Articles for Month: July 2009

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski FREDERICTON, July 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Fredericton Right to Life Association has filed a complaint with the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission against Fredericton Transit for its refusal to allow pro-life ads on its buses. In the fall of 2008, the transit authority refused to sell advertising space to the pro-life group because it deemed the advertising to be political commentary. The ads, which ran in over 50 communities, were part of a nationwide pro-life campaign, coordinated by Life Canada. The ads depict a pregnant woman in profile. At the top are the words, “Nine […]

By Patrick B. Craine and John Jalsevac STEPHENVILLE, Newfoundland, July 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Roman Catholic priest and former federal NDP candidate Fr. Des McGrath, 74, was found dead in his garage on Tuesday, reports the CBC. The priest, who had been criticized by pro-life leaders for buckling to NDP party pressure not to vote against abortion in 2004, had been charged last month with sexual assault, stemming from alleged incidents in the early 1980s.   Known for his arduous defence of the Newfoundland fishing industry, Fr. McGrath worked for 40 years as an advocate for fishermen, being one of the […]

By Patrick B. Craine LONDON, July 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Euthanasia activist and disgraced medical practitioner, Michael Irwin, 77, has issued an open letter to local police challenging them to arrest him for his involvement in the February 2007 assisted suicide of 58-year-old Raymond Cutkelvin.  He has said he wants to be a “martyr” on behalf of those U.K. residents who help their relatives commit suicide and who could thereby face up to 14 years in jail. According to Irwin, at least 115 Britons have sought assisted suicide through the group called Dignitas in Zurich in the last 10 years.  […]

By Hilary White ROME, July 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Italian pharmaceutical regulator is expected shortly to approve the sale of the deadly abortion drug, popularly known as RU 486, under the brand name Mifegyne, according to the Italian daily La Repubblica. The Italian Pharmaceuticals Agency (AIFA) announced the impending approval on Wednesday. The move by the AIFA comes despite restrictions in Italian law allowing only surgical abortion, as well as warnings of the danger of maternal deaths recorded in association with RU 486 around the world. During a 2006 Rome conference of the International Federation of Professional Abortion and Contraception […]

Virginia woman faces prison for refusing to allow 7-year-old to visit former lesbian lover

Chinese government won't budge on One Child Policy

Also says he is grateful that his mother's story has helped women choose not to have an abortion

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Health-care reform has a new name: “the Abortion Industry Bailout Act of 2009” – or so says one pro-life Congressman, who believes that's the name Congress should give to the proposed legislation advocated by President Barack Obama. In a press conference held yesterday, pro-life Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) explained that the proposed reforms in the current health-care bill are in effect a government bailout of abortion providers, similar to other government bailouts of banks, financial insurers and the auto industry. “ObamaCare will force every taxpayer and every insurance premium […]

By John-Henry Westen ROME, July 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an interview last week, Rocco Butiglione, one of Italy's best-known Christian Democrat politicians, made remarks which sparked concerns from pro-life activists, as he seemed to suggest that promoting laws against abortion is a mistake. Butiglione had said that he had come to believe that pursuing a “common ground,” abortion reduction approach is the best way to combat abortion. He also spoke of a new network of pro-life parliamentarians who are not against Law 194, which permits abortion. “We do not want the law changed. Less than ever,” he was quoted as […]

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., July 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fiscally conservative House Democrats who had been holding out against President Obama's health care overhaul in the final remaining House committee announced this afternoon that they had developed a satisfactory version of the bill, which will now move forward. Rep. Mike Ross (D-AK),a member of the fiscally conservative Democrat group called the “Blue Dogs” that had opposed the bill in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said Wednesday that his group agreed to begin drafting and debating the bill immediately. The announcement marks a stark change from last Friday, when members […]