Articles for Month: January 2010

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., January 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A CNN anchor told his viewers last week that he could not make out for certain whether there were more pro-life or pro-abortion advocates demonstrating at the 37th annual March for Life – despite the fact that conservative estimates place several hundred thousand pro-life protesters in D.C. that day, compared to a few dozen pro-abortion counter-demonstrators. Noting that there was a rally on the Washington Mall, CNN’s Rick Sanchez asserted, “So as you might imagine there are both sides being represented.” But Sanchez then surmised that both sides might […]

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., January 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life Congressman Chris Smith took his colleagues and the Obama Administration to task on the floor of the U.S. House on the eve of the 37th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, chastising them for promoting the abortion agenda when there is so much evidence for the harmful effects of abortion on women and their unborn children. “How can so many seemingly smart, sane, compassionate and accomplished people — especially in politics — support, promote and if President Obama has his way in the pending health care legislation, […]

Commentary by Jennifer Fulwiler    January 28, 2010 (InsideCatholic.com) – Of all the things I remember about the Texas March for Life in Austin last January, the memory that stands out the most is the look on the faces of the counter-protesters who followed us along Congress Avenue and down to the capitol that frosty morning. When I glanced over to see the source of the epithets that were being screamed at us, I met the eyes of one young woman wearing a black bandana over the bottom half of her face. She happened to look over and meet my […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski SPRING VALLEY, New York, January 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the Washington D.C. March For Life was taking place on January 22, Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter, Executive Director of Torah Jews for Decency, was standing outside the Planned Parenthood abortuary in Spring Valley NY, reading a list of “uncomfortable questions,” and providing the equally uncomfortable, but necessary answers. Carrying a banner that said, “Planned Parenthood Spreads Spirit of Barbarism” Rabbi Leiter began by asking, “What is worse than yet another year of mass-murder of the most defenseless citizens?” The answer? “Another year of the State-Sanctioning of […]

January 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A petition to “Free the ND88,”which is being co-sponsored by Human Life International, the Thomas More Society, and LifeSiteNews.com (LSN), has received over 6,000 signatures to date, and is still going strong. (Click here to sign the petition; Click here for the petition's Facebook page) The petition is addressed to the president of the University of Notre Dame, Fr. John Jenkins, and asks him to request that the charges be dropped against the 88 pro-life activists who were arrested on Notre Dame’s campus last May, while protesting Obama’s appearance at the university. The 88 pro-lifers are still […]

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., January 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –“Obsessed.” The word best encapsulates President Barack Obama’s attitude toward abortion, says New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith, co-chairman of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus. Smith is calling on the pro-life movement to engage in “prayer and fasting” to stop Obama’s virulently pro-abortion agenda and end the cover-up of the effects of abortion on women and their unborn children. The New Jersey Republican is among the most outspoken pro-life legislators on Capitol Hill, and made his remarks during the 2010 March for Life in Washington, D.C. In a video interview with CNSNews.com, […]

By Kathleen Gilbert ROCKFORD, Illinois, January 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Illinois pro-life advocates are fighting a proposed bubble-zone law to keep sidewalk counselors away from customers of Rockford's notoriously bizarre Northern Illinois Women's Center.  Opponents call it a deeply hypocritical measure, set to destroy the free speech rights of pro-life counselors and crafted by the same individuals who have refused to curtail the racist, anti-Christian, and hate-themed displays that are a regular fixture in the windows of the city's abortion mill. The ordinance, drafted by City Attorney Jennifer Cacciapaglia and proposed by Alderman Karen Elyea, would forbid individuals within 100 […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to American Life League (ALL), new numbers from the Guttmacher Institute show Planned Parenthood-style sex education is having a dramatic impact on the rise in teen pregnancy rates. The study released on Wendesday shows that the teen pregnancy rate among American teens rose three percent in 2006, teen birth rates rose four percent, and abortion rates were up one percent. While Planned Parenthood rushes to paint the devastating statistics as an indictment against the Bush administration’s abstinence policy, ALL says that the timeline points to a different culprit: Planned Parenthood. “This is […]

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., January 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Princeton legal scholar and philosopher Robert George told pro-life leaders at the March for Life Rose Dinner last Friday that the infamous Supreme Court decisions in 1973 that legalized abortion on demand unleashed “a struggle for the soul of the nation” and that as long as those decisions stand, the United States is a “nation under judgment.” Delivering the keynote address, George told the assembly gathered in the ballroom of the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C., that when “seven justices created a license to kill the unborn” through Roe […]

ST. PAUL, MN, January 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed a friend-of-the-court brief Friday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit asking the court to reject Planned Parenthood’s attempt to block portions of South Dakota’s informed consent law. In 2005, the South Dakota Legislature passed House Bill 1166, which revised state law to require that women be given critical biological, relationship, and medical information before undergoing an abortion. Planned Parenthood, the operator of the state’s only abortion clinic, filed to suit to block implementation of the law. After the 8th Circuit lifted […]