U.S. Study Finds Doctors May Be Euthanizing Dying Children at Parents’ Request

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BOSTON, March 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study published in the March edition of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine suggests that a few physicians may have killed children who were very sick by giving them fatal morphine doses, after the parents had requested euthanasia. Dr. Joanne Wolfe, a palliative pain specialist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital in Boston, interviewed 141 parents of children who died of cancer in order to explore the parents' motivation in considering and enquiring about hastening their child's death. The study found that 19 of the 141 parents, or 13 […]
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Shepherds and Flocks: Catholic Bishop Personally Leads Pro-Life Protests in Rhode Island

By Peter J. Smith PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Thomas Tobin, the leader of Rhode Island’s Roman Catholics, took a personal lead in the 40 Days For Life Lenten campaign last Friday, joining his flock and other Christians in two peaceful pro-life demonstrations at Rhode Island abortion clinics. Tobin reminded pro-life advocates that they were setting a positive example by challenging social acceptance of abortion and giving the issue a high profile, when others would rather keep the problem of abortion out of the public consciousness, the Rhode Island Catholic reported. “Your witness to life is […]
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Austrian Church Funds Independent Investigation in Response to Abuse Reports

By Hilary White VIENNA, March 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Church in Austria has set up an independent investigation as hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse of young people by priests have begun to surface. Waltraud Klasnic, a former governor of the Alpine republic’s southern province of Styria will head the investigation, which will be funded by the Church but not staffed with clerics. The cardinal archbishop of Vienna and the head of the Austrian bishops’ conference, Christoph Schönborn, told television news on Saturday, “We want to move inquiries into these allegations away from the church and assign them […]
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The House of Pro-Life Democrats Divided on Health Care Bill

Friday March 26, 2010 The House of Pro-Life Democrats Divided on Health Care Bill By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., March 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The capitulation of Congressman Bart Stupak of Michigan and his group of fellow pro-life Democrats to President Obama’s health care plan has overshadowed the resoluteness of pro-life Democrats who did oppose the measure, including the one pro-life Democrat who stood firm in changing his vote from “yes” to “no” in small part over the bill’s abortion-promoting provisions. Abandoned by Stupak and his fellow pro-life economic liberals, Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) cast his vote against the […]
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Cincinnati Archbishop Condemns ‘Catholic’ Groups’ Support for Health Bill

Tuesday March 23, 2010 Cincinnati Archbishop Condemns ‘Catholic’ Groups’ Support for Health Bill By Kathleen Gilbert CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Dennis Schnurr last week joined a host of U.S. bishops who came out explicitly against the Senate health care bill that was signed into law Tuesday, and condemned as erroneous “groups with ‘Catholic’ in their name” who supported the bill. “Positions on the current healthcare legislation taken by groups with ‘Catholic’ in their name have caused a great deal of confusion about the official position of the Catholic Church,” said Schnurr in a statement to pastors […]
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Gonzaga President Upholds University Ban of V-Monologues on Campus

March 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite pressure from parts of the student body, Gonzaga University’s Interim President Thayne McCulloh is upholding the Jesuit Catholic institution’s 2002 ban on performances of the vulgar play The Vagina Monologues. Patrick J. Reilly, President of The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS), a watchdog organization for Catholic higher education, wrote to Dr. McCulloh, “As many Catholic colleges and universities work to renew and strengthen their Catholic identity, your decision not to reverse Gonzaga’s policy reassures Catholic families that Gonzaga continues on that path.  Thank you!” According to CNS the Monologues favorably describes lesbian activity, group masturbation […]
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Pro-Life Activist Lambastes Catholic MP for Backing Liberal Abortion Motion

By Patrick B. Craine GUELPH, Ontario, March 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Veteran pro-life activist Jakki Jeffs has publicly denounced her Member of Parliament, Frank Valeriote (Guelph, Lib), a Catholic and fellow parishioner, for his vote in favor of last week's Liberal motion that called on the Canadian government to promote abortion in the Third World. “As a Roman Catholic politician, he has to take his faith into consideration,” Jeffs, who is the executive director of Alliance for Life Ontario, told LifeSiteNews (LSN) on Tuesday.  “So I would expect him to uphold life in all those things.” The Liberal motion was […]
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Mexican Legal Expert Calls for Objection of Conscience Rights in Face of ‘Gay Marriage’

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, LifeSiteNews Latin America correspondent MEXICO CITY, March 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Mexican legal expert is calling for conscientious objector status for public employees who do not wish to cooperate with Mexico City's new regime of homosexual “marriage.” Alberto Patiño Reyes, who holds a PhD in law, says that the Mexican juridical system “lacks an express recognition of the right of conscientious objection, which is a manifestation of a broader fundamental right, liberty of conscience.” Pointing out that the Mexican government has signed the San Jose Covenant, which recognizes “the right of the person to liberty […]
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Judge of Abusive Priest Corrects ‘Sloppy and Inaccurate’ New York Times Smears against Pope

By Kathleen Gilbert and John Jalsevac MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, March 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fr. Thomas Brundage, a former judge for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee who oversaw the 1996 canonical proceedings against Fr. Lawrence Murphy, has shot back at New York Times and Associated Press articles that have attempted to implicate Pope Benedict XVI in a “cover-up” of clerical abuse by Fr. Murphy, and others. Brundage slammed the news organizations for making “a huge leap of logic and information” in connecting the pontiff to the case involving Fr. Murphy, and for failing to do the basic courtesy of contacting him or checking […]
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A Sex-Ed Curriculum that Respects Human Dignity: Pontifical Adviser Explains “Alive to the World”

By Hilary White ROME, March 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A unique educational curriculum for children that is based on Catholic social and moral teachings, while not being explicitly Catholic or Christian, and that incorporates psychological and neurological science, is sweeping Latin America and making its way into British classrooms. Christine Vollmer, a founding member of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life and a close collaborator with the Pontifical Council for the Family, told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) this weekend in Rome about the “Alive to the World” curriculum that she hopes will be used more widely in the English-speaking world. In the interview, Vollmer […]
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Conservative MP Criticizes Ignatieff’s Abortion Advocacy as “Cynical Politics”

Friday March 26, 2010 Conservative MP Criticizes Ignatieff’s Abortion Advocacy as “Cynical Politics” By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, March 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Conservative Member of Parliament slammed Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in an interview with LifeSiteNews (LSN) yesterday over the latter’s persistent attempts at pushing abortion in the government’s G8 maternal and child health initiative, most recently through a failed Liberal motion. “I think it was very cynical politics on behalf of Mr. Ignatieff,” commented Dean Del Mastro (Peterborough, CPC). “I think he’s crossed the line between pro-choice and simply being pro-abortion, and I think that’s who […]
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States Consider Legislative Plan to Opt-Out of ObamaCare’s Abortion Mandate

Friday March 26, 2010 States Consider Legislative Plan to Opt-Out of ObamaCare’s Abortion Mandate By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., March 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Legislators in over a dozen states are considering a pro-life plan that would opt their states out of a major abortion mandate in the health care reform bill passed last Sunday. The legislation, developed by Americans United for Life (AUL), intends to take the abortion-health care fight to the states. It exploits a provision in the Senate health care bill that explicitly allows the state-run health insurance exchanges to prevent federal money from subsidizing health […]
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If Gay Brother Research is Correct It Shows Homosexuality is Abnormal

Friday June 30, 2006 If Gay Brother Research is Correct It Shows Homosexuality is Abnormal By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, June 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mainstream media resurrected the specter of the ‘gay gene’ theory this week in covering a Canadian study on the origin of homosexuality. “Homosexuality influenced by biological factors, Canadian researcher says,” proclaimed the CBC, the first to break the story on Monday. CNN was quick to jump on the bandwagon with “Study: Sexual orientation of men determined before birth.” In reality, however, the study was most intriguing for what the mainstream media failed to cover. Namely […]
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Gay Mob Protests Wedding Vow Renewal at Chicago Cathedral

Monday February 22, 2010 Gay Mob Protests Wedding Vow Renewal at Chicago Cathedral by James Tillman CHICAGO, February 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Valentine’s day, Feb 14, Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral offered married couples a chance to celebrate their spousal fidelity by renewing their vows to each other during Mass. Yet in order to do so, couples had to pass through an angry crowd of “gay rights” protestors who marched by the steps of the cathedral, accusing Church hierarchy of hatred toward gays and telling parishioners to “stop funding the bigots!” Police refused to interrupt the demonstration, despite laws that […]
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Pro-Aborts Clash over Short, Sweet Tebow Ad

Monday February 8, 2010 Pro-Aborts Clash over Short, Sweet Tebow Ad By Kathleen Gilbert COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, February 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Considering the abortion lobby’s deluge of pre-emptive protest against the Tim Tebow Super Bowl advertisement, sponsored by Focus on the Family, few might have guessed its actual form, first unveiled last night: a clean, simple, family-oriented message that never mentioned abortion. The brief spot, garnished with light humor, left pro-abortion forces so scattered in their effort to respond that one group even called another’s harsh criticism of the ad “absurd.” The ad took two forms – one that […]
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Nebraska Bill Would Recognize Unborn Pain During Abortion

Tuesday February 23, 2010 Nebraska Bill Would Recognize Unborn Pain During Abortion By Kathleen Gilbert LINCOLN, Nebraska, February 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortion legislation before the Nebraska legislature aims to place tighter restrictions on abortions performed after twenty weeks, based on the unborn child’s ability to feel the pain of the abortion procedure at that point. Pro-abortion critics argue, however, that the bill oversteps bounds set by the Supreme Court allowing a woman to abort her unborn baby for any reason prior to viability. The viability threshold is usually located at 24 weeks’ gestation, although children born as early as […]
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Celine Dion Has Lost Four Children to IVF

Monday February 22, 2010 Celine Dion Has Lost Four Children to IVF By John-Henry Westen CHICAGO, February 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Quebec singing superstar Celine Dion admitted on the Oprah Winfrey Show Febrary 10 that she has undergone four unsuccessful attempts at in vitro fertilization (IVF). Since the procedure requires at minimum one embryonic child to be implanted, at least four of her children created by IVF have died. One of those children survived the transfer from the frozen state but was miscarried in 2009. In 2001, Dion who was raised Catholic, acknowledged that her frozen embryos were indeed her […]
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Young Canadian Parents Fighting Hospital to Save Their Baby’s Life

Tuesday January 19, 2010 Young Canadian Parents Fighting Hospital to Save Their Baby’s Life By Patrick B. Craine EDMONTON, Alberta, January 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The parents of a critically-ill three-month-old boy have found themselves in a legal fight for his life, after being informed by the hospital that staff will be removing his ventilation because they have deemed that he cannot recover from brain damage he suffered during birth. On October 24th, after a long, 40-hour labour, Isaac and Rebecka May and their son Isaiah James had to be airlifted to Edmonton’s Stollery Children’s Hospital because Isaiah’s umbilical cord […]
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Wisc. Planned Parenthood Caught in Sex Abuse Cover-Up

Tuesday February 23, 2010 Wisc. Planned Parenthood Caught in Sex Abuse Cover-Up MILWAUKEE, February 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New undercover footage shows staff at a Milwaukee, Wisc. Planned Parenthood abortion clinic apparently breaking the law by counseling a purportedly 14-year-old statutory rape victim not to tell anyone about her 31-year-old boyfriend, and coaching her how to obtain an abortion without her parents’ consent. The new video, the seventh in a series from Live Action documenting similar behavior in 5 other states, comes amid recent controversy about Planned Parenthood’s compliance with state laws regarding minors and abortion. After hearing that the […]
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McGill Prof: Quebec Anti-“Homophobia” Plan is “Declaration of War”

Wednesday February 3, 2010 McGill Prof: Quebec Anti-“Homophobia” Plan is “Declaration of War” By Patrick B. Craine MONTREAL, Quebec, February 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A professor at McGill University has published a strong condemnation of the Quebec government’s “policy against homophobia,” which was released in December. Warning that this policy represents a “declaration of war” against any who oppose the homosexualist agenda, Dr. Douglas Farrow, Professor of Christian Thought, calls on his fellow citizens to take a stand against it. When the Quebec Ministry of Justice released the policy before Christmas, it was held up as the first of its […]
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Planned Parenthood Cheers ‘Brave’ Nuns for Supporting Pro-Abortion Health Bill

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., March 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards has given her highest accolades to the social justice lobby of Roman Catholic nuns who “broke with the bishops and the Vatican” to support the health care bill that is set to unleash federal funding for abortion. “In the final days before the bill was passed, it was the Roman Catholic nuns who most importantly broke with the bishops and the Vatican to announce their support for health care reform,” gushed Richards in a Huffington Post column March 24, referring to the social justice lobby […]
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Americans for Truth About Homosexuality Labeled ‘Hate Site’ by Ultraliberal SPLC

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MONTGOMERY, Alabama, March 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The website Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), a conservative activist group that opposes the homosexual political agenda, has been labeled an “anti-gay” “hate site” by the ultraliberal Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC is a non-profit legal organization that specializes in tracking “hate groups.” Its listings are sent to law-enforcement officials around the country, and are used in training some police departments. The “hate site” designation was given to AFTAH by SPLC without any justifying evidence. AFTAH's President Peter LaBarbera has consistently denounced organizations that express hatred towards […]
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Head of Italian Bishops Conference: Consider “Unfathomable Crime of Abortion” When Voting

ROME, March 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of the Italian bishops conference told Italian voters last week that the supreme human right is the right to life and that all other political considerations must be subservient to it. Writing on today’s vote for the presidency of the Lazio region, which includes the city of Rome, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco said that the “unfathomable crime of abortion in all its forms, is one of the non-negotiable issues by which Catholics must vote in the upcoming regional election.” The cardinal said there is a “hierarchy” of values that form the basis of ineradicable […]
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Michael O’Brien Slams the Media’s Use of the Sexual Abuse Crisis to Attack Pope Benedict

Commentary by Michael O’Brien Note: Michael O’Brien is a Catholic visual artist and author of numerous novels, including “Father Elijah” and “Strangers and Sojourners.” His website can be found here. March 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The media’s desperate straining to find evidence of Pope Benedict’s complicity in a sexual abuse case in Munich is so very interesting, and very revealing. That he is entirely innocent of cover-up or lack of prudence in the matter is ignored, while the little shreds of nuanced inference are whipped up into a global crisis without any basis in fact. It is innuendo, circumstantial “evidence.” […]
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Commentary on March 26 News

Friday March 26, 2010 Commentary on March 26 News Pope Benedict is under sustained assault by the enemies of the moral principles of the Catholic Church. Yes, many bishops have been severely negligent about past sexual abuse incidents and need to be held personally accountable. Nothing wrong with that public campaign. However, the Holy Father is not one of those. It cannot be a coincidence that this is occurring so soon after the health care battle when the Catholic Church stood against the Democrat anti-life factions and Catholic Church dissidents who are becoming very emboldened in their opposition to the […]
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9 Babies Saved at Toronto 40 Days for Life, Organizer Says

Friday March 26, 2010 9 Babies Saved at Toronto 40 Days for Life, Organizer Says By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, March 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Toronto 40 Days for Life prayer vigil has seen 9 women make the choice to keep their babies, organizer Nicole Campbell told LifeSiteNews on Friday. This is 40 Days Toronto’s third campaign in front of the abortuary at Lawrence & Dufferin, and Campbell says she believes they are now “starting to see the fruits” of those campaigns. She said that on Thursday she witnessed an Asian couple in grade 10 change their mind […]
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Quebec Bishops Condemn Province’s Bid to Cut Christmas, Weekends from School Calendar

Friday March 26, 2010 Quebec Bishops Condemn Province’s Bid to Cut Christmas, Weekends from School Calendar By Patrick B. Craine QUEBEC CITY, Quebec, March 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Marc Ouellet and the Quebec bishops have flatly condemned a decree issued last month by the Quebec Ministry of Education that threatens to remove weekends and holidays, such as Christmas and Easter, from the school calendar. The provision, issued on February 3rd by Minister of Education Michelle Courchesne, sought to quietly repeal article 19 of the province’s pedagogical plan, which lists the guaranteed days off for students. Under the Ministry’s provision, […]
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Lithuanian Pro-Family Group Denounces ‘Gay Pride’ Parade in Vilnius

Friday March 26, 2010 Lithuanian Pro-Family Group Denounces ‘Gay Pride’ Parade in Vilnius By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VILNIUS, March 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Lithuanian Reform Movement has sent an open letter to the country’s president, prime minister, Lithuanian Parliament members, and to the mayor of the city of Vilnius condemning the approval given in January for a “gay pride” parade to be held in the city this spring. The proposed parade is to be part of a series of events for “Baltic Pride 2010,” which promoters say will include the displaying in central Vilnius of the biggest rainbow flag […]
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Discrimination against New Zealand Pro-Life Club by Student Union Overturned

Thursday March 25, 2010 Discrimination against New Zealand Pro-Life Club by Student Union Overturned By Thaddeus M. Baklinski AUCKLAND, New Zealand, March 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An eight-year-old policy specifically targeting pro-life clubs has been overturned at Auckland University this week, according to a media release from ProLife New Zealand. “Between 2002 and 2010 the Auckland University Students Association (AUSA) has banned any pro-life club affiliating. The AUSA had a special rule on their policy books that applied only to people who want to start a pro-life club on campus,” said Simeon Brown, an AUSA member who aimed to start […]
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Liberal Pro-Life Heroes Secured Defeat of Pro-Abortion Motion

Wednesday March 24, 2010 Liberal Pro-Life Heroes Secured Defeat of Pro-Abortion Motion By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, March 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The defeat of the pro-abortion motion proposed yesterday by Liberal MP Bob Rae was secured in part by the vote of three Liberal MPs who broke ranks with their party to oppose it, despite immense pressure to give their support, and the threat of disciplinary action if they did not. The motion, which called on the government to offer a “full range of reproductive health services” (which would have included abortion) in its G8 maternal and child […]
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Baby Isaiah’s Case Part of a National Trend Say Advocates for the Disabled

Wednesday January 20, 2010 Baby Isaiah’s Case Part of a National Trend Say Advocates for the Disabled By Patrick B. Craine EDMONTON, Alberta, January 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While Isaac and Rebecka May, the Canadian couple who are fighting for their new-born baby’s life, are awaiting a January 27th judgment on their petition for a 90-day injunction against their hospital’s order to remove their baby Isaiah’s ventilator, some advocates for the disabled are saying that what the May’s are experiencing is shockingly common in Canada. According to Sam Sansalone, father of Katya Sansalone, who was born 8 years ago with […]
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How to Respond to Teachers Pushing Pro-Gay Curriculum: Family Group Advises Parents

Friday February 19, 2010 How to Respond to Teachers Pushing Pro-Gay Curriculum: Family Group Advises Parents By Patrick B. Craine February 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The B.C.-based pro-family group Parents for Democracy in Education (PDE) have released a set of answers that parents can provide to teachers who ignore their complaints about the spread of homosexualist “propaganda” through the curricula of Canada’s schools. The new document offers responses to a controversial new sheet that has been distributed to Canadian teachers, entitled “Objections to Anti-Homophobia Curriculum in Schools?” The sheet offers “quick responses” to common objections given by parents who object […]
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Ohio Speaker Reverses Decision, Will Allow Honor for Pro-Life Teen

Wednesday February 10, 2010 Ohio Speaker Reverses Decision, Will Allow Honor for Pro-Life Teen By Kathleen Gilbert COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ohio House Speaker Armond Budish (D-Beechwood) has reversed a decision to disallow the presentation on the House floor of a routine legislative honor to a local pro-life teen, and will make room in the Ohio General Assembly’s schedule for the honor, according to the speaker’s office. Ohio teen Elizabeth Trisler had been set to be presented on February 3 with an honorary legislative resolution, authored by Rep. John Adams, which recognized her accomplishment as the winner […]
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Lisa Miller Safe for Now: Virginia Judge Refuses to Issue Arrest Warrant

Thursday February 18, 2010 Lisa Miller Safe for Now: Virginia Judge Refuses to Issue Arrest Warrant By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA, February 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Virginia judge yesterday refused to press criminal charges against Lisa Miller for failing to deliver her seven-year-old daughter to her former lesbian partner. Judge Harrison of the Bedford County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court ruled that because Miller’s whereabouts are unknown, it cannot be proven that she is aware of the court order to transfer custody of her daughter Isabella. He scheduled another hearing for May 19. A source close to the […]
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Human Rights Watch Twists Ireland’s Arm to Legalize Abortion

Tuesday January 26, 2010 Human Rights Watch Twists Ireland’s Arm to Legalize Abortion By James Tillman NEW YORK, January 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — In a document to be released this Thursday, the pro-abortion group Human Rights Watch scolds Ireland for its restrictive abortion laws, which it advises Ireland to change because of what it says are obligations imposed by international law. The Irish constitution was amended in 1983 to assert that the unborn child has a right to life from conception, although this amendment was weakened somewhat by subsequent court interpretations that made abortion legal in cases when there is […]
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Questions submitted to Dr. Warren Throckmorton by

Monday March 22, 2010 Questions submitted to Dr. Warren Throckmorton by LifeSiteNews.com 1. How have your views of human sexuality changed in the last few years? 2. In a previous article for LifeSiteNews.com, you defended the idea that homosexual orientation is caused by environmental factors. Have you abandoned that idea? 3. In a recent article you defended the thesis that sexual orientation is biologically determined in the womb, by hormonal deficiencies. Do you now believe that homosexual orientation is immutable? [Note: Throckmorton’s original statements only suggested that hormonal and other biological factors may influence homosexual orientation, and was therefore amended […]
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Parents Get Nearly Three More Weeks to Save Baby Isaiah

Friday February 19, 2010 Parents Get Nearly Three More Weeks to Save Baby Isaiah By Peter J. Smith EDMONTON, Alberta, January 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A provincial court in Alberta ordered Friday that baby Isaiah May remain on life support until March 11. The order gives Isaiah’s parents, who have been fighting to keep their brain-damaged baby alive, nearly three more weeks to assemble outside medical experts to assess his chances for further recovery. Judge Michelle Crighton gave the order, which requires Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton to keep the nearly five-month old baby on his ventilator until at least […]
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Interview: Cut from American Idol, but Thrilled for Chance to Spread Pro-Life Message

Thursday February 11, 2010 Interview: Cut from American Idol, but Thrilled for Chance to Spread Pro-Life Message By John Jalsevac February 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In this week’s episode of American Idol it was revealed that Maddy Curtis, the 16-year-old who endeared Idol viewers with her winning personality and who advanced to the second round of the show on the merits of a soulful rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” was cut from the show. But, says Maddy, from her perspective her American Idol adventure was the furthest thing from a failure. “It was a phenomenal experience,” she said in an […]
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Young Counselor Threatened with Knife Learns that Baby Was Saved from Abortion

Wednesday February 17, 2010 Young Counselor Threatened with Knife Learns that Baby Was Saved from Abortion By John-Henry Westen DULUTH, MN, February 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Three months after being threatened with a knife to her throat by a woman entering an abortion mill, 21-year-old pro-life counselor Leah Winandy has learned that her attacker has decided not to abort her child – and credits Leah and Leah’s mother for saving her from a life of regret. Leah Winandy reacted by praising God and expressed her excitement and happiness for Mechelle Talluah Hall, who pled guilty yesterday to second-degree assault. Under […]
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Ontario Premier Spends Big on Gvmt Daycare despite $21.3 Billion Deficit

Thursday March 25, 2010 Ontario Premier Spends Big on Gvmt Daycare despite $21.3 Billion Deficit By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, March 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Faced with spending freezes across the board due to a record deficit in the upcoming provincial budget, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has announced nevertheless that his government will add $63.5 million in daycare subsidies this year. “This is very much a core value to us,” said one government official, according to the Hamilton Spectator. The added daycare expense comes as the province faces a $21.3 billion deficit in the upcoming budget. Finance Minister Dwight […]
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Federal Judge’s Ruling Boomerangs on California Homosexualist Groups

Wednesday March 24, 2010 Federal Judge’s Ruling Boomerangs on California Homosexualist Groups By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Opponents of California’s constitutional ban on same-sex “marriage” have just found out that their success in gaining access to the campaign memos of the pro-family groups defending Prop. 8 has gone further than they intended. The federal judge hearing the landmark Perry v. Schwarzenegger case has now ruled that lawyers defending Prop. 8 will also have their turn to examine their opponents’ campaign memos, and use them as evidence to support their arguments for the constitutionality of […]
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President Signs Stupak’s Executive Order in Private Ceremony

Wednesday March 24, 2010 President Signs Stupak’s Executive Order in Private Ceremony By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., March 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday afternoon President Barack Obama signed the promised executive order that had secured the health care votes of Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and a half-dozen pro-life Democrats. Unlike the signing of the health care reform bill itself, the executive order signing took place in a private ceremony in the Oval Office without reporters or television cameras. Stupak and twelve other Democrat colleagues attended, as well as Sen. Bob Casey (D-Penn.), who co-authored the Senate health bill’s […]
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List: Bishops, Nuns, Organizations Supporting/Opposing Senate Health Care Bill

Tuesday March 23, 2010 List: Bishops, Nuns, Organizations Supporting/Opposing Senate Health Care Bill By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., March 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following is a list of Catholic organizations and individuals who have come out publicly in favor of the Senate health care bill, which allows government funding of abortion: Catholic Health Association Network National Catholic Reporter Catholics United Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good Leadership Conference of Women Religious Bishop Emeritus John E. McCarthy of Austin, TX Following is a list of Catholic bishops and dioceses who have come out publicly against the Senate health care bill: […]
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The Social Costs of Pornography

Tuesday March 23, 2010 The Social Costs of Pornography Commentary by P. Langdale Hough March 23, 2010 (ThePublicDiscourse) – Last week at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the Witherspoon Institute reported a set of scholarly findings and recommendations on the social costs of pornography. In December 2008 a diverse collection of scholars, medical practitioners and journalists gathered in Princeton, New Jersey, to begin an initial inquiry into the social toll of the consumption of pornography on men, women and children. The participating scholars came from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds. Psychiatrists, legal scholars, doctors, and economists assembled […]
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Health Care Tidbits: of Pens, Swear Words, and Airports in Michigan

Wednesday March 24, 2010 Health Care Tidbits: of Pens, Swear Words, and Airports in Michigan By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 3:29pm EST WASHINGTON, D.C., March 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The fallout after the passing of the Senate health care bill Sunday evening made for various interesting tidbits of information that don’t merit in-depth coverage, but are worth mentioning. Here is a list of some of them: – Thanks, Sister: Catholic Health Association CEO Sr. Carol Keehan was given one of the pens that Obama used to sign the health care bill. Such an honor is traditionally bestowed upon individuals or groups […]
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Small Victories Add Up

Wednesday March 24, 2010 Small Victories Add Up Commentary by David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for Life March 24, 2010 (40DaysforLife) – Looking for some good news to start your day? Here are a few stories that show how prayer often makes a difference … in little ways. But small victories really do add up when you take a look at the big picture of what’s going on in 167 communities! The 40 Days for Life vigil in Spring Valley, New York, takes place outside a Planned Parenthood facility that is open one Saturday each month. “They were supposed […]
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Peruvian Executive Defies Supreme Court to Distribute Deadly ‘Morning After Pill’

Wednesday March 24, 2010 Peruvian Executive Defies Supreme Court to Distribute Deadly ‘Morning After Pill’ By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent LIMA, March 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The executive branch of Peru’s national government has decided to defy the nation’s Constitutional Tribunal and distribute the deadly “morning after pill,” which is billed as a contraceptive but which can cause abortions when taken in the first few days following sexual intercourse. The decision to distribute the drug, which was announced on March 9, has been met by thundering denunciations from the Constitutional Tribunal (TC), as well as Catholic bishops, doctors, […]
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Heroes Campaign Goes Over the Top

Tuesday March 23, 2010 Heroes Campaign Goes Over the Top Dear Readers, The LifeSiteNews team is moved by the unexpected, very generous response from so many to Monday’s letter. Thank you not only for your contributions, but also, and especially, for the many strong words of encouragement and gratitude for our work that were received. Our letter opened a lot of eyes to the struggles that we encounter in providing this service. It seemed to be an appropriate time to share that information, much of which we have kept to ourselves for some months. We felt our readers had a […]
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Interview: Democrats for Life Defends Health Care Bill

Monday March 22, 2010 Interview: Democrats for Life Defends Health Care Bill By James Tillman WASHINGTON, D.C., March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Democrats for Life has said in a statement that they are “proud to support” the health care bill, combined with its promised executive order, that practically every other pro-life organization in the United States has panned as disastrous to the pro-life movement. “We are proud to support this historic healthcare legislation,” reads the statement by Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats for Life. “President Obama’s Executive Order shows that when we work towards common ground in Washington we […]
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40 Days for Life Celebrates 2,500 Babies Saved During Campaigns

Monday March 22, 2010 40 Days for Life Celebrates 2,500 Babies Saved During Campaigns Commentary by David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for Life March 22, 2010 (40daysforlife) – As the dust settles following the devastating U.S. House vote that imposed abortion coverage and government funding of abortion under the guise of health care, many people are feeling a sense of despair today. But Jeremiah 29:11 clearly instructs us: “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Even in […]
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Minister Oda: Conservatives Will Vote Against Rae’s Conniving Abortion Motion

Tuesday March 23, 2010 Minister Oda: Conservatives Will Vote Against Rae’s Conniving Abortion Motion By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Liberal MP Bob Rae’s motion to push Canada to promote abortion in Stephen Harper’s maternal health plan at the G8 summit, couched in the deceptive language of “reproductive health,” will be voted against by Conservatives. Minister for International Cooperation Bev Oda, responding to questions in the House this morning, announced, “We will be voting against the motion before the House.” “This motion is a transparent attempt to reopen the abortion debate,” she added.” Oda noted further that […]
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Stupak Defends Health Bill Vote

Monday March 22, 2010 Stupak Defends Health Bill Vote By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an interview with FOX News Channel’s America Live with Megyn Kelly Monday, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), once the leader of a group of pro-life Democrats vowing to vote down the bill without an abortion funding ban, defended his last-minute decision to switch his vote. Hours before the vote Sunday night, in which the House of Representatives approved the abortion-expanding Senate bill 219-212, Stupak convoked a press conference to announce that he would vote for the bill, after accepting President Obama’s […]
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President Signs Health Care Bill into Law, 12 States Immediately Sue

Tuesday March 23, 2010 President Signs Health Care Bill into Law, 12 States Immediately Sue By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 5:49pm EST WASHINGTON, D.C., March 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Obama signed into law the hard-won Senate health care bill at a ceremony in the East Room Tuesday morning. Moments later, as promised, twelve state attorneys general had filed federal lawsuits challenging the bill’s constitutionality. The bill, which pro-life leaders call the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade and abortion leaders have praised as a “huge victory,” passed in the House of Representatives Sunday night after Rep. Bart Stupak […]
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Media Attacks Mounting against Pope over Irish Abuse Letter

Monday March 22, 2010 Media Attacks Mounting against Pope over Irish Abuse Letter By Hilary White ROME, March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The secular mainstream media has reacted to the release of the letter from the pope this weekend on the Irish sexual abuse scandal, calling it a “failure,” in some cases even before it could have been read. While Pope Benedict XVI clearly stated his apology to the victims of clergy abuse and to the Irish people, headlines from nearly all major news outlets have appeared saying he has failed to assuage anger. The letter was issued on Saturday […]
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Friends of Fr. Paul Marx Reflect on the Life of the Pro-Life Giant

Monday March 22, 2010 Friends of Fr. Paul Marx Reflect on the Life of the Pro-Life Giant By James Tillman March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Father Paul Marx, OSB, dubbed the “Apostle of Life” by John Paul II, left this world last Saturday shortly after 8:00 AM. But according to numerous leaders, the pro-life movements across the world remain as monuments to his gigantic labors on behalf of the smallest and most vulnerable. “I believe I can safely say that there are practically no pro-life groups in the world today that did not receive information, help, encouragement and/or guidance from […]
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Quebec Bishops Condemn Province’s Bid to Cut Christmas, Weekends from School Calendar

By Patrick B. Craine QUEBEC CITY, Quebec, March 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Marc Ouellet and the Quebec bishops have flatly condemned a decree issued last month by the Quebec Ministry of Education that threatens to remove weekends and holidays, such as Christmas and Easter, from the school calendar. The provision, issued on February 3rd by Minister of Education Michelle Courchesne, sought to quietly repeal article 19 of the province's pedagogical plan, which lists the guaranteed days off for students. Under the Ministry's provision, which would take effect July 1st but has yet to be approved by the government, schools […]
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Catholic Register Editorial Denounces D&P’s “Bizarre” Document against CLC, LifeSiteNews

By Steve Jalsevac TORONTO, March 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Register, published out of Canada’s largest diocese, has denounced Development and Peace for its document, revealed by LifeSiteNews on March17, that disparaged LifeSiteNews, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) and the international pro-life movement in general. The Register also published a report by Deborah Gyapong in the same edition that included comments by D&P executive director Michael Casey confirming that D&P did in fact send to D&P stakeholders the harshly worded document that Casey said was “regrettably, unfortunately” made public. Casey also finally admitted that the organization partners with some groups that advocate […]
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Large Majority of French Women Agree that Abortion Has Detrimental Psychological Effects

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman PARIS, March 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A large majority of French women say that there are too many abortions in their country, and that abortions “leaves psychological traces that are difficult for women to experience” according to a recent national poll. The study, which was done at the behest of the French Right to Life Alliance (l’Alliance pour les droits de la vie – ADV), found that 83% of women believe that abortion does lasting psychological damage, and 61% believe that there are too many abortions in France. Sixty-seven percent said that women should be educated […]
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Rules for Letters to the Editor of

Thursday January 10, 2008 Rules for Letters to the Editor of LifeSiteNews.com In the past ten years we’ve received many requests for some interactive service, such as a blog or forum, and a letters section seems the right direction to help build community at LifeSiteNews.com, to spark some healthy debate, and to keep the lines of communication open between readers and LifeSiteNews.com’s staff. The rules are simple: By submitting a letter to the editor to you agree to allow LifeSiteNews to publish your letter. Of course, all letters are subject to editing for grammar and length. Often we publish only […]
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NYT: Rampant Polygamy in Gay ‘Marriage’ May Benefit Institution

Friday February 5, 2010 NYT: Rampant Polygamy in Gay ‘Marriage’ May Benefit Institution By Kathleen Gilbert SAN FRANCISCO, California, February 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In discussing a new study confirming that polygamy is a staple within gay “marriages,” a New York Times article has suggested that doing away with the concept of spousal fidelity in marriage represents an “evolution” that “might point the way for the survival of the institution.” NYT columnist Scott James reported January 28 on a project by San Francisco State University’s Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality examining various aspects of homosexual relationships. James says […]
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New Study Confirms Crisis in Catholic Higher Education

Tuesday February 2, 2010 New Study Confirms Crisis in Catholic Higher Education MANASSAS, Virginia, February 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Attending a Catholic college has minimal impact on a Catholic student’s practice and embrace of the Catholic faith, according to a new study released Sunday at a gathering of Catholic college presidents in Washington, D.C. The study was presented to the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU) by researchers at Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA). “Catholics should be alarmed by the significant declines in Catholic practice and fidelity at many of America’s Catholic institutions,” said […]
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Pro-Life Rallies in New England Draw Large Crowds

Tuesday January 19, 2010 Pro-Life Rallies in New England Draw Large Crowds By Thaddeus M. Baklinski CONCORD, New Hampshire, January 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New Hampshire Right to Life organizers said that the direction of public opinion is turning in favor of protection for the unborn as over 300 pro-lifers gathered in front of the State House on Saturday for the state’s annual Right to Life March. Knights of Columbus spokesman Ronald DiStasio, co-chair of the group’s pro-life committee, said, “This is a spiritual and cultural battle we are fighting,” adding that he believes that “the tide is turning our […]
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Judge Nixes Lesbian Teen’s Demand to Attend Official School Prom

By Peter J. Smith ABERDEEN, Mississippi, March 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge has denied a lesbian student’s request that he force a Mississippi school district to re-sponsor a prom that it canceled when the student threatened litigation if she were not permitted to wear a tuxedo and bring her lesbian partner. Although U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson agreed that Constance McMillen had demonstrated the burden of proof that she had a likelihood of winning her case on First Amendment grounds, he denied a motion for a preliminary injunction to force the Itawamba County school district to sponsor […]
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Unrest: Violence, Threats Assail Congressmen in Wake of Health Bill Passage

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., March 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thanks to widespread popular turmoil in the wake of the health care bill's passage this week, several U.S. lawmakers have requested increased protection after receiving a sudden onslaught of threats – including one shooting incident at a GOP lawmaker's office. The bill remained consistently unpopular with the majority of Americans as Democrats, led by President Obama, forced the bill through after several months of agonizing debate and increasing agitation on Capitol Hill and throughout the country. In particular, the debacle leant enormous momentum to the grassroots Tea Party movement, which […]
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Ontario Premier Spends Big on Gvmt Daycare despite $21.3 Billion Deficit

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, March 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Faced with spending freezes across the board due to a record deficit in the upcoming provincial budget, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has announced nevertheless that his government will add $63.5 million in daycare subsidies this year. “This is very much a core value to us,” said one government official, according to the Hamilton Spectator. The added daycare expense comes as the province faces a $21.3 billion deficit in the upcoming budget.  Finance Minister Dwight Duncan has promised no major cuts, but the government is planning a freeze on all […]
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Discrimination against New Zealand Pro-Life Club by Student Union Overturned

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski AUCKLAND, New Zealand, March 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An eight-year-old policy specifically targeting pro-life clubs has been overturned at Auckland University this week, according to a media release from ProLife New Zealand. “Between 2002 and 2010 the Auckland University Students Association (AUSA) has banned any pro-life club affiliating. The AUSA had a special rule on their policy books that applied only to people who want to start a pro-life club on campus,” said Simeon Brown, an AUSA member who aimed to start a pro-life club. “This special rule dictated that pro-life clubs can only apply to […]
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Western Nations Pressure Nicaragua on Abortion Laws at UN

By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, NY, March 25, 2010 (C-FAM) – At the recently concluded session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Nicaragua came up against intense and concerted international pressure from fellow United Nations (UN) member states over the abortion ban the Latin American country’s National Assembly adopted unanimously into law four years ago. Despite promising initial evidence that the prohibition on abortion has helped lower maternal mortality rates, Nicaragua has been the target of international pressure and scrutiny from UN agencies, donor governments and non-governmental organizations. Last month, Nicaragua underwent the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), which is […]
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New Report by American Law Firm Pushes for Abortion in Kenya

By Terrence McKeegan, J.D. NEW YORK, NY, March 25, 2010 (C-FAM) – Earlier this month, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), a New York-based public interest law firm that seeks to expand abortion access globally, released a report titled, “In Harm’s Way: The Impact of Kenya’s Restrictive Abortion Law.” The report and a related video (which was highlighted on CNN this week) were first made public at a CRR side event at the Beijing +15 UN Commission on the Status of Women. The report follows closely on another CRR report that was designed as a guide for advocacy and litigating […]
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Letters to the Editor

Re: A Short Story of a Loving Mother's Miscarriage and Her Fruitful Sorrow The story was very moving and deeply spiritual; praise God that one woman's grief became a beacon of life transfigured and illuminated for others! You are doing an excellent work! Frances Everett Winnipeg, Manitoba ___________________________________________________________________ Re: LifeSiteNews is Under AttackMr. Westen, You said, “Some Church leaders have shown that they do not comprehend the great social and spiritual dangers of our times – the D&P and US CCHD scandals have demonstrated that more than a few within those organizations have no understanding of the Christian principles they […]
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Catholic Georgetown Students Vote to Fund Abortion Rights Panel

Tuesday March 23, 2010 Catholic Georgetown Students Vote to Fund Abortion Rights Panel March 23, 2010 (CNews) – In early March, the Student Activities Commission (SAC) of Georgetown University, a Jesuit, Catholic university, voted in favor of funding an abortion “rights” panel on campus, according to The Hoya. Earlier the university partially funded “Sex Positive Week” and held performances of “The Vagina Monologues.” “While Catholics the world over are engaged in penance, prayer and alms giving during this Lenten season, students at America’s oldest Catholic university have participated in a perverse series of events that vividly reminds us why our […]
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The Passing of the Patriarch of the Pro-Life Movement

Monday March 22, 2010 The Passing of the Patriarch of the Pro-Life Movement By Fr. Thomas Euteneur President, Human Life International FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abbot John Klassen, OSB of St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, informed me personally Saturday that the venerable founder of Human Life International, Fr. Paul Marx, went to his eternal reward peacefully at 8:10 that morning. According to eyewitness accounts, Father raised his hands as he died and said, “Take me home.” Fittingly, he passed away in the Year for Priests, just short of his 90th birthday. Needless to say, he will […]
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12 States Ready to Launch Lawsuits against Federal Health Care Law

Monday March 22, 2010 12 States Ready to Launch Lawsuits against Federal Health Care Law By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Virginia and eleven other states are readying the first battle with the federal government over the newly passed health care legislation, with their state attorneys general prepared to argue that the impending law and its mandates to buy health insurance violates the U.S. Constitution, and trample on individual and states’ rights. The lawsuits are poised to begin as soon as President Barack Obama has signed the now Congressionally-approved health care bill into law. Virginia […]
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Shock: Stupak Shot Down Last-Ditch Attempt to Include Own Abortion Funding Ban

Monday March 22, 2010 Shock: Stupak Shot Down Last-Ditch Attempt to Include Own Abortion Funding Ban Pro-life leaders unanimous: abortion executive order meaningless By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 10:55 am EST 3.23.10 WASHINGTON, D.C., March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a baffling about-face, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) on Sunday fought against a last-ditch effort to insert his own abortion-funding ban in the reconciliation “fix” package for the Senate health care bill, which passed Sunday night. The House subsequently struck down Rep. Dave Camp’s (R-Mich.) attempt to pass Stupak’s language 232-199. While Camp referred to his proposal as the “Stupak-Pitts amendment,” Stupak […]
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Victory: UK Catholic Adoption Agency Wins Right to Refuse Homosexual Couples

Friday March 19, 2010 Victory: UK Catholic Adoption Agency Wins Right to Refuse Homosexual Couples By Hilary White LEEDS, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.K. Catholic adoption agency associated with the diocese of Leeds has won its case in the high court allowing it to continue to function according to the teaching of the Catholic Church on marriage and family life. Catholic Care chief executive, Mark Wiggin, told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that he was pleased but not surprised at the ruling. “We always felt we had a strong legal case,” Wiggin said. “In law we felt we were justified. We […]
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Stupak’s Last Stand: Demands Abortion “Corrections Bill” before Health Vote

Friday March 19, 2010 Stupak’s Last Stand: Demands Abortion “Corrections Bill” before Health Vote By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rep. Bart Stupak has nailed his colors to the mast, and has now demanded that Democrats first pass a law signed by the president that would put up a firewall between federal dollars and abortion providers in health care. Stupak told ABC’s “Good Morning America” with George Stephanopoulos that he wanted to “lock down” guarantees from Democrat leadership that abortion restrictions will be added to the health care overhaul. Stupak told Stephanopoulos that he will […]
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Texas Rep. Identifies Self as Man who Shouted “Baby Killer” during Stupak Speech

Monday March 22, 2010 Texas Rep. Identifies Self as Man who Shouted “Baby Killer” during Stupak Speech By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Texas Republican Rep. Randy Neugebauer has identified himself as the lawmaker who shouted “baby killer” while Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) argued against including his own abortion funding ban in the Senate health care reconciliation package Sunday evening. The congressman says that the remark was not a direct reference to Stupak: he says he called out “it’s a baby killer” in reference to the agreement Stupak had struck with President Obama to have the […]
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PM Harper “Caves”: “Not Closing the Door” on Contraception in G8 Maternal Health Push

Friday March 19, 2010 PM Harper “Caves”: “Not Closing the Door” on Contraception in G8 Maternal Health Push By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prime Minister Stephen Harper told the House of Commons yesterday that the government would be considering contraception as part of his maternal and child health initiative at the G8 in June, contradicting comments from cabinet members earlier in the week – and drawing criticisms from one pro-life group that he has “caved” on the issue. “We are not closing the door on any option, including contraception,” the Prime Minister told NDP […]
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7000 Youth Rally for Chastity in Guatemala City

Friday March 19, 2010 7000 Youth Rally for Chastity in Guatemala City By Hilary White GUATEMALA CITY, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More than 7,000 young people between 12 and 25 participated in a rally in Guatemala City and pledged themselves to chastity this week. The rally was part of the first National Congress of Catholic Youth, an event organised by the Augustinian Recollect Youth (JAR), March 13-14. The group said that it wanted to promote the message: “Be purified. If you purify yourself and allow only good things to enter within you then you can decide and have the […]
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Canadian Personhood Website Launched

Friday March 19, 2010 Canadian Personhood Website Launched By Thaddeus M. Baklinski March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alliance for Life Ontario has launched a new Canadian Pre-born Personhood initiative with the creation of a Personhood website. The site provides information about abortion in Canada and encourages visitors to sign a petition asking the Canadian government to extend full legal protection to every Canadian, from their biological beginnings to their natural death. Organizers of the initiative state that the signed petitions will be presented in Parliament on Person’s Day – October 18, 2010. “Much of the debate about abortion centres on […]
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Archbishop Rips ‘Naive or Disingenuous’ CHA for Support for Pro-Abort Health Bill

Wednesday March 17, 2010 Archbishop Rips ‘Naive or Disingenuous’ CHA for Support for Pro-Abort Health Bill Charges CHA “provides cover” for House members who choose to buckle under pressure from President and Dem leadership By Peter J. Smith KANSAS CITY, Kansas, March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumann blasted Sister Carol Keehan and the Catholic Health Association for coming out in support of the Senate health-care reform bill, which would allowi federal dollars to subsidize abortion-covering health-care plans. The bishop urged his flock instead to demand Congress vote against the bill, and give Sister Carol a piece […]
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Former Tiller Abortionists Make Albuquerque the New Late-Term Abortion Capital

Wednesday March 17, 2010 Former Tiller Abortionists Make Albuquerque the New Late-Term Abortion Capital By John Jalsevac ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two women who once specialized in post-viability abortions during their employment at George Tiller’s now closed abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas, have set up shop in an existing abortion facility owned and operated by Texas abortionist Curtis Boyd. Working out of that facility they are now offering lucrative late-term abortions. The arrangement was announced in a statement on Boyd’s website, reported on by the LA Times on Tuesday, which said, “We are honored to have Dr. […]
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‘Abortion Changes You’ Messages Meet Commuters in St. Louis

Tuesday March 16, 2010 ‘Abortion Changes You’ Messages Meet Commuters in St. Louis By Peter J. Smith ST. LOUIS, Missouri, March 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The city immortalized by the Judy Garland musical “Meet Me in St. Louis” will now meet a new message over the next few weeks: “abortion changes you.” Five different billboards have been set up on the thoroughfares of the city, and form part of the same outreach appearing this month in New York City subways to offer those struggling after an abortion hope for healing. The billboards echo some of the experiences of men and […]
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Peruvian Executive Defies Supreme Court to Distribute Deadly ‘Morning After Pill’

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent LIMA, March 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The executive branch of Peru's national government has decided to defy the nation's Constitutional Tribunal and distribute the deadly “morning after pill,” which is billed as a contraceptive but which can cause abortions when taken in the first few days following sexual intercourse. The decision to distribute the drug, which was announced on March 9, has been met by thundering denunciations from the Constitutional Tribunal (TC), as well as Catholic bishops, doctors, and pro-life organizations. Carlos Mesía, Vice-President of the TC, denounced the decision as an “open noncompliance […]
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PRO-LIFE ICON JOSEPH STANTON DIES

Friday September 12, 1997 PRO-LIFE ICON JOSEPH STANTON DIES BOSTON (CWN) – Dr. Joseph R. Stanton, the “patriarch of the pro-life movement in Massachusetts,” died on Tuesday at 77 years old after years of fighting for the right to life, despite his own lifelong battle with polio. Dr. Stanton founded Massachusetts Citizens for Life and the Value of Life Committee of Massachusetts and was chairman of the Coalition for Responsible Government. In his 70s and hobbled by crutches, he joined Operation Rescue and still later organized a drive for an updated version of the Hippocratic Oath.
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Judge Says Public Vote on D.C. Gay “Marriage” Law Would Violate Human Rights Act

Friday January 15, 2010 Judge Says Public Vote on D.C. Gay “Marriage” Law Would Violate Human Rights Act By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WASHINGTON, D.C., January 15, 2010 (LifeSIteNews.com) – A Washington D.C. judge has ruled that a ballot initiative against the recently approved same-sex “marriage” law would violate the District’s Human Rights Act, which forbids discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Stand 4 Marriage DC, a coalition of the federal district’s religious leaders led by Bishop Harry Jackson of Hope Christian Church had appealed for the right to put gay “marriage” before the residents of D.C. for a vote […]
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CANADIAN TV NETWORKS BEGIN RATING SYSTEM

Monday September 29, 1997 CANADIAN TV NETWORKS BEGIN RATING SYSTEM CANADA, Sept 29 (LSN) – Canadian Television Networks commence this week with a rating system for TV shows similar to that of the US. Viewers will be warned as to content of the program by a symbol appearing on the screen. Most Canadian shows will open with one of six ratings symbols. A “C” symbol means the program is supposedly suitable for all ages. American pro-life and pro-family associations have warned that parents should not trust the rating systems and should be responsible themselves to guard their children from harmful […]
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TURNER PLEDGES 1 BILILION TO UN

Friday September 19, 1997 TURNER PLEDGES 1 BILILION TO UN NEW YORK (LSN) – Media mogul and population control fanatic, Ted Turner, has anounnced he will donate $1 billion to U.N. humanitarian agencies over the next 10 years and called on other wealthy people to do the same. Obviously the UN meets with his sordid approval. Turner is notorious for attacking Christianity and ravings about the need for massive population control. A recent example was his tasteless commentary on the 39 Applewhite suicides where he said “We’ve got too many nuts running around anyway, right?… Who knows? They could be […]
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New Virginia Attorney General Vows to Fight Federal Health Care Law

Monday January 18, 2010 New Virginia Attorney General Vows to Fight Federal Health Care Law By Peter J. Smith RICHMOND, Virginia, January 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The incoming Attorney General of Virginia says he would join other U.S. attorneys general in fighting the federal government from imposing the Democrats’ health care reform on their states, according to an interview with WorldNetDaily. Ken Cuccinelli, a pro-life Republican who assumed office this weekend told WND’s Anita Crane that the health-care reform bill under consideration by Congress mandates individuals purchase health insurance and that “violates individual rights.” “I do not believe the federal […]
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UK DOCTORS PROPOSE EUTHANASIA FOR CHILDREN AGAINST PARENTS WISHES

Thursday September 25, 1997 UK DOCTORS PROPOSE EUTHANASIA FOR CHILDREN AGAINST PARENTS WISHES BRITAIN (LSN) – Yesterday, the UK’s Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health issued guidleines which told doctors they can withdraw treatment, including food and water, from very sick or handicapped children up to the age of 16. Although the guidelines do not have the force of law, any doctor called before a court would be able to cite them in his defence. Prof Neil McIntosh, Professor of Child Life and Health at Edinburgh University, and chairman of the committee responsible for the guidelines, made clear that […]
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QUOTE OF THE DAY

Monday September 15, 1997 QUOTE OF THE DAY In this quote from one of today’s UN press releases Secretary General Kofi Anan points to “exclusionary identities” such as religion as “forces of fragmentation” threatening world peace. As such it must be “confront(ed) and restrain(ed)”. “The assertion of exclusionary identities — ethnic, religious, national, tribal — has intensified. We must take great care to recognize, confront and restrain the forces of fragmentation, lest they destroy the potential for peace and progress that the new era holds in store.”
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Panic Grips Health Bill Negotiations as Brown Victory Looms Big

Monday January 18, 2010 Panic Grips Health Bill Negotiations as Brown Victory Looms Big By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., January 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A sense of panic has begun to seep into Democrat party leaders’ marathon of negotiations over the health bill, according to insider reports. The source of the panic appears to be the possibility that the Democrats may lose their filibuster-proof majority in Massachusetts’ special U.S. Senate election Tuesday The Hill reports that alarmed Democrat aides are already weighing options in case Massachusetts Democrat Martha Coakley loses against Republican Scott Brown in the special election to overtake […]
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Commentary: The Failure of the Bishops’ Healthcare Bill Strategy

Monday March 15, 2010 Commentary: The Failure of the Bishops’ Healthcare Bill Strategy Commentary by Deal W. Hudson March 15, 2010 (InsideCatholic) – The Catholic Health Association (CHA), a lobbying group for Catholic hospitals, has offered its support for the health-care bill as it currently stands. A statement from CHA president Sr. Carol Keehan expresses “concern on life issues” while underscoring the bill’s requirement that “a separate check” would have to be written for abortion services. Sister Keehan’s statement — along with the March 11 letter to Congress from her vice president, Michael F. Rodgers — is a masterpiece of […]
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Vatican Blasts Media Slurs on Pope Benedict over Abuse Case

Monday March 15, 2010 Vatican Blasts Media Slurs on Pope Benedict over Abuse Case By Hilary White ROME, March 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vatican officials came out swinging this weekend against allegations in the media that Pope Benedict was involved in a cover-up of a priest abuser while he was archbishop of Munich. At the same time, the pope has reiterated the Church’s defense of celibacy for priests, denying claims that it has contributed to the sexual abuse scandals. On Saturday, Holy See Press Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi denounced the “aggressive persistence” of media reports attempting to implicate Pope […]
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Planned Parenthood Dismisses ‘Symbolic’ Executive Order, Declares Health Care Victory

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., March 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards has issued a statement declaring victory after the Senate health care bill's passage Sunday, noting that the abortion-related executive order Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) agreed to in exchange for pro-life Democrats' votes was merely a “symbolic gesture.” Stupak had argued after the vote that, contrary to the affirmations of virtually every top pro-life organization in the U.S., Obama's promised executive order “is worth more than the paper it is written on.” “The only option you had was leave the Senate language or strengthen it to prevent […]
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Pro-Life Germans March for Life in Munster

By Michael van der Mast March 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Saturday afternoon March 13, a silent prayer march set off in the German town of Münster, a city of 280,000 inhabitants in North Rhine-Westphalia close to the Dutch border and a resort of 40,000 students. The march was organized by the Catholic Euro Pro-Life and was held to draw attention to the perilous position of the unborn and to pray for mothers, fathers, doctors and politicians who are affected by and contribute to the practice of killing the unborn. In his speech to the participants, Euro Pro-Life Director Wolfgang […]
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“20 Years Ago I Had an abortion” – 40 Days Update

Commentary by David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for Life March 23, 2010 (40DaysforLife) – As this 40 Days for Life campaign continues, the need for prayer for an end to abortion grows clearer each day—as does the need to pray for healing for those whose lives have been turned upside down because of their experiences with the pain caused by abortion. Lynda said that through her efforts with 40 Days for Life, she often meets both women and men “who come to confess an earlier and much regretted decision to have an abortion.” She had one person tell her, […]
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No Mention of Abortion in Health Bill “Fix” Package

Thursday March 18, 2010 No Mention of Abortion in Health Bill “Fix” Package By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The health care reconciliation “fix” package, which was posted on the House Rules Committee website Thursday afternoon, makes no mention of abortion, dashing any remaining hopes that the legislation that the House votes on will not include a vast expansion of abortion funding. Most analysts had predicted that the “fix” bill would not give in to the demands of pro-life representatives, most notably Rep. Bart Stupak, who have demanded that Hyde-like language be included in the bill. […]
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Late-term Abortion Ban Advances in Nebraska

Friday March 19, 2010 Late-term Abortion Ban Advances in Nebraska By John Jalsevac LINCOLN, NE, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill in Nebraska that would ban nearly all abortions after 20 weeks, because of the pain that such abortions can cause the unborn child, has advanced out of the Judicial Committee by a vote of 5-3 vote. LB 1103, called the “Abortion Pain Prevention Act,” states that “there is substantial evidence that abortion methods used at and after twenty weeks would cause substantial pain to an unborn child.” The bill also points out that, “There is a valid state […]
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Vatican Newspaper: U.S. Bishops Speaks for Church on Health Bill

Wednesday March 17, 2010 Vatican Newspaper: U.S. Bishops Speaks for Church on Health Bill By Kathleen Gilbert VATICAN CITY, March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An article in L’Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Vatican, has weighed in on the side of U.S. bishops in the debate over the abortion-expanding Senate health care bill. The article by L’OR’s Marco Bellizzi helps explode efforts by Democrats to hold up support for the bill from the Catholic Health Association (CHA) as evidence of the measure’s moral acceptability. Bellizzi pointed to a statement by USCCB president Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, in which […]
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CHA Board Bishop: ‘I Side With USCCB’ against Health Bill

Tuesday March 16, 2010 CHA Board Bishop: ‘I Side With USCCB’ against Health Bill By Kathleen Gilbert ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, March 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg has stepped into the row between the Catholic Health Association (CHA), on whose board he is a member, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), siding with the bishops in fighting the CHA-endorsed abortion-expanding Senate health care bill. The CHA sparked controversy over the weekend by throwing its weight behind the vastly pro-abortion Senate health bill. CHA president Sr. Carol Keehan had issued a letter to lawmakers urging […]
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Court Orders Death for Unborn Child in Argentinean Rape Case

Monday March 15, 2010 Court Orders Death for Unborn Child in Argentinean Rape Case By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent CHUBUT, ARGENTINA, March 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An unborn child has been killed by doctors in the province of Chabut, Argentina, following a protracted legal struggle to save its life, according to local reports. The abortion took place on Friday despite last minute petitions filed with the provincial Supreme Court by the Corporation of Catholic Attorneys, and despite three earlier rulings against the deadly procedure. The child, who was at 18 weeks of gestation, was allegedly conceived through the […]
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Pro-Life House Dem: CHA Has Financial Incentive to Support Health Bill

Thursday March 18, 2010 Pro-Life House Dem: CHA Has Financial Incentive to Support Health Bill By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), one of the pro-life House Democrats facing tough pressure for opposing the abortion-laden Senate health care bill, has pointed out that, as a trade association, the Catholic Health Association (CHA) has more at stake with the bill’s passage than it may openly admit. “I think the hospitals have a different perspective because they’re running large institutions,” Kaptur said. “They have a lot of issues at stake. They have to balance their […]
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Scranton Diocese Bans Pro-Abort, Anti-War Activist Cindy Sheehan from Speaking

Monday March 15, 2010 Scranton Diocese Bans Pro-Abort, Anti-War Activist Cindy Sheehan from Speaking By James Tillman SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, March 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Scranton Diocese has banned well-known anti-war protestor Cindy Sheehan from speaking at a diocesan church hall, citing her opposition to Church teaching on life and marriage. Sheehan told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that she considers the diocese’s action to be “against the teachings of the Prince of Peace.” Cindy Sheehan, mother of the deceased Specialist Casey Sheehan, has been a prominent anti-war activist since she camped outside President Bush’s ranch in August of 2005. She had been […]
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British MPs Slam Polish Group Promoting Abortion ‘Tourism’ in U.K.

Monday March 15, 2010 British MPs Slam Polish Group Promoting Abortion ‘Tourism’ in U.K. By Thaddeus M. Baklinski POLAND, March 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-abortion feminist organization in Poland, known only by the acronym SROM, has launched an ad campaign promoting “abortion tourism” to Britain by telling Polish women they can get a free abortion at a UK clinic, paid for by the National Health Service (NHS). SROM’s poster shows a young woman in her underwear with the words “my choice” written across her stomach in English. The group uses the Mastercard advertising logo – conjoined red and orange […]
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Third World Women Don’t Want Contraceptives, Expert Tells Canadian Politicians

Thursday March 18, 2010 Third World Women Don’t Want Contraceptives, Expert Tells Canadian Politicians By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, March 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Opposition critics and the mainstream Canadian media have lashed out at the Conservative government again over their plan for promoting maternal and child health care at this June’s G8 summit. The criticism follows comments from Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon on Tuesday, in which he insisted that the plan would not involve family planning or contraception. Critics argue that hundreds of millions of women are in grave need of contraception, and that access to contraception […]
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Prime Minister Harper Addresses Marijuana, National Day Care

Wednesday March 17, 2010 Prime Minister Harper Addresses Marijuana, National Day Care By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prime Minister Harper clearly expressed his opinion on a variety of issues, including the topics of legalizing marijuana and instituting a national day care plan, during an interview on YouTube released Tuesday evening. The interview was based on questions submitted to YouTube and voted on by Canadian citizens. Responding to the question about why the government doesn’t end the war on drugs by making marijuana legal for adults, just like alcohol, and instead focus on violent criminals, the […]
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75% of Canadians Say “Abortion is Morally Wrong”: Poll

Tuesday March 16, 2010 75% of Canadians Say “Abortion is Morally Wrong”: Poll By Thaddeus M. Baklinski and John Jalsevac OTTAWA, March 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new national poll indicates that a large majority of Canadians are increasingly embracing conservative values, including opposing abortion and supporting the true definition of marriage. The Harris-Decima poll was commissioned for the Manning Centre Barometer, an annual survey of Canadian’s attitudes towards values and policies generally ascribed to conservatives, by the Manning Centre for Building Democracy. The poll was carried out by Allan Gregg of Harris-Decima and Dr. Andre Turcotte of Carleton University’s […]
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Catholic Health Assoc. Health Bill Support ‘Utterly Un-Catholic’: HLI President

Monday March 15, 2010 Catholic Health Assoc. Health Bill Support ‘Utterly Un-Catholic’: HLI President By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 4:47 pm EST WASHINGTON, DC, March 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the U.S. bishops step up their opposition to the abortion-expanding Senate health bill this month, the Catholic Health Association (CHA) has again damaged the pro-life Catholic response by issuing warm support for the bill – despite its not being “perfect” on the abortion issue. The president of Human Life International responded by condemning CHA’s support for the bill as “utterly un-Catholic” and “a grave insult” to Catholics. In remarks posted on […]
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Breakdown: Pelosi’s 11th-Hour Pitch for Pro-Life Dem Votes Crumbles

Saturday March 20, 2010 Breakdown: Pelosi’s 11th-Hour Pitch for Pro-Life Dem Votes Crumbles By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 2:52 pm EST WASHINGTON, D.C., March 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A desperate compromise attempt by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to snatch up the votes of pro-life Democrats led by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) appears to have disintegrated under intense pressure from pro-abortion lobbyists, various sources report Saturday. The dramatic bid reportedly fell apart one day before the House’s final vote on the Senate health care bill scheduled for Sunday. Capitol Hill sources reported Friday that Stupak was in dialogue with Pelosi over allowing […]
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Poll Reveals 1/3 of U.S. Docs Would Consider Quitting Over ObamaCare

Friday March 19, 2010 Poll Reveals 1/3 of U.S. Docs Would Consider Quitting Over ObamaCare By Peter J. Smith ATLANTA, Georgia, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new poll reveals that President Barack Obama’s health care reform may push as many as a third of the nation’s practicing doctors into shuttering their offices and getting out of the medical business entirely. In other words, the doctor may not be in to see you shortly. According to a survey conducted by The Medicus Firm, a nationally retained physician search firm, “nearly one-third of physicians responding to the survey indicated that they […]
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Virginia, Idaho Herald War of the States against Federal Government over Health Care

Friday March 19, 2010 Virginia, Idaho Herald War of the States against Federal Government over Health Care By Peter J. Smith BOISE, Idaho, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Virginia and Idaho have now taken the lead among U.S. states in the fight against national health care, with the two states having successfully enacted laws empowering their attorneys general to sue the federal government for trying to force their respective residents to buy health insurance. On Wednesday, Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter signed the Idaho Health Freedom Act into law, during the first public ceremony for this year’s legislature. “What the Idaho […]
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Pro-Aborts at University of BC Censor Pro-Life Display

Monday March 15, 2010 Pro-Aborts at University of BC Censor Pro-Life Display By Patrick B. Craine VANCOUVER, B.C., March 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dozens of pro-abortion protesters at the University of British Columbia (UBC) disrupted a pro-life demonstration last Tuesday, which was being sponsored by the University’s pro-life club, Lifeline. The club was running the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP), which compares abortion to past genocidal atrocities – displaying, for example, an image of a Holocaust victim beside an image of an aborted baby. Lifeline has run a GAP campaign nearly every semester since the fall of 1999. The campus pro-abortion […]
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Constitutional Challenges Loom Big Over Slaughter’s ‘Demon Pass’

Friday March 19, 2010 Constitutional Challenges Loom Big Over Slaughter’s ‘Demon Pass’ By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The legislative “deem and pass” tactic – dubbed by many pundits as the “demon pass” – sought by House Democrats to ram through the Senate version of ObamaCare has legal analysts predicting that the health bill will likely land before the U.S. Supreme Court on a constitutional challenge. “The Slaughter solution is unconstitutional because it evades the constitutional requirement that there be a vote by both houses of Congress on the same bill in order for that […]
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Pro-Abortion ‘Escorts’ vs. 40 Days Volunteers

Wednesday March 17, 2010 Pro-Abortion ‘Escorts’ vs. 40 Days Volunteers Commentary By David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for Life March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Outside abortion centers, faithful volunteers are praying for God to protect women and their babies from the tragedy that awaits inside. Inside these facilities, staffers are scrambling to find volunteers to shield their clients from people they refer to as “anti-life zealots,” who are peacefully standing in prayer. It seems to be happening more during this current 40 Days for Life campaign than it has at any time in the past — and that’s a […]
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Commentary: Blazing the Trail to Personhood, California Style

Wednesday March 10, 2010 Commentary: Blazing the Trail to Personhood, California Style By Judie Brown March 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Things are really heating up in California as Pastor Walter Hoye continues his grassroots campaign to help assure that human personhood makes the ballot in the state. The California Human Rights Amendment makes a simple statement that everyone can agree is logical and should indeed have already been part of the state’s constitution. The language reads, The term “person” applies to all living human organisms from the beginning of their biological development, regardless of the means by which they were […]
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Tug of War: ‘Do not be Fooled’ by Catholic Groups’ Health Bill Support, Say Bishops

Thursday March 18, 2010 Tug of War: ‘Do not be Fooled’ by Catholic Groups’ Health Bill Support, Say Bishops White House claims Catholics are on board with abortion-laden bill By Kathleen Gilbert DENVER, March 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic bishops of Denver have sent out an urgent message to members of their flock, warning that Catholic groups that have come out in favor of the abortion-expanding Senate health care legislation are “undermining the leadership of the nation’s Catholic bishops” and “sowing confusion among faithful Catholics” in doing so. The statement came just before White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs […]
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Gay ‘Marriage’ Activists Forcing Pro-Family Views out of California Therapist Association

Monday March 15, 2010 Gay ‘Marriage’ Activists Forcing Pro-Family Views out of California Therapist Association By Kathleen Gilbert SAN DIEGO, California, March 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abandoning its long-held neutrality on the marriage debate, the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) has slowly come to disavow pro-family views and sexual orientation therapy as “homophobic.” Instead it now warmly supports homosexuality as a “normal and positive” variant of sexuality – all thanks to pressure by gay activists who have openly vowed to transform the organization from within. The disturbing result of the activists’ tactics, says one anonymous CAMFT intern, […]
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If Only Someone Had Warned Them

Monday March 15, 2010 If Only Someone Had Warned Them Dear LifeSiteNews Readers, Today we again installed our popular fundraising campaign thermometer on the LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) website. At a glance it shows you the donations to date and what is still needed to achieve the campaign goal. Because it keeps moving as donations come in, many supporters have told us that they really appreciate this device. Recently, in our ongoing search for funding, we learned that a wealthy pro-life individual publicly announced he was going to fund a group that presented him with a plan that had the most baby-saving […]
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Baby Isaiah Dies with Family on Parents’ Terms

Friday March 12, 2010 Baby Isaiah Dies with Family on Parents’ Terms By Patrick B. Craine EDMONTON, Alberta, March 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Baby Isaiah James May died yesterday afternoon in the arms of his parents. After enduring a legal fight to keep doctors from forcing death upon their child, the May family bade farewell to their son on their own terms after becoming convinced that there was no chance of his recovery. According to Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, the tragic case “has probably turned out the best it possibly could have turned out.” Baby Isaiah suffered […]
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Texas Rep. Identifies Self as Man who Shouted “Baby Killer” during Stupak Speech

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Texas Republican Rep. Randy Neugebauer has identified himself as the lawmaker who shouted “baby killer” while Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) argued against including his own abortion funding ban in the Senate health care reconciliation package Sunday evening. The congressman says that the remark was not a direct reference to Stupak: he says he called out “it's a baby killer” in reference to the agreement Stupak had struck with President Obama to have the latter issue an executive order upholding the Hyde amendment, in return for Stupak's “yes” vote on the […]
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Campaign Life Coalition: A Vote for Rae’s Reproductive Motion is a Vote for Abortion

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada's opposition parties are seeking to force the Conservative government into funding abortion as part of their maternal and child health initiative at the G8 summit this June.  And now rumors are circulating Parliament corridors indicating that the Prime Minister is ready to throw in the towel. Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) National Coordinator, Mary Ellen Douglas, told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that the pro-life movement hopes “that the Prime Minister would urge his Party to reject the divisive motion.”  Douglas added, however, that the vote will be beneficial to the political […]
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Italian Candidate a Threat to Religious Freedom on International Scene: Catholic Lobby Group

By Hilary White ROME, March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Emma Bonino’s power and influence will increase dramatically both nationally and internationally if she wins the upcoming election to the presidency of the Lazio region in Italy, which includes the city of Rome, said Fabio Bernabei, president of Centro Culturale Lepanto (CCL), in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com on Saturday. Despite her description by the European press as “centre left,” Bonino, as the Radical Party candidate, “is the most radical politician in Italy,” Bernabei claimed. CCL is a Christian lobby group currently campaigning hard to derail the Bonino candidacy. A Bonino win, […]
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Grove City College Psychologist Warren Throckmorton Blasted for Backpedaling on Homosexuality

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman GROVE CITY, PENNSYLVANIA, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A psychologist teaching at the conservative-Evangelical Grove City College has been making waves by endorsing same-sex civil union legislation, and claiming that homosexuals can live “normal, natural and healthy” lives. In a recent interview with the Evangelical news service OneNewsNow (ONN), Dr. Warren Throckmorton reportedly said that “he opposes same-sex marriage but believes the Equal Protection Clause permits homosexual civil unions,” according to the news agency. “Throckmorton says he personally holds a 'traditional view of homosexuality and sexual ethics.' However, when asked whether he believes homosexuality is 'normal, natural […]
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Questions submitted to Dr. Warren Throckmorton by LifeSiteNews.com

1. How have your views of human sexuality changed in the last few years? 2. In a previous article for LifeSiteNews.com, you defended the idea that homosexual orientation is caused by environmental factors.  Have you abandoned that idea? 3. In a recent article you defended the thesis that sexual orientation is biologically determined in the womb, by hormonal deficiencies.  Do you now believe that homosexual orientation is immutable?  [Note: Throckmorton's original statements only suggested that hormonal and other biological factors may influence homosexual orientation, and was therefore amended in a subsequent email.] 4. You now say that you think the […]
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Sunday Commentary on Health Care Vote Outcome

The Obama administration has won its victory, for now, on the health care battle. In the end, when it mattered the most, Bart Stupak and some of the other pro-life Democrats betrayed all Americans who had trusted them to stay the course on principles. They did not stay that course and sold out for what are highly likely to be worthless promises. The Catholic Church leadership must now realize, more than ever before, that it has a huge problem with various Catholic organizations and leaders having played a crucial role in bringing about this massive expansion of anti-life government power. […]
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Virginia, Idaho Herald War of the States against Federal Government over Health Care

By Peter J. Smith BOISE, Idaho, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Virginia and Idaho have now taken the lead among U.S. states in the fight against national health care, with the two states having successfully enacted laws empowering their attorneys general to sue the federal government for trying to force their respective residents to buy health insurance. On Wednesday, Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter signed the Idaho Health Freedom Act into law, during the first public ceremony for this year's legislature. “What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal […]
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Catholic Doctors, More Bishops Insist: Catholic Teaching Incompatible with ObamaCare

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Several more U.S. Catholic bishops, as well as a national association of Catholic medical doctors, have stepped up to rescue the Catholic name from organizations claiming the abortion-laden Senate health care bill is compatible with Church teaching. The Catholic Medical Association (CMA), a national association of Catholic physicians, has thrown their weight behind the statement of Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput, who said that groups supporting the Senate bill “have done a grave disservice to the American Catholic community by undermining the leadership of the nation's Catholic bishops, sowing confusion among […]
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Poll Reveals 1/3 of U.S. Docs Would Consider Quitting Over ObamaCare

By Peter J. Smith ATLANTA, Georgia, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new poll reveals that President Barack Obama’s health care reform may push as many as a third of the nation’s practicing doctors into shuttering their offices and getting out of the medical business entirely. In other words, the doctor may not be in to see you shortly. According to a survey conducted by The Medicus Firm, a nationally retained physician search firm, “nearly one-third of physicians responding to the survey indicated that they will want to leave medical practice after health reform is implemented.” The Medicus Firm queried […]
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PM Harper “Caves”: “Not Closing the Door” on Contraception in G8 Maternal Health Push

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prime Minister Stephen Harper told the House of Commons yesterday that the government would be considering contraception as part of his maternal and child health initiative at the G8 in June, contradicting comments from cabinet members earlier in the week – and drawing criticisms from one pro-life group that he has “caved” on the issue. “We are not closing the door on any option, including contraception,” the Prime Minister told NDP leader Jack Layton (Toronto-Danforth) during Question Period.  “However, we do not wish to debate abortion in this place […]
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Canadian Traditional Anglican Communion Requests Catholic Ordinariate

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VICTORIA, British Colombia, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The bishops of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada (ACCC), part of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), have petitioned the Vatican requesting full communion with the Catholic Church through the implementation of “Anglicanorum Coetibus.” The apostolic constitution “Anglicanorum Coetibus,” published in November last year, provides a way for groups of Anglicans to enter the Catholic Church through the establishment of personal ordinariates, a new type of canonical structure that would allow them to preserve much of their Anglican liturgical and spiritual traditions. Zenit News reports that the petition […]
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Italian Candidate “Staunchest Enemy” of Christian Principles in Italy: Lobby Group

By Hilary White ROME, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Emma Bonino, the extreme left Radical Party candidate for the upcoming Lazio regional elections, is a threat to the democratic principles of freedom of religious expression and to the Catholic Church's pastoral work in Italy, says a Rome-based lobby group. Centro Culturale Lepanto (CCL) president Fabio Bernabei said that if Bonino is elected as head of the Lazio region, which includes the city of Rome, it would “seriously threaten the freedom of the apostolate of Catholics.” CCL is working to warn Roman voters that Bonino is a “radical” who favors the […]
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Pope Faces Media Attacks over Abuse Crisis

By Patrick B. Craine ROME, Italy, March 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Faithful Catholics are rallying to the defence of Pope Benedict XVI as it has become apparent that members of the mainstream media and others are setting their sights on implicating him in the Church's sexual abuse crisis at any cost. Journalists are reportedly scouring the pope's five years as archbishop of Munich, from 1977-1982, for evidence of any kind of sexual abuse cover-up involving then-Cardinal Ratzinger. The most overtly anti-Catholic media have already pronounced the pope guilty, however, after revelations that an accused priest residing in his diocese had been allowed […]
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Would you pay to read LifeSiteNews.com?

Dear Readers, More than a few times a year I receive suggestions to the effect that we should charge our readers a subscription fee. And we are confident that if we did so, there would be many readers who would gladly pay such a fee.   On the surface, this sounds like a sensible idea. With a guaranteed income for the year, we could have a large potion of our expenses covered, allowing us to plan for the future with a much clearer idea of our income.  But as attractive an idea as this sounds, there is no doubt in […]
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Architect of Betrayal?: WH Exposes Obama as Provocateur of Catholic Dissention

By Peter J. Smith and Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs revealed to reporters today that President Barack Obama actively promoted the Catholic Health Association's public break with the American Catholic bishops to support his health care legislation. Gibbs also suggested that the CHA and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious' (LCWR) break with the U.S. Bishops has provided legitimate political cover for pro-life Democrats to switch their votes from “no” to “yes.” “I think over the past twenty four hours we have seen strong indications from those in the Catholic […]
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Canadian Parliament Debates Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The House of Commons held a debate Tuesday on Bill C-384, a bill proposed by member of parliament Francine Lalonde (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ) to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide. “Who can repeatedly say with confidence that helping someone in unbearable pain, particularly someone in palliative care – that is definitely unbearable pain – is a crime?” Lalonde asked the House.  “Many witnesses speak about helping someone die peacefully, so that they do not suffer. Is that really murder? Is that really a crime?” The bill received an hour of […]
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B.C. Pro-Lifers Greeted By Pro-Abortion Sidewalk Art

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski KELOWNA, British Columbia, March 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-lifers in British Columbia who maintain a weekly vigil protesting abortion outside the Kelowna General Hospital were again this year greeted by pro-abortion sidewalk chalk art. The Executive Director of The Kelowna Right to Life Society, Marlon Bartram, explained that last summer “a woman plus an undetermined number of accomplices repeatedly barraged the sidewalk across from the abortuary at Kelowna General Hospital with pro-abortion, anti-male, radical feminist slogans for nearly a month straight” at the spot where the pro-life vigil is kept. The sidewalk art stopped abruptly when the perpetrator […]
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Third World Women Don’t Want Contraceptives, Expert Tells Canadian Politicians

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, March 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Opposition critics and the mainstream Canadian media have lashed out at the Conservative government again over their plan for promoting maternal and child health care at this June's G8 summit.  The criticism follows comments from Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon on Tuesday, in which he insisted that the plan would not involve family planning or contraception. Critics argue that hundreds of millions of women are in grave need of contraception, and that access to contraception is essential to reducing maternal mortality.  But a respected social scientist and expert on population issues […]
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Annual UN Women’s Meeting Closes With Delegations Saying No to Abortion

By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, NY, March 18, 2010 (C-FAM) – Last week, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) closed its annual session with delegations defining abortion out of a resolution on maternal mortality.  Over the course of this year's two-week commission, United Nations (UN) member states were embroiled in heated negotiations over “reproductive rights” language which some delegations believe would be used to promote abortion. The United States (US) delegation introduced the resolution calling for increased political will to tackle maternal mortality.  The US delegate argued that their resolution underscored the importance of guaranteeing all of women’s […]
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Former Tiller Abortionists Make Albuquerque the New Late-Term Abortion Capital

By John Jalsevac ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) -  Two women who once specialized in post-viability abortions during their employment at George Tiller's now closed abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas, have set up shop in an existing abortion facility owned and operated by Texas abortionist Curtis Boyd. Working out of that facility they are now offering lucrative late-term abortions.   The arrangement was announced in a statement on Boyd’s website, reported on by the LA Times on Tuesday, which said, “We are honored to have Dr. Susan Robinson and Dr. Shelley Sella, both of whom worked with Dr. Tiller, […]
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Time-Crunched Dems Lunge for Saturday Finish Line on Health Bill

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With another in a long list of deadlines for the Senate health care bill approaching this weekend, Democrat leaders – who evidently still lack the votes to push the abortion-funding bill through the House – are beginning to show a few more cracks in their facade. Keeping to a tight schedule has always been a priority for the health bill, partly to quell public outcry against it and partly to avoid running into the upcoming 2010 campaign season, when congressional activity is expected to grind to a halt. Now President […]
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Okla. Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Same-Sex ‘Divorce’ Case

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit that sought a “divorce” between two women who claimed to have obtained a “marriage” license in Canada. The court affirmed the trial court’s decision to dismiss the suit because the women failed to produce evidence of their “marriage,” and because Oklahoma courts do not have jurisdiction to grant divorces between members of the same sex. ADF attorneys represented Speaker of the Oklahoma House Chris Benge, on behalf of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, in arguing that Oklahoma law does not […]
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Battle for Washington: Pro-Life Coalition Giving Last Full Measure on Health Care

By Peter J. Smith   WASHINGTON, D.C., March 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With what may be the final onslaught of the health care bill coming this weekend, pro-life advocates are giving the last full measure in a battle to defeat the legislation, which would allow federal dollars to subsidize abortion coverage and Planned Parenthood to tap into billions of dollars set aside for community health providers.   The latest vote predictions say passage of President Barack Obama’s health care reform is too close to call, and pro-life advocates have put their utmost into working – and praying – to hold together […]
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Vatican Newspaper: U.S. Bishops Speaks for Church on Health Bill

By Kathleen Gilbert VATICAN CITY, March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An article in L'Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Vatican, has weighed in on the side of U.S. bishops in the debate over the abortion-expanding Senate health care bill. The article by L'OR's Marco Bellizzi helps explode efforts by Democrats to hold up support for the bill from the Catholic Health Association (CHA) as evidence of the measure's moral acceptability. Bellizzi pointed to a statement by USCCB president Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, in which he directly disagreed with CHA's support. Over the weekend, CHA president Sr. Carol Keehan had […]
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Maternal Health Plan about Saving Lives, not “Family Planning”: Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Family planning and contraception are not included in Canada's new maternal and child health initiative, insisted Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon Tuesday. “This [initiative] does not deal in any way, shape, or form with family planning,” he told the House of Commons foreign affairs committee.  “Indeed, the purpose of this is to be able to save lives.  Too many people are losing their lives on a yearly basis.” Cannon responded to questions from NDP member of parliament John Rafferty, who claimed that the most important and cost effective way […]
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One Abortion Every 11 Seconds in Original 15 EU States

By Hilary White ROME, March 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortion rates in Europe are on the rise, with one child being killed at least every 11 seconds in the original 15 EU states, according to the annual report of the Institute of Family Policies (IPF). The so-called EU15 countries are those that comprised the European Union prior to the accession of ten candidate countries on 1 May 2004. They are Belgium, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Finland, Luxembourg, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Greece, Denmark, Austria, Portugal and Sweden. According to publicly available statistics, Spain’s abrupt increase in abortion accounts for […]
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Commentary on March 17 News – D&P attack on LifeSiteNews, health care battle in US

Dear readers, In the United States, the monumental battle over the Democrat leadership's health care bill is reaching its climax. This has led to long present, but not addressed serious divisions within the Catholic Church to burst out into the open. Liberal nuns and Catholic organizations are directly contradicting and challenging the authority and judgment of the bishops and undermining all the efforts undertaken by the Church leadership, the entire pro-life movement and pro-family Americans to stop the deadly bill. Today you'll also read of an astonishing attack on LifeSiteNews and Campaign Life Coalition coming from Development & Peace, the official international […]
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D&P Accuses LifeSitenews of Association with Groups that Use Violence; “Far Right Wing Fringe”

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, March 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The official international development arm of the Canadian Bishops’ Conference has produced a 10-page document in which the organization accuses LifeSiteNews (LSN) and Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), Canada's largest national pro-life organization, of association with “groups and individuals” who have used violence. Speaking about the organizations, such as LSN and CLC, that have accused the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P) of funding projects with partners that are involved in abortion advocacy, D&P writes, ”These groups are part of the far right wing fringe element of North American society and have themselves been […]
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The Cost of a Story

Dear LSN Readers, What costs $120, balances the liberal bias of the mainstream media, exposes the evils in the culture attacking life, family and conscience, and informs minds to create change in society? One LifeSiteNews (LSN) Daily News report of course. As you know, LSN carries out its cultural change mission by means of its high quality Daily News stories. All of our expenses are ultimately incurred for the purpose of publishing these reports. Therefore, total annual LSN expenses divided by the number of stories for the same period equals an average cost of about $120 per news report. This is […]
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Commentary on March 12 News

Friday March 12, 2010 Commentary on March 12 News Donations are starting to build. We are up to $10,400 in total gifts received for this campaign – almost 25% of the way to our goal. One reader called in a $1,000 gift today. What a delightful boost that was for us. The battle over health care will be ratcheted up to its highest pitch yet in Washington at the beginning of next week. We have some hard hitting stories on the issue today. US young adults are more pro-life than the older folks, according to a Gallup poll. Nancy Pelosi, […]
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Petition Launched: Support CBS’s Decision to Air Tim Tebow Super Bowl Ad

Thursday January 28, 2010 Petition Launched: Support CBS’s Decision to Air Tim Tebow Super Bowl Ad Note: Click here to sign the petition to support CBS and its decision to air the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad. To join the Facebook page to Support the Tim Tebow Ad, click here. January 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life forces are responding swiftly to the fierce pro-abortion campaign that is being waged against Focus on the Family’s pro-life ad featuring football superstar Tim Tebow, which is set to air on CBS during the Super Bowl on Feb. 7. In the past few days, […]
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The Girl Scouts and that Explicit Sex Guide: C-FAM Reaffirms Report, Girl Scouts Deny

By John Jalsevac Updated March 16, 2009 at 6:56 pm. March 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) issued a controversial report in its weekly Friday Fax, claiming that Planned Parenthood was permitted to distribute an explicit ‘sex guide’ at a closed-door, “no-adults-welcome” meeting at the UN sponsored by the Girl Scouts. In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) Tuesday, however, a representative of the Girl Scouts denied the story, saying that no such pamphlet was distributed or made available to the girls in the meeting, and that the only document that was present in the room […]
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House to Consider Bill Incentivizing Embryo Destruction

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill has been introduced to the House of Representatives that would set in stone guidelines developed for the National Institute of Health's embryo-destructive stem cell research. Pro-life sources on Capitol Hill warn, however, that the bill's wording goes farther than the NIH guidelines, providing broad authorization for research on stem cells taken from cloned embryos, and embryos conceived solely to be destroyed in research. The “Stem Cell Research Advancement Act,” HR 4808, was introduced by Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Mike Castle (R-DE) on March 9, the anniversary of […]
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Interview: Development & Peace South African Partner Freely Admits Abortion Advocacy

By Patrick B. Craine CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The director and another employee of a South African partner of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P) have both freely admitted in a telephone interview and an e-mail sent to LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that their organization actively advocates in favor of “abortion rights,” including sitting on the steering committee of the Reproductive Rights Alliance, which pushes for expanded access to legal abortion in the country. D&P is the Canadian Catholic bishops’ official development arm, which has been fraught with controversy after it was revealed last spring that they are funding […]
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Meet Two Babies Saved from Abortion

Commentary by David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for Life March 16, 2010 (40DaysforLife.com) – Over the last few days, I was on a whirlwind tour of Southern California—from Fresno down to San Diego. In addition to speaking at two pregnancy center banquets, I was able to visit numerous 40 Days for Life sites and meet for dinner with several dozen local 40 Days for Life campaign leaders. It was a very hope-filled trip! I brought along my pocket camcorder and shot footage all along the way—and just posted a highlight video online for you here. During the short video, […]
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Anglican Bishop Taken to Task for Support for Homosexual Relationships

Friday March 12, 2010 Anglican Bishop Taken to Task for Support for Homosexual Relationships By Hilary White LIVERPOOL, March 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of orthodox Christian Anglicans has called a bishop of the Church of England to task for his support of same-sex relationships. The Rt. Rev. James Jones, a prominent figure in the evangelical wing of the Church of England, told the Liverpool Diocesan Synod this weekend that it is “consistent theologically and ethically” to allow diversity of opinion on homosexuality. Comparing the objection to homosexuality to the disagreement over pacifism and the Just War theory, he […]
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Cardinal Archbishop of Lisbon Accused of “Pact of Silence” with Portuguese Government as Country Lurches Towards “Gay Marriage”

Thursday January 7, 2010 Cardinal Archbishop of Lisbon Accused of “Pact of Silence” with Portuguese Government as Country Lurches Towards “Gay Marriage” By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman LISBON, January 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Archbishop José Policarpo of Lisbon is being accused of a “pact of silence” with socialist prime minister Jose Socrates as the country approaches a vote on “gay marriage” Friday, and the Cardinal has rarely mentioned it. Following an October 20th meeting with Socrates, in which the Cardinal admits he spoke to the prime minister about the “homosexual marriage” issue, he has spoken and written little about it. […]
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Drake Found Guilty of Murdering Pro-Life Activist Jim Pouillon

Thursday March 11, 2010 Drake Found Guilty of Murdering Pro-Life Activist Jim Pouillon By Kathleen Gilbert OWOSSO, Michigan, March 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Harlan Drake, the Michigan man accused of shooting to death local pro-life protester Jim Pouillon in September, has been found guilty of the first-degree murders of Pouillon and another man, gravel pit owner Mike Fuoss, whom he shot to death later the same day. Local news reports that Drake was also convicted on counts of felony firearm and of carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent. The jury deliberated for about four hours before returning their verdicts. […]
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Dutch Group Pushes for Suicide for Elderly Who are “Tired of Living”

Thursday March 11, 2010 Dutch Group Pushes for Suicide for Elderly Who are “Tired of Living” By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BRUSSELS, March 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Dutch parliament may soon be considering the possibility of legalizing suicide and euthanasia for the elderly who are simply “tired of living” after a Dutch right-to-die group collected enough signatures to force a debate on the issue. The euthanasia advocacy group “Of Free Will” is demanding that legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide be extended beyond those who are terminally ill to healthy individuals over the age of 70 who “consider their lives complete.” […]
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USCCB Reiterates Opposition to Pro-Abortion Health Care Bill

by James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, March 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has again weighed in against the health care reform bill approved by the Senate (H.R. 3590) due to “serious flaws on abortion and conscience rights.”  In a bulletin insert updated on Thursday for release in parishes the following Sunday, the USCCB acknowledged that the Senate health care bill passed last Christmas Eve “requires federal funds to help subsidize and promote health plans that cover elective abortions,” and that “all purchasers of such plans will be required to pay for other people's abortions through a separate payment solely […]
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Weakened Ultrasound Law Passes WV Senate Unanimously

by James Tillman CHARLESTON, West Virginia, March 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—A bill requiring that women be given the opportunity to view any ultrasound image of their child taken before or during an abortion passed the West Virginia Senate unanimously on Saturday. The measure passed after an amendment was added to repeal penalties against physicians violating West Virginia's Right to Know law. Gov. Joe Manchin has said he will sign the bill, which passed the final day of the regular legislative session. “Information empowers women to make informed choices,” stated Karen Cross, president of West Virginians for Life.  “Ultrasound legislation protects the mother’s right to […]
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Scranton Diocese Bans Pro-Abort, Anti-War Activist Cindy Sheehan from Speaking

By James Tillman SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, March 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—The Scranton Diocese has banned well-known anti-war protestor Cindy Sheehan from speaking at a diocesan church hall, citing her opposition to Church teaching on life and marriage. Sheehan told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that she considers the diocese's action to be “against the teachings of the Prince of Peace.” Cindy Sheehan, mother of the deceased Specialist Casey Sheehan, has been a prominent anti-war activist since she camped outside President Bush's ranch in August of 2005.  She had been scheduled to speak at St. John the Evangelist Church hall in Scranton on April 9. According to […]
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Gay ‘Marriage’ Activists Forcing Pro-Family Views out of California Therapist Association

By Kathleen Gilbert SAN DIEGO, California, March 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abandoning its long-held neutrality on the marriage debate, the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) has slowly come to disavow pro-family views and sexual orientation therapy as “homophobic.” Instead it now warmly supports homosexuality as a “normal and positive” variant of sexuality – all thanks to pressure by gay activists who have openly vowed to transform the organization from within. The disturbing result of the activists' tactics, says one anonymous CAMFT intern, is that pro-family therapists in California are becoming increasingly afraid to speak up in favor […]
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Battle Raging in Kenya over Abortion Language in Draft Constitution

By Hilary White NAIROBI, March 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kenya’s religious leaders are threatening to lobby for a ‘no’ vote in an upcoming referendum on the country’s constitution if language removing abortion restrictions is not removed from the draft document. Meanwhile, abortion activists and international population control NGOs are pushing hard to loosen the law. Anglican Church of Kenya Archbishop Eliud Wabukala said last week that the churches are refusing a call by the prime minister to back down on the life issues. “We all have said that God values life and life begins at conception. That is a principle […]
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British MPs Slam Polish Group Promoting Abortion ‘Tourism’ in U.K.

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski POLAND, March 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-abortion feminist organization in Poland, known only by the acronym SROM, has launched an ad campaign promoting “abortion tourism” to Britain by telling Polish women they can get a free abortion at a UK clinic, paid for by the National Health Service (NHS). SROM's poster shows a young woman in her underwear with the words “my choice” written across her stomach in English. The group uses the Mastercard advertising logo – conjoined red and orange circles – but with “SROM” written over it. “Plane ticket to England – 300 […]
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Commentary on March 15 News

The “Catholic” Health Association and its always arrogantly self-assured (no matter what the facts) CEO Sr. Carol Keehan clearly have an agenda all their own, apart from the Church. The question to ask is why is this woman constantly allowed to throw her pseudo Catholic organization's weight around like this? Where is the accountability mechanism? This is scandal in the Church once again. Like a true “progressive” Keehan feels she knows much better than the bishops, the pro-life movement and even the majority of the US public what is really best and must be imposed on the nation for its own […]
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Fisichella Claims Moral High Ground on Brazilian Abortion Case One Year Later

By Hilary White, Rome Correspondent ROME, March 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an interview today with Italy’s leading daily newspaper, the head of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) has again defended the article he wrote last year attacking the head of a Brazilian diocese who publicly declared the automatic excommunication of abortionists who killed the unborn babies of a nine-year-old rape victim. In today’s comments to Corriere della Sera, Archbishop Salvatore “Rino” Fisichella, who declared in his March 15, 2009 article that the abortionists did not deserve excommunication, claimed that he had been “misunderstood.” The Archbishop mentioned the […]
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298 Babies Saved from Abortion…So Far

Commentary by David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for Life March 15, 2010 (40daysforLife) – Every day, we update a number on the top of the 40 Days for Life web page. Every day, that number gets larger and larger. Every day, I am humbled and amazed at what God is doing during this campaign of prayer and fasting. As of today, that number has grown to … 298 babies, and their mothers, spared from abortion—that we know of! People praying at a 40 Days for Life vigil outside an abortion center in Mission Hills, California watched as a woman […]
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Toronto Archbishop Joins 40 Days Prayer Vigil and Celebrates Mid-Point Mass

Thursday March 11, 2010 Toronto Archbishop Joins 40 Days Prayer Vigil and Celebrates Mid-Point Mass By Steve Jalsevac TORONTO, Ontario, March 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday, Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins participated for the second time in a Toronto 40 Days for Life event since 40 Days was launched in Canada’s largest city early last year. As he did last year, Collins quietly prayed with other pro-life witnesses outside the Lawrence Ave. W. abortion centre for about 50 minutes and then celebrated the mid-point mass attended by about 300 40 Days regulars and other supporters. The pro-life community was delighted […]
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100 Polish Scientists Condemn In Vitro Fertilization

Monday January 11, 2010 100 Polish Scientists Condemn In Vitro Fertilization By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WARSAW, January 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of Polish scientists have issued a document demanding that the government legislate a statutory ban on artificial (in vitro) fertilization procedures. The 100 signatories also call for full government funding of NaProTechnology, an ethically acceptable and highly successful method of evaluating and treating infertility. The demand from the scientists follows on the heels of an open letter delivered to the Polish parliament last September from hundreds of doctors and medical professionals, urging them to vote against legalizing […]
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Canadian 40 Days for Life Begins Wednesday in 6 Cities

Monday February 15, 2010 Canadian 40 Days for Life Begins Wednesday in 6 Cities TORONTO, February 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 40 Days for Life campaign will be launched Feb. 17 and run through March 28 in more than 160 cities in Canada, Australia and the United States. Canadian locations will include Montreal, Toronto, Guelph, Edmonton, Red Deer and Kelowna. There will also be regular pro-life witnessing outside the Morgentaler abortion mill in Ottawa and Cabbagetown abortuary in downtown Toronto, although these are not 40 Days events per se. Nicole Campbell, Campaign Life Coalition’s 40 Days for Life director, says […]
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Thugs in Washington

Friday March 12, 2010 Thugs in Washington Editorial by Steve Jalsevac We are seeing the Obama Democrats come out these past few days revealing, more explicitly than ever before, their true nature of being political thugs. All stops are being pulled to ram their health care legislation through – no matter how much the American public opposes it, no matter how much they have to lie and trash the constitution and legislative traditions, and no matter how much they have to bribe or threaten fellow Democrats who won’t go along with their corrupt program. The Virginia Society for Human Life […]
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Arlington Diocese Declares Day of Prayer, Fasting for Pro-Life Health Legislation

Friday March 12, 2010 Arlington Diocese Declares Day of Prayer, Fasting for Pro-Life Health Legislation By Kathleen Gilbert ARLINGTON, Virginia, March 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Paul Loverde of the Catholic Diocese of Arlington has declared Monday, March 15 a day of prayer and fasting with the intention of protecting pro-life values in health care legislation. The announcement comes at the same time as President Obama’s abortion-expanding health care bill churns toward a conclusion just outside the borders of the diocese, on Capitol Hill. “Catholic teaching tells us that our support for the dignity of life includes access to affordable […]
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First Homosexual ‘Marriages’ Formalized in Mexico City

Friday March 12, 2010 First Homosexual ‘Marriages’ Formalized in Mexico City By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, March 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of Mexico City has issued a firm condemnation of Mexico City’s first homosexual “marriages,” which were conducted Thursday in the nation’s capital city. Five couples were “married” in a ceremony that was attended by Mexico City governor Marcel Ebrard. “They may be legal, but never moral,” said Hugo Valdemar, the spokesman of the archdiocese, about the “marriages.” Valdemar specifically denounced Ebrard for his role in the approval of the new gay “marriage” ordinance, […]
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Competing Views on Maternal Mortality Reduction Clash at Beijing + 15

Friday March 12, 2010 Competing Views on Maternal Mortality Reduction Clash at Beijing + 15 By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, NY, March 12, 2010 (C-FAM) – Almost more than any topic, maternal morality has been the focus of this year’s meeting of the United Nations (UN) Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of the Beijing women’s conference. While all agree on the need to improve maternal health and reduce maternal mortality, two main competing views on how best to do so have emerged – with one camp emphasizing abortion. Stressing the importance for governments […]
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Catholic Bishops Must Change Health Care Strategy Before It’s Too Late

Thursday March 11, 2010 Catholic Bishops Must Change Health Care Strategy Before It’s Too Late Commentary by Deal W. Hudson March 11, 2010 (InsideCatholic.com) – The lobbying strategy of the Catholic bishops in the health-care debate thus far has been one of qualified support. We support the health-care reform bill, the bishops argue, as long as it does not contain abortion funding and provides conscience protection for health-care workers. The only help the bishops have received in their effort is from Catholic Democrat Bart Stupak, whose coalition of pro-life House Democrats is the only hope of either killing the bill […]
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‘Hands off Mexico!’ International Coalition tells United Nations

Thursday March 11, 2010 ‘Hands off Mexico!’ International Coalition tells United Nations By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, March 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An international coalition of pro-life organizations reminded the United Nations yesterday that it cannot dictate abortion policy to sovereign member states, specifically highlighting Mexico in its defense of the right to life. “The UNO was created to defend human rights, and not death,” the coalition reportedly said during a floor debate, as quoted in a press release sent to the Mexican media, which gave wide coverage to the story. The groups added that the […]
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Parliamentarian: No Reconciliation Until after Senate Health Bill Passed

Thursday March 11, 2010 Parliamentarian: No Reconciliation Until after Senate Health Bill Passed By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senior GOP sources cited by Roll Call Thursday said that Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin has ruled that the controversial reconciliation procedure can only be used to push through a bill of health care “fixes” after the president has signed the main Senate health bill into law. The Parliamentarian’s office was responding to an inquiry from Republican leadership. To relieve mistrust brewing between Senate Democrats and their House counterparts, who are being pressured to pass the Senate measure […]
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Canadian Group Launches National Campaign to Protect Children from Child Porn, Sex Crimes

Wednesday March 10, 2010 Canadian Group Launches National Campaign to Protect Children from Child Porn, Sex Crimes OTTAWA, Ontario, March 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada Family Action (CFA) has launched a nation-wide citizen action campaign to demand tougher laws to protect children, deter pedophiles and achieve justice for victims of internet child sex crimes. “Canada won 14 gold medals at the Olympics, but CFA wants our country to be on top of the podium as a global winner for protecting kids from pedophiles,” says Brian Rushfeldt, CFA Executive Director. “Right now, Canada wouldn’t even make the qualifying round.” Charges for […]
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Accused Pouillon Murderer: I Don’t Feel Bad

Tuesday March 9, 2010 Accused Pouillon Murderer: I Don’t Feel Bad By John Jalsevac March 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Harlan Drake, the man who stands accused of killing pro-life activist Jim Pouillon as he stood protesting abortion outside a local high school, as well as local gravel pit owner Mike Fuoss, took the stand on Tuesday, where he confessed to killing the two men, and testified that he does not regret having done so, according to Toledoonthemove.com. “Obviously, I’ve murdered two gentlemen,” he said. He also said that he believes he deserves to be locked up for committing the murders. […]
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Optimistic Stupak Thinks Dems Will Actually Include Abortion Ban in Health Bill

Tuesday March 9, 2010 Optimistic Stupak Thinks Dems Will Actually Include Abortion Ban in Health Bill By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) now says he is “more optimistic” that negotiations with top Democrats in the House could lead to adequate language banning abortion funding in health care reform, the Associated Press reported Monday. “I’m more optimistic than I was a week ago,” Stupak told the AP in an interview in Michigan. “The president says he doesn’t want to expand or restrict current law (on abortion). Neither do I,” he said. “That’s never […]
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Gender Ideology “Violent” to the Unborn and a Threat to Women: Vatican UN Delegation

Wednesday March 10, 2010 Gender Ideology “Violent” to the Unborn and a Threat to Women: Vatican UN Delegation By Hilary White NEW YORK, March 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of the Vatican’s delegation to the UN has identified “gender ideology” as “violent” to the unborn and to the “integral needs of women and men within society.” In a speech to the fifty-fourth session of the Economic and Social Council’s Commission on the Status of Women, Archbishop Celestino Migliore said that the concept of gender is becoming increasingly “ideologically driven, and actually delays the true advancement of women.” Speaking at […]
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Stupak: I Don’t Buy Promises for Later Abortion-Funding ‘Fix’ to Health Bill

Thursday March 11, 2010 Stupak: I Don’t Buy Promises for Later Abortion-Funding ‘Fix’ to Health Bill By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan told the Associated Press this week that he was “more optimistic than I was a week ago” about including an abortion-funding ban in health care reform – sparking speculation by some that his new-found optimism was merely a prelude to his “caving in” or compromising on the issue. But the lawmaker has clarified that he does not intend to back down on his standard for the language, nor […]
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Abp Listecki: Pro-Abort Pols Could be Denied Communion

Thursday March 11, 2010 Abp Listecki: Pro-Abort Pols Could be Denied Communion By Kathleen Gilbert MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, March 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki said Tuesday that, while he would not “embrace” an opportunity to deny communion to a Catholic lawmaker who votes contrary to Church teaching, a situation that caused grave scandal to the Catholic community had the potential to “force his hand” in the matter. When asked by a reporter whether he would “[fore]see ever denying communion to any local Catholic lawmakers who vote contrary to Catholic beliefs,” Listecki, who was fielding questions at a Milwaukee […]
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Day 9 of 40 Days for Life: The Difference You Can Make

Thursday February 25, 2010 Day 9 of 40 Days for Life: The Difference You Can Make Commentary by David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for Life February 25, 2010 (40DaysforLife.com) – Do you know how important your presence in front of an abortion center can be? Here are a few reports from local 40 Days for Life campaigns that just begin to tell the story. One of the prayer volunteers in Houston, Texas says a mom and her young son arrived to pray at their vigil in front of Planned Parenthood. The woman had aborted her first child at that […]
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Slaughter House Surprise: Simply ‘Deem’ Health Bill Passed after Voting on Fix Bill

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democrats struggling to find enough votes to pass the Senate bill in the House of Representatives could bypass the problem by simply “deeming” the health bill passed after voting for a separate compromise measure, rather than actually voting on it, according to House Rules Committee chair Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY). Congress Daily reported Wednesday that Rep. Slaughter is considering preparing a rule that would deem the abortion-expanding Senate health care bill passed once the House approves a package of corrections that would make changes to the Senate version. The idea, […]
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CCHD Pushes Pro-Abort Groups in Lent Stations of the Cross: Pro-Life Coalition

By Patrick B. Craine WASHINGTON, D.C., March 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) -  A new “Stations of the Cross” devotional from the United States Conference for Catholic Bishops’ Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) profiles five CCHD grantees who are involved in the promotion of abortion or homosexuality, reports the Reform CCHD Now Coalition. The CCHD Stations highlight one grantee per station.  Each station includes a prayer asking that we be “inspired,”“challenge[d],” or “move[d]” by the witness of the highlighted grantee. Reform CCHD Now has found, however, that five of the profiled groups are engaged in advocacy for or have supported activities that violate Catholic […]
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Arlington Diocese Declares Day of Prayer, Fasting for Pro-Life Health Legislation

By Kathleen Gilbert ARLINGTON, Virginia, March 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Paul Loverde of the Catholic Diocese of Arlington has declared Monday, March 15 a day of prayer and fasting with the intention of protecting pro-life values in health care legislation. The announcement comes at the same time as President Obama's abortion-expanding health care bill churns toward a conclusion just outside the borders of the diocese, on Capitol Hill. “Catholic teaching tells us that our support for the dignity of life includes access to affordable health care. This support, however, cannot come at the expense of the respect for life […]
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U.S. Young Adults More Pro-Life: Gallup

By Kathleen Gilbert PRINCETON, New Jersey, March 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The percentage of young adults in the U.S. favouring legalized abortion has undergone a significant drop, falling below all other age groups except seniors, according to a Gallup poll released Friday. The poll results also indicate that young adults are now the group most likely (23%) to favor making abortion illegal in all circumstances. Michael Barnett, director of American Life League’s LiveCampus project, said the poll backs anecdotal evidence gathered on college campuses nationwide.  “Abortion doesn’t make sense to a generation that wants social justice for all human beings,” […]
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March for Life Canada Launches Facebook Pages

By John Jalsevac March 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The annual Canadian March for Life is only two months away, and in an effort to help spread the word about the event Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), the organizer of the march, has launched a March for Life Facebook fan page and event page.(Click here for the fan page, and here for the event page) “We know that social networking sites can be extremely powerful tools to raise awareness,” said CLC National coordinator Mary-Ellen Douglas. “However, they are also only as effective as we make them. “Therefore, we hope that every pro-life Canadian who is […]
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Unsolicited Letter From Bosnia & Hercegovina

Re: The $500,000 QuestionDear Mr. Waggoner, I want to affirm to your possible donators how excellent a service you do provide. A very long time ago before, I even had a computor, maybe  20 or 25 years, I became active in many areas of pro-life, sidewalk counselling, helped found a CP, among a few. It was difficult to gather information. We had to glean articles from the newspapers. Not an easy thing to do. Some went into the public court records to find suits against Planned Parenthood.  Now, I am laying down a foundation for life in the Balkans where my […]
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Do you want to know why LifeSiteNews.com will cost upwards of $500,000 in 2010?

Dear LifeSiteNews Readers, Every so often we receive reader inquiries regarding this question, to which we issue personal replies explaining LSN's annual costs.  In fact, we were just informed by one reader that no donation would be coming our way if we did not explain how we could spend $500,000 per year on LifeSiteNews. So let me give a brief overview of our costs.  After reading this, I hope more readers will consider making a donation today to help us cover the necessary expenses of operating this critically needed international news service. The salaries and fees paid to our twelve staff […]
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Exclusive Interview: Primate of Traditional Anglican Communion on Life and Family – Part One

Monday March 8, 2010 Exclusive Interview: Primate of Traditional Anglican Communion on Life and Family – Part One TAC’s commitment to life is “total.” “It’s one of our founding premises,” By Patrick B. Craine HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Life issues are “at the heart” of Christianity, said Archbishop John Hepworth, Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), in an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) on Friday. “If we get the life issues right, then we get the Incarnation right, the nature of God right, the nature of Christian worship right,” he explained. “This is actually an […]
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Day 20 of 40 Days: 209 Babies Saved from Abortion

Monday March 8, 2010 Day 20 of 40 Days: 209 Babies Saved from Abortion Commentary by David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for Life March 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – I just returned home from Oklahoma. Early tomorrow morning I’ll be back on a plane, this time heading to California, where I’ll get to visit several more 40 Days for Life campaigns. In between flights, praying at vigils, speaking at events, long road trips, and short nights of sleep, whenever I check e-mail, my inbox is overflowing with more reports of lives saved. I still think it’s a miracle any time […]
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Head of Traditional Anglican Group: No Communion to Pro-Abort Politicians

Tuesday March 9, 2010 Head of Traditional Anglican Group: No Communion to Pro-Abort Politicians By Patrick B. Craine See Part I of this series: Exclusive Interview: Primate of Traditional Anglican Communion on Life and Family HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop John Hepworth, Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), told LifeSiteNews (LSN) on Friday that the TAC is very clear on refusing Communion to pro-abortion politicians or anyone advocating an anti-life view. “Anybody publicly espousing an anti-life stand against the clear teaching of the Church and the commandments would be immediately removed from any office, and […]
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Catholic Politicians Supporting Same-Sex Marriage Legislation

Thursday January 7, 2010 Catholic Politicians Supporting Same-Sex Marriage Legislation Commentary by Deal W. Hudson January 7, 2009 (InsideCatholic.com) – Writing for the Catholic Advocate, Matt Smith reports that 39 of the 106 cosponsors of a House bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) are “self-identified” Catholics. Smith, a former associate director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, warns that same-sex marriage activists are trying to bring H.R. 3567 — ironically, titled the “Respect for Marriage Act 2009” — to the House floor this year. The end of DOMA would mean 40 states would be […]
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Archbishop of York Would Not Qualify as Clergy under Labour’s Equality Bill

Thursday January 7, 2010 Archbishop of York Would Not Qualify as Clergy under Labour’s Equality Bill By Hilary White LONDON, January 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the Church of England’s most prominent churchmen has said that under Labour’s proposed Equality Bill, he would fail to meet a government definition of clergy for purposes of protection against anti-discrimination lawsuits. John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, told the House of Lords during a debate on the bill, “The movers of the bill may be of the view that archbishops and other clergy work only on Sundays, but if one looks at […]
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Inclusion of God in Pledge of Allegiance Upheld in Federal Appeals Court

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, March 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the words “one nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance “do not violate the Establishment Clause” of the First Amendment to the Constitution.   The Knights of Columbus led the campaign to add the words “under God” to the Pledge in the early 1950s, and the trial court agreed to allow the Knights of Columbus to join the present case as defendants when it was originally filed in 2005.   “This decision is a victory for common sense,” Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson […]
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Manitoba Alcoholic Fights for Faith-Free Rehab

By Patrick B. Craine WINNIPEG, Manitoba, March 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Winnipeg man who struggles with alcoholism is complaining that he is unable to find a recovery program the doesn’t include a spiritual focus, reports CBC. Rob Johnstone, an alcoholic for 40 years, has filed a complaint with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission hoping that the province will develop a program without reference to religion or spiritual practices. “I should not be forced to participate in someone else's religious beliefs. I shouldn't have to add to mine,” he told CBC.  “I have my own beliefs and I'm happy with […]
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San Francisco Archdiocese Reinvestigates, Approves Pro-Abortion CCHD Grantee

Tuesday January 5, 2010 San Francisco Archdiocese Reinvestigates, Approves Pro-Abortion CCHD Grantee Washington, DC, January 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Campaign for Human Development and the Archdiocese of San Francisco continue to support an organization that helped create and promote contraception, elective-abortion and sex-education programs for kids, the American Life League is reporting. In November, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development issued “For the Record – The Truth about CCHD Funding” in response to criticism that the group funds organizations that support pro-abortion programs. The document contains this defense of the San Francisco Organizing Project: Archdiocese of San Francisco […]
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Complete Statement by Gosc Niedzielny

Friday March 5, 2010 Complete Statement by Gosc Niedzielny We consider this ruling unjust and limiting freedom of speech. Once again “Gosc Niedzielny” is expected to apologize for words, which we never wrote. In this context we would like to emphasize the following: 1. The facts of the case are obvious and court verdicts cannot change them. Ms. Alicja Tysiac has not been compared to “Nazi criminals” in any of our publications. Also, there is no doubt, that she had demanded damages in connection with the refusal to terminate her pregnancy and this is what she considered the essence of […]
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Women Sue Birth Control Manufacturer over Serious Health Issues

Monday February 22, 2010 Women Sue Birth Control Manufacturer over Serious Health Issues Indiana, February 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over 50 women in Indiana have filed lawsuits against Bayer Pharmaceuticals charging that use of the company’s Yaz and Yasmin hormonal birth control pills caused conditions ranging from gallbladder-related injuries to strokes. There are now over 25,000 similar reported cases across the United States. In December LSN reported that over 100 lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. against Bayer, alleging that the company has overstated the benefits of the drugs, downplayed the side-effects, and failed to conduct proper research before […]
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Washington’s Assisted Suicide Stats Revealed

Monday March 8, 2010 Washington’s Assisted Suicide Stats Revealed By Peter J. Smith OLYMPIA, Washington, March 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Washington State’s health department has now released their first annual report for the Death with Dignity Act, the voter-approved law that legalized assisted suicide in 2008 and went into effect on March 5, 2009. The State Department of Health reports that 63 individuals requested and received lethal prescriptions to kill themselves under the Act for the year 2009. Forty-seven individuals have died. Of these 36 patients were confirmed to have killed themselves by ingesting the poisonous medicine. (Statistics available here) […]
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Kansas Bishops Protest Bill Taxing Church Expenses

Monday March 8, 2010 Kansas Bishops Protest Bill Taxing Church Expenses By Kathleen Gilbert TOPEKA, Kansas, March 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Kansas Catholic Conference is calling upon local Catholics to protest a bill introduced in the Kansas House of Representatives that they say would unfairly target religious non-profits for a tax hike. House Bill 2549, as amended by a House committee, would raise taxes on utilities and lottery tickets, and would repeal a provision in Kansas law that exempts religious institutions from paying sales tax on their purchases. However, the Kansas Catholic Conference is urging Catholics to actively oppose […]
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7th Annual Los Angeles March for Life on Sat. March 13th

Monday March 8, 2010 7th Annual Los Angeles March for Life on Sat. March 13th VAN NUYS, California, March 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-lifers in the Los Angeles area are gearing up for the 7th annual Los Angeles March for Life, which will feature several pro-life celebrities as speakers this year. The Los Angeles march will be held on Saturday, March 13th from 8:00 am – 11:30 am at St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church located at 15520 Ventura Blvd., Encino, CA. Participants will walk two miles on Ventura Boulevard in an effort to raise awareness of the plight of unborn […]
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Charges Dismissed Against Man Arrested After Questioning Rep. Kennedy on Abortion

Monday March 8, 2010 Charges Dismissed Against Man Arrested After Questioning Rep. Kennedy on Abortion By James Tillman PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Providence city prosecutor has dismissed criminal charges against Christopher Young, a Democratic mayoral candidate who was arrested and dragged away by the police after confronting Rep. Patrick Kennedy about the mandated funding of abortion in the health care bill. He had been charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. “This represents a victory for free speech, even when the view expressed gets an inhospitable reception,” said Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel of […]
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Miami Archdiocese again Features Prominent Gay-Activist Priest

Monday January 25, 2010 Miami Archdiocese again Features Prominent Gay-Activist Priest By Eric Giunta January 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Miami Archdiocese’s St. Thomas University is once again sponsoring spiritual exercises by a gay-activist priest, who is known for encouraging his followers to immerse themselves in pagan rituals. Fr. Richard Rohr, a Franciscan, is scheduled to deliver a “Scripture and Spirituality” reflection at the university’s Chapel of St Anthony. The evening of reflection is noted approvingly in the Archdiocese’s latest “pastoral bulletin,” dated January 15. Fr. Rohr is known for his dissent from the teachings of the church, despite his […]
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Canadian Group Launches National Campaign to Protect Children from Child Porn, Sex Crimes

OTTAWA, Ontario, March 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada Family Action (CFA) has launched a nation-wide citizen action campaign to demand tougher laws to protect children, deter pedophiles and achieve justice for victims of internet child sex crimes. “Canada won 14 gold medals at the Olympics, but CFA wants our country to be on top of the podium as a global winner for protecting kids from pedophiles,” says Brian Rushfeldt, CFA Executive Director. “Right now, Canada wouldn’t even make the qualifying round.” Charges for distribution and production of child sex images increased 800% between 1998 and 2003 in Canada, and the number of […]
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British Supreme Court Rejects Case of Marriage Registrar Forced to Perform Gay Ceremonies

By Hilary White LONDON, March 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The case of the Christian civil registrar being forced by her employers to perform homosexual civil partnership ceremonies does not raise issues of “general public importance,” according to the Supreme Court. The court rejected Lillian Ladele’s request for an appeal and Ladele is now considering taking her case to the European Court of Human Rights. Ladele, an evangelical Christian, had worked for 16 years as a registrar for the Islington council. In 2005 the Labour government made it possible for homosexuals to register their relationships as civil partnerships, with many of […]
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Gender Ideology “Violent” to the Unborn and a Threat to Women: Vatican UN Delegation

By Hilary White NEW YORK, March 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of the Vatican’s delegation to the UN has identified “gender ideology” as “violent” to the unborn and to the “integral needs of women and men within society.” In a speech to the fifty-fourth session of the Economic and Social Council's Commission on the Status of Women, Archbishop Celestino Migliore said that the concept of gender is becoming increasingly “ideologically driven, and actually delays the true advancement of women.” Speaking at a UN meeting this week discussing the topic, “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first […]
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Commentary on March 10 News

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A World Thirsting for Truth

Dear LifeSiteNews Readers, This is message #2 in our campaign asking LSN readers to join with us and be Heroes for the cause by making a generous gift to LifeSiteNews.com (LSN). For many of you this is the holy season of Lent, which emphasizes personal acts of penance and charity, or almsgiving.  I realize that many of you may already have contributed to other worthy organizations this Lenten season, especially in the wake of the Haiti earthquake.  At the same time, however, we ardently hope you will consider the work of LSN worthy of your Lenten giving. In many ways, this […]
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Optimistic Stupak Thinks Dems Will Actually Include Abortion Ban in Health Bill

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) now says he is “more optimistic” that negotiations with top Democrats in the House could lead to adequate language banning abortion funding in health care reform, the Associated Press reported Monday. “I'm more optimistic than I was a week ago,” Stupak told the AP in an interview in Michigan. “The president says he doesn't want to expand or restrict current law (on abortion). Neither do I,” he said. “That's never been our position. So is there some language that we can agree on that hits both […]
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Kansas Bill Mandates Hefty Damages to Crush Child Porn

By Peter J. Smith TOPEKA, Kansas, March 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Kansas lawmakers are considering an innovative way to fight child pornography that has begun catching on in several state legislatures. A new bill introduced in the state Senate Judiciary Committee last month would unleash lawyers on the producers, promoters, and consumers of child pornography and empower them to collect hefty damages on behalf of victims. Kansas' Senate Bill 549 would allow victims to sue each of their offenders for at least $150,000 in damages until they turn 21, or within three years after the completion of a criminal case. The […]
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Philippine Health Secretary Accepts Bishops’ Challenge to Debate Condom Effectiveness

By James Tillman March 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Esperanza Cabral, health secretary of the Philippine government, has accepted two bishops' invitations to publicly debate condoms' effectiveness in preventing pregnancy and disease. “I accept their challenge,” she said in an interview on dwIZ radio, according to GMA News.TV. Some Philippine bishops have called for Cabral's resignation since the Department of Health distributed condoms for Valentine's day. “It’s so immoral for someone in the government to be pushing the use of condoms which we all know is not deterrent to AIDS prevention,” Archbishop Ramon Arguelles of Lipa said on Radio Veritas. A statement from […]
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Papal Adviser, Vatican Spokesman Spar Publicly over Life, Unity and ‘Misrepresentation’

By Hilary White and John-Henry Westen ROME, March 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a letter copied to LSN, a founding member of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV), Christine de Marcellus Vollmer, has written to the pope’s spokesman asking him publicly to correct statements he made following last month’s plenary meeting of the Academy. But Fr. Frederico Lombardi SJ, the head of the Vatican’s Press Office, has refused to retract his comments, saying in an email to LSN today that he is “personally shocked” that Vollmer’s letter was made public. At issue in the debate is the fallout of […]
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Expert Rips Findings of ‘Flimsy’ Montreal Porn Study

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, DC, March 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pornography researcher has ripped the credibility of a 2009 study by a University of Montreal postdoctoral student that made headlines worldwide by claiming there were no adverse effects from pornography. In her Sunday column for the Washington Post, Pamela Paul, author of the 2005 book “Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families,” attacked Simon Louis Lajeunesse’s findings as “flimsy 'if only it were true!’ research” that “isn't an acceptable substitute for thorough study.” Lajeunesse, an associate professor at the University of Montreal's School of […]
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AFA Founder Donald Wildmon Steps Down

Friday March 5, 2010 AFA Founder Donald Wildmon Steps Down By Kathleen Gilbert TUPELO, Mississippi, March 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Donald E. Wildmon, the chairman of the American Family Association (AFA) for more than 30 years, has resigned as chairman of the board, the organization announced this week. According to the AFA statement, Wildmon, 72, has stepped down following several months of illness following a mosquito bite that transferred the St. Louis enchephalitis virus. Encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, can range from mild to severe symptoms including confusion, seizures, and hallucinations. The AFA said Wildmon has spent 121 days […]
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Justice Roberts Rejects DC Marriage Bid, but Hints Later Appeal Possible

Friday March 5, 2010 Justice Roberts Rejects DC Marriage Bid, but Hints Later Appeal Possible By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued the one-man order this week turning down an appeal by traditional marriage supporters, who attempted to stop enactment of the District of Columbia’s same-sex “marriage” law Wednesday. While some gay “marriage” advocates took the order as a sign of support, Roberts indicated that he did not intend to close the door on future action against the measure, but preferred that the question be dealt with first in […]
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Charges Dismissed Against Man Arrested After Questioning Rep. Kennedy on Abortion

By James Tillman PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—The Providence city prosecutor has dismissed criminal charges against Christopher Young, a Democratic mayoral candidate who was arrested and dragged away by the police after confronting Rep. Patrick Kennedy about the mandated funding of abortion in the health care bill.  He had been charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. “This represents a victory for free speech, even when the view expressed gets an inhospitable reception,” said Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Society, whose attorneys represented Young.  “In this case, it was Young’s view that even […]
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U.K. Bill Next Step to Forcing Churches to Perform Gay “Weddings”: Anglican Bishop

By Hilary White LONDON, March 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two amendments to the UK government’s proposed Equalities Bill that would have protected the conscience rights of Catholic adoption agencies and of marriage commissioners, were withdrawn from consideration in the House of Lords on Tuesday last week after accusations of “homophobia.” Another amendment, to allow churches to conduct homosexual “weddings” was passed late on the same night. It is anticipated by some, including the Anglican bishop of Winchester, that this amendment will lead to churches being forced to perform gay “weddings.” In the debate following the withdrawal of the first two […]
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Dutch Catholics Upset at Diocese for Backing Down on Communion for Open Homosexuals

By Patrick B. Craine 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, Netherlands, March 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A priest and professor of  canon law with the Diocese of Den Bosch has criticized the diocese and its bishop, Antoon Hurkmans, for backing down on denying Communion to open homosexuals.  At the same time, a group of Dutch Catholics have launched a petition calling on the diocese to support the priest whose actions sparked the controversy over the issue. The diocese initially supported Fr. Luc Buyens, the pastor in Reusel, after he decided to withhold Communion from his town's Carnival Prince because the man was openly homosexual.  The […]
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Prosecution Rests in Pouillon Murder Trial

By Kathleen Gilbert OWOSSO, Michigan, March 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The prosecution has rested in the case of a Michigan man accused of the shooting death of local pro-life protester Jim Pouillon. Prosecutors say Harlan Drake, 33, has already confessed to fatally shooting Pouillon and local gravel pit owner Mike Fuoss on September 11, 2009, and that he intended to shoot another man before he was arrested. Pouillon was shot to death while holding a sign with an image of an aborted child outside an Owosso high school. The defense blamed a 2004 auto accident Drake was involved in, which […]
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Canadian Euthanasia Poll Questioned

Thursday March 4, 2010 Canadian Euthanasia Poll Questioned March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadians are not as keen about legalizing euthanasia as some surveys suggest, according to the national pro-life group LifeCanada. The group is challenging the results of a February Angus Reid poll on euthanasia. The group is claiming that its own poll, conducted by Environics last fall, is a more accurate reading of Canadian public opinion. “The most serious shortcoming with the Angus Reid poll is that it did not pick up how much Canadians are conflicted about euthanasia,” said LifeCanada board member Peter Ryan, chair of the […]
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Lieberman Submits Military Gay Ban Repeal Ahead of Pentagon Study

Thursday March 4, 2010 Lieberman Submits Military Gay Ban Repeal Ahead of Pentagon Study By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, DC, March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Instead of waiting for the results of a Pentagon study on the consequences of allowing openly gay servicemen, Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut filed legislation on Wednesday to repeal the Congressional ban on open homosexuals in the armed forces. Lieberman and a group of other Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee announced the “Military Readiness Enhancement Act” to repeal the 17 year-old ban and the Pentagon’s accompanying policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Lieberman […]
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Arrested Sidewalk Counselors Reach Settlement

Thursday March 4, 2010 Arrested Sidewalk Counselors Reach Settlement YORK, Pennsylvania, March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Two pro-life sidewalk counselors have now reached a favorable settlement with the city of York, located in south central Pennsylvania. The settlement secures their right to share the pro-life message in a public alley next to a Planned Parenthood abortion facility without harassment and intimidation from local police. City of York police arrested pro-lifer Edward Snell in November 2004 in a public alley for peacefully attempting to hand out pro-life literature and speak with people walking to a Planned Parenthood abortion facility from its […]
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Lawsuit: Indiana Civil Rights Agency Violated Rights of Catholic Home Schooling Families

Thursday March 4, 2010 Lawsuit: Indiana Civil Rights Agency Violated Rights of Catholic Home Schooling Families HAMILTON COUNTY, Indiana, March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Indiana Civil Rights Commission (ICRC) is facing a lawsuit alleging the agency has unconstitutionally stepped beyond the scope of its authority by claiming it had the power to review and penalize a Catholic home schooling group of nine families on civil rights charges. The Chicago-based Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm, filed a 127-page lawsuit claiming that the ICRC has arrogated to itself virtually unlimited authority to second guess and then penalize […]
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Illinois Considers ‘Presumed Consent’ Organ Harvesting Bill

Thursday March 4, 2010 Illinois Considers ‘Presumed Consent’ Organ Harvesting Bill By Kathleen Gilbert PEORIA, Illinois, March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Illinois senator is pushing legislation that would allow doctors to harvest organs from citizens who have not explicitly given consent for the procedure. The Journal Star reported Monday that a hearing was scheduled this week for Sen. Dale Risinger’s bill that would establish a “presumed consent” policy governing organ donation for individuals 18 and older. “This is an important first step to getting a law in Illinois that helps us have more organ donors,” said Risinger, a Republican. […]
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U.S. Traditionalist Anglican Group Votes to Enter Catholic Church

Thursday March 4, 2010 U.S. Traditionalist Anglican Group Votes to Enter Catholic Church By Patrick B. Craine ORLANDO, Florida, March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Anglican Church in America (ACA), the U.S. branch of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), announced yesterday that they will seek communion with the Roman Catholic Church under new Vatican guidelines released in the fall. The TAC and Forward in Faith are part of a movement of Anglicans seeking a more Biblical and traditional Christianity than what has come to be espoused within the Global Anglican Communion. They have reacted in particular against the Communion’s decision […]
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Seventh Pontifical Academy Member Says Vatican Archbishop Needs to Go

Thursday March 4, 2010 Seventh Pontifical Academy Member Says Vatican Archbishop Needs to Go By Hilary White ROME, March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Another senior member of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) has issued an open letter condemning the organization’s president, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, for refusing to retract his article in which he appeared to condone the abortion of the unborn twins of a nine-year-old rape victim in Brazil. Professor Josef Seifert, a member of the PAV and an eminent professor of philosophy, wrote in response to a request for information from LifeSiteNews.com (LSN), that he is in full […]
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Interview: My Mom’s Abortion Failed, so I’m Alive to Talk about it

Tuesday March 2, 2010 Interview: My Mom’s Abortion Failed, so I’m Alive to Talk about it By Kathleen Gilbert and John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, February 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortion kills a living child. But this simple fact is often too easy to ignore since the victims of abortion – even when they survive – rarely ever speak about it. But one victim who did survive an abortion and who is set to address the Canadian March for Life Youth Conference this May 14 in Ottawa recently shared her thoughts about the issue with LifeSiteNews.com (LSN). “It is the very problem […]
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Dutch Diocese Proposes Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell on Gays Receiving Communion

Wednesday March 3, 2010 Dutch Diocese Proposes Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell on Gays Receiving Communion By Patrick B. Craine ‘S-HERTOGENBOSCH, Netherlands, March 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Threatened with further protests by homosexual activists, the Diocese of Den Bosch, Netherlands has reiterated the conditions for worthy reception of Communion and stated that Communion will normally not be refused. At the same time, they have endorsed a statement that the decision to receive the Eucharist should be left to the “individual conscience,” which many news outlets have taken to mean that homosexuals, practicing or not, are now welcome to receive Communion. The […]
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Maine Human Rights Commission Debates ‘Biology-based Bathrooms’

Wednesday March 3, 2010 Maine Human Rights Commission Debates ‘Biology-based Bathrooms’ By Peter J. Smith Updated 6:08 EST 3.3.2010 AUGUSTA, Maine, March 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Maine Human Rights Commission is debating whether the state’s 2005 Human Rights Act makes a “biology-based” separation of bathrooms – that is, different bathrooms for boys and girls – illegal in schools. The division of sports teams and dress codes along biologically sexual lines were also under scrutiny. “Schools cannot discriminate against sexual identity or gender identification. Schools therefore cannot segregate students based on sexual orientation and identity,” argued legal counsel John Gause […]
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Pro-Life Canadian Minister Blocks References to ‘Homosexual Rights’ in Citizenship Guide

Wednesday March 3, 2010 Pro-Life Canadian Minister Blocks References to ‘Homosexual Rights’ in Citizenship Guide By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, March 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study guide for immigrants applying for Canadian citizenship, titled “Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship,” contains no specific mention of homosexual rights or same-sex “marriage,” reportedly at the insistence of the Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. Conservative MP Kenney, whose office is responsible for updating and producing the guide, is well known for his fight against same-sex “marriage” and for his pro-life stands on abortion, euthanasia and destructive research on […]
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Catholic Attorneys Fight Back Against Homosexual ‘Marriage’ in Argentina

Wednesday March 3, 2010 Catholic Attorneys Fight Back Against Homosexual ‘Marriage’ in Argentina By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, March 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic attorneys are appealing the decision of a judge who approved the “marriage” of two homosexual men in the city of Buenos Aires late last month. According to the Argentine newspaper La Razon, the Corporation of Catholic Attorneys asked that the sentence be nullified because of the “irreparable burden” it would cause, and because it “violates human rights.” “The family is the natural and fundamental element of the society and has the right […]
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DC Gay ‘Marriages’ Begin after Supreme Court Tosses Appeal

Wednesday March 3, 2010 DC Gay ‘Marriages’ Begin after Supreme Court Tosses Appeal By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court has declined to hear pro-family advocates’ requests to stop the District of Columbia’s new same-sex “marriage” law, which went into effect Wednesday. Traditional marriage supporters represented by the Alliance Defense Fund had argued to lower courts that the marriage question should be put to DC voters, but were ignored. According to ADF, 59 percent of voters in the district say they want to vote on the D.C. Council’s new law changing the legal definition […]
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Abp Chaput: JFK’s Religion Speech ‘Sincere, Compelling, Articulate – and Wrong’

Wednesday March 3, 2010 Abp Chaput: JFK’s Religion Speech ‘Sincere, Compelling, Articulate – and Wrong’ By Peter J. Smith HOUSTON, Texas, March 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fifty years ago in Houston, John F. Kennedy declared in a famous speech to Protestant ministers that his Catholic faith would not influence the public policy decisions he made as President. But Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput told an audience at Houston Baptist University on Monday that Americans of all faiths are still “paying for the damage” from a speech that was “sincere, compelling, articulate – and wrong.” “Real Christian faith is always personal, but […]
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Commentary on March 4 News

Thursday March 4, 2010 Commentary on March 4 News Much important news today. Bart Stupak is making it very plain – either the president includes Stupak’s Hyde-Amendment-like language (although by no means fully pro-life) prohibiting government funding of abortion, or the legislation will not pass. In the meantime, some shady things are going on to gain support for the bill from pro-life Democrats. Professor Josef Seifert is a man of high reputation in the Vatican and in Catholic academia. The letter he sent to LifeSiteNews Rome correspondent Hilary White in response to her question about the Archbishop Fisichella scandal is […]
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Filipino Bishops Demand Ban on Condom Ads, Advocate Warning Labels

Thursday March 4, 2010 Filipino Bishops Demand Ban on Condom Ads, Advocate Warning Labels By Patrick B. Craine MANILA, Philippines, March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Bishops of the Philippines have called on the government to ban advertisements for condoms, arguing that condoms promote promiscuity and thus damage marriage and family life as well as contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS. In a statement issued Tuesday, Bishop Nereo Odchimar, president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), stressed that “formation in authentic sexual values, more concretely expressed in premarital chastity and fidelity to spouse, is the only […]
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New Experiment Shows Gender-Bending Contaminants in Water

Thursday March 4, 2010 New Experiment Shows Gender-Bending Contaminants in Water By Patrick B. Craine March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Studies continue to reveal the prevalence of hormonal contraceptives and other chemicals in water sources, and the devastating consequences of these chemicals for animal populations have been well-documented. This week, a study has been released that has revealed the potentially dangerous effects of another common water contaminant – and, in this case, there could again be the danger of adverse effects on human fertility. A new study has shown that one of the world’s most common herbicides – atrazine – […]
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Washington State Citizens to Protest Assisted Suicide Law Friday

Thursday March 4, 2010 Washington State Citizens to Protest Assisted Suicide Law Friday SEATTLE, March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At noon on the first anniversary of the implementation of Washington’s Death With Dignity Act on Friday, a local anti-euthanasia group has announced a demonstration against the law in front of the University of Washington Medical Center. According to Eileen Geller, RN, BSN, President of True Compassion Advocates, protestors will “stand in solidarity with seniors, people with disabilities, and other victims of the ‘collateral damage’ caused by legalized assisted suicide in Washington.” Over 52 Washingtonians have died under the Death with […]
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Baby Saved as Pro-Abort Mantra Crumbles under Scrutiny

Thursday March 4, 2010 Baby Saved as Pro-Abort Mantra Crumbles under Scrutiny Commentary David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for Life March 4, 2010 (40DaysforLife.com) – I had to smile when I read a California blogger’s post that described 40 Days for Life as a “babies-saving, moms-helping, ’round-the-clock prayer-and-fasting- outside-abortion-businesses effort that’s been saving thousands of babies’ lives.” I really loved that breath of fresh air! Far too often lately, I’ve see strings of other adjectives connected to 40 Days for Life that are — to put it mildly — inaccurate. Just this week, I saw 40 Days for Life […]
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Cardinal: Stay-at-Home Moms Deserve Compensation, Incentives

Wednesday March 3, 2010 Cardinal: Stay-at-Home Moms Deserve Compensation, Incentives By Thaddeus M. Baklinski ROME, March 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, has highlighted the importance of a mother in the home caring for her family and has suggested economic compensation or tax reductions for those women who choose to do this. Speaking on the theme of “Family and Business, Vital Cells of Society,” at a meeting of the Catholic Union of Businessmen and Executives (UCID) in Rome last week, the cardinal noted that many of the societal problems today, […]
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Statement by H.E. Archbishop Celestino Migliore Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the Holy See

Wednesday October 14, 2009 Statement by H.E. Archbishop Celestino Migliore Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the Holy See Mr. President, As we call to mind the 15th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), we recognize the many challenges facing the international community to achieve the goal of greater sustained economic and social development. When States came together in Cairo in 1994, many of them were under the impression that a population explosion was going to occur and hamper the ability to achieve adequate global economic development. Now fifteen years later, we see that this perception was […]
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Federal Judge: Teacher has Right to Display Banners that Mention ‘God’

Tuesday March 2, 2010 Federal Judge: Teacher has Right to Display Banners that Mention ‘God’ SAN DIEGO, March 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A California federal judge ruled Friday that the San Diego’s Poway Unified School District violated math teacher Bradley Johnson’s constitutional rights when it ordered him to remove two patriotic banners from the walls of his classroom because they “over-emphasized” God. The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, filed the federal lawsuit on Johnson’s behalf, after the school district ordered him to take down his banners in January 2007. The […]
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Abortion Is Devastating the African American Community… Is Anyone Noticing?

Tuesday March 2, 2010 Abortion Is Devastating the African American Community… Is Anyone Noticing? Commentary by Deal W. Hudson March 2, 2010 (InsideCatholic.com) – According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, African American women have 40 percent of the nation’s abortions, but make up only 13 percent of the population. That black children are being aborted at such a high rate has not been a subject of discussion among the Democrats in the Congress and the White House, who insist on leaving the door open for abortion funding in the health care bill. But a recent article in the […]
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UK Bishops Appeal to Save Last Pro-Family Catholic Adoption Agency

Tuesday March 2, 2010 UK Bishops Appeal to Save Last Pro-Family Catholic Adoption Agency By Kathleen Gilbert LEEDS, England, March 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the backing of three bishops, the last Catholic adoption agency in the UK to resist equality laws forcing acceptance of homosexual adoption will appeal this week to the High Court to secure its right to exemption. Catholic Care, of the diocese of Leeds, is the last of 11 Catholic adoption agencies to fight the Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs) of 2007. The Charity Tribunal rejected the agency’s appeal last year to maintain the teaching of the […]
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No Need to Change Assisted Suicide Law with New Guidelines: U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Thursday February 25, 2010 No Need to Change Assisted Suicide Law with New Guidelines: U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown By Hilary White LONDON, February 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prime Minister Gordon Brown has welcomed new assisted suicide guidelines issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions, saying that, without having changed the letter of the law, the new guidelines have “weakened” the push for the legalization of assisted suicide. Pro-life campaigners, on the other hand, have been more forthright, calling the guidelines an outright victory for the euthanasia and assisted suicide lobby. The new guidelines will allow relatives to help loved […]
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State Residents Force Vote on Pro-Life Amendment in Baja California Sur

Monday March 1, 2010 State Residents Force Vote on Pro-Life Amendment in Baja California Sur By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent LA PAZ, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR, March 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of almost 20,000 residents of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur has presented a new pro-life amendment to the state legislature for its approval, according to national news services. The “citizen’s initiative” is the first in the history of Baja California Sur to qualify under the terms of the state constitution, which allows citizens to present legislative initiatives to the state congress if they are […]
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Pro-Life Group Calls on U.S. Bishops to Launch National Collection for Life

Monday March 1, 2010 Pro-Life Group Calls on U.S. Bishops to Launch National Collection for Life By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, March 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope John Paul II once famously told a prominent pro-life leader that the work that he was doing was “the most important work on earth.” Other Church leaders, including Pope Benedict XVI, have echoed this sentiment. However, pro-life leaders have long pointed out that the importance of the work of defending human life is not always matched by the level of funding that is devoted to it by philanthropists and even the Church itself. But […]
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Interview: Music Video Highlights Humanity of Unborn

Monday March 1, 2010 Interview: Music Video Highlights Humanity of Unborn By James Tillman March 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — “Unborn,” a song by Christian musician Caitlin Jane and inspired by a friend’s unplanned pregnancy, brings to life a touching message of hope and presents powerful depiction of the humanity of the unborn. The song’s video shows a young woman collapsing after discovering that she is pregnant. The lyrics give a voice to the voiceless: “I am unborn / I cannot speak when / I am afraid.” The woman pulls up before an abortion facility as her child continues to speak: […]
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Sask. Court Overturns Human Rights Ruling against Anti-Homosexuality Activist

Monday March 1, 2010 Sask. Court Overturns Human Rights Ruling against Anti-Homosexuality Activist By Thaddeus M. Baklinski REGINA, March 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Saskatchewan’s Court of Appeal has ruled that an anti-homosexaulity activist did not violate the province’s human rights code by publicly criticizing homosexuality through a series of flyers he distributed in Saskatoon and Regina in 2001 and 2002. Bill Whatcott was charged with spreading hate against homosexual persons for the distribution of material objecting to an advertisement that ran in Saskatchewan’s largest newspaper for homosexuals, ‘Perceptions.’ The ad was a classified personal advertisement that ran, “searching for boys/men […]
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Day 10 of 40 Days for Life: 107 Babies Saved…that we Know of!

Monday March 1, 2010 Day 10 of 40 Days for Life: 107 Babies Saved…that we Know of! Commentary by David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for Life March 1, 2010 (40DaysforLife) – Whenever talking about babies saved from abortion through God’s mercy and the prayers of 40 Days for Life participants, I usually add the words “that we know of.” After all, we really don’t know how many lives have been spared in ways that only God will ever know. We just have to trust Him! With that in mind, I can tell you that thus far in this 40 […]
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NRLC: Vote for Health Bill ‘a Career-Defining Pro-abortion Vote’

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lawmakers in the House who vote to swallow whole the massively abortion-expanding Senate health care bill should be prepared to have their record on life issues marred forever, warns Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the NRLC. “When all of the pro-abortion provisions are considered in total, the Senate bill is the most pro-abortion single piece of legislation that has ever come to the House floor for a vote, since Roe v. Wade,” Johnson said in a statement Friday.  “Any House member who votes for the Senate health bill is casting […]
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King of Spain Excommunicated Himself by Signing Abortion Law: Human Life International

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman ROME, March 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Human Life International, the largest international pro-life organization in the world, has condemned the signing of Spain's new abortion law by king Juan Carlos I, and says that the monarch has excommunicated himself from the Catholic Church. “We are very disappointed to hear of the Spanish Head of State's signature of this terrible law,” said Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro, Executive Director of Human Life International's Rome Office, in an email to LifeSiteNews. “Yet, because he has signed other legislation that undermines the moral law and Catholic teaching it does not come […]
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Polish Court Upholds Verdict against Catholic Magazine for Calling Abortion “Killing”

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski KATOWICE, Poland, March 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Katowice Appeal Court has today upheld the verdict of the Katowice District Court which ruled in September '09 that the Polish Catholic newspaper Gosc Niedzielny (Sunday Visitor) and its editor-in-chief Fr. Marek Gancarczyk were guilty of making offensive comments by saying abortion is the killing of an unborn child. A further appeal is expected to go to Poland's Supreme Court. Fr. Gancarczyk had appealed the earlier decision in the case brought against him by Alicja Tysiac, a woman who had previously won a “wrongful birth” suit against the […]
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Commentary on March 5 News

Be sure to read the full analysis of the Democrat's health care bill by Douglas Johnson of National Right to Life. It is an emphatic dose of much needed reality. Professor Josef Seifert's letter to Hilary White, published by LSN yesterday, is more significant than perhaps many of our readers realize. The professor re-submitted a slightly updated version to us today, correcting a few grammatical and typing errors and adding some clarifications. Although possibly difficult for many readers to follow, given the theological and academic depth of the letter, it is nevertheless well worth the effort to read through. The […]
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Lisa Miller’s Daughter Appeared Traumatized by Visits with Lesbian ‘Mother,’ Court Documents Reveal

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman RUTLAND, VERMONT, March 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews) – The daughter of ex-lesbian Lisa Miller appeared to have suffered emotional trauma following forced visits with Miller's ex-partner, according to sworn testimony submitted to a Vermont court. The affidavits, recently obtained by LifeSiteNews, give credence to claims by Miller that her daughter was being emotionally harmed by the visitations with her ex-partner Janet Jenkins, which were ordered by Vermont judge Richard Cohen following the breakup of the couple in 2003. Despite expert testimony and other witnesses, as well as testimony from Miller herself, Cohen continued to order unsupervised visits […]
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Day 14 of 40 Days for Life: “Remember that this is Spiritual Warfare”

Tuesday March 2, 2010 Day 14 of 40 Days for Life: “Remember that this is Spiritual Warfare” Commentary by David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for Life March 2, 2010 (40DaysforLife.com) – I’m home in Virginia for a short time before heading back out on the road. My wife, Margaret, asked if our family could go pray at a nearby 40 Days for Life vigil — so we piled in the minivan and headed an hour south to Richmond to join other prayer warriors outside a local abortion center. I remembered to bring my pocket video camera, and just posted […]
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D.C. Archdiocese Forced to Drop Coverage for Spouses over Same-Sex “Marriage”

Tuesday March 2, 2010 D.C. Archdiocese Forced to Drop Coverage for Spouses over Same-Sex “Marriage” By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WASHINGTON, DC, March 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic Charities of the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington has been forced to amend the health care coverage of it employees in order to avoid giving benefits to same-sex partners, as a result of the implementation of same-sex “marriage” in the District. The Washington Post reported today that Catholic Charities employees received an email yesterday stating that the charitable organization will no longer offer health care benefits to spouses of new employees or to spouses […]
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Teens with more Screen Time Have Lower-Quality Relationships

Tuesday March 2, 2010 Teens with more Screen Time Have Lower-Quality Relationships DUNEDIN, New Zealand, March 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Teens who spend more time watching television or using computers appear to have poorer relationships with their parents and peers, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Over the past 20 years, teens have used an ever-expanding array of screen-based tools for communication and entertainment, observes the background information in the article. “The availability and attractiveness of screen time activities has provoked excitement about the opportunities afforded by these options, as well […]
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Study “Proves” Violent Video Game Play Makes More Aggressive Kids

Tuesday March 2, 2010 Study “Proves” Violent Video Game Play Makes More Aggressive Kids AMES, Iowa, March 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Iowa State University Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Anderson has made much of his life’s work studying how violent video game play affects youth behavior. And he says a new study he led, analyzing 130 research reports on more than 130,000 subjects worldwide, proves conclusively that exposure to violent video games makes more aggressive, less caring kids — regardless of their age, sex or culture. The study was published today in the March 2010 issue of the Psychological Bulletin, […]
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Embattled University of Victoria Pro-Life Club Stages Free Speech Protest

Tuesday March 2, 2010 Embattled University of Victoria Pro-Life Club Stages Free Speech Protest VICTORIA, British Columbia, March 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Victoria’s pro-life club, Youth Protecting Youth (YPY), is holding a free speech protest at the university’s Student Union Building on Tuesday. The students are protesting the fact that club funding has been withheld from them for four semesters in the past two years. This semester, after heated discussion, a motion was passed to deny them club status. The club attempted to call a Special General Meeting of undergraduate students to appeal this decision, but their […]
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Lawsuit: Indiana Civil Rights Agency Violated Rights of Catholic Home Schooling Families

HAMILTON COUNTY, Indiana, March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Indiana Civil Rights Commission (ICRC) is facing a lawsuit alleging the agency has unconstitutionally stepped beyond the scope of its authority by claiming it had the power to review and penalize a Catholic home schooling group of nine families on civil rights charges. The Chicago-based Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm, filed a 127-page lawsuit claiming that the ICRC has arrogated to itself virtually unlimited authority to second guess and then penalize trivial decisions by such small groups of private citizens and families. The case revolves around nine […]
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Conservative Throne Speech Takes First Step to Family Income Splitting: Pro-Family Group

Ottawa, March 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday the Canadian Governor General delivered the Speech from the Throne, laying out the government’s agenda for the forthcoming session of Parliament. Of note, says one Canadian pro-life group, were the 20 separate mentions of family that were made within the speech. Among other things, the government highlighted its introduction of the Universal Child Care Benefit, and expressed a commitment to strengthen the benefit for “sole-support, single-parent families.”  The Child Care Benefit provides $100 per month for each child under the age of six. The Governor General said, “This is direct financial support to […]
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Linda Schmidt, Member of the ND88, Passes away after Battle with Cancer

Note: The petition to Free the ND88 can be found here. NOTRE DAME, Indiana, March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Linda Schmidt, one of the so-called Notre Dame 88, has died after a courageous battle with terminal cancer. Schmidt was one of 88 pro-lifers who await trial on charges of trespassing, after walking onto the University of Notre Dame's campus last May to protest the honoring of President Obama at the school's commencement ceremony. “It is with a heavy heart that we report that Linda Schmidt died early last night. While she will be missed by her family and loved ones, as […]
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Study: Cohabitation Linked to Exponential Increase in Relationship Failure Risk

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Another new study has added to the compelling evidence that cohabitation before marriage significantly increases relationship instability. Dr. Pamela J. Smock, a research professor at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, has published a study in the Journal of Marriage and Family of data gathered on cohabitation in the United States and the implications of cohabitation on relationship stability. “From the perspective of many young adults, marrying without living together first seems quite foolish,” said Prof. Smock. “Just because some academic studies have […]
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U.S. Traditionalist Anglican Group Votes to Enter Catholic Church

By Patrick B. Craine ORLANDO, Florida, March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Anglican Church in America (ACA), the U.S. branch of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), announced yesterday that they will seek communion with the Roman Catholic Church under new Vatican guidelines released in the fall. The TAC and Forward in Faith are part of a movement of Anglicans seeking a more Biblical and traditional Christianity than what has come to be espoused within the Global Anglican Communion.  They have reacted in particular against the Communion's decision to ordain women as priests and bishops, as well as the approval of […]
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Canadian PM Calls for G8 to Tackle Maternal Mortality – Abortion Push Feared

Wednesday January 27, 2010 Canadian PM Calls for G8 to Tackle Maternal Mortality – Abortion Push Feared By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, January 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s announcement on Wednesday that Canada will use its influence as president of the G8 this year to promote maternal and child healthcare in the developing world, pro-life leaders are expressing concern that the government has sought the counsel of Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD), a pro-abortion associate of Planned Parenthood. Pro-life leaders are calling on Canadians to contact the Prime Minister and International Cooperation Minister […]
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When Bishops Do the Right Thing

Monday March 1, 2010 When Bishops Do the Right Thing Commentary by Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer President, Human Life International March 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ought we rejoice in Lent? Well, Bishop Robert Vasa of Baker, Oregon, has given us the absolute best reason to rejoice in a penitential season: he yanked the title “Catholic” from a hospital in his diocese that refuses actually to be Catholic. What a refreshing development in episcopal leadership! In fact, Lent is probably the perfect time for such an act to take place because it is an exercise of discipline and courage, which we […]
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Skirts in School Uniforms “Discriminate” against Transsexuals: UK Human Rights Commission

Monday March 1, 2010 Skirts in School Uniforms “Discriminate” against Transsexuals: UK Human Rights Commission By Hilary White LONDON, March 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The iconic image of sweet little English school girls in their uniforms could become a thing of the past if the government follows the advice of its new “human rights commission.” Requiring skirts in school uniforms discriminates against school girls who want to be boys, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said in a report this week. “Gender-specific” clothes, the EHRC said in its 68-page report on the rights of “transsexuals” this week, could be […]
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Pro-Life Canadian Minister Blocks References to ‘Homosexual Rights’ in Citizenship Guide

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, March 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study guide for immigrants applying for Canadian citizenship, titled “Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship,” contains no specific mention of homosexual rights or same-sex “marriage,” reportedly at the insistence of the Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. Conservative MP Kenney, whose office is responsible for updating and producing the guide, is well known for his fight against same-sex “marriage” and for his pro-life stands on abortion, euthanasia and destructive research on human embryos. The Canadian Press reports that when the new guide was released Nov. 12, […]
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Letters to the Editor

Re: Full Interview with Ron Paul: the Real Constitutional Answer to Roe v. WadeIt is the position of many here in the U.S., including Judie Brown of American Life League, that Ron Paul's legislation is “pro-abortion, not even merely pro-choice” because it says the unborn are “persons,” but states it may allow abortion anyway. In your article, you focus on the aspect of judicial review, but ignore the impact of state legislatures allowing abortion of people legally defined as “persons”.  Can you please explain why you have given Dr. Paul a platform to promote this horrible legislation, particularly at a […]
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Obama Pushing for New United Nations Agency Dedicated to Radical Feminism

March 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Obama administration has endorsed a proposal to create a new U.N. bureaucracy dedicated to restructuring relations between the sexes along radical feminist lines.  The new super-agency is supported by a consortium of feminist organizations called the Gender Equality Architecture Reform Campaign (GEAR). The surprise move came late Tuesday at the meeting of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, currently underway in New York.  Both the Obama administration and the European Union immediately seconded the proposal to create a new U.N. super-agency, which thus appears to have a good chance of passage.  Radical […]
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Notre Dame Paper Snubs Prof’s Column Upholding Church Teaching on Homosexuality

By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 6:18pm EST 3.3.2010 NOTRE DAME, Indiana, March 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The editor of the University of Notre Dame's campus newspaper has refused to publish an installment of a former ND professor's biweekly column because he said the column, which defended the Catholic Church's teaching on homosexuality, required a “differing viewpoint” as a counterbalance. Dr. Charles Rice, Professor Emeritus of law and faculty member, resigned writing for the column after receiving an email from the editor of the Observer, who explained that his most recent column had been rejected due in part to its pro-family content.  […]
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Canadian Doctor: ‘Baby Isaiah’s Status as Human is on Trial in Canada’

Thursday February 25, 2010 Canadian Doctor: ‘Baby Isaiah’s Status as Human is on Trial in Canada’ By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WINNIPEG, Manitoba, February 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canadian doctor has stated in an editorial in the Winnipeg Free Press that the controversy surrounding the fate of Baby Isaiah May is ignoring the fundamental issue at stake – the status of the child as a human being. Dr. Joel B. Zivot, an associate professor in the department of anesthesiology, University of Manitoba, and the director of the intensive care unit, cardiac sciences program, at St. Boniface General Hospital in Winnipeg, […]
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Bishop of Peterborough Gives Catholics Option of Refusing Donations to D&P;

Friday February 26, 2010 Bishop of Peterborough Gives Catholics Option of Refusing Donations to D&P; By John-Henry Westen PETERBOROUGH, ON, February 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A third Canadian bishop has announced restrictions on funding to the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P). Peterborough Bishop Nicola De Angelis has announced that in addition to withholding a nominal amount (10%) from the 2009 Lenten collection from D&P, he has instituted an option on the 2010 collection allowing Catholics to decide against funding D&P. The Bishop has instructed parishes in the diocese to use Lenten collection envelopes which give parishioners the […]
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Rep. Smith Confronts Clinton on Abortion, Coercive One-Child Policy

Friday February 26, 2010 Rep. Smith Confronts Clinton on Abortion, Coercive One-Child Policy By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, February 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing yesterday on the fiscal year 2011 international affairs budget, Congressman Chris Smith confronted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with a speech in which he blasted the administration’s support for abortion around the world. Smith stated that this promotes violence against “the most persecuted and at risk minority in the world” – the unborn child. Smith, co-chairman of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, expressed disappointment that “unplanned pregnancy” in the Global Health […]
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D.C. Archdiocese Forced to Drop Coverage for Spouses over Same-Sex “Marriage”

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WASHINGTON, DC, March 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic Charities of the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington has been forced to amend the health care coverage of it employees in order to avoid giving benefits to same-sex partners, as a result of the implementation of same-sex “marriage” in the District. The Washington Post reported today that Catholic Charities employees received an email yesterday stating that the charitable organization will no longer offer health care benefits to spouses of new employees or to spouses of current employees who are not already enrolled in the plan. “We looked at all […]
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Mandatory Curriculum for Ontario Schools Promotes Homosexuality, Masturbation

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, March 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As of next year, Grade 6 students in Ontario's publicly-funded schools can expect to be taught that masturbation “is common and is not harmful and is one way of learning about your body,” according to a newly-revised curriculum document released by the Ministry of Education. The Ministry put out its new Health and Physical Education curriculum for grades 1 to 8 in January, and a spokesperson has confirmed to LifeSiteNews (LSN) that the new curriculum will be mandatory for all schools, Catholic and public, in September 2010.  The high school […]
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Free Condoms for Olympic Athletes Criticized

Tuesday February 23, 2010 Free Condoms for Olympic Athletes Criticized By Nik Zylstra VANCOUVER, BC, February, 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In their attempt to promote safety at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, the organizers of the Games are handing out 100,000 free condoms to the athletes. In an article on MSNBC’s TODAYshow.com, journalist Mike Celizic acknowledges the Olympians’ self-control during competition, but says that after the athletes are done competing they are ready to party hard. The International Olympic Committee is given credit by Celizic for “acting like a responsible parent” by providing the condoms to athletes for […]
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Caught: Wisc. Planned Parenthood’s Excuse on Failure to Report Sex Abuse Proven False

Friday February 26, 2010 Caught: Wisc. Planned Parenthood’s Excuse on Failure to Report Sex Abuse Proven False MILWAUKEE, February 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After an undercover video released Tuesday showed staff at their Milwaukee abortion clinic agreeing to cover up the sexual abuse of a purportedly 14-year-old girl by her 31-year- old “boyfriend,” Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin says they “were unable to make any report” of the suspected abuse because the girl would not give the clinic any identifying information. Live Action, the group responsible for the video, has released extended footage proving Planned Parenthood’s claim false. In the extended […]
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Saskatchewan MPs Say Abortion is Harmful to Maternal and Child Health

Thursday February 25, 2010 Saskatchewan MPs Say Abortion is Harmful to Maternal and Child Health By Patrick B. Craine SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, February 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortion is harmful to the health of mothers and children, write Conservative Members of Parliament Brad Trost (Saskatoon-Humboldt) and Maurice Vellacott (Saskatoon-Wanuskewin) in an op-ed for the Saskatoon StarPhoenix Thursday. “Increased access to abortion has not been shown to improve the health of women and children, and in fact, can be harmful,” they write. The two MPs were responding to a Monday editorial in the same paper that advocated government funding for abortion and […]
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Utah Lawmakers Approve Bill Prosecuting Women Seeking Illegal Abortions

Tuesday February 23, 2010 Utah Lawmakers Approve Bill Prosecuting Women Seeking Illegal Abortions By Kathleen Gilbert SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, February 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – State lawmakers in both the Utah House and Senate have approved a bill that would bring charges of homicide against pregnant women who arrange to have their unborn child killed through illegal methods. The bill, HB 12, was advanced in response to a local case last May, in which a pregnant teenager allegedly paid a man to kill her unborn child at seven months’ gestation by punching her stomach. The teen was charged with attempted […]
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English Catholic Bishops ‘Welcome’ Assisted Suicide Guidelines Condemned by Pro-life Movement

Thursday February 25, 2010 English Catholic Bishops ‘Welcome’ Assisted Suicide Guidelines Condemned by Pro-life Movement By Hilary White LONDON, February 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite urgent warnings from the British pro-life movement and shouts of triumph from euthanasia campaigners, a statement from the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales has “welcomed” newly published legal guidelines on the prosecution of assisted suicide cases, saying they have given “greater protection” to vulnerable people. The new guidelines will allow relatives to help loved ones commit suicide without being prosecuted as long as they have not gained personally by doing so. While pro-life […]
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Health Canada Approves Controversial HPV Vaccine For Males

Wednesday February 24, 2010 Health Canada Approves Controversial HPV Vaccine For Males By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, February 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vaccine manufacturer Merck Frosst Pharmaceutical announced yesterday that they have approval from Health Canada for the use of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil in boys and young men. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the world, though, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), few people who have contracted the infection ever experience symptoms. Gardasil was approved by Health Canada in 2006 for females between the ages of nine and 26, with the […]
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Pro-Life Group Calls on U.S. Bishops to Launch National Collection for Life

By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, March 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope John Paul II once famously told a prominent pro-life leader that the work that he was doing was “the most important work on earth.” Other Church leaders, including Pope Benedict XVI, have echoed this sentiment. However, pro-life leaders have long pointed out that the importance of the work of defending human life is not always matched by the level of funding that is devoted to it by philanthropists and even the Church itself.  But now one Catholic organization, Catholic Advocate, is calling on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to […]
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Montana Judge Rules School May Censor Religious References in Valedictory Speech

By James Tillman BILLINGS, Montana, March 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Wednesday Judge Gregory Todd ruled in a summary judgment that a student at Butte High School was not unconstitutionally censored for refusing to remove references to Christ and God from her valedictory speech.  Her attorney has said that they will appeal to the Montana Supreme Court. Renee Griffith, one of the ten valedictorians in her class, had planned to say that she “didn't let fear keep me from sharing Christ and his joy with those around me” in her 2008 address.  The high school student would also have spoken […]
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Pro-Abort Garrison Keillor to Deliver Catholic Teachers Assoc. Keynote Address

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Catholic Education Association (NCEA) has invited Garrison Keillor, a pro-abortion, pro-gay “marriage” Episcopalian, as a keynote speaker at the group's annual convention. Keillor, well-known as a humorist and host of A Prairie Home Companion, has repeatedly published his pro-abortion, pro-same-sex “marriage” views – and has labeled pro-life, pro-family, and anti-pornography activists “shrieking ninnies and pompous blowhards.” On the issue of abortion, Keillor has been quoted as saying it should be decided “case by case,” and that disabled embryonic children should be destroyed. “The use of abortion as birth […]
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Sask. Court Overturns Human Rights Ruling against Anti-Homosexuality Activist

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski REGINA, March 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Saskatchewan's Court of Appeal has ruled that an anti-homosexaulity activist did not violate the province's human rights code by publicly criticizing homosexuality through a series of flyers he distributed in Saskatoon and Regina in 2001 and 2002. Bill Whatcott was charged with spreading hate against homosexual persons for the distribution of material objecting to an advertisement that ran in Saskatchewan's largest newspaper for homosexuals, 'Perceptions.' The ad was a classified personal advertisement that ran, “searching for boys/men for pen pals, friendship, exchanging video, pics… Your age, look & nationality is […]
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Skirts in School Uniforms “Discriminate” against Transsexuals: UK Human Rights Commission

By Hilary White LONDON, March 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The iconic image of sweet little English school girls in their uniforms could become a thing of the past if the government follows the advice of its new “human rights commission.” Requiring skirts in school uniforms discriminates against school girls who want to be boys, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said in a report this week. “Gender-specific” clothes, the EHRC said in its 68-page report on the rights of “transsexuals” this week, could be discriminatory. “Pupils born female with gender dysphoria experienced great discomfort being forced to wear stereotypical […]
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Priests for Life President Calls for Respectful Burial of Frozen Fetuses

Wednesday February 24, 2010 Priests for Life President Calls for Respectful Burial of Frozen Fetuses By Kathleen Gilbert STATEN ISLAND, New York, February 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, said today that the 24 or more bodies of dead babies found in the freezer of a Philadelphia abortion clinic should be given a reverent burial as soon as possible. Such a burial should be a public event where people can mourn the loss of life, he said. “The disrespect that the abortion industry has for the human body is seen not only in […]
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Bishop: CCHD-Backed Network Not Worthy of Catholic Involvement

Friday February 26, 2010 Bishop: CCHD-Backed Network Not Worthy of Catholic Involvement By Patrick B. Craine GREEN BAY, Wisconsin, February 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop David Ricken of Green Bay has issued a letter to two interfaith groups affiliated with the Gamaliel Foundation, warning them that if they do not sever their relationship with Gamaliel they will lose the diocese’s support. The bishop’s letter is particularly significant in light of the continuing controversy over the U.S. Bishops’ domestic social justice arm, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), which has a history of funding Gamaliel affiliates. The bishop emphasized that […]
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Seventh Bishop Won’t Take Up CCHD Collection

Friday February 26, 2010 Seventh Bishop Won’t Take Up CCHD Collection By Patrick B. Craine GREEN BAY, Wisconsin, February 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop David Ricken from the Diocese of Green Bay has decided not to take up a collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) this year, reports the diocesan paper The Compass. Bishop Ricken is the seventh bishop confirmed thus far to have decided against taking up the collection for the national CCHD since the controversy over the organization erupted again this fall. “There have been some questions about programs that have received funding from CCHD,” […]
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Anglican Bishop: My Mom Wanted to Die, but now is Happy to be Alive

Friday February 26, 2010 Anglican Bishop: My Mom Wanted to Die, but now is Happy to be Alive By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LONDON, February 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Anglican bishop has said that though his mother had told him repeatedly in the past that she wanted to die, she is now happy to be alive and he is grateful she didn’t kill herself, reports the Christian Institute. Bishop of Durham, Dr. Tom Wright, the fourth most senior prelate in the Church of England, was speaking during a House of Lords debate earlier this month on whether it was necessary […]
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Two Philippine Bishops Endorse Pro-Life Presidential Candidate

Friday February 26, 2010 Two Philippine Bishops Endorse Pro-Life Presidential Candidate By Hilary White MANILA, February 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two Catholic bishops in the Philippines have broken with standing Church policy and endorsed dark horse candidate Olongapo City Councilor JC de los Reyes in the presidential race. The normal policy of the Catholic bishops of the Philippines is to hold a non-partisan stand, but Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles and Bacolod Bishop Vicente Navarra have backed the Ang Kapatiran party candidate, calling it a matter of conscience. Navarra said his endorsement did not necessarily mean he would talk about De […]
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Is 40 Days for Life ‘Silly’?: Meet an Abortionist Who Thinks it is

Friday February 26, 2010 Is 40 Days for Life ‘Silly’?: Meet an Abortionist Who Thinks it is Commentary by David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for Life February 26, 2010 (40DaysforLife.com) – I’m inspired by all the local TV reports about 40 Days for Life! In two minutes or less, they can show your entire community the true nature of your peaceful, prayerful outreach. Often, these reports will feature only a written statement from the abortion center staff. They’re not always eager to appear on camera. One exception, however, is William Harrison — a Fayetteville, Arkansas abortionist whose appearance on […]
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Obama Challenged on Abortion in Health Care at Summit, but Dismisses Subject

Thursday February 25, 2010 Obama Challenged on Abortion in Health Care at Summit, but Dismisses Subject By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, February 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After hours of back and forth sparring between Democrats and Republicans over health care reform during Thursday’s public health care summit, the topic of abortion funding was broached by House Minority Leader John Boehner, but dismissed by President Obama. In his remarks to the president, in which he expressed several concerns about the bill, Boehner noted that his letter urging Obama to include pro-life Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) in the summit had been […]
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