood counselor from Tucson, AZ telling a patient that images of aborted fetuses are “not real.” Following a warning for graphic […]
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Nurse Joins Ranks of those Facing Anti-Christian Clampdown in Politically Correct Britain

By Hilary White ROME, June 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Attacks by officialdom in the UK on public expression of Christian belief are continuing, with the emergence of the case a Christian nurse, Helen Slatter, who left her job after hospital administration told her to stop wearing her small gold crucifix necklace. Nurse Slatter was told by her employer, the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, that the 1-inch gold necklace could “harbour and spread infections” or be used as weapon. She refused the hospital's suggestion that she carry the necklace in her pocket and has resigned, saying she would not choose between her job […]
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Court Upholds VA Partial-Birth Abortion Ban – Judge Says Future Generations Will “Shudder”

RICHMOND, VA, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled Wednesday to uphold the constitutionality of Virginia's partial-birth abortion ban. The full court reversed a previous decision by a three-judge panel that determined the ban was unconstitutional. In the opinion issued Wednesday, the 4th Circuit concluded that “little or no evidence” exists to suggest the ban would prevent other types of abortions from being performed without subjecting doctors to criminal liability.  The court wrote, “To hold the Virginia Act facially unconstitutional for all circumstances based on the possible rare circumstance presented … is not appropriate […]
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USAID SUPPORTING FORCED STERILIZATION IN PERU?

Thursday March 16, 2000 USAID SUPPORTING FORCED STERILIZATION IN PERU? WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (LSN.ca) – On Tuesday, US Congressmen Todd Tiahrt and Chris Smith called for an investigation into allegations brought by the Population Research Institute (PRI) which has found evidence that the Peruvian government is using money from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for forced sterilization of women. Earlier evidence of such activity led to the passing of the Tiahrt Amendment on 25 October 1998, which ensures that US funds will only go to “voluntary” family planning programs. However, during a December 1999 investigation, PRI obtained additional […]
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PERU STERILIZATION CAMPAIGN EXPOSED

Thursday February 26, 1998 PERU STERILIZATION CAMPAIGN EXPOSED WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 26 (LSN) – On Tuesday the Population Research Institute (PRI) issued a press release exposing a horrendous campaign to sterilize women in Peru. In a program linked to the US Agency for International Development, Ministry of Health workers are “working in house to house campaigns, using threats, offering bribes of food and clothing” to force sterilization on poor women. Avelina Nolberto and Victoria Espinoza, victims of the vicious sterilization push arrived in the US to recount their tragedies and their reports are confirmed by Dr. Hector Chuchon, head of […]
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Commentary on June 25 News – Chris Smith Speech, Readers Not Buying D&P Whitewash

Dear Readers, U.S. Congressmen Chris Smith continues to become an ever greater leader as the United States descends into dangerous abandoment of all that sustained its former greatness. We urge you to read today's article on Smith's address to the National Right to Life convention and click on the link to his complete speech. It is an exceptional call to arms that should be widely disseminated. It would be a great blessing to the United States if Congressmen Smith should ever become President. In fact, I suggest it may be that only an exceptionally principled candidate such such as Chris […]
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Letters to the Editor – Readers Respond to CCCB Investigation Results on Development & Peace

Re: Canadian Bishops Conference Pres Says “No Foundation” for Allegations against Development and Peace As the secretary for a Catholic parish in Northern Ontario I have been following this issue not only as a concerned Catholic but also as one who until your story broke, has been involved at our parish level in the fundraising campaigns for Development and Peace. There is no doubt in my mind that the evidence LifeSiteNews has gathered is legitimate and warrants our urgent attention. There is also great consternation on my part regarding the head of the CCCB's 'findings'. One has to be either gullible […]
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Formerly Pro-Family Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty Expresses Support for Homosexual Agenda

By Patrick B. Craine and Steve Jalsevac  TORONTO, June 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Maclean's magazine reported on June 18 that Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, previously supported by pro-family advocates, has indicated support for the homosexual movement in a congratulatory letter to Conservative strategist Jaime Watt.  Watt, who has been Flaherty's campaign chairman, is currently on the election team  of Flaherty's wife Christine Elliot and was one of the whiz kids in Ontario Premier Mike Harris's inner circle, was awarded Egale's inaugural Leadership award for homosexual rights at Egale's gala last week. LifeSiteNews.com reported in 2002 that Flaherty was supported by Campaign Life Coalition  (CLC) in his campaign […]
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God “Rejoices” over Abortions Says Episcopal Priestess

By Peter J. Smith DENVER, Colorado, June 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Episcopal Church has to clarify God's official position on abortion – at least so says a priestess of the church, who claims that a proposed rite for post-abortive women conflicts with church theology and that the Deity “rejoices” when women elect to abort their children. Rev. Nina Churchman wrote a letter to Episcopal Life Online expressing her outrage upon learning that her church has developed a healing rite for post-abortion women sorrowful over their abortion that seems to have language alluding to “sin” and “guilt.” Churchman said she […]
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Southern Baptist Convention Severs Ties with Affiliate for Open Homosexuals in Leadership Positions

By Kathleen Gilbert LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, June 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to discontinue their affiliation with the Broadway Baptist Church in Forth Worth, Texas, based on the church's toleration of open homosexuality among its committee members. The move came after the Convention's Executive Committee Monday unanimously recommended to end the group's 125-year relationship with the influential Texas community. The committee recommended that the relationship be dissolved “until such time as the church unambiguously demonstrates its friendly cooperation with the Convention under Article III.” Article III of the SBC's constitution states that churches “which act […]
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“Our Finest Hour”: Chris Smith Invokes Churchill’s Words in Keynote Pro-Life Address

By Peter J. Smith CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, June 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the situation may look bleak for the pro-life movement, one Congressman has stated that the current time of crisis for pro-life advocates may actually be recorded in history as their “finest hour.” “You are the conscience of a nation that has lost its way,” said Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) in a keynote address at the 37th convention of the National Right to Life Committee last weekend. Smith, one of the most outspoken defenders of the right to life in Congress, praised the delegates gathered for their unflagging efforts […]
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Total Breakdown in NY Senate Stalls Homosexual “Marriage” and Abortion Resolution

By Peter J. Smith ALBANY, June 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite having been ordered into special session by Gov. David Patterson, the battle for control of New York's senate has now devolved into a vicious political bedlam that has no memorable precedent in the state's political history. The situation puts in legal limbo two bills: one to legalize same-sex “marriage” and another to codify Roe v. Wade in state law. Both the Republican coalition and the Democratic caucus still claim the Senate's leadership for themselves, but their compliance with the governor's order yesterday took the form of each side conducting […]
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Coulter Mocks Pro-Abort Rhetoric: “If you don’t believe in shooting abortionists, then don’t shoot a

By Kathleen Gilbert June 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an appearance on the O'Reilly Factor Monday, conservative pundit Ann Coulter took a jab at the media's white-glove treatment of Kansas late-term abortionist George Tiller following his murder last month, pointing out the ironic situation of those defending the killing of unborn children while expressing horror at Tiller's violent demise. Providing a mock foil to host O'Reilly's unequivocal condemnation of the bloodshed, Coulter framed the death of Tiller, gunned down in a Wichita Lutheran Church May 31, with the abortion lobby's softening rhetoric. “I don't like to think to think of […]
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Team of Researchers Blames Children’s Films for Perpetuating “Heteronormativity”

By Kathleen Gilbert ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers at the University of Michigan have concluded that the love stories told in classic Disney and other G-rated children's films – such as the Little Mermaid – are partially to blame for the pervasiveness of what they label “heteronormativity.” “Despite the assumption that children's media are free of sexual content, our analyses suggest that these media depict a rich and pervasive heterosexual landscape,” wrote researchers Emily Kazyak and Karin Martin, in a report published in the latest issue of the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) publication Gender […]
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Head of UK Catholics gives Unqualified Endorsement of Organ Donation

By Hilary White LONDON, June 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the face of reported “uncertainty,” British Catholics have been assured by their new Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, that donating organs is “a true act of generosity.” “I'm going to join the Register and encourage others to do the same,” he said. Nichols was canvassed by BBC News Religious Affairs Correspondent Robert Pigott, who reported this week that Britons are “unsure” what their various religious communities teach about organ donation. The archbishop has put his support behind the Wall of Life, an interactive campaign launched by National Health Services (NHS) […]
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French Bishop and Mayor Square off on Gay Pride Events

By Hilary White ROME, June 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An outspoken French bishop has clashed with local civic authorities over their promotion of the heavily anti-religious Gay Pride demonstrations held in his area on June 20, calling them “yet another official offence aimed at the Catholic Church.” Bishop Marc Aillet of Bayonne issued a press release June 18th, calling the Gay Pride events in the city of Biarritz in south-western France, “blasphemous” and an act of contempt for the “Catholic Faith and religious life that so strongly characterizes the soul, culture, and traditions of the Basque region.” He singled out […]
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Governor of Mexican State Files Supreme Court Challenge against Federal Rule Mandating Abortions in

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent GUADALAJARA, MEXICO June 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The governor of the Mexican state of Jalisco has filed suit in Mexico's Supreme Court to prevent the implementation of Norm 046, a rule issued by the federal Secretariat of Health requiring public hospitals to perform abortions in cases of rape. Governor Emilio Gonzalez Marquez is challenging the constitutionality of the new regulation, which not only requires surgical abortions to be performed, but also mandates the distribution of the “morning after pill,” which can also cause abortions by preventing the implantation of the zygote in the […]
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Obama to Meet Pope July 10

By Kathleen Gilbert ROME, June 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI is expected to meet with President Obama at the Vatican July 10 starting at 4 p.m., reports the Catholic News Service today. The long-expected meeting will take place after President Obama attends a G8 summit July 8-10 in the Italian town of L'Aquila. During the meeting the pope is expected to address the president on his aggressively anti-life policies, including the reintroduction of taxpayer funding for embryo-destructive research and abortion overseas. It is uncertain whether the newly-nominated U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, Miguel Diaz, will be present […]
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Obama Abruptly Sacks Bio-ethics Panel Critical of Embryonic Stem-Cell Research

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The White House has dismissed the members of the President's US Council on Bioethics just a few months before their mandate expires, indicating their services are no longer required by the President and that he is looking for a more “practical” advisory board. The New York Times reported that Reid Cherlin, a White House press officer, told the paper that President Barack Obama saw them as “a philosophically leaning advisory group” designed by the previous Bush administration, and he wanted to appoint a new bioethics commission which instead “offers […]
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Ralph Reed Launches Faith and Freedom Coalition

By Kathleen Gilbert June 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative political activist Ralph Reed, who won notoriety as the first executive director of the Christian Coalition, has launched a new web-based group that aims to become a fresh rallying point for conservative values voters under what he says is a hostile administration. The Faith and Freedom Coalition, says Reed, is “a grassroots coalition of people of faith, small businessmen and women, and like-minded citizens dedicated to promoting sound public policy at every level of government,” and battling the far-left agenda of the media and the current administration. The group's website cites […]
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Richard Nixon Supported Abortion for Mixed-Race Babies, Rape, New Tapes Reveal

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although US President Richard Nixon remained silent on the landmark 1973 Supreme Court rulings that legalized abortion on demand, newly released tapes show the disgraced President actually believed legal abortion was “necessary” in certain cases, such as when the baby was of mixed-race or conceived through rape. The information has come to light thanks to the Nixon Presidential Library releasing today over 154 hours of tape recordings from the Nixon White House that were recorded in January and February 1973. Although the quality of the recordings are poor, Nixon […]
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Sen. Dodd Comes Out in Favor of Same-Sex ‘Marriage’

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), a Roman Catholic, on Sunday declared he had changed his position on same-sex “marriage,” and now calls law defining marriage between a man and a woman “archaic” and “unfair.”   “To my daughters, these couples are married simply because they love each other and want to build a life together,” wrote Dodd on his Senate Web site. “That's what we've taught them. The things that make those families different from their own pale in comparison to the commitments that bind those couples together. “And, really, that's what […]
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North American Anglican Splinter Province Reaffirms True Definition of Marriage

By Alex Bush June 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), a splinter group formed by numerous Anglican organizations across the continent, has announced its decision not to allow practicing homosexuals as well as women to be bishops. The group has also reaffirmed the true definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. The Anglican offshoot formed over questions of orthodoxy in the mainstream Western Anglican communities. The ACNA has aligned itself with the bishops from South America and Africa, who represent about 80% of the world's Anglicans. The ACNA itself represents about 100,000 faithful. […]
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Mega Analysis of Over 100 Years of Research Shows Treatment for Unwanted Homosexuality Beneficial

NEW YORK, June 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new report in the first edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of Human Sexuality has found that sexual orientation is not immutable and that psychological care for individuals with unwanted homosexual attractions is beneficial and poses no significant risk of harm. The study, What Research Shows: NARTH's Response to the American Psychological Associations Claims on Homosexuality, examines over 100 years of professional and scientific literature as well as over 600 reports from clinicians, researchers, and former clients principally published in professional and peer-reviewed journals. This research, assembled over a period of eighteen months […]
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Second Development and Peace Scandal Video Released by Conservative Blogger

By Alex Bush June 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – John Pacheco, from the blog SoCon or Bust, has released a video outlining the scandal caused by Development and Peace's funding of groups that support abortion and contraception. Since the scandal became public Pacheco has conducted his own investigations into many of D&P's partners and published the findings on his blog along with his often fervent personal blog commentaries on the findings. Pacheco's minimalist style video follows LifeSiteNews.com's release of a professionally produced video giving an overview of the scandal (see that video here). The conservative Catholic activist, following up on LSN's intitial report on Mexican groups funded by […]
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Poland’s Bishops Support Draft Law Banning In Vitro Fertilization

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WARSAW, June 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During a meeting of the Polish Bishops' Conference Plenary last week, the bishops of Poland issued a statement in support of a draft law submitted to the Polish parliament by the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Health, Boleslaw Piecha, which provides for a complete ban on in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures. “This draft is in line with the Catholic Church's position expressed in the Vatican's official instruction, the position of the Church in Poland, and that of Polish Catholics,” stated Bishop Stanislaw Budzik at a press conference on Saturday. […]
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Pro-Life MPs, Doctors and Bishops Unite Against UK Abortion TV Ads

By Hilary White LONDON, June 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The proposal to allow abortionists to advertise on television in Britain and to allow condoms to be advertised at any time of day, will “contribute to a further 'normalization' of abortion” and “encourage the sexualizing of children,” according to a recent statement by the Catholic bishops' conference. Other objections to the proposal have come from doctors and MPs who say that the ads will do nothing to lower the teen pregnancy rate. Labour MP Jim Dobbin, who brought an Early Day Motion against the proposal to the House of Commons, said that the […]
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McCain Says Obama Has “Done Well” as Popular Support for President Drops

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the same time as polls show President Obama's job approval ratings on the decline, particularly among Republicans, Arizona Sen. John McCain on Sunday said he believes former presidential rival Barack Obama has “done well” as president so far. “I think he's done well,” McCain told Bob Schieffer of CBS's “Face the Nation” when asked about Obama's performance. “I think he's – if you want to look at a legislative scorecard, he's achieved literally every one of his legislative accomplishments,” McCain continued. “Unfortunately, it's by picking off a couple of […]
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Commentary: The Return of Anti-People Propaganda

Commentary by Steven W. Mosher, President, Population Research Institute June 23, 2009 (PRI) – Politically motivated panels rarely produce good science, and the report of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development, and Reproductive Health of the U.K. Parliament is no exception. The report, “Return of the Population Growth Factor: Its Impact upon the Millennium Development Goals,” is a mishmash of justifications for the powerful of the world to continue to dictate the fertility of the powerless.1 It is even illustrated, in Science magazine's summary of the report, with a picture of a starving African child, presumably to drive […]
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Slovakia Passes Informed Consent Law Despite Pressure from Pro-Abort Groups

BRATISLAVA, June 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Informed consent before abortion has been adopted by the Slovak Parliament, establishing a mandatory counseling requirement, a 3 days waiting period, and mandatory parental/guardian consent requirements for minors within the current Slovak abortion law. International abortion groups' pressure, coordinated by the US based pro-abortion network “Center for Reproductive Rights,” called for rejection of the amendment, claiming that it was “in conflict with women's rights to privacy, physical integrity and autonomy, confidentiality, health, and non- discrimination.” A letter signed by 19 pro-abortion organizations and networks and 7 individuals was sent to all Slovak policy makers, […]
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Senate Blocks Pro-Tiller Resolution Glorifying Abortion Industry

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Senate yesterday blocked a resolution praising the “crucial services” of abortionists and condemning violence against them in the wake of Kansas late-term abortionist George Tiller's murder last month. The resolution, sponsored by Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), decried violence against “providers of health care services to women” and asserted, “there is a history of violence against providers of reproductive health care, as health care employees have suffered threats and hostility in order to provide crucial services to patients.” The resolution failed to gather […]
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LifeSiteNews Produces Powerful Video on Development & Peace Scandal

By Steve Jalsevac June 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In 2009, investigative reporters from LifeSiteNews.com discovered a widespread scandal with the funding practices of the Canadian Catholic Organization For Development and Peace (CCODP). This official agency of the Canadian Catholic Bishops has been funding pro-abortion groups. Watch this video to see the undeniable evidence of pro-abortion and other advocacy contrary to Catholic teachings on life and family. The CCODP continues to deny any and all wrongdoing in the funding of these “partners” and their abortion-advocacy. More details about the CCODP abortion scandal can be found on the LifeSiteNews Development & Peace […]
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Commentary on June 22 News – LSN responds to CCCB Investigation Findings on D&P Funding of Mexican G

Dear readers, Today we launch our first video production – the LifeSiteNews.com video special on the Development and Peace scandal.  Please have a look at this video and send it to your friends.  We've been told there are many who may not want to read about the matter but will watch a  video and then take action. We say first because, we hope to do much, much more in terms of video and audio production.  But we can't do that without your financial help.  But, back to the subject of Development and Peace. Archbishop Weisgerber has made official what Stephen […]
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Letters to the Editor – June 22, 2009

Re: Canada’s Federal “Conservatives” Give $400K to Toronto Gay Pride Week Goodbye to the Conservative Party Dear. Prime Minister Harper, This is the last straw after the years that I have been patiently waiting for a government that would strengthen family rather than destroy it. Awarding $400K to Toronto Gay Pride Week is the last straw. History has shown over and over again that once a society devalues children, marriage (family) and accepts homosexuality as a norm then it’s on its last legs. Goodbye Canada… this sexually saturated social environment is destroying families and is harming children and our once […]
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‘Amazing’ Grace: Baby Survives ‘Incurable’ Illness

By Patrick B. Craine NEWCASTLE, U.K., June 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Baby Grace Vincent, a U.K. baby who was diagnosed with meningitis at six weeks, has miraculously survived after her life-support system was turned off. Baby Grace was born without complications on April 3 to Emily Ashurst, 26, and her partner, Pete Vincent, 26. Vincent, a marine, had just returned from service in Afghanistan when, on May 16, Ashurst found Grace in a state of distress, covered with the purple patches characteristic of meningitis. She was diagnosed with late-onset Group B Streptococcus (GBS), a bacteria present in almost a quarter […]
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U.K. Christian Registrar Demoted over Refusal to Perform Civil Partnerships for Homosexuals

By Alex Bush LONDON, UK, June 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Theresa Davies, a registrar for the Islington Council in the U.K., says that she was demoted and threatened with dismissal because she refused to perform same-sex “civil partnerships.” Her duties as a registrar included ratifying marriages, but when she refused to perform same-sex “civil partnerships,” her employer offered her a position at reception – an entry level position – or dismissal. Davies has been an employee for the council for 18 years. “Britain is supposed to be a nation that respects freedom of conscience. But my conscience is not being […]
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NY Bishop Tells Politician: Same-Sex “Marriage” Stance is “Non-negotiable” for Practicing Catholic

By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, June 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Long Island's Bishop William Murphy has come out swinging at Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, after the New York politician publicly stated he was a “practicing Catholic” who now supports same-sex “marriage,” a position that Murphy said is incompatible with being Catholic. Suozzi, the DeCounty Executive for Nassau County, expressed his support for same-sex “marriage” in a June 13 op-ed for the New York Times. Suozzi described himself as a “practicing Catholic,” who had abandoned his previous support for civil unions, saying now anything less than civil same-sex “marriage” would […]
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New Swine Flu Vaccine Produced in Ethically Acceptable Cell Culture

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MURFREESBORO, Tenn., June 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the World Health Organization's (WHO) declaration of a swine flu pandemic, Children of God for Life, a pro-life group specializing in vaccine information, has announced that several pharmaceutical companies are producing swine flu vaccine using morally and ethically acceptable cell cultures that are not derived from aborted embryos. Debi Vinnedge, Children of God for Life's Executive Director, said in a press release that Swiss-based pharmaceutical giant Novartis was the first to create a swine flu vaccine produced in a cell culture using MDCK (Madin-Darby Canine Kidney) cells, rather […]
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Delayed Motherhood is Risky, Doctors Warn

"There is an urgent need for better public information on the issues surrounding later maternity. … Both women and society need to be aware of the possible problems that older mothers may encounter," warn experts.
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PETA Finds Mascot in Mass-Murderer Che Guevara’s Granddaughter

By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, June 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Posing semi-nude with bandoliers of carrots slung across her shoulders, Lydia Guevara, the granddaughter of Cuban communist revolutionary Che Guevara, has become the face of PETA's latest campaign against the killing of animals. The new campaign, with the tagline “Join the vegetarian revolution,” is set to launch in October. PETA spokesman Michael McGraw said the campaign was “an homage of sorts” to Che Guevara, the icon of “progressive” revolution responsible for the deaths of thousands of political opponents. Some are wondering, however, why the animal-rights group chose as their mascot the […]
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Vatican Radio Covers Peru Bishops’ Letter to Canadian Bishops Asking Them to Stop Funding Pro-Aborti

By Alex Bush VATICAN, June 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican News Service has reported on the letter from the bishops of Peru to the bishops of Canada, in which the bishops assert that that the Canadian bishops' official development arm, Development and Peace (D&P), is funding pro-abortion groups in their country. (Download the interview here) “Aid for Food and Medicines, Not for Birth Control, Needed in Latin America,” reads the headline of the radio program's webpage. The program consisted of an interview with Alejandro Bermudes, director of ACI Prensa, a large Latin American Catholic news agency, who observed that […]
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U.S. Bishops Issue Statement of Support for Notre Dame’s Bishop D’Arcy

By Kathleen Gilbert SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following their spring meeting in San Antonio last week, the U.S. bishops today issued a statement of support for Fort Wayne-South Bend Bishop John D'Arcy's “pastoral concern” for the University of Notre Dame. The bishop made national and international headlines earlier this year after he publicly rebuked Notre Dame's decision to honor President Obama. “The bishops of the United States express our appreciation and support for our brother bishop, the Most Reverend John D'Arcy,” reads the brief statement from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). “We affirm his pastoral concern for […]
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Condom Vending Machines in Rome High Schools “Trivializes” Education: Rome Cardinal

By Hilary White ROME, June 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Distributing condoms in schools “in the context of combating AIDS” “trivializes” sexuality and education and must be fought by concerned parents says a high-level Vatican official. In an official statement released last week, Agostino Cardinal Vallini, the pope's Vicar General of the diocese of Rome, responded to a decision by the civil authorities of the province of Rome to allow the distribution of condoms from vending machines in high schools. Cardinal Vallini reiterated the “need to reaffirm that the educational road remains education for responsibility, especially for young people, in the […]
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Ireland One Step Closer to Second Lisbon Treaty Referendum – Pro-Lifers Concerned

By Hilary White ROME, June 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Irish Prime Minister, Brian Cowen, has succeeded in obtaining a vote by EU officials on a series of “guarantees” meant to induce the Irish people to vote in favor of the Lisbon Treaty in a controversial second referendum. But a leading pro-life and Euro-skeptic grass-roots campaign group, Coir, has said such agreements are meaningless and maintains that the Treaty, that replaces the failed EU Constitution, is a direct threat to Irish sovereignty and the country's pro-life laws. “Any doubts that voters had last year are now clearly dealt with,” Prime […]
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Undercover Videos Prompt Tennessee Lawmakers to End Preferential Treatment for Planned Parenthood

LOS ANGELES, CA, June 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tennessee legislators passed a law Thursday that threatens to strip Planned Parenthood of over $1 million in federal grant funding. Under the new statute, local community health clinics will be given priority for Title X family planning funds instead of Planned Parenthood. Live Action Films says that the move was inspired by undercover videos by the group from a Planned Parenthood clinic in Memphis released earlier this year. The videos show a counselor urging a 14-year-old girl to lie about the age of the 31-year-old “boyfriend” who impregnated her so she can obtain […]
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“Terrorists”: What Late Term Abortionists Leroy Carhart and Warren Hern Call the Pro-Life Movement

By Alex Bush June 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – PBS recently conducted interviews with notorious late-term abortionists Leroy Carhart and Warren Hern, in which both men labeled the pro-life movement a “terrorist movement.” “This is domestic terrorism, this is a terrorist movement,” said Hern. “The anti-abortion people have no decency. They will stop at nothing,” Hern said. “They'll hurt people that you love in order to hurt you and they do not believe that other people have the right to be left alone.” He continued, saying that the pro-life message is “designed to kill.” “It's part of the message that it's ok […]
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Developing Story: Two Released after Being Arrested in Vancouver for Protesting Bubble-Zone Law Rele

By Alex Bush VANCOUVER, BC, June 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Friday, three people were arrested outside of the Everywoman's Health Clinic (an abortion facility) in East Vancouver. All the detainees were released shortly after 1 pm Saturday. A hearing on the matter has been scheduled for July 3rd at 2 pm. David Spratt and Sissy von Dehn were arrested while protesting the bubble zone legislation that prevents pro-life counselling or protesting within 50 meters of an abortion facility. A third, John Hetherington, a filmmaker, was also arrested, but released shortly thereafter without being charged. Spratt was protesting the bubble zone […]
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Regarding Preston Manning Comparing the Struggle to End Abortion With the Anti-Slavery Movement

Commentary by Campaign Life Coalition, British Columbia President John Hof VANCOUVER, BC, June 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For the record: I stood with Mr. Manning as he started the Reform Party. I cheered and worked with him as he changed course and urged us to “Think Big” at the founding convention of the Canadian Alliance Party.  I even encouraged others to work and to watch and to wait with me through those lean years. I waited through all of those long years for Preston Manning to raise the issue of 100,000 children dying by abortion annually in Canada. He “chose” […]
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Why the State Must Oppose Same-Sex “Marriage”: Professor

By Peter J. Smith PRINCETON, New Jersey, June 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Why is there an institution called ‘marriage’ at all in a secular society?” That is the question that David Novak, a Professor of the Study of Religion and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, poses in an article published online through the Witherspoon Institute. Novak states that unless civil society understands why same-sex “marriage” is not true marriage, it risks losing marriage as an institution altogether. Novak proceeds to explain that unlike public schools, which are “political” institutions created by the state, marriage is actually a […]
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Bishops Curry, Kicanas Dismiss Sanctions, Stress Virtue of “Dialogue” in Wake of ND Scandal

By Kathleen Gilbert SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two bishops questioned on the U.S. prelates' response to the Notre Dame scandal have suggested that the correct attitude to pro-abortion politicans at Catholic universities is unclear, and agreed with University president Fr. John Jenkins' emphasis on the paramount need for “dialogue.” Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Curry of Los Angeles told John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter during the USCCB's spring meeting that he suspected the bishops would bring up the unprecedented controversy that stemmed from the University of Notre Dame's invitation of President Obama to offer the commencement […]
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Same-Sex “Marriage” Suffers Plunge in Popularity: Poll

By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, June 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The results of a poll revealed this week show a significant drop in support for same-sex “marriage” since April of this year. Only 33% of respondents to the CBS News/New York Times poll said same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, down 9% from April's findings, which was an all-time high at 42%. 30% in the June survey said that homosexual couples should be allowed civil unions, while 32% said homosexual couples should be given no legal recognition. The new data brings the numbers back on a level with March's poll, […]
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Two Arrested Inside Vancouver Abortion Facility Bubble Zone NOT Speaking About Abortion

By John-Henry Westen VANCOUVER, BC, June 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At 4:30pm (EST) this afternoon police arrested two BC residents inside the bubble zone outside the Everywoman’s Health Care abortion facility in downtown Vancouver. Donald Spratt, who just received word yesterday from the Supreme Court of Canada that his appeal against a lower court ruling affirming the bubble zone was dismissed, was arrested along with Sissy von Dehn, a local representative of Nurses for Life. A journalist covering the situation was also handcuffed, had his camera confiscated and was put into the paddy wagon prior to being released. The BC Access to Abortion […]
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Several Advertisers Withdraw CBS Support in Wake of Letterman-Palin “Joke”

By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alaska governor Sarah Palin may have accepted late-night comedian David Letterman’s belated apology for making a rape joke about her 14 year-old daughter, but a grassroots campaign has continued to put pressure on CBS to fire the comedian. The campaign as of yesterday had generated 52,000 petitions requesting CBS fire Letterman, and it appears that two major advertisers, and a possibly a third, have chosen to withdraw support from CBS over the controversy. John Zeigler, Los Angeles radio talk show host and producer of the documentary film, Media Malpractice, […]
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Poland Follows Lithuania in Considering Law to Protect Youth from Promotion of Homosexuality

By Peter J. Smith WARSAW, June 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Poland may soon consider passing a new law, similar to the one passed this week in neighboring Lithuania, that bans the media and schools from promoting adverse behaviors to the development of young people, including violence, suicide, and homosexuality. MP Artur Górski, deputy head of the parliamentary commission on Polish-Lithuanian cooperation, has stated he intends to copy the Lithuanian law and introduce it before the nation’s parliament for passage. “I have already asked for the translation of the Lithuanian law 'on the protection of youth' into Polish,” said Górski, a […]
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Alberta Finance Minister Praised, Vilified for Saying Stay-at-Home Parent Important for Raising Chil

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, June 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Alberta Finance Minister, Iris Evans, a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of  Alberta, has come under fire from the leader of the Liberal government after telling the Economic Club of Canada on Wednesday morning that having one parent stay at home is important for raising children well. Her comments came at the end of an address to the Club during the question period, in the context of speaking about the importance of teaching kids about finances. Referring to her own children, Minister Evans said, “They've understood perfectly well that […]
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Peruvian Government Shelves Investigation into Massive Forced Sterilizations of Indigenous Women

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent LIMA, June 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Peru's government has decided to end its investigation against former health officials for thousands of forced sterilizations carried out during the late 1990s, under president Alberto Fujimori. Human rights organizations have thoroughly documented evidence that women were physically coerced, threatened, tricked, and enticed with economic incentives during the implementation of the program, which sterilized a total of approximately 400,000 Peruvian women in just two years, 1997 and 1998, with the help of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The coercive actions of program officials have been tied […]
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Global “Safe Abortion” Conference Denies Conscience Protections, Risks of Abortion

By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, NY, June 19, 2009 (C-FAM) – A year-and-a-half after the “Global 'Safe Abortion'” conference took place in London, abortion advocates Marie Stopes International and Ipas just released the conference report detailing the abortion movement’s worldwide strategy.  While organizers claimed that the primary objective of the conference was to “save women's lives and reduce maternal mortality,” the report reveals that participants prioritized a so-called “right” to “safe and legal abortion” above all else – dismissing any evidence of its harmful effects on women and even denying the right of conscientious medical professionals to object to participating […]
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Pro-Lifers Relieved with Outcome of Geneva UN Human Rights Council Meeting

By Katharina Rothweiler NEW YORK, NY, June 19, 2009 (C-FAM) - The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC), meeting this month in Geneva, Switzerland, has adopted a resolution on maternal mortality and human rights that relieves concerns pro-lifers had during the early stages of negotiations.   The battle over the final text concerned two points: how broad a reference to “sexual and reproductive health” would the document contain, and whether member states would retain oversight over a report on maternal mortality from the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) called for by the resolution. As Patrick […]
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Canada’s Federal “Conservatives” Give $400K to Toronto Gay Pride Week

By Patrick B. Craine  TORONTO, June 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism Diane Ablonczy announced Monday that the Federal Government of Canada would be funding the Toronto Pride Week, which will run from June 19th– June 28th this year, with the theme “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop.” The $400,000 grant is part of the government’s new Marquis Tourism Events Program, which is geared toward assisting major Canadian tourist events. The money is said to be going to improve the event’s website and accessibility to the event by those with disabilities. “We are thrilled by the federal […]
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Council of Canadians with Disabilities Opposes Euthanasia Bill C-384

WINNIPEG, June 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) today issued a release saying that it believes that Canadians who supports disability rights should oppose Bill C-384, which would legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide and “put Canadians with disabilities at risk.” CCD is a national human rights organization of persons with disabilities. C-384, the private member’s bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada, received its first reading last month. Bill C-384 was introduced by Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament Francine Lalonde. This is Lalonde’s third attempt to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada. […]
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54% of U.S. HIV Infections Caused by Homosexual Activity Among Men, 13-29

By Alex Bush June 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Center for Disease Control has issued a fact sheet which says that 54% of HIV infections among males, aged 13-29, were caused by homosexual contact in 2006. This is opposed to 34% of infections caused by heterosexual contact in the same demographic. “From 2001 through 2006, male-to-male sex was the largest HIV transmission category in the United States and the only one associated with an increasing number of HIV/AIDS diagnoses,” the fact sheet said. The article further states that 77% of HIV positive homosexual men between the ages of 15 and […]
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Federal Civil Rights Commission Warns Hate Crimes Bill Poses “Menace” to Civil Liberties

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Commission on Civil Rights has now weighed in the hate crimes debate, imploring the Senate to vote against the measure, which would not only make homosexuals a protected group, but more importantly would allow the federal government to have an individual prosecuted a second time under its rules for the same crime. The federal commission sent the communiqué, dated June 16, to sixteen leaders in the Democratic-controlled Senate, which was then posted by National Review’s blog, the Corner, by Peter Kirsanow. The letter comes just as leading […]
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Pro-Abortion Contributions Revealed Among Boston Catholic Hospital Board Members

By Kathleen Gilbert BRAINTREE, Massachusetts, June 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The scandal surrounding Boston archdiocese hospitals' joint distribution of health insurance that includes coverage for abortion deepened yesterday as a local Catholic group revealed the names of five out of nine hospital board members who have contributed heavily to pro-abortion politicians. Catholics in recent months have expressed outrage over the joint venture between the Catholic Caritas Christi hospitals and the Centene Corporation to overtake the state subsidized health program, which requires coverage for abortion, sterilization, and contraception. The two entities, under the name CeltiCare, will begin managing the program July 1. […]
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Supreme Court of Canada Dismisses Appeal against Abortion Facility “Bubble Zone” Law

By Alex Bush OTTAWA, ON, June 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an appeal by Donald David Spratt that challenged a “bubble zone” law that states that pro-life protesters cannot stand within a 50 meter radius around abortion facilities. Spratt, who was charged in 1998 for carrying a wooden cross and signs that said “thou shall not kill” inside the 50 meter zone, claimed that the so-called “bubble zone” violated his freedom of expression. The Supreme Court, however, has dismissed his case without comment. This is Spratt’s second attempt at an appeal; the first was to […]
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Pope Asks Bishops of Scandal-Riven Austrian Church for Fidelity to the Faith

By Hilary White ROME, June 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI has flatly asked the Catholic bishops of Austria for fidelity to the Catholic faith in a message issued at the conclusion of a series of “crisis” meetings at the Vatican. The pope asked the bishops to “attempt renewal” in the scandal-riven Austrian Church by catechesis based on the approved Catechism of the Catholic Church and to maintain “full fidelity to Vatican II and the Magisterium of the post-conciliar Church.” The meetings on Monday and Tuesday were held in the wake of an open revolt in January this year […]
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Conscience Protection Sought for Nebraska Psychologists over Homosexuality

By Kathleen Gilbert LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Nebraska Catholic Conference has asked that licensed psychologists be allowed to refuse services to homosexual couples seeking relationship help, reports the Lincoln Journal Star. Jim Cunningham, the executive director of the Nebraska Catholic Conference, told regulators at a licensing rules hearing last Thursday that psychologists should not risk losing their job if they refuse to counsel such couples based on their religious belief that homosexual relationships are immoral. The Nebraska Catholic Conference has also asked for conscience protection for licensed counselors, social workers and marriage and family therapists. Advocates […]
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Campaign Life Coalition’s Pro-Life Petition Campaign a Great Success – 30,500 Signatures, So Far

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, June 18, 2009 (LIfeSIteNews.com) – The pro-life petition campaign undertaken in anticipation of this year's landmark National March for Life in Ottawa has proven to be a phenomenal success, with over 30,500 signatures collected to date and more coming in daily. Launched by Canada's national pro-life organization, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), in March, the petition calls for legal protection of human life from the moment of conception to natural death, with the signed petitions being forwarded to Members of Parliament who then present them in the House of Commons. Jonathan Castellino of CLC told LifeSiteNews.com […]
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Lithuania Passes Law against Homosexual Propaganda in Schools, Media

By Peter J. Smith VILNIUS, Lithuania, June 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lithuania’s parliament has given final approval to a law that bans the media and schools from promoting adverse behaviors to the development of young people, including the public promotion of violence, suicide, and homosexuality. The Seimas, Lithuania’s parliamentary body, passed the law on Tuesday, which prohibits the dissemination of public information that is recognized in general to have a negative effect on the mental health, physical, intellectual, and moral development of youth. This includes the spreading of information that “agitates for homosexual, bisexual relations, or polygamy.” The measure also […]
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Catholic Marriage Prep Highly Successful in Encouraging Abstinence, NFP: Survey

By Kathleen Gilbert COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic couples who undergo marriage preparation based on the teachings of the Church are drastically more likely to agree to abstain until marriage and use Natural Family Planning (NFP), suggests a survey of Catholic couples participating in an online preparation course. While 90-95% of engaged Catholic couples are believed to be sexually active before marriage, 76% of couples who took the Catholic Marriage Prep Online course signed a pledge card to remain abstinent until marriage. 22% said they “want to discuss the matter further,” while only 2% said they would […]
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Brazilian Bishop Thanks Pro-Lifers for Support: Reiterates “Excommunication is Medicine for Sinners”

By Hilary White ROME, June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of the UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has received a letter of thanks from Archbishop José Cardoso Sobrinho of the Brazilian diocese of Olinda and Recife, for the former’s support in the controversial case of the nine-year old Brazilian girl whose twins were aborted in March this year. In the letter the archbishop continues to defend his decision to announce the automatic excommunication of the abortionists, an action for which he was widely criticized in the mainstream press, as well as by Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, […]
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HLI Denounces Plan to Implement “Comprehensive Sex Education” for Young Children in Latin America

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MIAMI, June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fr. Thomas Euteneur, President of Human Life International (HLI), is denouncing plans to implement “comprehensive sex education” for young children and teens throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. As LifeSiteNews reported Monday, public health leaders from throughout the region met with UN officials in Jamaica earlier this month to coordinate plans to implement pro-contraceptive, homosexualist sex education programs throughout the region, ostensibly in order to prevent the spread of AIDS. “That is pure foolishness!” said Eutenuer in a press release issued in Spanish, adding that “The promotion of condoms has […]
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REAL Women of Canada: CBC “Massively Failed” in its Lack of Coverage of March for Life

By Alex Bush June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – REAL Women of Canada has sent a letter of complaint to the CRTC which states that the CBC failed to provide fair coverage to the March for Life in Ottawa last May. The event was by far the largest in the history of the event, with over 12,000 participants. The letter, which comes on the heels of Campaign Life Coalition's official complaint, calls into question the CBC's neutrality, as per the CRTC's guidelines, in reporting on the pro-life event. “The purpose of the CBC is to reflect the views and aspirations of […]
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Pro-life Leaders Face Death Threats, Require Protection from Abortion Rights Radicals

June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since the murder of George Tiller, the Kansas late-term abortionist, several pro-life leaders have been receiving credible death threats, according to a report at pewsitter.com. Jill Stanek, a pro-life blogger and columnist, Troy Newman, from Operation Rescue, and Fr. Frank Pavone, from Priest for Life, have all received death threats from at least one person, whom Stanek says is a pro-abortion activist whose mother has aborted a number of siblings. Stanek has been a particular target of the ire of pro-abortion activists who believe that the “rhetoric” of the mainstream pro-life movement is responsible for […]
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Appeal Filed against DC Board’s Decision to Deny Public Vote on Same-Sex “Marriage”

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics on behalf of Bishop Harry R. Jackson and other D.C. voters. The suit challenges the board’s vote Monday to deny the people a say on the city council’s decision to recognize same-sex “marriages” from other jurisdictions. In the suit, ADF attorneys point out that the board disregarded a previous court ruling when rejecting a referendum that would allow voters to decide the matter. The board concluded that the referendum would violate the D.C. Human Rights Act […]
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Ontario Teacher Punished for Speaking Out on Reinstated Sexual Offenders

By Patrick B. Craine ONTARIO, June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) has taken action against a retired teacher and former OCT Council member after he revealed that the organization habitually reinstates the teaching licenses of convicted sexual offenders. James Black, who was a teacher in Ontario for 30 years, was elected to sit on the OCT Council from 2002-2003. While on the Council, he served for a time on the Discipline Committee, which is in part responsible for deciding whether to reinstate the licenses of sex offenders. In 2006, Black told CTV News that he thought parents […]
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Pro-Life Group Convicted of Calling an Abortion Activist an “Abortionist” is Refused Appeal by Brazi

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent ROME, June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Federal Tribunal of Brazil has allowed a decision to stand condemning a pro-life organization for calling a pro-abortion anthropologist an “abortionist anthropologist” in a caption below a photo of the woman, taken while she debated in favor of the legalization of abortion. The word “abortista” (abortionist) in Portuguese is commonly used to refer to individuals, groups, or ideologies that defend the legalization of abortion, one of whom is anthropologist Debora Diniz Rodrigues. However, a lower court had ruled that the language “gravely offends her personal […]
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ABC Under Fire for Hosting Obama Healthcare “Infomercial”

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican and conservative leaders are up in arms after it was revealed that ABC News would host a primetime special on the Obama administration's sweeping healthcare overhaul, while the network refused requests from both the GOP and paid advertisers to offer a separate viewpoint.  All of ABC's June 24 programs are slated to be broadcast at the White House, including “Good Morning America” from the South Lawn and “World News” from the Blue Room.  The primetime special, “Questions for the President: Prescription for America,” will be moderated by Charles Gibson […]
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Canadian Bishops’ Development and Peace Investigation Waiting Game – New Twists and Turns

By John-Henry Westen June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ongoing saga over the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P) continues, as a selection of prominent Canadian Bishops is to receive the official report tomorrow of the results of an investigation into the group’s funding of pro-abortion groups in Mexico. Francine Garneau of the Canadian Catholic Conference of Bishops (CCCB) told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that if the report is approved by the Permanent Council of the CCCB, it will be sent to the rest of the Bishops of Canada and thereafter made public. The report is based on an investigation […]
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Catholic Colleges Support Internships with Pro-Abortion Orgs, Including Planned Parenthood, NARAL

June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A national Catholic higher education organization has identified 10 Catholic colleges and universities that are promoting student internships with organizations whose missions or activities are directly opposed to the moral teachings of the Catholic Church, including on fundamental issues such as abortion and marriage.  “This discovery validates the concerns of so many thousands of faithful Catholic parents and students, that public scandals at Catholic colleges are just the tip of the iceberg,” said Patrick J. Reilly, President of The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS).  “Under what definition of ‘Catholic education’ do students receive academic credit to work […]
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Catholic College Leaders Lobby Bishops to Withdraw 2004 Policy Banning Pro-Abortion Speakers

June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the wake of the Notre Dame commencement scandal, Catholic college leaders representing some of the worst violators of the U.S. bishops’ 2004 ban on honoring public opponents of fundamental Catholic teachings are lobbying the bishops to withdraw their policy. Yesterday the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU), which represents more than 200 Catholic institutions, released its summer 2009 newsletter, including a report on the ACCU’s board of directors meeting last week.  The ACCU directors concluded “that it would be desirable for the [U.S. bishops] to withdraw” their 2004 policy, according to the newsletter. […]
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Church Must Prevent Repeat of Notre Dame Betrayal Says Top American Prelate in Vatican

By Peter J. Smith VATICAN CITY, June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Raymond Burke, the highest ranking American prelate in the Vatican has given an interview in a Catholic magazine, in which he says that Notre Dame’s decision to honor President Barack Obama was not only “profoundly shocking,” but also underscores a grave situation requiring action to ensure the incident is never repeated. Burke is the prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, the highest court of appeal in the Church next to the Pope, and an outspoken advocate for life and family values. He has made headlines repeatedly for his insistence […]
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U.S. Public Television to Disallow Any New Religious Programming

By Kathleen Gilbert ARLINGTON, Virginia, June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move some consider a “phasing out” of publicly broadcast religious content, Leaders of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) have issued regulations disallowing any new “sectarian” shows to be added to its repertoire, reports FOX News. While the six stations that currently broadcast heavily religious shows, such as the popular Catholic Mass broadcasts, will not need to drop their programs, none of the 350 other stations will be allowed to begin airing such content.  The new decision enforces a loosely-applied 1985 policy prohibiting commercial, partisan, or sectarian content. Though federal […]
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U.S. Conference of Mayors Advocates Homosexual “Marriage”

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Conference of Mayors passed a resolution Monday supporting the redefinition of marriage to include homosexual couples. The resolution states that the conference endorses legislation to promote homosexual affirmative action, open homosexuality in the military, further benefits for homosexual partners, and anti-hate crime initiatives. Further, the document states: “The U.S. Conference of Mayors supports marriage equality for same-sex couples, and the recognition and extension of full equal rights to such unions, including family and medical leave, tax equity, and insurance and retirement benefits, and opposes the enshrinement of discrimination […]
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Obama to Give Benefits to Homosexual Partners of Federal Employees

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Barack Obama will announce today that he is signing a presidential memorandum requiring the federal government to provide healthcare and other benefits to unmarried domestic partners of federal employees, including homosexual partners. A White House press schedule reveals that Obama intends to sign the memorandum at 5:45 PM and make a few brief remarks about the order. The President’s memorandum follows in the wake of angry denunciations and threats to revoke financial and political support from Obama by homosexual activists, who believe that the president is compromising on […]
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U.S. Report on Human Trafficking Contains “Grim Reminders” of Global Problem : Rep. Chris Smith

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Congressman Chris Smith said a report released today by the U.S. State Department on the human trafficking of women, children and laborers around the world shows some improvements over the 2008 report, but also demonstrates that there is much more work to do. “This is the ninth Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP), and it contains grim reminders of the deep-rooted nature of human trafficking around the world,” said Smith, the author of the Trafficking Victims and Protection Act of 2000, the law which mandated the annual reports.   The report critiques 175 countries this […]
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Twice as Many US Adults Poll as “Conservative” than “Liberal”

June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite recent election results, political conservatism appears to be on the rise in the US. A Gallup poll has found that “conservatives” make up the largest ideological group and that “liberalism” is has declined between January and May. In a poll of 1,000 adults, aged 18 and older, interviewed by telephone, Gallup found “conservative” and “moderate” groups are close competitors, at 40 and 35 percent respectively. Those who responded as “liberals” are bringing up a distant rear at 21 percent. A further breakdown shows that 9 percent identify themselves as “very conservative” and 31 percent […]
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Dutch Religious Schools May Refuse to Hire Active Homosexuals: Leaked Government Doc

By Hilary White AMSTERDAM, June 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nederlands Dagblad reports that Christian schools will be allowed to refuse to hire active homosexuals as teachers, according to a leaked government document. The Dutch Council of State advisory body said in a confidential report to the Cabinet that it is not a matter of “discrimination” to require employees to conform to a specific kind of behaviour based on the “religion / philosophy of life which form the basis of the institution.” The report said that while schools may not discriminate on the basis of “sexual orientation” alone, it is not […]
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West Debate Continues: Waldenstein, Smith Tell Schindler to Substantiate His Claims

By Alex Bush June 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Janet Smith, professor of moral theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, and Dr. Michael Waldstein, professor of theology at Ave Maria University, have responded once to Dr. David Schindler, from the JPII Institute in Washington.  They are both calling for Schindler to bring forth hard evidence to substantiate his claim that Christopher West's take on John Paul II's Theology of the Body is theologically lacking. “It surprises me that Prof. Schindler defends his use of unsubstantiated examples taken out of context in his critique of the work of West,” […]
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Latin American Health Ministers Agree to Promote “Comprehensive Sex Education” Throughout Region at

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent NEW YORK, June 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Latin American health officials and United Nations bureaucrats have agreed to continue implementing “comprehensive sexuality education starting in early childhood” throughout the region, including instruction in the use of condoms and anti-“homophobia” training, at the recent meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in Jamaica earlier this month. The meeting's primary purpose was to reaffirm and promote the “Mexico City Declaration on Sex Education,” formulated last year just prior to Mexico City's International AIDS Conference in August 2008. The Declaration urges the implementation […]
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Uproar in Poland as Pop Diva Madonna Schedules Concert for Catholic Holy Day

By Peter J. Smith WARSAW, June 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American pop-singer Madonna has generated a firestorm of controversy in Poland by scheduling her performance in Warsaw to coincide with a solemn religious feast honoring the Virgin Mary in the predominately Catholic nation. Madonna brings her “Sticky & Sweet” tour, the eighth concert tour for the “Queen of Pop,” to Warsaw’s Bemowo Airport, on August 15, the day on which the Catholic Church celebrates the solemn Marian feast of the Assumption. On that day thousands of Poles traditionally make a pilgrimage to a Marian shrine known as the “Black Madonna” […]
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Bishop Tells Oxford Students to Challenge Dissent, Even in Priests or Bishops

By Patrick B. Craine OXFORD, June 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Most Rev. Patrick O’Donoghue, who retired as Bishop of Lancaster at the end of April, delivered a powerful address to the Oxford University Newman Society in January, calling the Catholic students to faithful service of the Church. Bishop O’Donoghue’s talk dealt with his recent instruction Fit for Mission? Church, published in August 2008, which called for the restoration of authentic Catholicism in England. In his address, Bishop O’Donoghue highlighted the importance of the Second Vatican Council for the contemporary Church, calling for a fuller and more authentic implementation. “It’s now up […]
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Mother of Suicide Victim Exhorts MPs to Criminalize Online Suicide Counseling

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, June 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mother of Nadia Kajouji, an 18-year-old student at Carleton University in Ottawa who killed herself after being coaxed to do so in an internet chat room, was on Parliament Hill yesterday calling on MPs to vote for a motion that clarifies that it is a criminal offense to encourage people online to kill themselves. Kajouji, a seriously depressed young woman from Brampton, Ontario, jumped into the freezing Rideau River in early March 2008. It was later revealed that she had been in conversation in an internet chat group with […]
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Senate to Approve Hate Crimes Law Via Tourism Bill Today or Tomorrow

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United States Senate is poised to approve hate crimes legislation within the next couple days by way of an amendment attached to an unrelated bill on tourism. According to the Washington Blade, a D.C.-based homosexual news journal, the Senate leadership plans to attach the hate crimes bill, S. 909, also known as the Matthew Shephard Act, to The Travel Promotion Act of 2009 (S 1023). The Blade quoted its source as saying “we're thinking that the vote will happen probably [Tuesday] or Wednesday.” LifeSiteNews reported last week that […]
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LifeSiteNews Gets Results

Dear Readers, This past weekend we chatted with a student who is studying for his masters degree at Notre Dame – the same university plunged in controversy over its invitation to President Obama to deliver this year’s commencement speech and receive an honorary law degree. The student asked about LifeSiteNews (LSN) and the Obama/Notre Dame fiasco, “How is it that you guys always seemed to have the lead on that story?” Probably the student was referring to the fact that LSN was the only news source that obtained and then leaked key documents – including the one that convinced former […]
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Late-Term Abortionist LeRoy Carhart “One Sick Individual”: Nebraska Attorney General

By John Jalsevac June 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the wake of the murder of his close friend and colleague George Tiller, Nebraska late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart has stated that he will continue offering third-trimester abortions. In a telephone interview with the Associated Press last week Carhart said, “there will be a place in Kansas for the later second- and the medically indicated third-trimester patients very soon.” Carhart said that he has never performed third-trimester abortions at his facility in Nebraska, but that he has done so at Tiller’s facility in Wichita. Carhart would occasionally perform late-term abortions at Tiller’s […]
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Actress Cameron Diaz: “We don’t need any more kids. We have plenty of people on this planet.”

By Alex Bush HOLLYWOOD, CA, June 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cameron Diaz has said in an interview in the July issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine, which comes out tomorrow, that “We don't need any more kids. We have plenty of people on this planet.” Don Feder, from Demographic Winter, commented to LifeSiteNews that Diaz thinks there are too many people on the planet, “Because people in Hollywood, the people she works with, the people she associates with, the people she attends parties with, all the beautiful people have told her this.” “Why do they believe it? Because they grew up in a […]
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D.C. Ethics Board Rejects Referendum on Homosexual “Marriage” Advocated by Black Pastors

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Residents in the District of Columbia will not get a chance to reverse the city council’s decision to recognize out-of-state same-sex “marriages” in a referendum after today’s ruling from the capital district’s Board of Elections and Ethics. The elections board claimed that allowing district residents a vote would violate the human rights of homosexuals protected by the D.C. charter. Black pastors in the District had spoken vociferously against the D.C. city council’s almost unanimous May decision to recognize same-sex “marriages.” Many of them were spearheading an effort to allow […]
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Alaskan Student’s Associations Call for “Mandatory, Comprehensive” Sex-Ed

By Alex Bush JUNEAU, Alaska, June 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Alaska Association of Student Governments has called for “mandatory” and “comprehensive” sexual education for high school. They plan to bring the proposal to the state legislature, where, if enacted into law, private schools and homeschooled children will be forced to enter the program into their curricula, reports the Catholic Anchor. Archbishop Roger Schwietz of Anchorage expressed concern regarding the proposal, pointing to a lack of clarity regarding the rights of parents who did not want their children exposed to such “comprehensive” education. “We operate on the principles that the […]
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Ontario Plans to Let Parents Leave 4-Year-Olds in School from 7:30am till 6pm

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, June 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A sweeping change that would combine day care with kindergarten in Ontario schools is being proposed by Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty. The plan would allow parents of 4- and 5-year-olds to leave their children at school from 7:30 in the morning to 6 in the evening. The proposal to create a single full-day program in Ontario as early as September, 2010, is the result of a report by former deputy education minister Charles Pascal, who was commissioned by McGuinty in 2007 to advise on how best to offer school-centred childcare […]
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New Canadian Emergency Contraceptive is Abortifacient, Contrary to Distributor’s Claims

By Patrick B. Craine and John Jalsevac June 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – NorLevo, a new emergency contraceptive pill that the distributor falsely claims is not an abortifiacient, has recently been approved for use in Canada. The drug’s launch was announced on Wednesday by its manufacturer, HRA Pharma, a European pharmaceutical company.  Bayer Inc. will market and distribute the drug locally. NorLevo will be available in Canadian pharmacies without a doctor’s prescription. Bayer Inc. advises women to take the drug within 12 – 72 hours after intercourse. They claim that it is 95% effective within 24 hours, 85% within 48 hours, and 58% within […]
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The First Christians Condemned Abortion as “Among the Worst of Sins”

By Alex Bush June 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – David Brattston, a retired lawyer and judge, has written an article, published by LifeSiteNews here, in which he explores the question of what early Christians had to say about abortion. The article comes in the wake of scandals involving Vice President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who are both Catholic but who have claimed in interviews with media that the morality of abortion has been a question of debate throughout Christian history. Brattston shows that, on the contrary, abortion was unanimously considered sinful according to the earliest Christian […]
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Early Christians and Abortion

Commentary by David W. T. Brattston June 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This article presents the Christian attitude toward abortion before the first ecumenical council, that is, until A.D. 325. Because the New Testament does not comment on the morality of abortion, this article considers the writings of the first generations of Christians after the apostles, for they indicate that opposition to abortion (1) was shared at a time when the writers — or Christians not many generations earlier — personally knew the apostles or their first disciples and thus benefited from their unwritten teachings and interpretations of Scripture, (2) comes from […]
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Canadian Human Rights Commission Report “Inadequate”: Catholic Civil Rights League

OTTAWA, June 12, 2009 – The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) has characterized as “inadequate” the recommendations contained in the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) report “Freedom of Expression and Freedom from Hate” released June 11. The report is mainly focused on Section 13, which allows the CHRC to hear complaints about hate speech published on the Internet and in other telecommunications. The main recommendations of the report, the result of an internal review by the Commission, are that the federal human rights tribunal no longer have the ability to issue fines to those it finds guilty of hate speech; […]
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Equality Bill’s Emphasis on Medical Reality “Doesn’t go Far Enough” to Protect “Trans People”: “Tran

By Hilary White WESTMINSTER, June 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com ) – In testimony to the Parliamentary committee studying the upcoming Equality Act, a “transgendered” rights advocate said that wherever a person may be on the “gender reassignment spectrum,” they should be protected from “discrimination.” Stephen Whittle, vice president of the “transgendered” lobby group Press For Change, and a woman who has undergone surgery to look like a man, told the bill committee that the law should be applied to “trans people,” who are only at the “stage of life” where they merely “cross-dress part-time.” “That goes right through to people who have undergone […]
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“Catholics for the Right to Decide” Launches Campaign Encouraging Lesbianism among Brazilian Teens

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BRAZIL, June 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Catholics for the Right to Decide,” an organization repeatedly condemned by Catholic Church officials for promoting abortion and sexual immorality, has launched a campaign that encourages lesbianism among teenage girls in Brazil. The organization is announcing on its website that it will be conducting an “educational campaign for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, and Transgender Pride Month of 2009” which will use “gigantic banners (2.5 meters in height!)” displayed in urban areas, and distribute 10,000 cards containing images of teenage girls in romantic embraces. The cards will be distributed “in barns, […]
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Investigative Panel: “Gay” Status Helped Couple Get Away with Sexually Abusing Foster Children

Thursday September 6, 2007 Investigative Panel: “Gay” Status Helped Couple Get Away with Sexually Abusing Foster Children Blame laid squarely on culture of political correctness among British civil authorities By Hilary White WAKEFIELD, UK, September 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A report by an independent panel has laid the blame in a homosexual child sex abuse case squarely on the culture of political correctness among British civil authorities. It was a local Council’s fear of offending the homosexual movement or being labeled homophobic that allowed two men to continue to sexually abuse boys placed in their care as foster parents. Ian […]
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Not Over Yet: Homosexual “Marriage” Bill Becomes Bargaining Chip in Chaotic New York Senate Power St

By Peter J. Smith ALBANY, New York, June 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although the Republicans’ seizure of power in the New York Senate with the aid of two renegade Democrats appeared to put an effective end to the pending same-sex “marriage” bill, the ensuing chaos of leadership challenges and shifting alliances, has brought back same-sex “marriage” as a potent bargaining chip in the current power struggle. “The situation is so chaotic in New York right now that all bets are off,” Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, told LifeSiteNews.com. “It is critical that people contact their […]
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True “Common Ground” Lies in Renewed Appreciation of Natural Law: Vatican Think Tank to Global Leade

By Kathleen Gilbert VATICAN CITY, June 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In response to growing calls for a unified global ethic and a search to find “common ground,” a new document issued by the International Theological Commission is calling upon globalization leaders to consider the objective existence of natural law, and its central importance in peacefully uniting people of all backgrounds into a common mission. The document, titled “The Search for Universal Ethics: A New Look at Natural Law,” is available on the Vatican website in Italian and in French. “Are there objective moral values that can unite men and bring […]
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U.S. Catholic Scholars Oppose Removal of Feeding Tubes for PVS Patients

By Patrick B. Craine June 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of fourteen Catholic scholars released a statement this month in the journal of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, Ethics and Medics, affirming John Paul II’s teaching on the right of people in a ‘persistent vegetative state’ (PVS) to food and water. The statement was made as a reply to an article published February 13th in Commonweal by a ‘consortium’ of seven directors of bioethics programs at Jesuit universities, who question the papal teaching. American Catholic academics have argued for denying food and water to patients in a PVS before. As […]
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Family Advocates Baffled as NASA Celebrates Homosexual “Pride” Month

By Kathleen Gilbert  GREENBELT, Maryland, June 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family advocates are charging The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with having gone “completely-off mission” with its decision to officially promote homosexual rights. NASA headquarters issued a press release Monday declaring that the space-faring organization would participate in, and encourage celebration of, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month declared by President Obama. “LGBT Pride Month is a reflection of NASA's commitment to inclusiveness across the broad spectrum of our workforce,” said NASA's Acting Administrator Christopher J. Scolese. ”NASA strives to be a model employer by ensuring it […]
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Christopher West’s Publisher, Matthew Pinto, Enters Debate in Defense of West

By Alex Bush June 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over the past few weeks, a debate between Catholic intellectuals has been waged over Christopher West's take on John Paul II's “Theology of the Body.” The debate was sparked by an interview West did on ABC's Nightline. The Nightline segment, which aired on May 7, set off a firestorm of controversy in the Catholic publishing world, with some accusing West of playing loose with JPII's teachings and of trivializing certain aspects of Christian sexual theology, and others defending West as a skilled promoter of authentic Catholic teaching on sensitive subject. Heavyweight theologians including […]
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Teacher Sacked for Bible on Desk Sues School District in Federal Court

By Peter J. Smith MOUNT VERNON, Ohio, June 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 8th grade public school teacher who says he was fired for refusing to remove his personal Bible from his classroom desk is now taking the school district to federal court, suing them for defamation and breach of contract. John Freshwater, a teacher with over 24 years of experience, filed a lawsuit Tuesday with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against the Mount Vernon City School District Board of Education, and its officials for terminating his contract. He accuses the district of violating Ohio […]
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Canadian Human Rights Commission to Continue to Prosecute “Hate”

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, June 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) has ignored the report it commissioned by constitutional law expert Richard Moon of the University of Windsor last year, which recommended that the Canadian government scrap Section 13 of the Human Rights Act. In a new report, titled “Freedom of Expression and Freedom from Hate in the Internet Age,” the CHRC has instead recommended to Parliament that “the Canadian Human Rights Act continue to be used to protect Canadians from the harm caused by extreme hate messages on the Internet.” The contentious Section 13 […]
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Is $7400 Enough?

Dear Friends, $7,400.  That is how much some generous readers have donated so far to ensure LifeSiteNews is able to continue its mission throughout the summer. We are VERY grateful to those of you who have contributed to this campaign, and to all the donors who have provided us with a total of $82,000 to date this calendar year, including a $10,000 gift given in the name of a recently deceased strong supporter. Considering that our annual costs are in excess of $350,000, we will need many more contributions from readers to cover our summer expenses. And so, if you […]
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NY Stem Cell Board Agrees to Pay State Money for Women’s Eggs

By John Jalsevac ALBANY, NY, June 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New York's Empire State Stem Cell Board (ESSCB) yesterday agreed, during a meeting in Albany, NY, to commit state funds to pay women to undergo the risky process of ovarian stimulation in order to obtain human eggs for embryo research. There was no period of public comment on the matter. The funds will be drawn out of the $600 million that has been set aside by the state for stem cell research. The plan was vigorously denounced by pro-life advocates, including one prominent member of the ESCCB. Fr. Thomas Berg, […]
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More Briefs Surface Showing Sotomayor’s Abortion Ties

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Washington Times editorial on Wednesday unveiled further evidence of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's support for unlimited abortion rights. The paper revealed the contents of four more amicus curiae briefs authored under Sotomayor, urging the Supreme Court not to “overturn or in any way restrict” Roe v. Wade. The first such brief from the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF), where Sotomayor served as a board member between 1980 and 1992, was unearthed in late May and addressed the 1989 Supreme Court case Webster v. Reproductive Health […]
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Indian Government: Sex Education “Has Absolutely No Place” in Our Schools – It “Promotes Promiscuity

By Hilary White NEW DELHI, June 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Indian government has rejected western-style sex education programs, saying they do nothing to solve the problem of teenage pregnancy but only exacerbate the problem by promoting sexual promiscuity. A government report on the matter was issued in response to a citizen-launched petition against a decision by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) to start sex-education in schools. The program had been touted as a means of preventing the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Materials for teachers and facilitators in India included explicit details about […]
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Holocaust Museum Shooter a Socialist who Hated Christianity, Conservatives, Jews

By Hilary White WASHINGTON, June 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The online ravings of the man who shot and killed a security guard in Washington’s Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10th show that he does not fit the description of the “right wing” or “conservative Christian” extremist that has been portrayed in the liberal mainstream media since the shooting.  In one of many online tirades, the shooter, 88 year-old James von Brunn wrote, “Christianity and the Holocaust are hoaxes. ‘Christianity’ destroyed Roman Civilization. The ‘Holocaust’ Religion is destroying Western Civilization.” Between them, he said, they destroyed the “Aryan gene pool.” He wrote, […]
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Kansas Late-Term Abortionist George Tiller Shot and Killed – Pro-Life Groups React

Sunday May 31, 2009 Kansas Late-Term Abortionist George Tiller Shot and Killed – Pro-Life Groups React By John Jalsevac WICHITA, KS, May 31, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Witnesses have confirmed that a man that was shot and killed in the lobby at a Wichita church this morning was Kansas late-term abortionist George Tiller. Tiller, 67, was shot just after 10 a.m. at Reformation Lutheran Church at 7601 E. 13th, where he was a congregation member. Police have reportedly apprehended a suspect – a white male who was seen fleeing the scene of the shooting in a blue Taurus. The Kansas abortionist […]
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Foul-Mouthed Homosexual Activist and Anti-Christian Bigot Appointed to Obama Administration

Tuesday June 2, 2009 Foul-Mouthed Homosexual Activist and Anti-Christian Bigot Appointed to Obama Administration By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although President Barack Obama has advocated speaking “fair minded words” in debating differences on major ethical issues, his recent nominee to the Department of Education’s Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools is a homosexual activist with a history of using foul and abusive language against those who have opposed his homosexualist agenda. Kevin Jennings, the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN), was recently appointed to the Obama Administration as Assistant Deputy […]
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Feisty Timor Leste Bucks Abortion Lobby, Upholds Right to Life: More on New East Timor Abortion Law

By Piero A. Tozzi, J.D. NEW YORK, NY, June 11, 200 (C-FAM) – The parliament of East Timor – a small, Catholic nation in South East Asia recognized as an independent state in 2002 – has resisted concerted pressure from United Nations agencies and pro-abortion non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by enacting a revised penal law that continues to criminalize abortion in virtually all cases. With last week's 45 to 0 vote with only 7 abstentions on the main operative paragraph, parliament retained penal sanctions on abortion, except in instances where abortion is the “only way” to prevent death to the mother […]
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Obama’s “Safe Schools” Czar Dreamed of “Promoting Homosexuality” to Schoolchildren

By Alex Bush June 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kevin Jennings, who was appointed by Obama to be the assistant deputy secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools inside the Department of Education, has always been interested in promoting the homosexualist agenda to schoolchildren.  Jennings, cofounder and executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), told attendees at a GLSEN conference over a decade ago that he looked forward to the day when promoting homosexuality in schools will be seen in a positive light. (See the remarks here) Jennings said that he “can envision a day […]
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Women Must be Told about Risks of Abortion: Pro-Abortion Columnist

By Alex Bush June 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The proven risk of having a premature birth caused by previous abortions has lead Barbara Kay, a supporter of abortion availability and columnist for the National Post, to state that abortionists must tell these risks to women seeking an abortion, so that they may make a truly informed decision. Kay says that “researchers in the field of human reproduction have been quietly beavering away on mounting epidemiological data around IA [Induced Abortion] and its link to preterm birth (PTB) in a future pregnancy. Recent findings in their research remind us of a ‘right’ […]
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Abortion Arsonist Set Fire to Facility Because Ex-Girlfriend Was to Abort His Child There Next Day

By Alex Bush  ALBUQUERQUE, NM, June 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sergio Baca and Chad Altman have been sentenced to 46 and to 40 months in federal prison, respectively. They must also split restitution of the damages caused by the fire that they set to the Albuquerque Abortion facility December 6, 2007, which totaled $796,531.92. They set the building ablaze because Baca’s ex-girlfriend was going to have an abortion there the next day. Baca reportedly hoped to stop his ex-girlfriend from aborting his child.  The pair had no connection to the pro-life movement. U.S. Attorney Greg Fouratt commented on the crime after the […]
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WA Homosexual Group Threatens to Publish Names, Addresses of Traditional Marriage Supporters

By Kathleen Gilbert SEATTLE, June 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an echo of tactics employed against true marriage supporters in California and elsewhere, a Washington state homosexualist website is threatening to publish the names and addresses of individuals signing a referendum to overturn a new homosexual civil unions law. The tactic centers around efforts by Protect Marriage Washington to gather signatures for Referendum 71, which would bring into voter's hands a newly-passed law that grants all the rights of marriage to same-sex couples, minus the name. The group has until July 25 to collect 120,000 signatures supporting the ballot initiative. […]
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UK Government Uses Tiller Killing as Excuse for Concealing Abortion Stats

By Patrick B. Craine June 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK Department of Health (DoH) is using the May 31st shooting of American late-term abortionist George Tiller to justify its refusal to publish detailed statistics of abortions for minor disabilities. The DoH is currently awaiting a decision on an appeal to the Information Tribunal. In the UK, abortion is legal for any or no reason up to 24 weeks gestation, after which eugenic abortions can be conducted up until birth with the approval of two doctors. There is concern, however, that such eugenic abortions are often carried out for trivial reasons. […]
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US House of Representatives Approves Abortion Promoting “Office of Global Women’s Issues”

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday approved a bill that would create a new “Office for Global Women's Issues” in the State Department, which pro-life leaders have reason to believe will promote abortion abroad.  Despite unaddressed pro-life concerns, the House voted 235 – 187 to approve the Foreign Affairs Reauthorization Act (HR 2410) late Wednesday. The vote was for the most part divided along party lines, with 18 Democrats voting with the GOP against the bill. It will now proceed to the US Senate for further consideration. Pro-life advocates […]
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British Ambassador to Poland Blasted for Promoting “Gay Rights” in Strongly Pro-Family Nation

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WARSAW, June 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Poland’s civil rights ombudsman, Janusz Kochanowski, said British ambassador Ric Todd was “being improper and doesn’t understand the role of a diplomat” following the disclosure that Todd gave homosexual activist leaders a copy of the “UK Guide To Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender People And Their Rights,” translated into Polish, earlier this week. The booklet is an adaptation of a political correctness manual for UK civil servants produced by the British Foreign Office, and the act was seen as a promotion by the ambassador of the planned “gay pride” march […]
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Boston Archdiocese Reaffirms Hospitals’ Commitment to Catholic Morals, ALL Responds

By Kathleen Gilbert BRAINTREE, Massachusetts, June 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and its hospitals have responded to the controversy surrounding its joint participation in abortion-covering health care, insisting that the hospitals will remain faithful to Catholic moral teaching, and will not change their protocol concerning those seeking abortion. However, the American Life League says that it is still opposed to the arrangement, saying the explanation from the Archdiocese and its hospitals is “absolutely not” acceptable. Archdiocesan communications director Terence Donilon sent LifeSiteNews.com a press release late Wednesday that affirmed Caritas Christi hospitals are in “active discussions with […]
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Distinguished Philosophy Prof Accuses Head of Pontifical Academy for Life of “Total Relativism”

By Hilary White ROME, June 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Michel Schooyans, a professor emeritus of philosophy at the Université Catholique de Louvain, in Belgium has issued a stinging assessment of the situation between Brazil’s Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho and the head of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV). Schooyans wrote that what he has called the “Recife Affair” is one of “utmost gravity” for the Church. Mgr. Schooyans bluntly says that Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, the head of the PAV, justified the abortion of twins of the nine year-old girl in Brazil “on the grounds of compassion towards the little […]
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U.K. Government Tightens Leash on Homeschoolers: Fears Raised of Germany-Style Clampdown

By Hilary White LONDON, June 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Under newly announced Labour government rules, local council authorities are authorized to enter private homes to interview children, without parents present, on their safety and “quality of education.” The new regulations have raised fears among Britain’s homeschooling community of a government attack on the rights of parents to educate their children at home. Families will be forced to register with authorities and could face criminal penalties if they are deemed to be inadequately educating their children. The compulsory program will be administered by local councils who will visit parents intending to […]
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Senator: Sotomayor Says She “Never Thought About” Rights of Unborn

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican Senator Jim DeMint says that he is troubled by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor after she told him she had “never thought about” the rights of the unborn child. “When I asked if an unborn child has any rights whatsoever, I was surprised that she said she had never thought about it,” said DeMint in a statement. ”This is not just a question about abortion, but about the respect due to human life at all stages, and I hope this is cleared up in her hearings.” The South Carolina senator also expressed […]
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Complete Article on “The Recife Affair” by Political Philosophy Professor Monseigneur Michel Schooya

I. Summary 1) On the fourth of March 2009, an abortion was carried out on a little nine years old girl in Recife. She had been raped by her step-father and was pregnant with twins. Neither the mother nor the unborn twins were in danger of death. Dom Cardoso, Archbishop of Recife, had done all that he could to prevent this double abortion. But to no avail. Badly informed, Archbishop Rino Fisichella (RF) rebuked his brother bishop for having been lacking in compassion and having excommunicated those who performed the double abortion. His article published in the Osservatore Romano of […]
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Important Notices re: Today’s News and LifeSiteNews Developments

Dear Readers, If anyone somehow still has doubts about the validity of our reports on Development and Peace's funding of pro-abortion groups, today's and yesterdays report's cry out for immediate action to halt the hundreds of thousands of dollars from Canadian Catholics still going to many unworthy “social justice” organizations. The Mexico story reveals once again the severe need for developed nations to help the undeveloped South to defend itself from the wealthy anti-life organizations who are forcing their abortion imperialism upon poor nations. It seems that Fr. Jenkins has lost all Christian sensitivity regarding the peaceful protesters who voiced […]
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Americans United for Life Action Says the House-Approved Bill to Promote Abortion Overseas Is a “Gra

WASHINGTON, June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today the U.S. House of Representatives voted 235-187 to approve H.R. 2410, the Foreign Relations Reauthorization Act, which creates a new “Office for Global Women's Issues” and directs that this office coordinate and support efforts regarding “women’s empowerment” around the world.  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently testified before the Foreign Affairs Committee that this administration “will protect the rights of women, including their rights to reproductive health care” – which also means access to abortion. In responding to the vote, Americans United for Life Action President & CEO Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D. said, “If this […]
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Court Hearing Has Implications for Ontario ‘Bubble Zone’ Injunction Protecting Abortuaries

By Tony Gosgnach TORONTO, June 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The results of an Ontario Superior Court of Justice hearing held June 5 in Toronto may have significant implications for the application of a “temporary” 1994 injunction barring pro-life activity around specified abortion sites in the province. The Crown attorney’s office is appealing the Jan. 12, 2009 quashing of a criminal charge of disobeying a court order that had been laid against longtime pro-life demonstrator Linda Gibbons. At the time, Justice John C. Moore said the matter was being heard in a criminal court inappropriately, since the 1994 injunction was pronounced […]
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Hundreds of Mexican Health Care Workers and Hospitals Seek Exemption from Requirement to Provide Abo

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, June 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hundreds of doctors, nurses, and even whole medical institutions are seeking legal exemption from Official Mexican Norm (NOM) 046, which requires medical practitioners to perform abortions on women who claim they have been raped, within 72 hours of the request. The administration of President Felipe Calderon approved the new regulation on April 16 after coming under pressure from pro-abortion “human rights” groups such as Amnesty International . Originally NOM 046 was to say that the abortions “may” be performed, but following the protests, the word was changed […]
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Free Abortions in Honor of Tiller Denounced as ‘Sick’

PHILADELPHIA, June 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Operation Rescue said today that it is appalled to learn that Philadelphia Women's Center gave away free abortions on Tuesday as a means of “honoring” slain late-term abortionist George Tiller. “There seems to be no comprehension of the value of human life with these people. Killing babies for free to honor someone who was murdered can only be described as sick,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. The abortion facility told the media that an unspecified number of abortions were done free of charge, but there are no further plans to offer additional free […]
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ND Prez Jenkins Has “No Interest” in Asking for Leniency for ND Protesters Despite Calls for “Dialog

By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, June 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of the University of Notre Dame has “no interest” in interfering with the fates of over 80 peaceful pro-life protesters arrested on campus while protesting President Obama's May 17 commencement speech, says the pro-lifers' attorney. One of the arrestees, Lambs of Christ founder Fr. Norman Weslin, issued a statement Monday calling on University president Fr. John Jenkins to heed the arrested group's requests to meet, which Weslin says Fr. Jenkins has ignored. Pro-lifers from across the nation, including states as far away as New Mexico, Colorado, New Jersey, […]
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Nova Scotia Elects Pro-Abortion NDP Majority in Major Political Upset

By Patrick B. Craine NOVA SCOTIA, June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a historic victory Tuesday, the heavily pro-abortion New Democrat Party of Nova Scotia won a majority government, taking 31 of the 52 seats. Premier-designate Darrell Dexter, leader of Nova Scotia’s NDP for eight years, was beaming Tuesday night as he reflected on the victory, reports The Halifax Chronicle Herald. “Who would believe that NDP-orange would cover Nova Scotia from Cumberland County … right down through the Valley as far south as Shelburne County and right on through to Cape Breton Island?” said Dexter. The PC Party of Nova Scotia, […]
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East Timor Criminalizes Abortion Despite Heavy Opposition from Pro-Abortion Groups Funded by Canadia

By John Jalsevac East Timor, June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The East Timor parliament has passed a new penal code that criminalizes abortion, penalizing those who commit an abortion with the mother's consent with up to 3 years in prison. The code points out that life needs to be protected “from the moment of conception.” The law goes on to specify that in certain extreme circumstances when the mother's life is imminently in danger, and all efforts to save both mother and child have been attempted and failed, then efforts to ”interrupt” the pregnancy may be pursued if it is the “only way” to save the life of […]
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UCLA Flip-Flops: Says Student Can Thank Jesus After All

LOS ANGELES, CA, June 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Officials from the University of California, Los Angeles, confirmed Tuesday that they will permit a Christian student’s graduation statement to include a word of thanks to Jesus Christ after first saying they would not allow the sentence. The student, Christina Popa, received a voice mail from the school Friday evening that her statement will be read verbatim during the June 13 commencement ceremony. “Christian students shouldn’t be silenced when expressing their beliefs at public universities and are entitled to the same rights as all other students,” said ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Heather Gebelin […]
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Son of Catholic Mother Placed in Foster Care with Homosexual Couple: An Interview with the Mother’s

By Hilary White BRIGHTON, UK June 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a suit against local government authorities by a British Catholic woman whose son has been given into the care of homosexual foster carers, the larger issue is whether the Labour government’s Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs) are in conflict with existing human rights law, an expert in Britain’s discrimination laws told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) today. Having given the child into the care of foster parents who are necessarily at odds with the religion of the mother and her son, the Brighton and Hove Council could be found to be in violation […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewBytes – OBama, Economic Crisis, Life Issues, More Response to Tiller Killing and

* 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 Reality Awaits Obama Utopian fantasy is the underlying principle of President Obama's foreign policy. It is Freudian foreign policy. Remove their fears, and their hostility will disappear.  https://spectator.org/archives/2009/06/09/reality-awaits-obama Obama and the new holocaust https://patricknovecosky.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/obama-and-the-new-holocaust/ Obama-Clinton's worldwide abortion propaganda unit https://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-clintons-worldwide-abortion.html Obama's Enemies List Grows The targeting of perceived political enemies by the Obama Administration has grown from mere individuals to entire groups. https://spectator.org/archives/2009/06/08/obamas-enemies-list-grows Spiked: Hugo Chavez […]
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Christopher West Debate Continues: Schindler Responds to Smith and Waldstein

By Alex Bush June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ongoing debate over Christopher West’s take on John Paul II’s Theology of the Body continued today as Dr. David Schindler responded to Dr. Janet Smith’s and Dr. Michael Waldstein’s criticisms of his first article. In that article Schindler had highlighted what he believes to be a number of problems with West’s theology, specifically West’s view on modesty and concupiscence. Smith and Waldstein subsequently responded, defending West for his work. The whole controversy was originally ignited by an ABC Nightline segment on West that provoked a renewed discussion about the Theology of […]
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Spanish Conservatives Ride Pro-Life Wave to Victory in European Parliament Elections

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MADRID, June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Spanish conservative People's Party soundly defeated their main socialist rival in Sunday's European Parliament elections after making the socialists' pro-abortion position a prominent issue. The People's Party (PP) appeared to be riding a wave of pro-life sentiment in Spain as voters expressed their dissatisfaction with the Spanish Socialist Worker's Party's (PSOE) plans to remove criminal penalties for all abortions up to 14 weeks, and to lower the age of consent for abortions to 16. The People's Party (PP) won 23 European Parliament seats with approximately 42.3% of the vote, […]
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Obama Appoints “Abortion Reduction” Catholic to HHS Faith Office

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The bevy of dissident Catholics appointed to leading positions in the Obama administration has swelled even further following President Obama's nomination of Alexia Kelley, a co-founder of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CAGC) and an ardent Obama supporter, to head the faith office at the Department of Health and Human Services. Voices on both sides of the abortion debate responded with criticism to news of the nomination: though claiming to reject abortion, Kelley has advocated in favor of “abortion reduction” techniques while treading carefully around the legality of the […]
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“Stop Funding Pro-Abortion Groups in Our Country”: Peru Bishops to Canadian Bishops

By John-Henry Westen LIMA, June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a May 28 letter, the Bishops Conference of Peru has “formally” requested that the bishops of Canada cease funding pro-abortion groups in Peru via the Canadian Catholic Organization of Development & Peace (D&P). “It is very disturbing to have groups which work against the Bishops of Peru by attempting to undermine legal protection for the right to life of unborn children, be funded by our brother bishops in Canada,” says the letter. The letter marks a major breakthrough in the D&P scandal that was first exposed by LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) in March […]
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Commentary: Sic Transit Gloria – Goodbye Notre Dame!

By Michael V. McIntire, Notre Dame Class of 1957 Editor’s Note: Michael V. McIntire is a 1957 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and was later Associate Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School. An Oblate of the Order of St. Benedict and an RCIA Catechist, he has authored several articles on the secularization of Catholic colleges and universities. (From Orthodoxy to Heresy – The Secularization of Catholic Universities, New Oxford Review, Sept. 2008; Has Notre Dame Lost its Catholic Credentials?, St. Austin Review, Sept/October 2007). June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – I love Notre Dame – the Notre Dame that […]
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Commentary: ALL President Responds to Critics of “The Pill Kills” Events

By Judie Brown, President, American Life League June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the completion of another successful PILL KILLS series of events, we were somewhat shocked and surprised to see how many pro-promiscuity zealots took our event to heart and whined about it, opined about it and indiscriminately lied about it. I mean really! Everyone from the Huffington Post and some individual known as Progressive Eruptions to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow made it quite obvious that the event was a cause for the most grotesque sort of nastiness. Actually if you read or listen to their words, the squealing actually […]
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Congress to Vote This Week on Controversial “Global Women’s Issues” Initiative

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on a bill that would create a new “Office for Global Women's Issues” in the State Department.  Given that the House Foreign Affairs Committee rejected pro-life language in delineating the responsibilities of the office, pro-life leaders fear that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will undoubtedly use the office to lobby against international legal protections for the unborn. The National Right to Life Committee is asking pro-lifers to contact their congressmen to oppose the bill. When asked in an April 22 […]
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Promise Keepers to Relaunch this Summer with Massive Event in Boulder, Colorado

By Patrick B. Craine  BOULDER, Colorado, June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Promise Keepers (PK) is unveiling a new vision for its ministry this summer in a special conference on July 31st – August 1st entitled ‘A Time to Honor.’  Promise Keepers is a ministry to men whose mission is to “ignite and unite men to become warriors who will change their world” by becoming “godly influences.” The ministry was founded by Coach McCartney in 1990, based on his vision of gathering 50,000 men together on Boulder’s Folsom Field. They achieved this goal in 1993, and have since expanded across the country, offering […]
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L’Osservatore Romano Takes Half a Step Back from Obama Support

By Hilary White ROME, June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After months of criticism for its series of articles praising US president Barack Obama, the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, has backtracked half a pace in an article on the US bishops’ response to US embryo research guidelines. On Friday, L’Osservatore Romano published an unsigned article, on page seven of its eight-page edition, that carried an end note assuring readers that the paper is in line with the US bishops’ conference on “ethical issues.” Also towards the end of the story about the USCCB’s reaction to the embryo research policies of the […]
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Hate Crimes Bill to be Smuggled through Senate as a Legislative Amendment

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Senate intends to smuggle controversial hate crimes legislation into federal law by passing it as an amendment to another major piece of legislation instead of a stand-alone piece of legislation, according to remarks by a representative of a major homosexualist organization. “We understand that Senate leadership does not believe a hearing or mark up on the bill is necessary and plans to bring it directly to the floor as an amendment to another moving vehicle,” said Trevor Thomas, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), in […]
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Supreme Court Refuses to Challenge Military ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

By Kathleen Gilbert LYNCHBURG, Virginia, June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld yesterday the prohibition against open homosexuals serving in the military after it refused to hear a constitutional challenge from a former Army captain discharged due to his self-identification as a homosexual.   Former Army Captain James Pietrangelo II was originally one of 12 plaintiffs who filed suit after being dismissed for open homosexuality. Most of the other plaintiffs dropped the case after the Court of Appeals in Boston rejected the suit last year. Under the Clinton-era “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy, homosexuals are dismissed from the military […]
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Activist Announces Plans for Homosexual “Marriage” March on Nation’s Capitol

By Peter J. Smith SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While homosexual activists have planned various excursions and events for National Coming Out Day, one leader in the homosexual movement has announced plans for a march on the nation’s Capitol to demand that Congress legalize same-sex “marriage.” Cleve Jones, the founder of the AIDS quilt and a protégé of Harvey Milk, San Francisco’s first openly homosexual elected official, told a crowd assembled at the annual Utah Pride Festival that a national march was upcoming for October 11, to coincide with this year’s National Coming Out Day. The […]
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Support Buckles for Maintaining Same-sex “Marriage” Ban in Michigan: Poll

By Peter J. Smith LANSING, Michigan, June 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to a recent poll, support for natural marriage has slipped substantially in the state of Michigan, where residents still favor preserving the traditional definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman, but now by a razor-thin margin. The Detroit Free Press reports that a Glengariff poll of 600 registered voters shows just 48 percent of Michiganders favored preserving the definition of marriage enshrined in the state constitution, while 46.5 percent responded in favor of legalizing same-sex “marriage.” The 2009 Glengariff poll taken between May […]
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Dear Friends, We need your help big time.  Unlike large pro-abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood, LifeSiteNews doesn’t receive millions of dollars in government funding. We are commpletely funded by YOUR donations. We are therefore relying on you and the rest of our readers to contribute significantly in the next two weeks to raise the summer portion of our annual budget. So I urge you now to please take a moment to donate to LSN.  I cannot communicate to you enough the need we have for your continued financial support. And here is some exciting news: in return for your […]
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Fear of Eugenic Abortion Sparked as Prenatal Gender Identification Kit May Become Available in New Z

By Alex Bush NEW ZEALAND, June 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An American prenatal test kit that determines the gender of the child is making its way into New Zealand and may become available within the next two weeks – sparking fears that it will lead to gender selective abortion. “The concern we would have is that people would then terminate pregnancies on the grounds of sex selection,” said the president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Dr Ted Weaver. The Australian Christian Lobby managing director Jim Wallace said, “That we would allow a product […]
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Catholic Answers Launches Lawsuit over IRS “Intimidation” Tactics against Non-Profits

By Peter J. Smith SAN DIEGO, June 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic Answers, a lay-run Catholic apologetics ministry, has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Internal Revenue Service, charging that the federal tax collection agency routinely bullies churches and non-profit organizations into political silence, especially when it comes to speaking out on the moral issues at stake in an election cycle. “We’re standing up to the IRS. Not just for ourselves, but on behalf of non-profit organizations and churches all across the country that are constantly harassed, threatened, intimidated, and persecuted by the IRS,” said Catholic Answers President […]
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ACLU Aims to Tear Down War Memorial Cross

By Patrick B. Craine June 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is seeking to have a War Memorial Cross in California’s Mojave Desert removed. The Cross was originally erected in 1934 by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) “in Memory of the Dead of All Wars,” as the plaque reads. After winning at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the ACLU will have to bring its case before the U.S. Supreme Court; but they are being opposed by two legal organizations dedicated to the preservation of religious freedom and traditional values. Both the Thomas More Law Center […]
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Coup in New York State Senate Effectively Ends Same-Sex “Marriage” Bill

By Peter J. Smith ALBANY, New York, June 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a dramatic turn of events, key defections from the Democratic Party in New York have placed control of the state senate effectively back in Republican control, likely putting to an end the former Democratic leadership’s bid to legalize same-sex “marriage.” Two Democratic state senators, Hiram Monserrate of Queens and Pedro Espada of the Bronx, voted with Republicans Monday afternoon to strip control of the Senate away from Majority Leader Malcolm Smith (D-Queens), who had been engaged in building a majority behind closed doors to legalize same-sex “marriage” before […]
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Pro-Life Women Leaders to Call on Congress to Oppose D.C. Taxpayer-Funded Abortion

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Susan B. Anthony List is joining the U.S. House of Representatives' Pro-Life Women's Caucus tomorrow to ask Congress to ensure that taxpayers in the nation's capital are not forced to fund abortion-on-demand. The pro-life groups have announced plans to host a press conference June 9 at 11:30 a.m. to urge preservation of the Dornan Amendment, which has maintained restrictions on taxpayer funding for abortion in the District of Columbia for several years.  Those present at the conference will include: Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser; House Pro-Life Women's […]
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Brief Linked to Sotomayor Endorses “Fundamental Right” to Abortion

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More light has been shed on the pro-abortion leanings of Supreme Court hopeful Sonia Sotomayor after news erupted of a brief Sotomayor apparently endorsed that urged the Supreme Court to uphold the “right” to abortion. The amicus curiae brief, reported late last month by U.S. News and World Report's Bonnie Erbe, addressed the Supreme Court concerning the 1989 case Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. The case involved a complaint by various Missouri abortion providers against a state law defining conception as the beginning of life and disallowing public facilities to […]
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Looney England – Boys As Young As 12 To Be Given “Credit Cards” For Obtaining Condoms

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LONDON, UK, June 8,2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK Department for Children, Schools and Families has announced a new program that will give boys as young as 12 a condom “credit card”, or “C-card”, allowing them to receive free condoms at sport fields, clubs and barbershops. The strategy was thought up by the Brook Advisory Service, a UK organization that promotes contraception to teenagers, as a way of providing more condoms to teenagers with the hope that it will help cut teenage pregnancies. Britain has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe, Times Online reports, and the […]
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EXCLUSIVE: Battle of the Archbishops Heats up as Legal Document Sent to Vatican Officials by Brazili

By Hilary White ROME, June 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The public argument between Vatican officials and the archdiocese of Olinda and Recife over the abortion of the twins of a nine-year-old rape victim in Brazil continues as the archdiocese today distributed a legal memorandum to Vatican officials, detailing what the local Church in Brazil did and attempted to do to help the girl. The memorandum, says the head of the Rome office of Human Life International, is likely an attempt to find an “amicable and Christian solution” to the conflict in order to avoid a canonical lawsuit against Archbishop Salvatore […]
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Announcing New, Secure LifeSiteNews Donaton Pages

Dear Readers, Our tech team has finished working on a brand new secure and easy-to-use system of donation pages. Now when you click “donate” from our emails or links on the website, the new system will automatically direct you to either a “US and International Donors” or a “Canadian Donors” web page depending on your location. Note that the web address of some of our donation pages indicates the page is hosted by Qbase Fundraising. Qbase is a secure server that processes donations automatically and securely, providing you with the peace-of-mind of knowing you are donating with the latest in […]
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Letters to the Editor

Re: Catholic Prof and Evangelical Leader Blame Catholic Church, Republicans, “Religious Leaders” for Tiller's Murderhttps://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jun/09060209.html I'm one of his former students at Marquette.  I suffered through his required for my philosophy degree “applied ethics” course with him stuffing down our throats John Noonan's pro-abortion book CONTRACEPTION, his telling us that the Church “Fathers” were all sexually warped and working only from the scientifically debunked “homocunulus theory” so all they said was wrong—fall of 68 or spring of 69. PLEASE do not give him the title “Catholic”. Kathryn SchutzMarquette 1969 BA Philosophy & Theology___________________________________________________________________________ Re: Obama and the holocaust Dear Lifesite News, I […]
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Proposals to Legalize Abortion are “Verbal Diarrhea” Says Former Spanish President

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MADRID, June 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has denounced proposals in Spain to legalize abortion as “illiterate verbal diarrhea,” according to local media reports. “Abortion is not and never can be a right,” he said, “because what is a right, is the right to life.” The remarks were made at conference being held at the University of San Pablo CEU, entitled “The Ethical Foundations of Democracy in the West.” Denouncing the administration of Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Aznar observed that “it is having serious difficulties in distinguishing what […]
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Roeder Objects to “Being Treated as a Criminal” Before Conviction: Interview with Alleged Tiller Kil

By Kathleen Gilbert WICHITA, June 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a three-minute interview with the Associated Press on Thursday, suspected Tiller killer Scott Roeder lamented that he was “being treated as a criminal” before being proven guilty, and thanked all who had prayed for him. Roeder was arrested hours after Kansas late-term abortionist George Tiller was shot and killed while distributing programs as an usher at his Lutheran church. Police apprehended Roeder, 51, as he drove away from the scene, and he was subsequently charged with first degree-murder. Roeder refused to comment on the Tiller murder, saying he would discuss it […]
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White House “Comfortable” With Anti-Catholic Homosexual Activist on Faith Counsel

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The White House says the President is “comfortable” with a homosexual activist on his advisory counsel of faith-based initiatives, a man who has come under attack for having vilified the Catholic Church, calling the current Pope a “discredited leader” and the Knights of Columbus his “foot soldiers” in a “discredited army of oppression.” CNSNews.com reported Tuesday that the White House has essentially shrugged at calls from Catholics that Harry Knox, the former director of the “religion and faith program” at the Human Rights Counsel, a homosexual lobby group, be […]
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Three Senators Now Say Sotomayor Will Uphold Roe v. Wade

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Sonia Sotomayor finishes making the rounds on Capitol Hill, meeting individually with lawmakers, two more US senators insist the Supreme Court nominee will continue to uphold legal abortion by maintaining Roe v. Wade as the law of the land. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon has become the third US Senator to affirm that Sotomayor will respect abortion law set by the legal precedent of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that, along with its companion case Doe v. Bolton, legalized abortion on demand in all […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes – Life Issues, Obama, Sotomayor/Diaz, Obama and Catholics, Notre Dame/Oba

* 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 Abortion ‘absolutists’ blocking bill to support pregnant women, pro-life Dem saysthe bill’s opponents think the bill “goes too far toward common ground.” A “minority of Democrats on the pro-choice side” object to a provision requiring that abortion providers offer women the voluntary option of receiving pre-abortion counseling to learn of the risks associated with abortionhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16165 Protecting the Careers of Medical Professionals Who Believe in the […]
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LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes – Reaction to George Tiller Killing

* 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 REACTION TO GEORGE TILLER SHOOTING Media Calls Killer 'Pro-Life' half a dozen headlines about the murder of abortionist George Tiller that use the word “pro-life” to describe his suspected murderer or his associations. “In regular news stories, they always use the term ‘anti-abortion,” said Brian Gibson, “Now they start calling the person who did this ‘pro-life,’ when he’s not. They’re rubbing our noses in the term.” https://www.ncregister.com/daily/medias_pro-life_bias_on_display/ […]
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MSNBC Host Keith Olbermann Names Pro-Life Activist Jill Stanek “Worst Person in the World”

By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, June 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – MSNBC's Keith Olbermann dove into the debate surrounding the George Tiller murder Thursday by singling out pro-life blogger Jilll Stanek as his pick for “Worst Person in the World.” In the context of a post on late-term abortion providers in the U.S., Stanek had recently posted images of Nebraska abortionist LeRoy Cahart’s small abortion facility along with commentary on an Associated Press report describing the building. Cahart has been in the news in recent days for having offered to continue Tiller’s late-term abortion business following his murder. Olbermann based his […]
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UK Considers Euthanasia Amendment: “Beginning of the Creation of a Death Cult” Says Lord Alton

By Alex Bush LONDON, UK, June 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lord Falconer of Thoroton has tabled an amendment to the Coroners and Justice Bill that would make it legal to assist a person to leave the country to commit suicide. Presently, it is illegal for someone to assist another to commit suicide, even if done out of the country. The law, however, is generally not enforced because it “is not in the public interest,” according to Sir Ken Macdonald, former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Numerous U.K. residents have in recent years travelled to Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal, to commit […]
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400 Students Defy ACLU and Stand to Recite Lord’s Prayer at Graduation

By John Jalsevac SANTA ROSA COUNTY, FL, June 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nearly 400 graduating seniors at Pace High School stood up in protest against the ACLU and recited the Lord’s Prayer during their graduation ceremony last Saturday. Many of the students also painted crosses on their graduation caps to make a statement of faith. (To watch a video of the prayer, click here) The prayerful protest by the students comes on the heels of a lawsuit the ACLU filed against the Santa Rosa County School District, claiming some of the teachers and administration endorsed religion. The suit was filed on […]
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LifeSiteNews Launches Portuguese Version: Notícias Pró-Família

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent GUADALAJARA, June 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com, the internet's most-read international pro-life and pro-family news service, has launched a parallel service in Portuguese. The new service, Notícias Pró-Família (Pro-Family News) is currently hosted on Google's Blogger system, at https://noticiasprofamilia.blogspot.com. However, LifeSiteNews plans to move the service to its own website before long. Notícias Pró-Família posts one to two new articles daily, translated by Julio Severo, one of Brazil's most prominent pro-family activists. Severo currently lives in self-imposed exile from Brazil to avoid prosecution for criticizing the country's powerful homosexualist movement, which is supported by President […]
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Catholic University Blasted for Giving Platform to Prof Who Blamed Tiller Murder on Pro-Life Movemen

MANASSAS, VA, June 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A national Catholic education organization today rejected arguments by Marquette University theologian Daniel Maguire that religious and pro-life leaders are responsible for the murder of late-term abortionist George Tiller. The organization instead blamed the Jesuit Catholic university for negligence in providing Maguire a public platform for his pro-abortion advocacy. “George Tiller’s murder is shocking and reprehensible,” said Patrick J. Reilly, President of The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS).  “Abortion is also reprehensible, and a Catholic university that for many years has refused to discipline or remove a stridently pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage activist from its […]
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Euthanasia Bill Introduced in Tasmanian Parliament

By Alex Bush June 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nick McKim, an MP from the political party the Tasmanian Greens, has tabled a bill that would legalize euthanasia. The bill “seeks to confirm the right of those suffering from a terminal illness and experiencing intolerable pain to request assistance from a medically qualified person to end voluntarily their lives in a humane and dignified manner.” McKim has responded to critics of the bill who suggest that the bill will be abused, saying that it has “safeguards” in place, including psychiatric evaluations and limitations to Tasmanian residents. The MP also cited an Enterprise […]
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“Love Really Can Make Suffering Bearable”: Woman with Spina Bifida Grapples with the Answer to “Unbe

By Kathleen Gilbert LANSDOWNE, Virginia, June 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amid the euthanasia and assisted suicide debate, the objection is frequently raised: what about those who suffer what can truly be called “unbearable pain”?  Although euthanasia advocates often mount a compelling “right to die” argument for such cases, two U.K. activists intimately familiar with the depth of physical suffering strongly deny that assisted suicide and euthanasia provide an acceptable answer to pain. Instead, they say, a society that considers suicide a legitimate option deprives sufferers of the support they need the most, and implicitly shuns the power of love to overcome […]
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UNFPA Gives Awards to Nicaraguan Pro-Abortion NGO, “Reproductive Rights” Advocate

By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, NY, June 5, 2009 (C-FAM) - This week, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) hosted its annual population award ceremony at the United Nations (UN) to honor an individual and an organization for “outstanding contribution” in the population field, including family planning and “reproductive rights” advocacy. The individual was Dr. Mahmoud Fathalla, a former advisor to both the World Health Organization and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), and the organization was a Nicaraguan-based non-government organization that has been critical of the Nicaraguan government for instituting a complete ban on abortions. After introducing the 2009 Population Prize […]
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Up to 4000 Conservatives to Descend Upon Amsterdam for World Congress of Families in August

By Austin Ruse WASHINGTON, DC, June 5, 2009 (C-FAM) - Up to 4,000 social conservatives are expected to descend upon liberal Amsterdam, Netherlands, on August 10-12 for the biennial World Congress of Families, a meeting that brings together scholars, academics, policy makers, elected officials, and activists for four days of speeches, lectures, and networking. The Netherlands beat out four other countries in its bid to host what is the largest gathering of social conservatives in the world. Russia, Bolivia, Latvia and Nigeria lost out after the Dutch proposal included support from the government though a promise the liberal government would not […]
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Same-Sex “Marriage” Bill Will Radically Change Nature of Marriage: Bishops to New York State Senate

By Hilary White ALBANY, June 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Bishops of New York have issued a letter urging the state senate to reject a bill, already passed by the New York State Assembly, that will legalize same-sex “marriage.” The measure is “ill-advised” and “would radically change the timeless institution of marriage,” the bishops’ letter said. The letter, signed by every member of the New York bishop’s conference, comes after the claim by New York governor David Paterson that same-sex “marriage” is a civil right and the “right way” to go from a spiritual standpoint. Paterson put forward the […]
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MP Who Introduced Bill to Criminalize Online Suicide Counselling Explains His Motives

By Hilary White June 4, 2009, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Harold Albrecht, the Conservative M.P. for Kitchener-Conestoga, in Ontario, says that his recent effort to outlaw the use of the internet to counsel for suicide, was inspired by his close following of the case of Nadia Kajouji, a young woman who committed suicide last year after being goaded to do so in an online chat room. Albrecht told LifeSiteNews.com this week that his private member’s motion, tabled last month (see coverage), and that would make internet counselling for suicide a criminal offense, is simply a matter of protecting the vulnerable. The motion, […]
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Commentary on June 4 LifeSiteNews Reports – LifeSiteNews Not for the Faint-Hearted

Dear Readers, The UN is becoming more militantly opposed to the inherent right to life of every human being, born or unborn. It is also a growing danger to the sovereignty of nations and a danger to religion, especially belief in authentic Christianity. Of course not all persons and agencies in the UN are a party to this corruption. Still, the reality is that the UN's deepening ideological rot must be faced and resisted, including in our schools and universities, where uncritical promotion of the UN and its agencies is the rule. LifeSiteNews has been warning about this for years. Notre […]
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Fr. Pavone Emphasizes Biggest Danger From the Killing of George Tiller

Commentary by Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life June 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life leadership has gone out of its way – and rightly so – to condemn the violence that took the life of abortionist George Tiller on Sunday. I join with those voices, as I always have done, that declare that the end never justifies the means, and that violence has no place in the effort to end abortion. I have been asked what I think the biggest negative effect of this killing will be on our pro-life movement. Does it tar the movement’s reputation? Yes, […]
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UN Report Says Pro-Life Laws Constitute Violence against Women

By Alex Bush   GENEVA, Switzerland, June 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new UN report, titled “15 years of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and consequences (1994-2009) – A critical review,” states that “criminal sanctions against all forms of abortions and contraception” imposed by the state constitute an act of violence against women.   “Such state policies and measures infringe upon women's liberty, security, and life,” the report says.   The report continues on to argue that if a state does not readily provide contraception or “family planning services” to women then it is […]
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Fight Erupts Over Backroom Dealing and “Mind Game” in New York Same-Sex “Marriage” Bill

By Peter J. Smith ALBANY, New York, June 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With less than three weeks to go before the end of New York’s legislative session, a fight is brewing over what one senator has called a “mind game” being played over the same-sex “marriage” bill by its chief proponent. Backroom deals over the contentious bill, however, have still not gained a solid majority in the state Senate to pass the measure. The political maneuverings of the bill’s chief sponsor, homosexual state senator Tom Duane (D-Manhattan), has angered the Senate’s foremost opponent of same-sex “marriage,” Ruben Diaz Sr. (D-Bronx), […]
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Prominent Homosexual Activist James Kirchick Defends Pro-Life Movement in WSJ over Tiller Murder

By Alex Bush June 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, James Kirchick, a prominent homosexual activist, defended the pro-life movement, saying that “the left” is trying “to smear 'Christianists' as akin to Islamic extremists.” He defended pro-lifers from attacks from pro-aborts who jumped on the opportunity to smear the pro-life movement with the murder of George Tiller, the infamous late-term abortionist. Kirchick pointed out that within hours of Tiller's murder, every pro-life group“in the country denounced the attack,” saying that there are “no appreciable number of people in this country, religious Christians or otherwise, […]
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Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus Endow Professorship of Gender and Sexuality to the Tune of $1.5 Milli

By Alex Bush CAMBRIDGE, MA, June 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Harvard University has received an endowment worth $1.5 million to fund a “gender and sexuality” professorship from the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus, reports the Harvard Gazette. The new professorship has been named the F.O. Matthiessan Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality. Named after F.O. Matthiessan, who was a homosexual literary critic and faculty member at Harvard, this is the first endowed named chair in so-called “LGBT studies.” Mitchell L. Adams, who oversees the Gay and Lesbian Caucus, said that the formation of a new chair is “an extraordinary moment in Harvard’s […]
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Anti-Catholic San Fran City Resolution OK: 9th Circuit Court Panel

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, June 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A San Francisco City Board’s resolution condemning the Catholic Church because of its moral teachings on homosexuality does not violate the Constitution’s prohibition of government hostility toward religion, says a panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. (See the ruling here)    The anti-Catholic resolution, adopted March 21, 2006, was challenged by the Thomas More Law Center, a national Christian legal advocacy group based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on behalf of the Catholic League and two Catholic residents of San Francisco. The city board’s resolution was issued in response to a directive from Cardinal William […]
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Notre Dame Not Seeking Leniency for Arrested Pro-Life Protesters: Thomas More Lawyers Now on the Cas

By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, June 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thomas More Society attorneys appeared in St. Joseph County Criminal Court to defend two prominent pro-life advocates against trespass charges brought this morning by local prosecutors in the wake of protests at the University of Notre Dame. The attorneys join the fight with pro-life attorney Tom Dickson, who is representing dozens more pro-lifers arrested at the campus. Laura Rohling and Jane Brennan went onto the Notre Dame campus to educate students about the after-effects of abortion, based on their own personal experiences with abortion. Ms. Brennan, author of “Motherhood Interrupted,” […]
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Genocide Awareness Display Vindicated in Highest Slovak Court after Police Disruption

KOSICE, Slovak Republic, June 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The highest court of the Slovak Republic ruled in favor of a pro-life group Tuesday in its lawsuit against police. Attorney Dr. Alan Bohm together with Alliance Defense Fund attorneys represented the Centre for Bio-ethical Reform Europe, which filed suit after police disrupted a peaceful pro-life rally that was held in full compliance with domestic law. The court ruled that police violated the pro-life group’s constitutional right to free speech. “Pro-life advocates should not be discriminated against and silenced for expressing their beliefs and making people aware of the truth,” said Europe-based ADF Legal […]
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Pro-Life Leader Responds to National Post Article Blaming Pro-Life Movement for Tiller Murder

By Stephanie Gray, Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform June 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Editor’s Note: On June 2, Colby Cosh of the National Post published this article, in which Cosh blamed the pro-life movement for the murder of Kansas late-term abortionist George tiller. What follows is the response of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform, the Canadian affiliate of the organization that was specifically named by Mr. Cosh in his piece, “Who’s to blame for George Tiller’s Murder.” Colby Cosh is completely wrong when he says, “If you believe that abortion is tantamount to murder… then you should […]
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Family Breakdown in Canada Costs $7 Billion Annually: New Research

June 3, 2009 (Ottawa) - The Institute of Marriage and Family Canada released new research yesterday on the cost of family breakdown in Canada at a briefing on Parliament Hill. “Private choices, public costs: How failing families cost us all” examines the relationship between poverty, families and government. The authors, Rebecca Walberg and Andrea Mrozek, quantify government spending directed at poverty alleviation for broken families through welfare, child care costs and housing. They find that cost to be close to $7 billion annually. If family breakdown decreased by half, a conservative estimate of savings is close to $2 billion annually. The report can be […]
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EU Equality Proposal Discriminates against Religious Believers: Romanian Pro-Family Group

By Hilary White ROME, June 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leading pro-family organisation in Romania has warned that the European Union is setting a “dangerous precedent” with efforts to include “sexual orientation” into a new equality directive. “Forcing sexual orientation non-discrimination on religious bodies is discriminatory to religion,” the Alliance of Romania’s Families (AFR, Alianta Familiilor Din Romania) said in a legal brief. The EU’s proposed directive is directly “hostile to religion” and conflicts with freedom of speech protections, they explained. “The directive will likely have the effect of preventing religious bodies from promoting the authentic biblical view on sexuality […]
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Senator Feinstein Assures Pro-Aborts: Sotomayor “Respects Precedent” Set by Roe v. Wade

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Judiciary committee member Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday told reporters that Judge Sonia Sotomayor had satisfied her concern that the nominee to become the next Supreme Court judge would uphold liberal access to abortion as founded in Roe v. Wade. Following a meeting with Sotomayor, who has spent the last two days at Capitol Hill meeting with senators, the pro-abortion senator admitted that the discussion broached the topic of abortion. Asked to elaborate on that topic, Feinstein praised Sotomayor's “respect for precedent.” “I think she is a woman who is well-steeped […]
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A Good Journalist May Be Hard to Find, But Not a Late-Term Abortionist

By Peter J. Smith WICHITA, Kansas, June 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the aftermath of the murder of late-term abortionist, George Tiller, a number of media stories have reported that Tiller was one of only three remaining late-term abortionists in the United States. However the claim does not square up with numbers released by the Alan Guttmacher Institute and further evidence that indicates that  late-term abortion has plenty of willing practitioners across the country. The Associated Press called Tiller “one of the nation's few providers of late-term abortions” on May 31. The AP stated, “Tiller's Women's Health Care Services clinic […]
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New Hampshire Legalizes Same-Sex “Marriage”: Governor Signs Bill

By Alex Bush June 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Governor John Lynch has signed a bill that will legalize same-sex “marriage” in New Hampshire when it comes into effect in January 2010. The bill passed in the House today by a vote of 198-176. Same-sex “marriage” legislation was originally passed in the House on March 26 by a vote of 186-179 and was then approved by the Senate in a 13-11 vote on April 29.  The legislation was then passed on to Gov. Lynch for approval or veto. However, Governor Lynch stated at the time that he would not sign the bill unless it […]
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Dick Cheney Voices Support for Same-Sex “Marriage”

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – If Republican Chairman Michael Steele did not have enough problems keeping the GOP’s conservative coalition together, Dick Cheney’s Monday endorsement of same-sex marriage did little to ameliorate the situation. The former vice president stated Monday at the National Press Club that he supported same-sex unions, whether they be called “marriage” or otherwise. “I think that freedom means freedom for everyone,” Cheney asserted in response to a question concerning the latest court rulings and legislation legalizing same-sex “marriage.” Cheney mentioned the homosexual lifestyle of his daughter, Mary, who has a […]
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L’Osservatore Romano Won’t Let me Defend Myself Says Brazil Archbishop

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent RECIFE, BRAZIL, June 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, is asking that the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano publish his response to Archbishop Salvatore “Rino” Fisichella, who criticized him on its pages on March 15 for having announced the excommunication of the doctors who assisted in a now-famous abortion on a nine-year-old girl. “It seems to me important that L’Osservatore Romano should publish my response,” Cardoso told the French newspaper Present in a recent interview. “This is what we are trying to obtain, as we have been […]
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Interview with Brazil Archbishop over Excommunication of Abortion Doctors

Interview with Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of the Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife, Brazil   June 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Note: The following is an interview with Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, of Olinda and Recife, Brazil, by French journalist Jeanne Smits.  The interview appeared originally in French in the newspaper Present, and was republished in her blog in English.  Mrs. Smits has kindly granted LifeSiteNews permission to reprint the article in its entirety.   Q: In the wake of the Recife affair, the Osservatore Romano publicly rejected your declarations on the automatic excommunication of those who chose abortion for the […]
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Former Westminster Cardinal Won’t Join Tony Blair Faith Foundation After All

 By Hilary White LONDON, June 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNew.com) – Until today, the website of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation (TBFF) still carried a note saying that Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor was expected to join their Advisory Council. But today a statement from the organization has said that the Cardinal will not join the Blair Foundation after all. Parna Taylor from the Foundation told LifeSiteNews.com via e-mail, “We can totally understand Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor wanting to review his commitments” since his retirement. Taylor said that the Foundation had “always valued the private advice” given by the Cardinal. “While they support the […]
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UK Man Convicted after Trying to Stop Homosexual Sex in Public with Video Camera

By Hilary White and John Jalsevac BOSTON, UK, June 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UK man who became fed up with homosexuals meeting for sex in the local park, has received a suspended jail sentence for his attempts to shame them into stopping by using his video camera. Colin Anthony Haw, 47, of Mayflower Road, Boston, in Lincolnshire, was called a “vigilante” by the court who said his campaign to stop the activities of the local homosexual community was a threat to a “vulnerable” minority. Haw, a self-employed mechanic and a father of two children, said that he had reported […]
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Third Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Ban on Bible-Reading in the Classroom

PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a 2-1 decision, a federal appeals court has ruled that school officials did not violate the free speech rights of a kindergartner and his mother when they refused to allow Donna Busch to read a selection from the Bible as part of a classroom “All About Me” program intended to spotlight her son Wesley and his favorite book, the Bible. In appealing to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, attorneys for The Rutherford Institute had argued that school officials violated the Busches' First Amendment rights by discriminating against them based on the […]
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Commentary: Let’s Get our Facts Straight about Tiller and Anti-Abortion Violence

Commentary by Brian Clowes, PhD – Human Life International, Research Manager June 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Along with everyone else at Human Life International and throughout the legitimate pro-life movement, I strongly condemn the murder of abortionist George Tiller in Kansas. The Fifth Commandment does not read “Thou shalt not kill, except for abortionists.” Not only is it wrong to respond to people like Tiller with the ultimate anti-life act of murder, it also sets the entire pro-life movement back as good, committed leaders have to scramble to distance themselves from an act that they never called for and which is […]
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Foul-Mouthed Homosexual Activist and Anti-Christian Bigot Appointed to Obama Administration

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although President Barack Obama has advocated speaking “fair minded words” in debating differences on major ethical issues, his recent nominee to the Department of Education's Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools is a homosexual activist with a history of using foul and abusive language against those who have opposed his homosexualist agenda. Kevin Jennings, the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN), was recently appointed to the Obama Administration as Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools, which is under the Department of […]
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Swedish Legislators Propose Forcing Students into Sex Ed Classes against Parents Will

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman SWEDEN, June 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two members of Sweden's Liberal Party are proposing to force students to take the country's sexual education courses in public schools, even against the will of their parents, according to the English language Swedish news service, The Local. In an opinion article written in the Swedish publication Dagens Nyheter, Liberal Party ministers Jan Björklund and Nyamko Sabuni argue that “All pupils, including immigrant girls, have the right to swimming lessons and to take part in physical and sexual education classes … regardless of whether the parents like it or not.” […]
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National Post Columnist Blames Pro-Life Movement for Tiller Murder

By Alex Bush and John Jalsevac June 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – National Post Columnist Colby Cosh has accused the pro-life movement of being responsible for George Tiller’s murder.  Tiller, a Kansas abortionist who specialized in late-term abortions, was murdered this past Sunday. Scott Roeder, a man with a history of involvement in fringe anti-government organizations and mental illness, has been arrested in connection with the murder, for which he was charged earlier today. In an article titled, “Who’s to blame for George Tiller’s Murder,” Cosh argues that the natural consequences of believing – as the pro-life movement the world over does […]
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Catholic Prof and Evangelical Leader Blame Catholic Church, Republicans, “Religious Leaders” for Til

By Kathleen Gilbert WICHITA, Kansas, June 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two American religious leaders have accused U.S. Catholic bishops of sharing the blame for the murder of Kansas late-term abortionist George Tiller because of their advocacy for legal protection for the unborn. Tiller was shot and killed Sunday morning at a Wichita Lutheran Church where he was serving as an usher. The suspected murderer, Scott Roeder, was apprehended shortly following the incident. Reports have surfaced that Roeder suffers from mental instability linked to a schizophrenia diagnosis, and is believed to have acted alone in the murder. In a Huffington Post column yesterday titled […]
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Pro-Life Champion, U.S. Cardinal James Francis Stafford Retires from Vatican Post

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VATICAN, June 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of US Cardinal J. Francis Stafford as head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, the tribunal of the Roman Curia that deals with the forgiveness of sins that are reserved to the Holy See, the absolution of excommunications, the dispensation of sacramental impediments, and governance of indulgences. The 77 year old Cardinal was appointed Major Penitentiary in 2003 and is one of the highest ranking Americans in the Vatican.  Cardinal Stafford has been a champion of life and family issues, and has been candid and […]
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Ontario Anglican Diocese Celebrates Homosexual Lifestyle with Special Liturgy

By Tim Waggoner LONDON, ON, June 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The homosexualist agenda, having already caused mass division in the worldwide Anglican Communion, has now worked its way into the Anglican diocese of Huron, Ontario in the form of special liturgies celebrating homosexuality and the homosexual lifestyle. The May 25th edition of the Anglican Journal describes how Bishop Robert Bennet of the Huron diocese in Southern Ontario, commissioned a doctrine and worship committee to “synthesize and make available the most recent and relevant material to aid in this discernment.” The committee was then charged to “develop appropriate protocols, guidelines and […]
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Poland: Through the Pouring Rain, Thousands March for Life and Family

By Alex Bush  WARSAW, Poland, June 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ignoring, and even enjoying, a torrential downpour, approximately 2,000 Poles marched for life and family in Warsaw, Poland this past Sunday. Some participants marched carrying pro-life signage over their heads to protect themselves from the rain, while others simply allowed themselves to get completely soaked during the march. (Click here to see a photo essay of the event) Slawomir Olejniczak organized the march this year, choosing a route through Warsaw that took two hours to complete. The march culminated with a family picnic, during which time a concert was originally scheduled, but then […]
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Experts at International Euthanasia Symposium Stress Unity, Strategy, and the Triumph of Love over S

By Kathleen Gilbert LANSDOWNE, Virginia, June 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Anti-euthanasia advocates from around the globe gathered last weekend at the Second International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide to join in a rigorous discussion sketching the past and laying the groundwork for a broad-based coalition against euthanasia across the world.  The symposium took place May 29-30 at the National Conference Center in Lansdowne, Virginia. An audience of 120 listened to information-packed sessions describing the history of the euthanasia movement, analyses of recent success and failure and current dangers, as well as countless personal stories from around the world. Rita Marker, […]
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A Portrait of an Alleged Murderer: The Life of Suspected Tiller Killer Scott Roeder

By Peter J. Smith WICHITA, Kansas, June 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A clearer portrait has now emerged of the man who allegedly took it into his hands to play judge, jury, and executioner of George Tiller, the foremost provider of late-term abortions in the United States. The portrait reveals a mentally disturbed, long-time anarchist and convicted felon, who appears to have succumbed to the influence of an anti-abortion domestic terrorist group and believed that he had to commit murder in order to stave off the wrath of God. Just three hours after Tiller was gunned down in the foyer of Reformation […]
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Canadian Governor General Accepts Resignations from Order of Canada over Morgentaler Fiasco

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, May 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Michaëlle Jean officially accepted the resignations from the Order of Canada of Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, astronomer René Racine and pianist Jacqueline Richard, the Governor-General's office announced Monday. The three were among nine Canadians who returned their medals in protest over the appointment of abortionist Henry Morgentaler to the Order in the summer of 2008 for “his commitment to increased health care options for women, his determined efforts to influence Canadian public policy and his leadership in humanist and civil liberties organizations.” Archbishop of Montreal, Cardinal Turcotte, returned his award last […]
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New Poll Shows Majority of Spaniards Opposed to Proposed Abortion Law

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MADRID, June 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new poll is showing a majority of Spaniards opposed to a proposed law that would allow abortion on demand for the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy, and would allow girls as young as 16 to obtain abortions without their parents' consent. It is the lowering of the age of consent that has generated the opposition indicated in the poll. Sixty-seven percent of female respondents said that they were against lowering the age to 16, and 64 percent of all respondents held the same position. The poll was conducted by Metroscopia […]
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Commentary on June 1 News Reports – Hate-Mongering From Abortion Supporters Begins in Reaction to Ti

Dear readers, As you've already seen, the killing of abortionist George Tiller has been quickly condemned by pro-life groups throughout North America and abroad.  Our detailed coverage shows the shooter to be a crazed member of a fringe group. As we have said in the past, such a person is anti-abortion and NOT pro-life. Predictably, pro-abortion groups and leaders, usually not remotely noted for objectivity or factual accuracy, are reacting by exploiting this murder in order to attack the pro-life movement. Monday, for example, we received this email response to our article noting that pro-life groups were condemning Tiller's murder: […]
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Recollections of a Taxi Cab Ride with Abortionist George Tiller

June 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Joe Scheidler, the founder of Pro-Life Action League and longtime pro-life activist, today issued a statement denouncing the slaying of Kansas late-term abortionist George Tiller. Tiller was shot dead Sunday morning as he was serving as an usher at his church.   In condemning the murder Scheidler also recalled a chance encounter he had with the abortionist, in which he shared a taxi-cab ride with him on the way to a pro-abortion conference.   “We deplore the killing of George Tiller on Sunday morning,” said Scheidler.   “It has always been my philosophy that we […]
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Prominent Theologians Defend Christopher West and Theology of the Body

By Alex Bush June 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The debate that was sparked by an interview on ABC’s Nightline with Christopher West has grown into a rare, and fascinating instance in which a point of Catholic theology that has not been completely defined is being hashed out in public by the Church’s top minds. The issue at stake is West’s interpretation of the “Theology of the Body” of John Paul II – a Catholic take on sexual theology developed by the late pope in a series of talks during his weekly Wednesday audiences between 1979 and 1984. LifeSiteNews.com reported last week that Dr. […]
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“The Weekend Cleanup”: The Gruesome Aftermath of Legalized Euthanasia in Belgium

By Kathleen Gilbert LANSDOWNE, Virginia, June 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Canada and several U.S. states mull over legislation to legalize assisted suicide or euthanasia, one Belgian man has claimed that silent acceptance of euthanasia in his country has led to unspeakable routine abuse, and is warning the Western hemisphere to be on guard against the encroaching euthanasia agenda. Lionel Roosemont told his story at the Second International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, held May 29-30 at the National Conference Center in Lansdown, Virginia. The conference was hosted by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, and co-sponsored by anti-euthanasia groups around the […]
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Commentary: President Obama Calls Tiller Killing a Heinous Act of Violence but Ignores Heinous Viole

Commentary by Judie Brown Upon learning of the tragic murder of abortionist George Tiller, about whom I have written on numerous occasions, our staff realized that I was 34,000 feet in the air. As I would have hoped, American Life League’s Executive Director, Shaun Kenney, who was on the ground, issued the following public statement on behalf of American Life League: Leaders within the pro-life movement often discuss justice in connection with our mission to end the tragedy of abortion. Today, Dr. George Tiller's life ended in an act defying those principles. With genuine sorrow, we reflect on today's events […]
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UK, American, Canadian Pro-Life Groups Condemn Tiller Murder

By Alex Bush   June 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the wake of the murder of late-term abortionist George Tiller, pro-life groups from across North America and the UK have condemned the killing as “heinous,” “deplorable,” “cowardly,” “senseless,” and “unconscionable.”    Abortionist Tiller was renowned for performing late-term abortions in Kansas, many of them post-viability. The abortionist only recently found himself in court facing 19 counts of performing illegal late-term abortions, but was found “not guilty” by a jury last month.  He had also survived a previous murder attempt in 1993.   Scott Roeder, a man with no affiliations with […]
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Bishops Who Opposed Notre Dame’s Obama Honor Receive More Than 700,000 Prayers in Thanks

June 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Beginning the weekend of May 31, which is celebrated by Catholics as Pentecost Sunday, the 83 U.S. Catholic bishops who publicly opposed the University of Notre Dame’s commencement honor for President Obama started to receive ”spiritual bouquets,” consisting of hundreds of thousands of pledges by grateful Catholics to offer prayers for the bishops. The prayers, primarily from people who signed The Cardinal Newman Society’s petition opposing the Notre Dame scandal, were offered in thanksgiving for the bishops’ inspiring witness to the importance of Catholic identity.   The request for the prayers was made by The Cardinal Newman Society […]
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U.S. Court Rejects Appeal of Valedictorian Forced to Apologize for Expressing Faith in Christ

By Patrick Craine   June 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Friday, the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the claim of a high school graduate who was penalized by her school after delivering a valedictory address at her 2006 graduation in which she expressed her faith in Christ.   Represented by Liberty Counsel, Erica Corder initially sued the Lewis-Palmer School District in August 2007, but the case was thrown out by a federal judge last year.  The Court of Appeals heard Corder's case in March.   Corder was one of 15 valedictorians to give a 30-second speech at the […]
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Canadian National Pro-Life Organization Details Great Success of March for Life

By Steve Jalsevac May 31, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campaign Life Coalition in its June Newsletter reports that the 2009 National March for Life in Ottawa marking 40 years of legalized abortion in Canada was a resounding success with record-breaking attendance. The organization went on to provide many details about the various March for Life events that have not been reported in the secular media. Despite a forecast of rain that ran all week before May 14 and a misty rain that turned into more of a downpour during the speeches on Parliament Hill and the beginning of the March, CLC […]
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