Articles for Month: February 2010

Tuesday February 23, 2010 Vatican Archbishop, Spokesman Come Out Swinging against Pro-Life Critics By Hilary White, Rome correspondent ROME, February 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the head of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV), has told the Associated Press that he has no intention of stepping down after five senior members of the Academy issued a statement last week expressing their loss of confidence in his leadership. “I won’t respond to these people. Too much space already has been given to them,” Fisichella told AP. Fisichella’s response follows comments late last week from Fr. Frederico Lombardi, the […]

Tuesday February 23, 2010 Canadian Poll Finds Two Thirds Support Legalization of Euthanasia By Patrick B. Craine February 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Angus Reid poll released last week found that approximately two-thirds of Canadians nationwide support the legalization of euthanasia. At the same time, however, a prominent anti-euthanasia activist has questioned the results, saying that “there’s still an awful lot of misunderstanding” about euthanasia. The poll found that respondents from Quebec and British Columbia were most likely to support the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide. 67% of all respondents supported legalizing euthanasia, while 77% of respondents from Quebec […]

Monday February 22, 2010 Pro-Abortion Movement Exploits Tragic Case of Pregnant Cancer Victim in Nicaragua By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MANAGUA, February 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The international abortion lobby is seeking to use the tragic the case of a pregnant woman with cancer in Nicaragua, in order to promote the legalization of the procedure in the strongly pro-life country. According to local pro-abortion activists, a 27-year old woman, whom they will only identify by the pseudonym “Amalia,” is in need of an abortion so that she can receive chemotherapy for an unspecified type of cancer, which has […]

Wednesday February 24, 2010 Arizona House Passes Bill Giving Married Couples Adoption Priority By Peter J. Smith PHOENIX, February 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Arizona House of Representatives passed an adoption bill yesterday that gives priority to placing children with married couples over single individuals. The House approved HB 2148, which gives married couples “primary consideration” in adoption placement, by a 35-22 vote. The measure now heads to the Senate for consideration. However, single persons would still be able to adopt only if a qualified married couple for the child cannot be found or under a limited set of circumstances, […]

Tuesday February 23, 2010 Dramatic Pro-Life Rescue in Vegas By Peter J. Smith LAS VEGAS, Nevada, February 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A dramatic pro-life rescue recently took place in Las Vegas, after a woman who had already started the process of a late-term abortion was convinced to reverse the procedure and save her unborn child, and in the process overcame a drug addiction. The National Catholic Register reports that most pro-life activists and doctors are not aware that the process of some late-term abortions can be reversed once it has begun. But luckily for Jamie Stout and her healthy unborn […]

Tuesday February 23, 2010 Two Dozen Frozen Fetuses Found in Grisly Abortuary Police Raid By Kathleen Gilbert PHILADELPHIA, February 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – State police investigating a Philadelphia abortuary stumbled upon a gruesome discovery last week: over two dozen fetuses in jars preserved in a freezer in the abortionist’s office, according to local reports. Authorities temporarily suspended the abortionist’s license soon after the raid, after discovering clinic conditions they called “deplorable and unsanitary” – including bloodstains on the floor. State drug agents, as well as FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration agents, commenced the investigation last week at West Philadelphia’s Women’s […]

Tuesday February 23, 2010 EU Rights Court Has no Jurisdiction over Italian Crucifixes: Council of Europe By Hilary White ROME, February 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Council of Europe has declared that it is not within the scope of the European Court of Human Rights to force Italian schools and public offices to remove crucifixes. This week, the Council of Europe voted to adopt a declaration that the Court had no right to rule on questions of the cultural and national traditions of member states. This declaration “invites” the court to “to apply in a uniform and rigorous manner the […]

Tuesday February 23, 2010 New York Abortionist Investigated for Abortion Death NEW YORK, Feb. 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life group that filed a complaint against New York abortionist Salomon Epstein after the abortion death of Alexandra Nunez, a single mother of four, has been notified that the abortionist is now under investigation. The investigation, which is being conducted by the Office of Professional Medical Conduct, is the result of a complaint filed by Operation Rescue staff person Tara Shaver. Nunez died on January 25, 2010, after an abortionist severed an artery during her abortion. The injury led to massive […]

Monday February 22, 2010 Gentle Tebow Ad Has Big Impact By James Tillman February 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Approximately 4% of those who support abortion were led to “personally reconsider [their] opinion about abortion” after watching the pro-life Super Bowl ad featuring Tim Tebow and his mother Pam, according to a new Barna study. Approximately 92.6 million Americans watched the ad when it aired February 7, during what is normally the most-viewed broadcast in America each year. Because slightly less than half of respondents in the poll self-identified as pro-abortion, the data suggests that about 1.7 million pro-abortion viewers may […]

Wednesday February 24, 2010 Commentary on February 24 News Barack Obama seems to have inadvertently forced the rise of an increasingly determined group of pro-life Democrat Congressmen. This new phenomenon bodes well for the defeat of the health care bill and growing bi-partisan cooperation on the all-important life issues. James Dobson will be greatly missed from the leadership of Focus on the Family. He has for years been one of the most courageous and outspoken defenders of life and family in the United States. Related comments to the Wall Street Journal from Focus CEO Jim Daly are cause for serious […]