‘Gay’ Ex-Altar Server Drops Human Rights Case against Bishop

Thursday May 27, 2010 ‘Gay’ Ex-Altar Server Drops Human Rights Case against Bishop By John-Henry Westen and Patrick Craine PETERBOROUGH, Ontario, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The human rights complaint filed against Bishop Nicola De Angelis of Peterborough, Ontario over his decision to disallow an open homosexual from acting as an altar server in the diocese has been dropped without conditions. The bishop met with the complainant Jim Corcoran, “in the spirit of peace and reconciliation,” in the bishop’s chancery office on May 21. According to the diocesan bulletin, “As a result of this meeting Mr. Corcoran has withdrawn his […]
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Group Representing 2.5M Wartime Veterans to Congress: Keep ‘Don’t Ask’

Thursday May 27, 2010 Group Representing 2.5M Wartime Veterans to Congress: Keep ‘Don’t Ask’ House may vote Thursday evening to repeal ban INDIANAPOLIS, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In letters to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader John Boehner, the head of the nation’s largest wartime veterans organization, stated his group’s opposition to repealing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy banning homosexuals from serving openly in the military. The House may vote to repeal that policy as early as Thursday evening. Homosexualist activists have been pushing for the Senate Armed Services Committee to attach a repeal of […]
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Statistics Canada Predicts Seniors Will Soon Outnumber Children

Thursday May 27, 2010 Statistics Canada Predicts Seniors Will Soon Outnumber Children By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Demography Division of Statistics Canada has predicted that the number of seniors will surpass the number of children aged 14 or under for the first time ever sometime between 2015 and 2021. The population projections for 2009 to 2036, released by the federal agency yesterday, say that Canada’s population will age rapidly until 2031, by which time the entire baby boom generation would have turned 65. Thereafter it would continue aging, but at a less rapid pace. […]
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Gary Coleman’s Quick Removal off Life Support and Resulting Death Raises Questions

Commentary by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman   May 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The death of Gary Coleman has elicited reactions of surprise and sadness from Americans who had come to know and love the actor through his role on the popular situation comedy Diff'rent Strokes during the late 70s and early 80s.   However, what is not being discussed in the mainstream media, what is being assiduously avoided, are the obvious questions: is it certain how Coleman sustained his deadly head injury, and why did his wife “pull the plug” on her husband only hours after he was put on life support, and only […]
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Commentary on May 31 News

Monday has been a very unusual day for us - rather difficult to say the least. US staff were off for the Memorial Day holiday, two key staff (Washington and Rome) are moving residences today and tomorrow, our assistant editor is on a week's holiday and others were not available for a variety of special reasons. For the most part, it has been John-Henry Westen and myself running LifeSiteNews today, just like the beginning years – but with vastly more to do now. Whew! On top of that, our fundraising campaign launch email went weird on us and so, my apologies to our many subscribers, […]
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Pope’s Prayer for June: ‘Respect for Human Life from Conception to Natural Death’

By John-Henry Westen VATICAN CITY, May 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholics around the world have been asked by the Pope to join him in prayer for life during the month of June. Pope Benedict's general prayer intention for June is: “That every national and trans-national institution may strive to guarantee respect for human life from conception to natural death”. Pope, Benedict XVI has often requested the faithful to join him in prayer for life and family via monthly prayer intentions. “How blessed we are to witness the Vicar of Christ calling the powers of this world to respect the sanctity of all human life […]
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‘Telemed’ Abortions Under Investigation in Iowa

Tuesday May 4, 2010 ‘Telemed’ Abortions Under Investigation in Iowa DES MOINES, Iowa, May 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Iowa Medical Board is now investigating the “care and treatment” practices of abortionist Susan Haskell and Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, who have been accused of conducting medical abortions without a physician present, reports Operation Rescue. The investigation, which Operation Rescue (OR) said it was notified of in writing, is in response to complaints filed by OR Senior Policy Advisor Cheryl Sullenger concerning “Telemed” abortions. “Telemed” is short for telemedicine, a practice in which the patient consults with a physician over […]
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Commentary on May 28 Canadian News

Friday May 28, 2010 Commentary on May 28 Canadian News There has been a astonishing and unexpected upsurge in the debate on abortion in Canada over the past few months. And now we are seeing an unprecedented public call for an honest discussion of the realities of abortion by two of Canada’s most prominent Catholic bishops – Quebec Cardinal Marc Oullet and Ottawa Archbishop Terrance Prendergast. The strongest anti-life influence on the nation by far has for decades come from Quebec, with abortionist Henry Morgentaler and former Canadian Catholic Prime Ministers Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, […]
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Aurora Zoning Board Stands By Planned Parenthood Mega-Abortion Center despite the Law and Lies

Thursday January 10, 2008 Aurora Zoning Board Stands By Planned Parenthood Mega-Abortion Center despite the Law and Lies By Peter J. Smith AURORA, Illinois, January 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Zoning officials in the city of Aurora have decided to permit Planned Parenthood’s new mega-clinic to open, despite the fact that the facility was constructed under the wrong zoning ordinance and the public was deceived deliberately regarding its true purpose. WorldNetDaily reports, however, that pro-life opponents are refusing to let city officials passively accept the establishment of the new Planned Parenthood abortion center – reputedly the largest in the United States […]
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Major Pro-Life Abortion Law Changes Underway in Louisiana

Thursday May 27, 2010 Major Pro-Life Abortion Law Changes Underway in Louisiana By Peter J. Smith BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Louisiana State House is poised to approve two pieces of pro-life legislation. One of the bills would opt the state out of the national health care reform’s abortion mandates, while the other would empower the state’s health secretary to shut down the operations of all abortion clinics run by the same owner, when one clinic is found in violation of state law. The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved H.B. 1370, without amendment. The measure […]
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Abortion Push Feared at Mexico World Youth Conference as Pro-Abortion UN Agencies Involved

Thursday May 27, 2010 Abortion Push Feared at Mexico World Youth Conference as Pro-Abortion UN Agencies Involved By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, NY, May 27, 2010 (C-FAM) – The United Nations (UN) is now preparing to kick off the International Year of Youth. The Government of Mexico will host a world conference on youth in August that will produce a ministerial declaration on youth and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Conference organizers hope that the document will influence the high-level review on the Millennium Development Goals that takes place in September at the UN General Assembly. While the Mexican World […]
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Following Bishops, Catholic Charities USA Pulls out of Pro-Kagan Group

Thursday May 27, 2010 Following Bishops, Catholic Charities USA Pulls out of Pro-Kagan Group By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) has quietly pulled out of a pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality group after it was revealed that the organization, which also numbered the U.S. bishops among its members, had published a video advertisement endorsing pro-abortion Supreme Court candidate Elena Kagan. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) had pulled out of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCR) shortly after Deal Hudson of Catholic Advocate and LifeSiteNews.com revealed the affiliation earlier this month. […]
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Slight Fall in UK Abortion Rate Insignificant after Decades of Increases: Pro-Life Leaders

Thursday May 27, 2010 Slight Fall in UK Abortion Rate Insignificant after Decades of Increases: Pro-Life Leaders By Hilary White LONDON, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the Department of Health of England and Wales and the Scottish NHS Information Services on Tuesday reported an overall small decrease in Britain’s abortion rate, pro-life campaigners have called on physicians to take a “reality check” on the number of British children being killed before birth. Abortion rates for England, Wales and Scotland for 2009 show a 3.2 per cent decrease last year – a small dent in Britain’s abortion rate that has […]
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Researchers Argue Homosexuals Should be Allowed to Give Blood

Wednesday May 26, 2010 Researchers Argue Homosexuals Should be Allowed to Give Blood By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two Canadian researchers have published an article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) saying that the federal ban on homosexual men donating blood is “outdated and discriminatory.” Mark Wainberg, director of the McGill University AIDS Centre at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital, and Dr. Norbert Gilmore argue in their article that it’s time for the lifetime ban to be lifted. They say that the test to detect HIV in blood is much improved since the 1980s when […]
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Quebec Debate on Euthanasia Opens to General Public

Wednesday May 26, 2010 Quebec Debate on Euthanasia Opens to General Public By Patrick B. Craine QUEBEC CITY, Quebec, May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The public end-of-life debate that the Quebec government launched in December is now being opened to the general public. The Quebec National Assembly’s special commission on “dying with dignity” released a consultation document at a press conference yesterday after having heard from legal, medical, ethical, and philosophical experts in February and March. They will be travelling to eleven major cities in the province to consult with interested parties, and have set up an online questionnaire. Euthanasia […]
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Oklahoma Voters May Nullify Fed Health Care Law in November

Wednesday May 26, 2010 Oklahoma Voters May Nullify Fed Health Care Law in November By Peter J. Smith OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Voters in Oklahoma will be given a chance in November to decide whether they want to reject the core of the recently-enacted national health care reform, which includes taxpayer-funded abortion and requires individuals to buy health insurance or pay a penalty, thanks to a legislative action that bypassed the objections of pro-abortion Democrat Gov. Brad Henry. The state’s House of Representatives approved Senate Joint Resolution 59 with a strong bipartisan majority of 88-9. SJR […]
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Naples, Florida Planned Parenthood Patient Rushed to Hospital

Wednesday May 26, 2010 Naples, Florida Planned Parenthood Patient Rushed to Hospital By Kathleen Gilbert NAPLES, Florida, May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A possible botched-abortion victim had to be transported from a Naples abortion clinic by ambulance on Monday, as abortion clinic workers blocked the patient from view with a black tarp, reported the Naples Daily News. The regular crowd of pro-life witnesses watched in dismay as the victim, a patient at Planned Parenthood of Collier County, was transported to an area hospital in the early afternoon hours. Photographs submitted to the local newspaper show abortion clinic workers holding up […]
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Woman Dies in Marie Stopes Abortion Facility in Nepal as Controversial Ads Air in UK

Wednesday May 26, 2010 Woman Dies in Marie Stopes Abortion Facility in Nepal as Controversial Ads Air in UK By Hilary White LONDON, May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The day before Marie Stopes International abortion advertisements began airing in the UK, a woman died in one of their overseas abortion facilities in Nepal. Nepalese media reported this week that Durga Devi Khadka died on Sunday at the Marie Stopes Center in Damak, a municipality in the southeast. Khadka was 10 weeks pregnant, according to the Nepalese newspaper Republica. Police are investigating and have detained the facility owner, Chitra Bahadur Karki. […]
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Cardinal Ouellet “Buoyant” Amidst Attacks over Abortion Comments

Tuesday May 25, 2010 Cardinal Ouellet “Buoyant” Amidst Attacks over Abortion Comments By Patrick B. Craine To sign a petition in support of Cardinal Ouellet, click here. OTTAWA, Ontario, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite the beating he took in the Quebec and national media last week, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, archbishop of Quebec City and primate of Canada, is “buoyant, joyful, brimming with love,” reports journalist Deborah Gyapong. Cardinal Ouellet was attacked by the mainstream press, politicians, and even some clergy after he made comments just over a week ago in which he affirmed the teaching of the Catholic Church […]
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Marie Stopes Abortion Ads Generate Protest while Org Hosts China’s One Child Czar

Tuesday May 25, 2010 Marie Stopes Abortion Ads Generate Protest while Org Hosts China’s One Child Czar By Hilary White LONDON, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “If you miss your period, you could be pregnant. If you’re pregnant and don’t know what to do, Marie Stopes International can help.” So goes the voiceover on the new abortion adverts that started airing on British TV last night. Marie Stopes, one of the world’s largest abortionist groups, claims the ad is all about giving women information on “reproductive services” on their telephone consultation line. But pro-life advocates have called the ad nothing […]
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Horror: Jordanian Man Rapes, Murders Daughter in Botched Abortion

Monday May 24, 2010 Horror: Jordanian Man Rapes, Murders Daughter in Botched Abortion By Peter J. Smith AMMAN, Jordan, May 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Jordanian carpenter has been charged with the rape and murder of his teenage daughter, who died following the grisly abortion the man performed on her unborn baby girl, reports The Jordanian Times. Authorities had charged the man on three counts of rape, murder, and abortion after the unidentified man, 45, turned himself in to police. Sources to the Jordan Times reported that the man had sexually assaulted his 19-year-old daughter since she was 15, and […]
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Homosexualist Activist Priest Arrested for Sex Abuse of Teen in Milan

Wednesday May 26, 2010 Homosexualist Activist Priest Arrested for Sex Abuse of Teen in Milan By Hilary White MILAN, May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of Italy’s most outspokenly dissenting Catholic priests, Domenico Pezzini, has been arrested for abuse of a male teenaged victim. Pezzini, a 73 year-old priest of the diocese of Lodi, was arrested Monday in Milan. Police also revealed that a large quantity of child pornography had been found after a search of Pezzini’s residence. In keeping with mainstream media coverage of clerical sex abuse, the Italian media is presenting the abuse as a case of “pedophilia,” […]
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Horror in China: Aborted but Still Living Baby Sent for Cremation

Tuesday May 25, 2010 Horror in China: Aborted but Still Living Baby Sent for Cremation By Thaddeus M. Baklinski FOSHAN CITY, China, may 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An aborted baby boy, who had been declared dead by doctors in Foshan City, China, suddenly cried out as he was about to be cremated, but died later after doctors refused to treat him. A mortuary worker at the Nanhai Funeral Home reportedly was startled by a cry from a box, labeled “medical waste,” that he was about to put into the incinerator. He opened the carton and found the baby moving, but […]
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Homosexual Altar Server’s Complaint against Peterborough Bishop Goes to Mediation

Tuesday April 13, 2010 Homosexual Altar Server’s Complaint against Peterborough Bishop Goes to Mediation By Patrick B. Craine COBOURG, Ontario, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The human rights complaint filed against Bishop Nicola De Angelis of Peterborough, Ontario over his decision to disallow an open homosexual from acting as an altar server in the diocese will now go to mediation, with a hearing scheduled in Toronto for May 11th. The complaint was filed with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal by Jim Corcoran, owner of a highly-rated spa in Grafton, Ontario, on June 17th, 2009 following the bishop’s decision that April. […]
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English Bishops Attack Cardinal for Comments on Homosexual Priest Crisis

Thursday April 15, 2010 English Bishops Attack Cardinal for Comments on Homosexual Priest Crisis By Hilary White ROME, April 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Cardinal Secretary of State and number two man in the Vatican, Tarcisio Bertone, is under attack from within and without the Catholic Church, for stating that the clerical abuse crisis is linked to homosexuality in the priesthood. While visiting Chile, Cardinal Bertone said on Monday that while experts have found no link between priestly celibacy and the abuse of minors, psychologists “have demonstrated, and have told me recently, that there is a relationship between homosexuality and […]
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Massive “Abortion Changes You” Campaign Greets New York Subway Riders

Thursday March 11, 2010 Massive “Abortion Changes You” Campaign Greets New York Subway Riders By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, March 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Every day for the next four weeks passengers on New York City’s subway system will be encountering a message that is hard to escape: “abortion changes you.” Spread throughout the subway trains and stations of the “Big Apple” are 2,000 posters that offer millions of daily riders a “safe place” for them to work out emotional struggles they may have after an abortion. The campaign has nothing to do with politics: pro-life vs. pro-choice, or […]
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Mother of Murdered Daughter, Unborn Grandson Calls for Renewal of Unborn Victims of Crime Bill

Thursday April 15, 2010 Mother of Murdered Daughter, Unborn Grandson Calls for Renewal of Unborn Victims of Crime Bill By Thaddeus M. Baklinski EDMONTON, Alberta, April 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mary Talbot, mother of Olivia Talbot who, along with her unborn son Lane, was murdered in 2005 by Jared Baker, has sent an email to supporters saying she intends to renew efforts to reintroduce the Unborn Victims of Crime Bill C-484 to Canada’s Parliament. The initiative follows a March 19 decision by the Supreme Court of Canada dismissing an appeal by Baker of his 2007 first-degree murder conviction for killing […]
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Pro-Aborts Top List of Potential Supreme Court Nominees

Tuesday April 13, 2010 Pro-Aborts Top List of Potential Supreme Court Nominees By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the U.S. awaits word from the White House on who will replace the retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a list of the most probable nominees has begun slowly to leak: all liberal, some overtly pro-abortion. While Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is one heavily pro-abortion figure whose name has been floated as a possible surprise choice, the Obama administration put the rumor to rest Monday, saying Clinton would remain in her current position. The short […]
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Vatican Reiterates: First Responsibility in Sex Abuse Allegations Lies with the Local Bishop

Tuesday April 13, 2010 Vatican Reiterates: First Responsibility in Sex Abuse Allegations Lies with the Local Bishop By Hilary White ROME, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has issued guidelines for procedures in cases of sex abuse by priests, reiterating that local bishops have the first responsibility to protect young people and to monitor the behavior of their priests. Under the guidelines posted to the Vatican website on Monday, the responsibility to investigate accusations of abuse by clerics is first that of the local diocese. If it is found that an […]
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Brazilian Archbishop Defends Abortion for Pregnant Minor in his Diocese

Wednesday April 14, 2010 Brazilian Archbishop Defends Abortion for Pregnant Minor in his Diocese By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent RECIFE, Brazil, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In sharp contrast to his predecessor, and in apparent defiance of the moral doctrine of the Catholic Church, the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Brazil, has implied that an abortion performed on a minor child in his diocese may be justifiable, and has done nothing to prevent it, claiming the decision is “for the parents.” Archbishop Fernando Saburido, who last year replaced the strongly pro-life Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, told the local newspaper […]
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Effort to Repeal Calif. Gay Marriage Ban Flops

Tuesday April 13, 2010 Effort to Repeal Calif. Gay Marriage Ban Flops By Peter J. Smith SACRAMENTO, California, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activists eager to repeal California’s ban on same-sex “marriage” have admitted defeat for this year, as they could not gather enough signatures from Californians who share their enthusiasm to put their initiative on the November ballot. Supporters for same-sex “marriage” gathered under the banner of Restore Equality 2010 were determined to repeal Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment approved by Californians in 2008 defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The group […]
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The Official vs. the Unofficial Story of the Early Retirement of Miami’s Archbishop

Thursday April 29, 2010 The Official vs. the Unofficial Story of the Early Retirement of Miami’s Archbishop By John-Henry Westen MIAMI, April 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Miami Archbishop John Favalora announced an early retirement on April 20, only eight months before he was set to reach the normal episcopal retirement age of 75. Despite the fact that the Vatican usually only accepts early resignations for serious illness or another “grave cause,” the official explanation given by Archbishop Favalora himself says he is in “good health,” and presents no other “grave reason” for the unexpected retirement. Meanwhile, a group of lay […]
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Pro-Life Group Marks 40th Anniversary of Earth Day with Campaign Celebrating Life

Monday April 12, 2010 Pro-Life Group Marks 40th Anniversary of Earth Day with Campaign Celebrating Life Encourages Americans to celebrate nature’s greatest gift – human life CHICAGO, April 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life group CatholicVote.org says it’s time to use Earth Day to celebrate nature’s greatest gift – human life. With bus ads starting today in Chicago and next week in San Francisco and Seattle, CatholicVote.org is encouraging Americans to rethink how they celebrate Earth Day, and how to go about building a culture that respects the environment. This April 22nd will mark the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. […]
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U.S Taxpayers Would Pay Over $898 Million Over 9 Years for Federal Benefits to Same-Sex Couples

Tuesday January 5, 2010 U.S Taxpayers Would Pay Over $898 Million Over 9 Years for Federal Benefits to Same-Sex Couples Proposed legislation (H.R. 2517) sponsored by Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) an open homosexual By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., January 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. taxpayers have now learned that footing the bill to pay for federal benefits to same-sex couples will cost them at least $898 million over the next nine years, according to an analysis from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. The CBO’s December 17 cost analysis on the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009 (H.R. […]
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Planned Parenthood Reveals 5-Year Plan to Expand Abortion through Telemed Scheme

Tuesday May 25, 2010 Planned Parenthood Reveals 5-Year Plan to Expand Abortion through Telemed Scheme CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) revealed last week that expanding medical abortions into every Planned Parenthood clinic in the country through the use of a “telemed abortion” scheme is part of PPFA’s Strategic Plan for 2015. The plan was revealed after a protest of Planned Parenthood organized by the Pro-Life Action League. Between 150 and 200 pro-lifers braved the cold and rain to protest a Planned Parenthood fund-raising banquet in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the wake […]
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Abortionist under Investigation for Forced Abortion Says he “Lies” to Patients

Tuesday May 25, 2010 Abortionist under Investigation for Forced Abortion Says he “Lies” to Patients By Peter J. Smith DETROIT, Michigan, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Michigan abortionist is under renewed scrutiny over comments he made over two years ago, in which he said that doctors have a license to “lie” to their patients. The comments were made by Dr. Abraham Alberto Hodari to medical students at Wayne University. Hodari currently is facing a lawsuit for allegedly forcing a woman to submit to an abortion after she had changed her mind, killing the unborn baby that she had decided […]
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School Official Suspended for Distributing 4″ Fetus Models

Tuesday May 25, 2010 School Official Suspended for Distributing 4″ Fetus Models By Kathleen Gilbert NORFOLK, Virginia, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two school officials have been suspended at a Norfolk, VA elementary school in connection with the distribution of 4-inch-long baby models accompanied by a card describing a child’s growth in the womb. “Some people think that my life began at birth; but my life’s journey began long before I was born,'” states the card distributed with the pink and brown baby figures, which are soft and shaped like a small child curled up asleep. The reverse side of […]
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Showdown at the OK Capitol: Senate Overrides Gov’s Veto of Abortion Law

Tuesday May 25, 2010 Showdown at the OK Capitol: Senate Overrides Gov’s Veto of Abortion Law By Peter J. Smith OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Oklahoma lawmakers have won yet another face-off with pro-abortion Democratic Gov. Brad Henry, after the state Senate overrode the governor’s veto of an enhanced abortion statistics reporting law on Tuesday. The stakes were riding high for pro-life advocates. The Oklahoma House of Representatives on late Monday afternoon overwhelmingly overruled Henry’s third veto this year of Oklahoma pro-life legislation, by an 84–13 margin. But while the House had votes to spare to reach […]
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Pro-family Candidate in Obama’s Home District Wins House Special Election

Monday May 24, 2010 Pro-family Candidate in Obama’s Home District Wins House Special Election By Peter J. Smith HONOLULU, May 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican Charles K. Djou, the only pro-family candidate in a three-way race with two Democratic opponents, won Hawaii’s special election on Saturday for the first Congressional District – the home turf to President Obama that overwhelmingly supported him in the 2008 presidential election. When the votes were counted, Djou had captured 39.5 percent of the vote, with Colleen Hanabusa in second at 30.8 percent, and Ed Case finishing last with 27.6 percent. The special election was […]
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Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss Suit Against Aurora Planned Parenthood

Monday May 24, 2010 Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss Suit Against Aurora Planned Parenthood By James Tillman AURORA, Illinois, May 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Striking down a motion to dismiss, Judge Neal W. Cerne of Dupage County Court has ruled that a lawsuit may go forward alleging that a Planned Parenthood mega-center violates city zoning laws and that the zoning board blatantly ignored the violation. Although this decision was cheering to pro-life advocates, Judge Cerne removed many of the defendants originally named from the lawsuit, including the City of Aurora, Mayor Tom Weisner, the previous CEO of Planned Parenthood of […]
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Human Life International Launches New United States Pro-life Initiative

Friday May 21, 2010 Human Life International Launches New United States Pro-life Initiative By Peter J. Smith FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, May 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Human Life International, the world’s largest international pro-life organization, has launched a new initiative within the United States dedicated to explaining the connection between contraception and abortion in the United States, as well as educating men and women on viable healthy alternatives to contraception and artificial fertility treatments. “This new American initiative highlights what is true in both our personal lives and on the world stage — namely that ‘protecting life begins at home,'” said […]
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‘Idol Gives Back’ — To Pro-Abortion Groups

Wednesday April 21, 2010 ‘Idol Gives Back’ — To Pro-Abortion Groups By Kathleen Gilbert FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, April 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Once again, “American Idol” is aligning itself with pro-abortion groups: among the groups benefiting this year’s “Idol Gives Back” fund-raising campaign are Save the Children and the United Nations Foundation, both of which have ties to top abortion organizations, reports Life Decisions International (LDI). Save the Children has a working relationship with what it calls “prominent international organizations.” Several of these groups are actively pro-abortion, including Better World Fund, Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, […]
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Ontario Pro-Family Leaders Organize Rally against New Sex Ed Curriculum

Tuesday April 20, 2010 Ontario Pro-Family Leaders Organize Rally against New Sex Ed Curriculum By Patrick Craine TORONTO, Ontario, April 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Leaders from various family-focused groups, together representing over 100,000 active members, are calling for Premier Dalton McGuinty to withdraw the new Ontario Sex Education Curriculum that is set to be implemented this September. The leaders are organizing Ontario parents to protest the new program by withdrawing their children from school on May 10th, the Monday after Mother’s Day, and joining a proposed rally at 12:00 noon in Toronto. Dr. Charles McVety, President of Canada Christian College, […]
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North Dakota Approves Petition for Abortion Decapitation, Skull Crushing Ban

Friday April 23, 2010 North Dakota Approves Petition for Abortion Decapitation, Skull Crushing Ban DICKINSON, North Dakota, April 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A North Dakota grassroots pro-life organization is announcing the official beginning of an effort to circulate petitions for an initiated measure that would prohibit physicians from decapitating and crushing the skulls of living unborn children. ‘The Baby Decapitation and Skull Crushing Ban’ was approved for circulation by the North Dakota Secretary of State and Attorney General on Thursday. Daniel Woodard, head of the state-wide Stop Decapitation Network, aims to collect 12,844 signatures in order to place the measure […]
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Father of Down Syndrome Child: “it is the soul of our nation that is ‘deformed'”

Monday April 19, 2010 Father of Down Syndrome Child: “it is the soul of our nation that is ‘deformed'” By Steve Jalsevac PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kurt A. Kondrich is a 20 year veteran of the Pittsburgh police force. Six years ago his daughter Chloe was born with Down Syndrome. This motivated Kondrich to return to college to earn a masters degree in Early Intervention. After graduation he retired from his law enforcement career to become Director of Community/Family Outreach for Early Intervention in the Pittsburgh area. Kondrich read a news report last week about the Sarasota, […]
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The Definitive Paper Showing Homosexuality at Root of the Sex Abuse Crisis

Monday April 19, 2010 The Definitive Paper Showing Homosexuality at Root of the Sex Abuse Crisis By John-Henry Westen April 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A must-read paper produced by Human Life International Research Director Brian Clowes has closed the book on the question of whether homosexuality in the priesthood is a root cause of the clerical sexual abuse crisis. Citing numerous research studies, Clowes demonstrates that homosexuality is strongly linked to sexual abuse of minors, and that celibacy is definitely not a cause of pedophilia. Clowes cites studies, including: – Homosexual Alfred Kinsey, the USA’s preeminent sexual researcher, found in […]
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Bush Lends Support to Indiana Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Monday April 19, 2010 Bush Lends Support to Indiana Crisis Pregnancy Centers By James Tillman INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, April 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Former President George W. Bush on Thursday gave the keynote address for a fundraiser for Life Centers, a Christian organization that helps women facing unplanned pregnancies in central Indiana, and encouraged the group to continue with its life-saving work. Cameras and media were not permitted inside Conseco Fieldhouse, where the fundraiser took place at 7 PM. Roughly 4,000 people attended the event, which Life Center leaders said would be the largest-ever fundraiser for the nonprofit organization. “He wants […]
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Vatican Official Slams ‘Obstinate Betrayal’ of Nuns, Cath. Health Assoc.

Monday April 12, 2010 Vatican Official Slams ‘Obstinate Betrayal’ of Nuns, Cath. Health Assoc. By Kathleen Gilbert MUNDELEIN, Illinois, April 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic consecrated religious who openly dissent from the authority of Rome and the church’s teaching on life are “an absurdity of the most tragic kind” and should cease identifying themselves as Catholic, said Archbishop Raymond Burke, the head of Rome’s Apostolic Signatura. Burke gave the remarks in his keynote address Friday at the Institute for Religious Life’s national meeting at Mundelein Seminary in Illinois. The Institute also honored Burke with their Pro Fidelitate et Virtute Award […]
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Euthanasia Requests Triple in Belgium, Highest Among Young Cancer Victims

Friday April 9, 2010 Euthanasia Requests Triple in Belgium, Highest Among Young Cancer Victims By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BRUSSELS, April 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After being legalized eight years ago, euthanasia is becoming increasingly frequent in Belgium, according to a recent study by the Flemish-speaking Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel or VUB). The number of requests for euthanasia have almost tripled since 2003, when 235 patients reportedly asked to be killed. The number rose to 428 in 2006, 495 in 2007, and 705 in 2008, according to the latest statistic gathered in the study. The largest group requesting […]
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NewsBytes – Life Issues, Religion, US Politics, Homosexuality, Miscellaneous

Wednesday April 21, 2010 NewsBytes – Life Issues, Religion, US Politics, Homosexuality, Miscellaneous * Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. Compiled by Steve Jalsevac LIFE ISSUES Dutch Infanticide: Bioethicists Say It Isn’t the Killing That is Wrong, It is Insufficient Reporting of the Killing – Wesley J. Smith https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/04/16/dutch-infanticide-bioethicist-says-it-isnt-the-killing-that-is-wrong-it-is-insufficient-reporting/ Poll of Ireland shows overwhelming support for continued abortion ban https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/poll_of_ireland_shows_overwhelming_support_for_continued_abortion_ban/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+catholicnewsagency%2Fdailynews+%28CNA+Daily+News%29 Plastinated people Is it offensive to human dignity to display naked corpses posed like shop-window mannequins? https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/plastinated_people/ Abortion […]
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Scottish Catholic Bishop to EU Leaders: Speak out When Vatican Says Something ‘Stupid’

Tuesday April 20, 2010 Scottish Catholic Bishop to EU Leaders: Speak out When Vatican Says Something ‘Stupid’ By Hilary White April 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic bishop of Aberdeen, in Scotland went on the attack on Friday, telling the EUobserver that EU leaders should speak out whenever the Vatican said something “stupid.” Bishop Peter Moran, the bishop of Aberdeen, Scotland was reacting to comments made by the Vatican’s Cardinal Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone, who told a press conference in Chile earlier this month that the sex abuse scandals among the clergy are more the result of homosexuality in […]
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Economist: Contraceptive Culture Shifts Economic Power away from Women

Thursday April 15, 2010 Economist: Contraceptive Culture Shifts Economic Power away from Women By Kathleen Gilbert April 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The contraception revolution has, contrary to its image, shifted wealth and power away from women and is in effect “deeply sexist,” according to one economist’s analysis. In the essay, entitled “Bitter Pill” and appearing in the latest edition of First Things magazine, economist Timothy Reichert argues that the case against contraception can be effectively articulated “using the language of social science, which is the language of the mainstream.” Rather than framing the debate as “a case of faith and […]
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“Right” of Couples to IVF Trumps Children’s Right to a Normal Family – European Court of Human Rights

Wednesday April 7, 2010 “Right” of Couples to IVF Trumps Children’s Right to a Normal Family – European Court of Human Rights By Hilary White STRASBOURG, April 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has issued a Chamber judgment that Austria’s laws restricting in vitro fertilization procedures are “discriminatory” and violate the right to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights. Seven judges of the Court ruled that the Austrian Artificial Procreation Act preventing the use of donated sperm or ova in artificial fertilization procedures violates the “right to respect for family life” […]
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Ruling Mexico City Party Seeks Imprisonment for Doctors who Refuse to Cooperate with Abortions

Friday April 23, 2010 Ruling Mexico City Party Seeks Imprisonment for Doctors who Refuse to Cooperate with Abortions By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, April 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Members of Mexico City’s ruling Party, the Democratic Revolution (PRD), which passed legislation in 2007 legalizing abortion on demand during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, are now pushing legislation that would throw doctors in prison for refusing to do abortion referrals. According to the proposed law, doctors will be subject to one to four years imprisonment, and a fine equivalent of 100 to 300 days of minimum […]
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Chinese Authorities Orchestrate Brutal Sterilization Round-Up of Thousands

Monday April 19, 2010 Chinese Authorities Orchestrate Brutal Sterilization Round-Up of Thousands By Peter J. Smith GUANGZHOU, China, April 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chinese authorities in southern China are waging a brutal 20-day campaign to round up 10,000 men and women and have them sterilized for violating the state’s birth control quotas, reports the UK Times Online. According to the Times, officials in Puning county are exercising coercive methods – such as arresting family members of those who refuse to be sterilized – because the county is getting too populous and making them look bad in contrast to the other […]
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Thousands of Pro-Lifers Rally at Massive Planned Parenthood Abortion Facility

Monday January 18, 2010 Thousands of Pro-Lifers Rally at Massive Planned Parenthood Abortion Facility By Kathleen Gilbert Houston, Texas, January 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, national spiritual and political leaders joined a sign-waving crowd of what is being reported as “thousands” of pro-lifers in Houston today to rally against what they called a “prenatal racial genocide” perpetrated by Planned Parenthood through abortion. In April, Planned Parenthood purchased a six-story, 78,000-square-foot former bank building in Houston to turn into the nation’s largest abortion mill. The building is situated in an 80% minority community area. […]
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Disgraced California Abortionist Preyed on Recent Immigrants: Report

Wednesday April 7, 2010 Disgraced California Abortionist Preyed on Recent Immigrants: Report By John Jalsevac SANTA ANA, California, April 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — A former reporter for the LA Times and Orange County Register has penned a six-part investigative series that reveals the alarming business practices of embattled abortionist Andrew Rutland and several of his associates. In “The Shadow Practice,” journalist William Heisel argues that Rutland sought to overcome years of bad press, brought on by his involvement in the deaths of two babies and resulting in a five-year suspension of his medical license, by offering his abortion “services” to […]
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Fr. Pfleger on Apology: They Made Me Do it, But I Didn’t Mean it

Friday April 16, 2010 Fr. Pfleger on Apology: They Made Me Do it, But I Didn’t Mean it By Patrick B. Craine CHICAGO, Illinois, April 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the latest episode in an ongoing controversy, Fr. Michael Pfleger has again publicly voiced his support for women’s ordination, this time in a comment posted to his Facebook fan page. In that comment, he also notes that the archdiocese made him issue the apology he put out on Wednesday. “Sunday, I mentioned in my Sermon that I believe in married Priests and Woman Priests,” the Facebook comment reads. “I was […]
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Former Postulant in French Convent Arrested after Entering Toronto Abortion Clinics to Witness to Life

Tuesday April 13, 2010 Former Postulant in French Convent Arrested after Entering Toronto Abortion Clinics to Witness to Life By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mary Wagner from the Vancouver, British Columbia area has spent the past four years discerning her vocation in a Catholic convent in France, which she says she felt called to leave in order to share Jesus’ love with those involved with abortion – a calling that has most recently landed her in a Toronto prison. On Monday, March 29, during Holy Week, Mary entered the “Woman’s Care” abortion facility where she […]
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Canadian Parliament Debates Euthanasia – Vote Today

Wednesday April 21, 2010 Canadian Parliament Debates Euthanasia – Vote Today By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, April 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The private members bill seeking to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada received its second hour of debate in the House of Commons Tuesday, with a vote to follow on Wednesday. Bill C-384, brought by Member of Parliament Francine Lalonde (La Pointe-de-l’Île, BQ), received its first hour of debate on March 16. The bill was originally scheduled for a vote in November after being debated in October; but Lalonde has traded the vote back three times and […]
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Sodano’s “Head Should Roll”: Report Reveals Close Ties Between Vatican Cardinal and Disgraced Legion Founder Maciel

Wednesday April 14, 2010 Sodano’s “Head Should Roll”: Report Reveals Close Ties Between Vatican Cardinal and Disgraced Legion Founder Maciel By Hilary White ROME, April 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speculation is growing about the future of former Vatican Secretary of State, Angelo Sodano, in the wake of revelations about the financial dealings of the late Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado, the founder and spiritual guru of the Legionaries of Christ – a Roman Catholic religious order. An exposé of Maciel’s activities by the leftist Catholic paper National Catholic Reporter (NCR), claims that much of the support and protection he received from […]
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IPPF Africa Conference Pushes Abortion and Youth Sex

Thursday February 18, 2010 IPPF Africa Conference Pushes Abortion and Youth Sex By Terrence McKeegan, J.D. NEW YORK, NY, February 18, 2010 (C-FAM) – Last week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) hosted the 4th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights. Plenary speakers included a United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary General, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, the Executive Director of UNAIDS, the Chief of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Africa Section, and the director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Liaison Office, as well as Dr. Jacqueline Sharpe, IPPF’s President. Major conference […]
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Harper Spokesman Won’t Say if PM Will Allow Free Vote on Coercive Abortion Bill

Friday April 16, 2010 Harper Spokesman Won’t Say if PM Will Allow Free Vote on Coercive Abortion Bill By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, April 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s spokesman, Dimitri Soudas, refused today to say whether the PM would allow a free vote in his party on the recently-tabled private members bill from Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge that seeks to protect women from coercive abortions. Asked by LifeSiteNews (LSN) whether there would be a free vote, Soudas responded that “the government’s policy is that we will not initiate or support legislation that reopens the debate […]
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David Cameron Pro-Life? Don’t Believe it, British Pro-Lifers Warn

Monday April 12, 2010 David Cameron Pro-Life? Don’t Believe it, British Pro-Lifers Warn By Hilary White LONDON, April 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Britain’s leading pro-life political lobby has warned voters not to heed Conservative leader David Cameron’s promises on abortion. Cameron, who is widely expected to become Britain’s next prime minister, told the Catholic Herald last week that he supports moves to lower the gestational age limit for legal abortion from 24 to 22 or 20 weeks. But pro-life groups say that this limit would do little to stem the rising tide of abortion in Britain, and would not stop […]
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U.S. Court: National Day of Prayer is Unconstitutional

Thursday April 15, 2010 U.S. Court: National Day of Prayer is Unconstitutional By John Jalsevac April 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a decision released Thursday, U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb declared the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional. The decision comes in the case filed by The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a Wisconsin-based organization, which challenged the constitutionality of a 1988 federal law giving the president the authority to designate the first Thursday in May as a National Day of Prayer. The day of prayer “goes beyond mere ‘acknowledgment’ of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all […]
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Bill to Ban Coerced Abortion Introduced into Canadian Parliament

Wednesday April 14, 2010 Bill to Ban Coerced Abortion Introduced into Canadian Parliament By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, April 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This afternoon Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge, the chair of the pro-life caucus in the Canadian Parliament, introduced a private members bill seeking to stop intimidation and pressure on women to have abortions against their will. Bruinooge said he was inspired to draw up the bill based on the case of a woman from his home town whose boyfriend attempted to coerce her into an abortion. “We hear stories of women being pressured and threatened and intimidated into having […]
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The Pill’s Deadly Affair with HIV/AIDS

Wednesday April 21, 2010 The Pill’s Deadly Affair with HIV/AIDS By Joan Claire Robinson April 21, 2010 (pop,org) – The world’s deadliest killer, HIV/AIDS, and the Birth Control Pill have been carrying on a secret and deadly “love affair” for decades. While women swallowed their “freedom” with the morning orange juice, studies that should have made global headlines yellowed in medical journals, unknown to the general public. Only doctors learned about the pills deadly affair with HIV/AIDS, and they were too busy writing prescriptions for hormonal contraceptives to talk. More than 50 medical studies, to date, have investigated the association […]
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Britain’s “3 Parent” Cloning Experiments Condemned

Monday April 19, 2010 Britain’s “3 Parent” Cloning Experiments Condemned By Hilary White NEWCASTLE, April 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life groups and a U.S. bioethics expert have condemned the creation of cloned human embryos with “three parents,” announced by scientists at Newcastle University last week. In a report published April 14 in the journal Nature, the researchers said that they expect children to be born via the process within three years, should the law be changed to allow it. Anthony Ozimic, the communications manager for the UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), called for an immediate halt […]
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Brazilian Archbishop Corrects ‘Misunderstanding’ Over Abortion Comments

Friday April 16, 2010 Brazilian Archbishop Corrects ‘Misunderstanding’ Over Abortion Comments By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent PERNAMBUCO, Brazil, April 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic archbishop of the Brazilian diocese of Olinda and Recife has issued a “clarification” regarding ambiguous comments he made regarding a direct abortion performed on a minor living in his diocese. The comments, made on April 10 by Archbishop Fernando Saburido to two different publications, seemed to offer justification for the abortion on medical grounds, despite the Church’s condemnation of all direct abortions, and indicated simply that the decision was for the parents and […]
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New Jersey School Nixes ‘Cross-dressing’ Fashion Show After Parent Complains

Thursday April 15, 2010 New Jersey School Nixes ‘Cross-dressing’ Fashion Show After Parent Complains By Peter J. Smith MAPLE SHADE, New Jersey, April 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Just a simple “misunderstanding?” That is what officials at Maude Wilkins Elementary School in Maple Shade, New Jersey are trying to say happened over a “cross-dressing” fashion show for third graders that was designed to celebrate Women’s History Month, and also coincided with the homosexualist “Day of Silence.” The uproar began over the weekend, when school teacher Tonya Uibel sent home a 16-page packet with her third-grade students telling parents that their children […]
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North Dakota Measure Seeks to Ban Decapitation, Skull Crushing during Abortions

Wednesday April 14, 2010 North Dakota Measure Seeks to Ban Decapitation, Skull Crushing during Abortions By Kathleen Gilbert MINOT, North Dakota, April 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A measure to prohibit physicians from decapitating and crushing the skulls of live unborn children during abortions is seeking clearance to begin gathering signatures for the November ballot, a North Dakota grassroots pro-life organization has announced. Daniel Woodard, head of North Dakota’s Stop Decapitation Network, filed the paperwork to the North Dakota Secretary of State and Attorney General on Tuesday. The group aims to collect 12,844 signatures by August 4 in order to place […]
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Irish Pro-Life Advocates Question ‘Non-Judgmental’ Catholic Crisis Pregnancy Service

Wednesday April 21, 2010 Irish Pro-Life Advocates Question ‘Non-Judgmental’ Catholic Crisis Pregnancy Service By Hilary White DUBLIN, April 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life advocates in Ireland are questioning the methods of and the close association between the Catholic Church’s “non-judgmental” pregnancy counseling service CURA, and a government program for pregnant women called Positive Options. Fr. Sylvester Mann, writing in the recently founded magazine Catholic Voice, has asked whether CURA, which is receiving state funding through the Irish Health Services Executive (HSE), has not been forced to compromise its Catholic pro-life principles. Calling it a simple case of moral relativism, Mann […]
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Wisconsin D.A. Warns Schools: Sex Ed Liable to Promote Delinquency of Minors

Wednesday April 7, 2010 Wisconsin D.A. Warns Schools: Sex Ed Liable to Promote Delinquency of Minors By Kathleen Gilbert JUNEAU COUNTY, Wisconsin, April 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Teachers implementing a new law that requires explicit, pro-contraceptive sex education in public schools may risk criminal prosecution for promoting the delinquency of minors, a local district attorney warned Juneau County schools last month. In a letter to school districts March 24, Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth urged school administrators to withdraw from the human growth and development courses altogether, rather than submit to the new mandate requiring children to be taught […]
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Furious Embryo Researcher Clashes with Pro-Lifers Displaying His Portrait

Thursday April 22, 2010 Furious Embryo Researcher Clashes with Pro-Lifers Displaying His Portrait By Kathleen Gilbert IRVINE, California, April 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leader of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform clashed with a prominent embryonic stem cell researcher after the group displayed the researcher’s portrait alongside Nazi scientists who experimented on Jews, and images of aborted children, on his home campus. Jill Stanek reported Thursday that Dr. Hans Keirstead, co-director of the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, fumed at CBR’s Gregg Cunningham over the display erected at his own University of California, Irvine. CBR visits college […]
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Former Rolling Stone’s Child Lover Says Raise the Age of Consent

Tuesday April 20, 2010 Former Rolling Stone’s Child Lover Says Raise the Age of Consent By Peter J. Smith LONDON, April 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mandy Smith, the former child-lover and later wife of Rolling Stone bassist Bill Wyman, believes that the age of consent should be raised to 18 in order to protect young girls, who are emotionally vulnerable when it comes to sexual relationships at that age. In an interview with the UK’s Daily Mail, Smith said that she had slept with the much older Wyman when she was 14 years old, beginning a relationship that stole away […]
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Commentary: Debunking Adoption Myths

Tuesday April 20, 2010 Commentary: Debunking Adoption Myths Guest commentary by Amanda Lord April 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – We often shake our heads at the prevailing cultural attitude that sees adoption as somehow worse than killing a preborn child outright—but are we pro-lifers partially responsible for propagating that myth? I became pregnant at 18 years of age. I was terrified, I had very little money and even less knowledge about how to raise a child. When I was about seven months pregnant, I moved into Sunlight Home in Naples, Florida. Sunlight is an amazing maternity home that helps women in […]
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Ignatius Press Head Responds to “Stalled Pedophile Case” Blamed on Cardinal Ratzinger

Monday April 12, 2010 Ignatius Press Head Responds to “Stalled Pedophile Case” Blamed on Cardinal Ratzinger By Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J. April 12, 2010 (IgnatiusInsight) – The following is Fr. Joseph Fessio’s response to an Associated Press report claiming to have found evidence that Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI), delayed de-frocking a priest who had sexually abused children: The so-called “stalled pedophile case,” blame for which has been laid at the feet of then-Cardinal Ratzinger, had nothing to do with pedophilia and everything to do with strengthening marriage and the priesthood. Here’s what was happening in 1981, when Bishop […]
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Jesse Ventura: Catholic Church like the Mafia

Monday April 19, 2010 Jesse Ventura: Catholic Church like the Mafia By James Tillman LOS ANGELES, California, April 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former governor of Minnesota and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura said that the Catholic Church should be prosecuted under federal RICO laws last Friday, during an appearance on Bill Maher’s Real Time show. Maher, who has stated that “religion is a neurological disorder,” asked about his “crazy radical friends Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins” and their aim of arresting the pope “when he hits the tarmac” during the pope’s visit to England in September. “Now do you think that’s […]
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Vatican’s Number Two Official: Homosexuality is the Cause of the Sex Abuse Crisis

Monday April 12, 2010 Vatican’s Number Two Official: Homosexuality is the Cause of the Sex Abuse Crisis By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent SANTIAGO, Chile, April 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican’s number two official, Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, said today that the Church’s problems with pedophile priests have not been caused by celibacy, but by homosexuality. “Many psychologists, many psychiatrists, have demonstrated that there is no relationship between celibacy and pedophilia,” said Bertone in a press conference in Chile today. “But many others have demonstrated, and have told me recently, that there is a relationship between homosexuality […]
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Doctor Who Killed “Wrong” Unborn Twin Has License Revoked

Monday April 12, 2010 Doctor Who Killed “Wrong” Unborn Twin Has License Revoked By James Tillman TAMPA, Florida, April 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Florida Board of Medicine has revoked the medical license of a Sarasota doctor who killed the “wrong” unborn baby in a “selective reduction” procedure. Selective reduction is a procedure in which a doctor kills one or more of multiple unborn children by injecting a feticide into the fetus slated to be aborted. Its use has increased because of modern fertility treatments, which often result in women carrying multiple babies. In 2006, Dr. Matthew Kuchinas attempted to […]
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Rocks Thrown at Australian Pro-Life Election Candidate

Wednesday March 10, 2010 Rocks Thrown at Australian Pro-Life Election Candidate By Thaddeus M. Baklinski ADELAIDE, Australia, March 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life candidate running in the upcoming South Australian state election says he has had rocks and a garbage bin thrown at him when he attempted to stop vandals from taking down his election posters. Trevor Grace, founder of the Save the Unborn Party, says his pro-life election posters, which feature a baby grasping the finger of an adult hand, are designed to create awareness about the high abortion rate in South Australia. Mr. Grace told Australian Broadcasting […]
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Canadian Euthanasia Vote Set for Wednesday – Contact MP Now, says EPC

Friday April 16, 2010 Canadian Euthanasia Vote Set for Wednesday – Contact MP Now, says EPC OTTAWA, Ontario, April 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) is urging concerned Canadians to call or e-mail their Member of Parliament right away as Francine Lalonde (BQ-La Pointe-de-l’Île), the sponsor of Bill C-384, has announced that the vote on her bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide is set for Wednesday. “Yesterday, [Lalonde] had an article that was published in Le Devoir, a french language newspaper, where she explains that Bill C-384 will have its second-hour of debate on Tuesday, April […]
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News Briefs II on Catholic Sexual Abuse Controversy: Radcliffe, De Souza, Coulter and More

Thursday April 15, 2010 News Briefs II on Catholic Sexual Abuse Controversy: Radcliffe, De Souza, Coulter and More * Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. Compiled by Steve Jalsevac Note: This is getting hot! Exceptional commentary continues from a wide variety and sometimes most unexpected of sources. Even prominent atheists are defending the pope, while others say he should just apologize, apologize and not respond to the massively damaging lies, hatred and other calumny against himself and the […]
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Arizona House Passes Amendment Requiring Citizenship Proof of President

Wednesday April 21, 2010 Arizona House Passes Amendment Requiring Citizenship Proof of President By Peter J. Smith PHOENIX, Arizona, April 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Arizona House of Representatives has given preliminary approval to a measure that would require any presidential candidate to prove to the secretary of state that he is a “natural born citizen.” The legislation is aimed at settling any remaining uncertainty that President Barack Obama may not eligible under the U.S. Constitution to run for or hold the office of president. The House voted 31-22 to add the provision to SB 1024. The House will need […]
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Calgary U Students Face Expulsion for Pro-Life Display

Monday April 19, 2010 Calgary U Students Face Expulsion for Pro-Life Display By Patrick B. Craine CALGARY, Alberta, April 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Eight pro-life students at the University of Calgary (UofC), faced with possible expulsion for their activism, gathered this morning to deliver a simple message to their university: “Do unto us whatever you desire, punish us however you wish; but our convictions shall not change, and we shall not alter our actions based on intimidation.” These words were read by Cameron Wilson, vice president of UofC’s Campus Pro-Life (CPL), at a press conference this morning in front of […]
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Calvin College Students Protest Oversexed American Apparel Ads

Friday April 23, 2010 Calvin College Students Protest Oversexed American Apparel Ads By Kathleen Gilbert GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, April 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Students at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, are urging a boycott of American Apparel products because of the company’s pornographic advertising material. American Apparel, which operates over 200 retails stores and touts all of its products as made in the USA, often advertises see-through clothing on models in explicit poses. “It’s extreme. It’s disgusting,” Calvin student Hannah Whyte told local ABC affiliate WZZM 13. The students viewed the clothing company’s website after learning that the school […]
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Calgary University Threatens Pro-Life Students with Arrest and Sanctions

Friday April 9, 2010 Calgary University Threatens Pro-Life Students with Arrest and Sanctions CALGARY, April 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two weeks after the University of Calgary defended a presentation by controversial American conservative Ann Coulter by touting its status as a haven for free speech, the university has threatened a group of pro-life students with arrest and sanctions for expressing their views on abortion. On Thursday, Campus Pro-life, the University of Calgary’s pro-life club, set up a pro-life display on campus – the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP). Last year, the university charged the pro-life students with trespassing for erecting the […]
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Interview: Calif. Pro-Lifer Targets Apathetic Local Churches for Pro-Life Message

Monday April 19, 2010 Interview: Calif. Pro-Lifer Targets Apathetic Local Churches for Pro-Life Message By Kathleen Gilbert VENTURA, California, April 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Imagine getting kicked out of your church community simply for protesting the murder of the unborn through abortion. According to Todd Bullis of Ventura, California, that’s exactly what happened to him. Now Bullis spends his Sundays protesting abortion, not outside the local Planned Parenthood, but at the doorsteps of the Christian churches in his town. Bullis says he is on a two-year-long mission to picket outside each Ventura Christian church, in an effort to encourage them […]
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Chicago’s Fr. Pfleger Apologizes but Reaffirms Support for Women’s Ordination

Thursday April 15, 2010 Chicago’s Fr. Pfleger Apologizes but Reaffirms Support for Women’s Ordination By Patrick B. Craine CHICAGO, Illinois, April 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of Chicago has issued a statement from Fr. Michael Pfleger responding to criticism over his professed support for women’s ordination in a homily last Sunday. In the statement, the priest apologizes, but reaffirms his position against Church teaching. In separate remarks he has criticized the reaction against his dissent. On Sunday, only days after having received a lifetime achievement award from the Archdiocese and Cardinal Francis George, Fr. Pfleger told his congregation at […]
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Christian Ads Promoting Biblical Take on Sexuality Pulled From Toronto Public Transit

Monday April 12, 2010 Christian Ads Promoting Biblical Take on Sexuality Pulled From Toronto Public Transit By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, April 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Christian group “Bus Stop Bible Studies” has voluntarily removed one of the forty ads it is currently running on Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) buses and streetcars because the transit authority received some complaints about one of the “Life Questions” posed for consideration by riders. The ad in question asks “Does God care if I’m gay?” and directs the reader to the Bus Stop Bible Studies website to find the answer, which said, in […]
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UN Judge: Pope Should be Prosecuted at International Criminal Court for “Crimes against Humanity”

Thursday April 8, 2010 UN Judge: Pope Should be Prosecuted at International Criminal Court for “Crimes against Humanity” By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. April 8, 2010 (C-FAM) – In London last Friday, a high ranking United Nations (UN) jurist called on the British government to detain Pope Benedict XVI during his upcoming visit to Britain, and send him to trial in the International Criminal Court (ICC) for “crimes against humanity.” Geoffrey Robertson touted his status as a UN judge in an article he published last week, in which he argued that jurists should invoke the same procedures that have been used […]
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Does Richard Dawkins Think He’s Napoleon?

Tuesday April 13, 2010 Does Richard Dawkins Think He’s Napoleon? Commentary by Hilary White, Rome correspondent ROME, April 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Quite honestly, when I saw that Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens had told the British media they plan to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested and charged with “crimes against humanity,” during his visit to Britain in September, my first reaction was somewhat different from those of most of my friends and colleagues here in Rome. Whereas most of them burst out laughing, I felt like cringing in embarrassment on behalf of these two men, particularly for Professor Dawkins. […]
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Another Undercover Video Shows Kentucky Abortuary Failing to Report Child Sex Abuse

Wednesday April 21, 2010 Another Undercover Video Shows Kentucky Abortuary Failing to Report Child Sex Abuse By Peter J. Smith LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, April 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Undercover pro-life journalists have released another hard-hitting exposé showing an abortion facility not only hiding child sexual abuse, but offering to circumvent parental consent laws in order to keep a minor’s abortion secret from her parents. The student-led pro-life group Live Action released footage Wednesday showing an employee at Kentucky’s only abortion provider, EMW Women’s Surgical Center, an affiliate of the National Abortion Federation, freely volunteering to violate Kentucky law, which requires those […]
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Expert Debunks Claim that Anti-Contraceptive Conservatism Advances Abortion

Wednesday April 14, 2010 Expert Debunks Claim that Anti-Contraceptive Conservatism Advances Abortion By Kathleen Gilbert TUSCALOOSA, Alabama, April 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A recent attempt by pro-abortion law professor Andrew Koppelman to blame abortion rates on the conservative movement itself fails in all three of its arguments, according to Michael New, a University of Alabama political science professor and pro-life statistics expert. Koppelman, a professor of law and political science at Northwestern University, sought to discredit the pro-life, anti-contraceptive, and pro-family ethos in an essay entitled “How the Religious Right Promotes Abortion.” Following the thesis advanced in the book “Red […]
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Rhode Island Bishop Severs Hospital from Pro-Obamacare Catholic Health Association

Friday April 9, 2010 Rhode Island Bishop Severs Hospital from Pro-Obamacare Catholic Health Association By Kathleen Gilbert PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island has denounced the Catholic Health Association for supporting the abortion-laden federal health care reform law, and has asked that a local hospital be removed from membership in the group, reported ETWN Friday. CHA, a for-profit trade association personally wooed by President Obama to support his health care overhaul, garnered heavy criticism from U.S. bishops for supporting the massive bill despite its lack of a ban on federal abortion […]
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U.S. House, Senate Committee Vote to Repeal ‘Don’t Ask’

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. House of Representatives voted 234-194 to include a repeal of the military's “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” (DADT) policy banning open homosexuals from service in the armed forces to a defense spending bill Thursday night. Hours earlier, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 16-12 to approve the repeal for their version of the must-pass bill. Only five House Republicans voted in favor of the repeal, while 26 Democrats voted against. In the Senate committee, the only Republican to support the repeal was Sen. Susan Collins of Maine; Democrat Sen. […]
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U.S. Senate Committee Oks Amendment Ditching Military Abortion Ban

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a closed committee mark-up Thursday, Senator Roland Burris (D-IL) successfully offered an amendment that would break with current longstanding policy and permit the performance of abortions in both domestic and overseas military facilities.     The amendment, which  passed by a vote of 15-12,  would strike Section 1093(b) of Title 10 of the US Code, which states: “No medical treatment facility or other facility of the Department of Defense may be used to perform an abortion except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were […]
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Knights of Columbus Respond to Complaints about Pro-Abort Members

Tuesday May 25, 2010 Knights of Columbus Respond to Complaints about Pro-Abort Members By Kathleen Gilbert NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Patrick S. Korten, the vice president for Communications of the Knights of Columbus Supreme Council, has issued a statement explaining why officials rejected a proposal to facilitate expulsion of pro-abortion and pro-same-sex “marriage” members. Korten said that the Catholic fraternal order would not second-guess the authority of bishops who have not excommunicated such individuals from the church. Pro-life members of the Catholic fraternal order had proposed a resolution that officials grant power to local chapters to […]
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Prop. 8 Judge Pulls Plug on Televising Closing Arguments

Tuesday May 25, 2010 Prop. 8 Judge Pulls Plug on Televising Closing Arguments By Kathleen Gilbert SAN FRANCISCO, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge has disallowed televising the closing arguments of the trial against Proposition 8, California’s constitutional definition of traditional marriage, shooting down the request of media and same-sex “marriage” supporters. In a notice submitted Tuesday, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker declared that the arguments would not be televised beyond the courthouse where the case is being heard. Closing arguments are scheduled for June 16. In January, the same judge had allowed video broadcast of the […]
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Pro-Life Coalition to Launch “The Pill Kills” Day June 5

Tuesday May 25, 2010 Pro-Life Coalition to Launch “The Pill Kills” Day June 5 By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A large coalition of pro-life groups has announced plans to protest the damage wreaked by the morning-after pill, the “hormonal bomb” whose effects on women, their unborn children, and the environment have gone largely unreported by the mainstream media. “This year, birth control advocates are celebrating 50 years of decriminalized hormonal contraceptives,” announced the coalition in a press release Tuesday. “American Life League and our co-sponsors don’t think half a century of contaminating our waterways is […]
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Feds Demand Court Toss Virginia Lawsuit Against Health Care Law

Tuesday May 25, 2010 Feds Demand Court Toss Virginia Lawsuit Against Health Care Law By Peter J. Smith RICHMOND, Virginia, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The federal government has requested a U.S. District Court toss out Virginia’s lawsuit against the health care reform law, which the state says conflicts with a statute declaring Virginia residents will not be forced to carry health insurance, saying that the state lacked standing to invoke federal jurisdiction. The Associated Press reports that the Justice Department filed the motion to dismiss on Monday just hours before the midnight deadline to respond to Virginia’s legal challenge. […]
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Chaput Rebukes CHA & “Catholic” Groups for Pro-Abort ObamaCare Triumph

Thursday March 25, 2010 Chaput Rebukes CHA & “Catholic” Groups for Pro-Abort ObamaCare Triumph By Peter J. Smith DENVER, Colorado, March 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput took aim at the Catholic Health Association (CHA) and other “Catholic” groups that he said are ostensibly committed to social justice – so long as the rights of unborn are excluded – for damaging the pro-life coalition that was struggling to hold together before this past Sunday’s momentous vote on President Obama’s health care reform. “How did we get here?” Chaput asked in a column for the Denver Catholic Register. He […]
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Supreme Court of Mexican State of Queretaro Approves Pro-Life Amendment

Monday May 24, 2010 Supreme Court of Mexican State of Queretaro Approves Pro-Life Amendment By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent QUERETARO, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of the Mexican state of Queretaro has confirmed the constitutionality of a recently-passed pro-life amendment. The amendment, passed for the state’s constitution last September with the approval of members of all the state’s political parties – liberal, conservative, and socialist – establishes the right to life from the moment of conception. It was approved with a 21-0 vote in the state legislature and subsequently ratified by two thirds of the […]
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Bishops Decry ‘Wound to Catholic Unity’ Dealt by Pro-Obamacare ‘Catholic’ Groups

Monday May 24, 2010 Bishops Decry ‘Wound to Catholic Unity’ Dealt by Pro-Obamacare ‘Catholic’ Groups By James Tillman WASHINGTON, D.C., May 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — In a statement issued Friday, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) aimed “to set the record straight on some important issues raised during and after” debate over health care reform legislation. And in “Setting the Record Straight,” as the document is titled, they affirm their teaching authority and say that dissent from episcopal teaching among Catholics, such as the endorsement of the health care reform by the Catholic Health Association, resulted “in confusion […]
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Committee Seeks to Sneak ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal before Pentagon Study Results

Monday May 24, 2010 Committee Seeks to Sneak ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal before Pentagon Study Results By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, May 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Senate Armed Services Committee may vote this week to attach an amendment to the 2011 defense spending bill that would end the armed forces’ “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” (DADT) policy and permit homosexuals to serve openly in the military. Attaching the repeal to the defense measure would both coerce conservative congressmen to vote for a measure that they might otherwise strongly oppose, and rush the repeal of DADT before a Department of […]
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Oklahoma Gov Vetoes Third Pro-Life Measure on Abortion Reporting, House Overrides

Monday May 24, 2010 Oklahoma Gov Vetoes Third Pro-Life Measure on Abortion Reporting, House Overrides By Peter J. Smith Updated 6:49 pm EST OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, May 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Oklahoma House of Representatives has overridden Governor Brad Henry’s third veto of Oklahoma pro-life legislation, this time of a law designed to help the state’s health and human services department gather statistical information on why women are seeking abortions, abortion-related complications, and whether abortion facilities are following standard safety protocols. The measure awaits a veto override by the state Senate before it can become law. Henry rejected on […]
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One More Time: Oklahoma Legislature Faces down Governor on Abortion Coverage Veto

By Peter J. Smith OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-abortion Governor Brad Henry and the pro-life Oklahoma legislature are now locked in their final battle for this year’s legislative session. Late Wednesday evening the governor vetoed a measure that would prohibit health insurance providers in Oklahoma from subsidizing elective abortions. H.R. 3290 would apply to all health insurers, including those not participating in the state health exchange that goes into effect in 2014. The legislation states: “No health plan, including health insurance contracts, plans or policies, offered outside of the state Exchange, but within the state, shall […]
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Cardinal Ouellet Clarifies: Church Still Asks States ‘To Penalize the Practice of Abortion’

By Patrick B. Craine To sign a petition in support of Cardinal Ouellet, click here. OTTAWA, Ontario, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada, has emphasized the Catholic Church’s teaching that abortion is not only morally evil but that it also must be prohibited by law. According to Catholic teaching, abortion is “considered a crime, a moral crime and a legal crime, too, and the Church is asking the states to penalize the practice of abortion,” said the cardinal. Ouellet made the remarks to Deborah Gyapong of Canadian Catholic News on […]
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Filipino D&P Partner Scrubs Statements Opposing Country’s Bishops from Website

By Patrick B. Craine BANGKOK, Thailand, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Thailand-based partner of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P), recently exposed for its promotion of a “reproductive health” (RH) bill in the Philippines that has been opposed by the country’s bishops, has scrubbed its site of references to the bill. At the same time, Focus on the Global South (FGS), which is based in Bangkok but operates in the Philippines and India, has left up several articles with openly pro-abortion and pro-contraception statements. The organization has admitted in the past that a significant part of its funding […]
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Religious Broadcasting a “Tiresome Obligation” for BBC Execs: Veteran Broadcaster

By Hilary White LONDON, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Religion is regarded as a “tiresome” subject to BBC executives, says a veteran BBC television broadcaster who has called for the publicly funded corporation to overhaul its presentation of religious issues. Roger Bolton, a long-time editor of news programming and currently the presenter of Radio 4's Feedback, said, “BBC, television (unlike BBC radio) seems to be in the hands of the secular and sceptical, who view religious coverage as a rather tiresome obligation to be minimised rather than a rich and promising area to explore.” Bolton, speaking at the Sandford St […]
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Slight Fall in UK Abortion Rate Insignificant after Decades of Increases: Pro-Life Leaders

By Hilary White LONDON, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the Department of Health of England and Wales and the Scottish NHS Information Services on Tuesday reported an overall small decrease in Britain’s abortion rate, pro-life campaigners have called on physicians to take a “reality check” on the number of British children being killed before birth. Abortion rates for England, Wales and Scotland for 2009 show a 3.2 per cent decrease last year – a small dent in Britain’s abortion rate that has seen massive increases for decades. The data shows a total of 189,100 abortions in England and Wales, […]
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Abortion Push Feared at Mexico World Youth Conference as Pro-Abortion UN Agencies Involved

By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, NY, May 27, 2010 (C-FAM) – The United Nations (UN) is now preparing to kick off the International Year of Youth.  The Government of Mexico will host a world conference on youth in August that will produce a ministerial declaration on youth and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Conference organizers hope that the document will influence the high-level review on the Millennium Development Goals that takes place in September at the UN General Assembly.   While the Mexican World Conference on Youth (WCY) is not an official UN conference, it is being supported by several UN […]
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ACLU Attacks Texas Sheriff for Refusing to Drive Inmate for Abortion

Monday May 24, 2010 ACLU Attacks Texas Sheriff for Refusing to Drive Inmate for Abortion By James Tillman WEATHERFORD, Texas, May 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has threatened legal action against a Texas sheriff, claiming he violated an inmate’s constitutional “right” to an abortion by refusing to transport her to an abortion clinic. Sheriff Larry Fowler, however, said he would not use taxpayer funds to facilitate the deed. “My personal feeling is I don’t feel like the taxpayers of Parker County would think much of their sheriff spending taxpayer money to take people to abortion […]
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Support for Repealing Health Care Bill Higher than Ever: Rasmussen

Monday May 24, 2010 Support for Repealing Health Care Bill Higher than Ever: Rasmussen By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nearly two out of three U.S. voters now want to see the federal health care law repealed, according to a Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday. In the latest poll surveying 1,000 likely voters over the weekend, only 32 percent of U.S. voters oppose repealing the law, which includes provisions to radically expand abortion with taxpayer funds. Among those, 46 percent “strongly favor” repeal, while 25% “strongly oppose” such a move. Most Democrats still support the measure, […]
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Portuguese Bishops: Gay “Marriage” is a “Step Backward”

Friday May 21, 2010 Portuguese Bishops: Gay “Marriage” is a “Step Backward” By Patrick B. Craine LISBON, Portugal, May 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic bishops of Portugal have denounced Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva’s decision this week to approve same-sex “marriages” for the country, reports Catholic News Agency. President Cavaco Silva’s decision is a “step backward in the building of social cohesion and is against one of the most established principles of the different civilizations of mankind,” wrote Fr. Manuel Morujão, a spokesman for the Portuguese Bishops Conference. The Portuguese Assembly of the Republic passed legislation in February that […]
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ENDA the Road: Homosexual Discrimination Bill Must be Stopped Say Catholic Bishops

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Catholic bishops have come out in full force against the federal Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA). They say they can no longer stay neutral on a bill that they charge will lead to the Roe v. Wade of traditional marriage in the United States, and trample on the rights of employers and those speaking the truth about homosexuality. In a letter sent to Congress on May 19, and obtained by the Jesuit-run publication America, representatives of the Catholic bishops said that their concerns over the current forms of ENDA […]
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More U.S. Taxpayer Funds for Pro-Abortion Kenyan Constitution: Rep. Smith

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Potentially illegal U.S. taxpayer funding in support of Kenya’s proposed pro-abortion constitution may now exceed five times the level originally expected, announced the office of leading pro-life U.S. congressman Chris Smith Wednesday.   In a May 6 letter to the Inspectors General at the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), three leading Republicans called for investigations into the funding, including whether a $2 million donation to promote the proposed constitution violates a provision of law known as the Siljander Amendment. The provision stipulates that no USAID and State Department funds “may be used […]
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Marquette Profs Blast President for Rescinded Job Offer to Lesbian

By Kathleen Gilbert MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of faculty members at Marquette University have signed on to a public statement blasting Marquette's president for rescinding a job offer to an openly lesbian professor. Jodi O'Brien, who currently teaches sociology at Seattle University, another Jesuit Catholic institution, lists a host of sexually explicit and radically homosexualist writings on her curriculum vitae. These include essays with titles such as “Phone Sex, Fantasies and Disembodiment,” “Heterosexism and Homophobia,” and “'Do it on the Web': Emerging Discourses on Internet Sexuality.”  In one essay, describing in graphic detail the “gender […]
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Homosexuals In Military Three Times More Likely to Sexually Assault Than Straights: Survey

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An analysis of publicly available documents indicates that homosexuals in the military are three times more likely to commit sexual assaults than heterosexuals, relative to their numbers, announced the Family Research Council Wednesday. The release comes on the heels of news that Democrat U.S. senators on the Armed Services Committee seek to attach a repeal of the “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” rule banning open homosexuals from the military to an essential defense spending bill. Although Pentagon officials had begun a year-long review of the possible repercussions of repealing the ban, […]
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Woman Dies in Marie Stopes Abortion Facility in Nepal as Controversial Ads Air in UK

By Hilary White LONDON, May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The day before Marie Stopes International abortion advertisements began airing in the UK, a woman died in one of their overseas abortion facilities in Nepal. Nepalese media reported this week that Durga Devi Khadka died on Sunday at the Marie Stopes Center in Damak, a municipality in the southeast. Khadka was 10 weeks pregnant, according to the Nepalese newspaper Republica. Police are investigating and have detained the facility owner, Chitra Bahadur Karki. By its own admission, Marie Stopes International was responsible for the deaths of at least 920,000 unborn children by […]
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Protests Mount against UK Abortion Ads as Bishops Condemn

Friday May 21, 2010 Protests Mount against UK Abortion Ads as Bishops Condemn By Hilary White LONDON, May 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have condemned television commercials for one of the world’s largest abortionist organizations that are scheduled to begin airing next week. The ads for Marie Stopes International will air everywhere in the UK except Northern Ireland, where abortion remains illegal. The UK’s leading pro-life group, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), has called for concerned people in Britain to contact both their individual MPs and Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary […]
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Star of ‘Bella’ To Host First Latino Pro-Life Congress

Friday May 21, 2010 Star of ‘Bella’ To Host First Latino Pro-Life Congress LOS ANGELES, May 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Eduardo Verástegui, Latin American superstar and the lead of the pro-life film “Bella,” is hosting the first ever Latino United for Life Family Congress this Sunday at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The Congress will raise funds for pro-life projects and will feature an assortment of pro-life entertainers, actors, and speakers throughout the day. “The funds raised … will be used to open a medical center in Los Angeles that provides free, high-quality care for pregnant women and their preborn […]
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Planned Parenthood Reveals 5-Year Plan to Expand Abortion through Telemed Scheme

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) revealed last week that expanding medical abortions into every Planned Parenthood clinic in the country through the use of a “telemed abortion” scheme is part of PPFA's Strategic Plan for 2015.   The plan was revealed after a protest of Planned Parenthood organized by the Pro-Life Action League. Between 150 and 200 pro-lifers braved the cold and rain to protest a Planned Parenthood fund-raising banquet in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the wake of the “telemed abortion” scandal in that state. Operation Rescue's Omaha-based Truth Truck was also […]
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Abortionist under Investigation for Forced Abortion Says he “Lies” to Patients

By Peter J. Smith DETROIT, Michigan, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Michigan abortionist is under renewed scrutiny over comments he made over two years ago, in which he said that doctors have a license to “lie” to their patients. The comments were made by Dr. Abraham Alberto Hodari to medical students at Wayne University. Hodari currently is facing a lawsuit for allegedly forcing a woman to submit to an abortion after she had changed her mind, killing the unborn baby that she had decided she wanted. “My wife says we doctors have a license to lie, and it’s true, […]
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Despite Promises, Marriage Not on New U.K. Coalition Govt’s Agenda

By Hilary White LONDON, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A document put out by Britain’s new coalition government outlining their goals, fails to include the word “marriage,” or any specific pledge to bolster the flagging institution. Prime Minister David Cameron had made numerous pledges to protect marriage in the build-up to this month’s general election. The new coalition government, composed of ministers from the Conservative party and from the far-left Liberal Democrats, issued a document outlining their policies on “Families and Children.” The document assiduously avoids mention of “marriage” or any promise to help married couples in the tax code. […]
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Marie Stopes Abortion Ads Generate Protest while Org Hosts China’s One Child Czar

By Hilary White LONDON, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –“If you miss your period, you could be pregnant. If you’re pregnant and don’t know what to do, Marie Stopes International can help.” So goes the voiceover on the new abortion adverts that started airing on British TV last night. Marie Stopes, one of the world’s largest abortionist groups, claims the ad is all about giving women information on “reproductive services” on their telephone consultation line. But pro-life advocates have called the ad nothing more than “deceitful propaganda,” pointing out that 90 per cent of Marie Stopes’s business is abortion. At the […]
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Hundreds of Late-Term Abortions Committed in Victoria, Australia

Friday May 21, 2010 Hundreds of Late-Term Abortions Committed in Victoria, Australia By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MELBOURNE, May 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to the most recent figures released in the annual report of the Australian Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity, 345 late-term abortions were committed in Victoria State in 2007. Of these, the report states that 164 were performed at a Melbourne clinic on women with perfectly healthy unborn children who said they were suffering psychological or “social” problems. Though most of the abortions were carried out on women about six months pregnant, two of […]
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Woman Who Suffered Rape and Abortion as Teen: Thank You Cardinal Ouellet

Friday May 21, 2010 Woman Who Suffered Rape and Abortion as Teen: Thank You Cardinal Ouellet By Thaddeus M. Baklinski and John Jalsevac To sign a petition in support of Cardinal Ouellet, click here. OTTAWA, May 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Angelina Steenstra may seem like one of the likeliest candidates on earth to be offended by Cardinal Marc Ouellet’s much-criticized statements, made earlier this week at a pro-life conference in Quebec City, that abortion is wrong in all cases, even in the case of rape. As a teenager Steenstra was the victim of a traumatic date rape that resulted in […]
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Knights of Columbus Rejection of Request to Expel Pro-Abort Knights Receives Criticism

Thursday May 20, 2010 Knights of Columbus Rejection of Request to Expel Pro-Abort Knights Receives Criticism By Kathleen Gilbert and Steve Jalsevac BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Knights of Columbus have confirmed that local councils do not have the authority to take action against members of the group that support abortion or same-sex “marriage.” The policy is receiving some criticism for seemingly contradicting the Knights’ leading role in recent years in efforts to defend the unborn and traditional marriage. The policy clarification came in response to a Massachusetts member of the K of C who proposed a […]
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Oklahoma Gov Vetoes Third Pro-Life Measure on Abortion Reporting, House Overrides

By Peter J. Smith Updated 6:49 pm EST OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, May 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Oklahoma House of Representatives has overridden Governor Brad Henry's third veto of Oklahoma pro-life legislation, this time of a law designed to help the state’s health and human services department gather statistical information on why women are seeking abortions, abortion-related complications, and whether abortion facilities are following standard safety protocols.  The measure awaits a veto override by the state Senate before it can become law. Henry rejected on Saturday HB 3284, The Statistical Abortion Report Act, which the state legislature had approved and […]
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Committee Seeks to Sneak ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal before Pentagon Study Results

By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, May 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—The Senate Armed Services Committee may vote this week to attach an amendment to the 2011 defense spending bill that would end the armed forces' “Don't Ask, Don't Tell,” (DADT) policy and permit homosexuals to serve openly in the military. Attaching the repeal to the defense measure would both coerce conservative congressmen to vote for a measure that they might otherwise strongly oppose, and rush the repeal of DADT before a Department of Defense study of the effects of such a policy change was completed. If the repeal succeeds, it would not […]
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Bishops Decry ‘Wound to Catholic Unity’ Dealt by Pro-Obamacare ‘Catholic’ Groups

By James Tillman WASHINGTON, D.C., May 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—In a statement issued Friday, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) aimed “to set the record straight on some important issues raised during and after” debate over health care reform legislation. And in “Setting the Record Straight,” as the document is titled, they affirm their teaching authority and say that dissent from episcopal teaching among Catholics, such as the endorsement of the health care reform by the Catholic Health Association, resulted “in confusion and a wound to Catholic unity.” The Catholic Health Association (CHA) came out in support of the Patient Protection […]
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Motor Neurone Disease Group Donates £800,000 for Human/Animal Hybrid Clone Research

By Hilary White NORTHAMPTON, May 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK’s Motor Neurone Disease Association has announced it will donate £800,000 (US $1,200,000) to fund human/animal “hybrid embryo” cloning research by the same Edinburgh University team that created “Dolly” the cloned sheep. The 3-year project, led by the team at the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University and headed by Dr. Ian Wilmut, hopes to develop human brain cells that carry the hereditary form of Motor Neurone Disease (MND) called TDP-43. The experiments will involve removing the nucleus of the gamete or “ova” of an animal, most likely a pig or cow, […]
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More Abortion Workers Quit with Pro-Lifers’ Help

Thursday May 20, 2010 More Abortion Workers Quit with Pro-Lifers’ Help Commentary by David Bereit, National Director, 40 Days for Life May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A few nights ago, I shared the stage at a pregnancy center banquet in San Antonio with Abby Johnson, the former Planned Parenthood director who experienced a profound conversion and left the abortion industry during last fall’s 40 Days for Life campaign. As Abby shared the story of her conversion, I was again amazed at how God has transformed her life – through the prayers and efforts of faithful people. (To see a brand-new […]
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Huge Christian Ministry to Disabled Fined $23,000 For Rejecting Homosexual Employee

Friday April 25, 2008 Huge Christian Ministry to Disabled Fined $23,000 For Rejecting Homosexual Employee Human Rights ruling also mandates all managers and employees receive a pro-homosexuality “human rights training program” By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, April 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In what is being described as “another blow to religious liberty” in Canada, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has ordered a Christian organization to cease using an employment contract which has staff promise they will not engage in “homosexual relationships.” Moreover, the ruling demands that the organization pay $23,000, plus two years wages and benefits to a woman who […]
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Woman Conceived in Rape Thanks Quebec Cardinal for Abortion Statements

Thursday May 20, 2010 Woman Conceived in Rape Thanks Quebec Cardinal for Abortion Statements By Thaddeus M. Baklinski To sign a petition in support of Cardinal Ouellet, click here. May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “I am extremely grateful to and proud of Cardinal Ouellet for speaking up to defend the lives of those of us conceived in rape,” says Deborah Morlani, a wife, mother of five children, pro-life speaker, Catholic writer, registered nurse and grad student working on her Master of Theology degree. Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the archbishop of Quebec City and primate of Canada, has endured condemnation and vilification […]
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Analysis: Childhood Family Structure Linked to Rate of Female Homosexuality

Thursday May 20, 2010 Analysis: Childhood Family Structure Linked to Rate of Female Homosexuality WASHINGTON, D.C., May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Family Research Council (FRC) released a new analytic report Thursday indicating that women who did not grow up with their biological mother and father are much more likely to engage in homosexual conduct as adults than are women who grew up in an intact family. “This research further undermines the claim that homosexuality is largely genetic or biological in origin,” stated Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D., senior fellow and director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute (MARRI) at […]
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CBO: Senate Same-sex Partner Scheme Ups Gov’t Spending $700 million in 10 Years

Wednesday May 19, 2010 CBO: Senate Same-sex Partner Scheme Ups Gov’t Spending $700 million in 10 Years By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., May, 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Shelling out federal benefits to same-sex couples under a proposed U.S. Senate bill will cost U.S. taxpayers a whopping $704 million over the next ten years, reports the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Nevertheless the Senate proposal, while it obscures the traditional rationale for spousal benefits in the first place, would be less costly than the House version. The CBO has just released its analysis of the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations […]
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Louisiana House Kills Explicit Sex-Ed

Wednesday May 19, 2010 Louisiana House Kills Explicit Sex-Ed By Kathleen Gilbert BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Louisiana’s House of Representatives has struck down a bill that would have mandated explicit sex-education curriculum in public schools across the state starting in 4th grade. House Bill 529 was voted down 67-23. The bill states that public sex education would promote “healthy attitudes concerning … body image, gender roles, [and] sexual orientation,” and called for a curriculum teaching sexual abstinence along with “the importance of effectively using contraceptives and barrier methods.” The defeat leaves state-authorized sex education optional for […]
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President of Portugal Signs Gay ‘Marriage’ Law

Wednesday May 19, 2010 President of Portugal Signs Gay ‘Marriage’ Law By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman LISBON, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Portugal’s president, who was elected as a conservative, has signed a law passed by the Assembly of the Republic last year creating the institution of homosexual “marriage.” Although he had the power to veto the bill, and claims to oppose it, President Aníbal Cavaco Silva says that he signed the law to avoid slowing down the legislative process during the global economic crisis. According to the Constitution, the Assembly can override the veto of the president with a two-thirds […]
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Commentary on March 19 News

Friday March 19, 2010 Commentary on March 19 News Bart Stupak has been remarkable in standing up for life despite tremendous persecution for that stand – an admirable, and a wonderful example to all. Today is one of those days you wish the Bishops of the U.S. would have long ago excommunicated Nancy Pelosi for her ‘I’m a good Catholic, but pro-choice’ routine. There has been far more than enough reason to do so – and she keeps piling on more. Before TV cameras today, on the celebration of St. Joseph, Pelosi made a splash by announcing that she was […]
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KEVORKIAN SENTENCED TO 10-25 YEARS

Tuesday April 13, 1999 KEVORKIAN SENTENCED TO 10-25 YEARS PONTIAC, Michigan Apr 13 (LSN) – LifeSite sources in Michigan reported this afternoon that American assisted-suicide and euthanasia activist Jack Kevorkian was sentenced to 10-25 years in prison for his televised murder of Thomas Youk. Kevorkian was also denied bail pending his appeal. Judge Jessica Cooper put the “lawless” Dr. Death in his place, telling him: “You had the audacity to go on national television, show the world what you did and dare the legal system to stop you. Well, sir, consider yourself stopped.” Cooper reminded Kevorkian that he is “not […]
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U.S. Bishops Withdraw from Pro-Abortion, Homosexualist Civil Rights Coalition

Wednesday May 19, 2010 U.S. Bishops Withdraw from Pro-Abortion, Homosexualist Civil Rights Coalition By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has pulled out of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition that lobbies against pro-life and pro-family legislation and boasts top pro-abortion and homosexualist groups among its members. The break was confirmed in a release sent to LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) by Sister Mary Ann Walsh, USCCB Director of Media Relations, on Wednesday afternoon. The release stated that the bishops withdrew following the group’s published support for the […]
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Malawi Judge Rules against Gay Couple

Wednesday May 19, 2010 Malawi Judge Rules against Gay Couple By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BLANTYRE, Malawi, May 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Malawian judge has ruled against a homosexual couple that staged a symbolic same-sex “wedding.” Magistrate Nyakwawa Usiwa convicted both men of engaging in homosexual acts, which he said was “against the order of nature.” Prosecutor Barbra Mchenga is reported to have urged the judge to hand down the maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. Usiwa said he will sentence the two men on Thursday. “Their offence was well planned and well executed. The case has left a […]
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Replica Replacing Stolen Mojave Cross Removed by Officials

Friday May 21, 2010 Replica Replacing Stolen Mojave Cross Removed by Officials By James Tillman MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, California, May 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — On Thursday a replica of the much-disputed cross stolen from a federal park on May 9 appeared on Sunrise Rock – but officials said the new cross broke park service regulations, and removed it. To honor veterans of World War I, the Veterans of Foreign Wars had originally placed a wooden cross on Sunrise Rock in 1934 with a plaque stating “The Cross, Erected in Memory of the Dead of All Wars.” It became the site […]
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“Frankenstein” or Scientific Breakthrough?: U.S. Biologist Creates Controversy with Artificial DNA

Friday May 21, 2010 “Frankenstein” or Scientific Breakthrough?: U.S. Biologist Creates Controversy with Artificial DNA By Hilary White May 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An American pioneer biologist and entrepreneur, Craig Venter of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Maryland and California, has created an international media stir with his announcement yesterday that he has created the world’s first cell with artificially constructed DNA. Despite media reports to the contrary, the researchers did not “create new life,” but instead artificially constructed an existing sequence of DNA of a naturally occurring bacterium and reproduced it in existing cells. In the study, […]
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USCCB to Congress: Time to Reform the Health Reform

Friday May 21, 2010 USCCB to Congress: Time to Reform the Health Reform By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, May 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, Chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has written an open letter to Congress in which he urges legislators to pass H.R. 5111, the Protect Life Act. The bill would help reform the health care reform law to remedy what the USCCB and pro-life groups say are the profound flaws in its treatment of abortion and conscience rights. Cardinal DiNardo’s letter outlines what he […]
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After Canadian Success, EPC to Host Assisted Suicide “Push Back” Seminar in Seattle

Friday May 21, 2010 After Canadian Success, EPC to Host Assisted Suicide “Push Back” Seminar in Seattle By Thaddeus M. Baklinski May 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the successful defeat of a bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada by a vote of 228 to 59 last month, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) is turning its attention to the U.S. Alex Schadenberg, director of the EPC, said the victory in Canada was “was achieved by maintaining a strict focus and working in coalition with many different groups who shared one goal, opposing the legalization of assisted suicide.” Schadenberg […]
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Half of Catholic Religion Students in Spain Support Abortion: Study

Thursday May 20, 2010 Half of Catholic Religion Students in Spain Support Abortion: Study By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MADRID, May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Almost half of the students who take Catholic religion classes in Spain say that abortion is justifiable, according to a recent study by the SM Foundation, a Catholic organization. According to the study, 45% of such students defend the practice of abortion, 28% reject it, and 26% say they are indifferent. The study also indicates that Catholic religion students dissent from the Church on other significant life and family issues. Almost half defend euthanasia, and only […]
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Louisiana Senate Overwhelmingly Advances Ultrasound Mandate for Abortion

Thursday May 20, 2010 Louisiana Senate Overwhelmingly Advances Ultrasound Mandate for Abortion By Peter J. Smith BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senators in Louisiana overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday that seeks to expand the requirements of informed consent by mandating abortionists perform an ultrasound on a mother seeking an abortion. The bill is similar to one that was recently passed in Oklahoma. The Senate voted 33-4 for the bill (SB 528), which was sponsored by Sen. Sharon Broome (D-Baton Rouge), and developed with the aid of the Louisiana Right to Life Federation and the Bioethics Defense Fund. […]
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Catholic Mag Quietly Edits Article Calling Pope’s Abortion/Marriage Comments ‘Bizarre’

Thursday May 20, 2010 Catholic Mag Quietly Edits Article Calling Pope’s Abortion/Marriage Comments ‘Bizarre’ By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A column for the Jesuit magazine America, in which Rev. James Martin, S.J. criticized Pope Benedict XVI’s pro-life and pro-family message in Portugal as “bizarre,” and implied it was contrary to the Gospel, has been revised to omit the strongest language. Martin, who serves as Culture Editor at the publication, took issue with the pope’s recent statement that abortion and same-sex “marriage” rank among “some of today’s most insidious and dangerous threats to the common good.” […]
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Pope Benedict in Portugal: Christians, Answer to Secularism is to Re-Evangelize World

Wednesday May 19, 2010 Pope Benedict in Portugal: Christians, Answer to Secularism is to Re-Evangelize World By Hilary White ROME, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict said in his many addresses and homilies during his recently concluded trip to Portugal that “vast effort at every level” is needed to answer the threats of growing secularism in Europe, of which abortion and homosexual “marriage” are among “today’s most insidious and dangerous.” To the assembled bishops in Fatima on Thursday, he forthrightly called for “a new missionary vigor,” to counter “politicians, intellectuals, communications professionals who profess and who promote a monocultural […]
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From Sea to Sea – Marches For Life Occur across Canada

Wednesday May 19, 2010 From Sea to Sea – Marches For Life Occur across Canada By Thaddeus M. Baklinski May 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This year’s Canadian Marches for Life, held across the country from Victoria, British Columbia to St. John’s Newfoundland, were resoundingly successful, with high participation rates and widespread media attention. Here are some highlights from this year’s marches: VICTORIA, British Columbia – Organizers of the 3rd annual BC March for Life in Victoria on May 13 estimate that at least 2,500 people filled Centennial Square, then marched down Douglas Street to the Legislative Buildings. With the aid […]
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Curtains for Pro-Abort Specter: Pro-Life Toomey Faces New Dem. Challenger in Pennsylvania

Wednesday May 19, 2010 Curtains for Pro-Abort Specter: Pro-Life Toomey Faces New Dem. Challenger in Pennsylvania By Peter J. Smith PHILADELPHIA, May 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After 30 years in the Senate and a politically-motivated party switch last year, pro-abortion Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter watched Democratic voters pull the plug on his political career last night. Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak, who is also pro-abortion, trounced Specter to win his party’s Senate primary, and will now square off against pro-life Republican Pat Toomey, who has waited six years for this moment to happen again, in the November election. While Specter has […]
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LifeSiteNews Special Report – You Better Get Used to Us, There Are A Lot More Social Conservatives Around Than You Think

Monday January 28, 2002 You Better Get Used to Us, There Are A Lot More Social Conservatives Around Than You Think by Darrel Reid, President Focus on the Family Canada Published in The Globe and Mail – January 23, 2002 Reprinted by LifeSite News with the permission of the author Last summer I was invited to CBC’s National Magazine to address the subject: “Who are social conservatives, and where did they come from?” Why then? Stockwell Day was shiny and new, having risen from relative obscurity to seize the leadership of the Canadian Alliance. This improbable feat, my media host […]
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Pope Benedict in Portugal: Christians, Answer to Secularism is to Re-Evangelise World

Tuesday May 18, 2010 Pope Benedict in Portugal: Christians, Answer to Secularism is to Re-Evangelise World By Hilary White ROME, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict said in his many addresses and homilies during his recently concluded trip to Portugal that “vast effort at every level” is needed to answer the threat of secularism in Europe, of which abortion and homosexual “marriage” are among “today’s most insidious and dangerous threats to the common good”. To the assembled bishops in Fatima on Thursday, he forthrightly called for “a new missionary vigour,” to counter “politicians, intellectuals, communications professionals who profess and […]
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Rainbow Sash Protesters Set to Disrupt Masses across U.S. on Pentecost Sunday

Tuesday May 18, 2010 Rainbow Sash Protesters Set to Disrupt Masses across U.S. on Pentecost Sunday By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexualist activists belonging to the Rainbow Sash Movement (RSM) are planning to demonstrate at Catholic Cathedrals and parishes across the United States this Sunday. They have targeted particularly Cardinal Francis George of the Chicago Archdiocese, since he is the head of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Catholic Bishops, which has publically engaged in promoting and preserving the natural definition of marriage and family in civil law. The RSM is an organization of activists that […]
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Gallup: Pro-Life the “New Normal” on Abortion in U.S.

Tuesday May 18, 2010 Gallup: Pro-Life the “New Normal” on Abortion in U.S. By Kathleen Gilbert PRINCETON, New Jersey, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One year after a Gallup poll found that a majority of Americans identified as pro-life for the first time in the history of the question being asked by the pollster, the pro-life majority has survived, leading the pollster to declare the pro-life position the “new normal” on the question of abortion. In the latest survey, 47 percent of Americans identified as pro-life, while 45 percent said they were pro-choice. Last May, the divide was 51 percent […]
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Catholic Doctors Support Ariz. Bishop’s Rebuke of Nun over Abortion

Wednesday May 19, 2010 Catholic Doctors Support Ariz. Bishop’s Rebuke of Nun over Abortion By Kathleen Gilbert PHOENIX, Arizona, May 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Physicians Guild of Phoenix has come out in support of Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, who expressed outrage that a nun administrator at a Catholic hospital in his diocese permitted a direct abortion. The bishop had said that those who were formally involved in the abortion were automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church. “The Catholic Physicians Guild of Phoenix fully supports the Most Rev. Thomas J. Olmsted with respect to matters of life of a […]
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Abortion, Gay ‘Marriage’ among the Most ‘Insidious and Dangerous’ Challenges: Pope

Friday May 14, 2010 Abortion, Gay ‘Marriage’ among the Most ‘Insidious and Dangerous’ Challenges: Pope By Hilary White FATIMA, Portugal, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an address to assembled social and pastoral care workers in Fatima, Portugal yesterday, Pope Benedict identified abortion and the pressure for gay “marriage” as among the most “insidious and dangerous challenges that today confront the common good,” and expressed his “deep appreciation” for those who fight for the rights of the unborn. Benedict hailed “all those social and pastoral initiatives” that combat the “socio-economic and cultural mechanisms which lead to abortion, and are openly […]
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VIDEO: Peaceful Pro-Lifers Threatened With Violence by Enraged Young Man

Wednesday May 19, 2010 VIDEO: Peaceful Pro-Lifers Threatened With Violence by Enraged Young Man By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VANCOUVER, May 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the day after Canada’s National March for Life drew unprecedented crowds and national media coverage, an enraged young man threatened a group of pro-lifers peacefully witnessing to the tragedy of abortion at a busy Vancouver intersection. Last Friday the unknown individual approached the pro-life witnesses, who have gathered for several years on the corner of Broadway and Commercial Drive displaying graphic images of aborted babies, and repeatedly kicked, grabbed, and attempted to deface the signs […]
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Ontario Christian Ministry Wins Appeal against Human Rights Tribunal Ruling

Tuesday May 18, 2010 Ontario Christian Ministry Wins Appeal against Human Rights Tribunal Ruling By Thaddeus M. Baklinski and Patrick Craine TORONTO, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a landmark ruling on May 14, the Ontario Divisional Court overturned an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal (OHRT) decision against Christian Horizons, a faith-based ministry that operates more than 180 residential homes for people with developmental disabilities. The Evangelical Christian ministry, which requires its employees to sign a Statement of Faith and a Lifestyle and Morality Policy, was the subject of a human rights complaint when a staff member resigned after going public […]
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Steve Jobs Says iPad Revolution Means ‘Freedom from Porn’

Tuesday May 18, 2010 Steve Jobs Says iPad Revolution Means ‘Freedom from Porn’ By Peter J. Smith CUPERTINO, California, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers, says his company will not be a party to the pornography industry and hopes that the iPad and iPhone revolution will help lead to a porn-free world. Jobs reiterated his position in a heated e-mail exchange with Ryan Tate, a writer for Gawker.com, which follows news and gossip in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Tate, who admitted that he was home alone and slightly inebriated at the time, took issue with […]
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Brave New World: Sex for Babies Obsolete in Ten Years, Boast Researchers

Tuesday May 18, 2010 Brave New World: Sex for Babies Obsolete in Ten Years, Boast Researchers By Peter J. Smith and Kathleen Gilbert LONDON, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers are bragging that within the next ten years, in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology will have advanced so far that it will perform “better than nature” and sex will no longer be necessary for human reproduction. “We are not quite at that stage yet, but it’s where we’re heading,’ said Dr. John Yovich, co-author of the study, “Embryo culture: can we perform better than Nature?” as quoted in the U.K. Daily […]
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Retiring Austrian Bishop Wants Softer Church Stand on Gays, Divorce

Monday May 17, 2010 Retiring Austrian Bishop Wants Softer Church Stand on Gays, Divorce By Peter J. Smith EISENSTADT, Austria, May 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With his resignation already submitted to Pope Benedict XVI, an Austrian bishop is firing his last few shots at the Vatican’s maintenance of Catholic teaching on homosexuality, divorce, priestly celibacy, and women’s ordination, before his mandatory retirement takes effect. Bishop Paul Iby of the Eisenstadt Diocese made his comments in an interview with the Austrian daily “Die Presse,” which addressed the 50th anniversary of the diocese and how the scandal of priestly pederasty had cast […]
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Mom to be Charged with Killing Unborn Infant while DUI

Friday May 14, 2010 Mom to be Charged with Killing Unborn Infant while DUI By James Tillman ATLANTA, Georgia, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Georgia woman is soon to be charged with killing her 24-week-old unborn baby in a car accident after fleeing police while driving under the influence of alcohol. According to police, Jessica Bruce refused to stop her car Wednesday when police tried to pull her over for going 85 mph in a suburban 65 mph zone outside of Atlanta. While fleeing, she struck one car before spinning into oncoming traffic and being struck again, totaling her […]
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Cardinal Primate of Canada Slammed by Media, Receives Death Wish for Abortion/Rape Comments

Tuesday May 18, 2010 Cardinal Primate of Canada Slammed by Media, Receives Death Wish for Abortion/Rape Comments By John-Henry Westen and John Jalsevac To sign a petition in support of Cardinal Ouellet, click here. QUEBEC CITY, May 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Quebec City Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Cardinal Primate of Canada, has erupted into the national spotlight after he defended Christian teaching about the immorality of abortion in all circumstances at a Campaign Life Coalition Conference in Quebec City Saturday. Asked by a reporter about the Church’s teaching on abortion in cases of rape, the cardinal said: “the child is […]
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Famed Pro-Life Canadian Priest Receives Death Threat – Man Arrested

Monday May 17, 2010 Famed Pro-Life Canadian Priest Receives Death Threat – Man Arrested By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, May 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A famed Canadian pro-life priest who has witnessed to the sanctity of life on Parliament Hill every day that Parliament has sat since September 1989, had a harrowing brush with violence last week. At around 10:15 am on Tuesday, May 11th, as Rev. Anthony van Hee stood on the Hill with his pro-life signs, as he has on countless days over the last two decades, a man identified as Malcolm Miller, 53, approached and told […]
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CBC Commissions Study of its own Bias amidst “Culture War” Controversy

Monday May 17, 2010 CBC Commissions Study of its own Bias amidst “Culture War” Controversy By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, May 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of Canada’s public broadcaster told the Senate finance committee that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), which has gained a firm reputation in Canada for its heavy liberal slant, has commissioned a study on itself to determine whether its news is biased. Hubert Lacroix said, “We commissioned, with a panel of external experts on the French side and on the English side, an independent review of the way we do news. Those studies, what […]
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“Frankenstein” or Scientific Breakthrough?: U.S. Biologist Creates Controversy with Artificial DNA

By Hilary White May 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An American pioneer biologist and entrepreneur, Craig Venter of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Maryland and California, has created an international media stir with his announcement yesterday that he has created the world’s first cell with artificially constructed DNA.  Despite media reports to the contrary, the researchers did not “create new life,” but instead artificially constructed an existing sequence of DNA of a naturally occurring bacterium and reproduced it in existing cells. In the study, published in the peer-review journal Science, the researchers copied the genome, or complete genetic sequence, of […]
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After Canadian Success, EPC to Host Assisted Suicide “Push Back” Seminar in Seattle

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski May 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the successful defeat of a bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada by a vote of 228 to 59 last month, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) is turning its attention to the U.S. Alex Schadenberg, director of the EPC, said the victory in Canada was “was achieved by maintaining a strict focus and working in coalition with many different groups who shared one goal, opposing the legalization of assisted suicide.” Schadenberg said the purpose of the much-anticipated Assisted Suicide “Push Back” Seminar, to be held in Seattle on […]
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Hasselbeck: Conservatives Should Stop ‘Hating on’ Gay ‘Marriage’

Monday May 17, 2010 Hasselbeck: Conservatives Should Stop ‘Hating on’ Gay ‘Marriage’ By James Tillman NEW YORK, May 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Elisabeth Hasselbeck, usually judged the right-leaning co-host of ABC’s The View, has recommended that conservatives stop “hating on” same-sex “marriage.” “Instead of just talking about it and hating on it,” she said, “actually talk to someone who’s loved [a member of the same sex] and have the conversation about what can be done.” The discussion on The View was sparked by Laura Bush’s recent announcement on Larry King Live that she was in favor of both gay “marriage” […]
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Sunday’s Papal Rally: Whatever the Mainstream Media Says, the Reality is Love

Monday May 17, 2010 Sunday’s Papal Rally: Whatever the Mainstream Media Says, the Reality is Love A Reflection by Hilary White ROME, May 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – There is one thing that still surprises me about Italy: the Italians love the pope. Even when they don’t necessarily listen to or obey him on every point, even when he is not an Italian, the Italians have a genuine and very warm paternal relationship with the holder of the Keys. This Sunday, 150,000 people packed into St. Peter’s Piazza to hear Benedict XVI give an address after reciting the Regina Caeli, and […]
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800 Teens Pack Inaugural Canadian March for Life Youth Banquet

Friday May 14, 2010 800 Teens Pack Inaugural Canadian March for Life Youth Banquet By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Eight hundred high school students flocked to the inaugural Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) youth banquet Thursday night to celebrate the gift of human life and hear a powerful testimony from pro-life activist and abortion survivor Melissa Ohden. The event balanced reflection and energy, as the crowd moved from laughter, courtesy of MC John-Henry Westen, to exuberant praise led by the Gethsemane Ministries band, to captivation at Ohden’s heart-rending tale. The youth banquet, which was separated […]
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Catholic Mag Quietly Edits Article Calling Pope’s Abortion/Marriage Comments ‘Bizarre’

By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A column for the Jesuit magazine America, in which Rev. James Martin, S.J. criticized Pope Benedict XVI's pro-life and pro-family message in Portugal as “bizarre,” and implied it was contrary to the Gospel, has been revised to omit the strongest language. Martin, who serves as Culture Editor at the publication, took issue with the pope's recent statement that abortion and same-sex “marriage” rank among “some of today’s most insidious and dangerous threats to the common good.” “The equation of abortion, something that clearly is about a threat to life, with […]
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Cardinal O’Malley: Catholic Schools do not Exclude ‘Categories of People’

By Kathleen Gilbert BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Seán O'Malley of Boston is standing behind the archdiocese's distancing of itself from a parish school’s decision to refuse admission to a child whose guardians are a lesbian couple, saying that the archdiocese has “never had categories of people who were excluded.” The remarks were made only weeks after Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver defended a similar decision by a school in his diocese. In a blog post Wednesday, O’Malley compared the situation at the school to one he encountered as a bishop in the West Indies, when he […]
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Marie Stopes Runs TV Abortion Ads in U.K.

By Hilary White LONDON, May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-Life groups have condemned the airing of TV commercials for abortionist group Marie Stopes in Britain that they say cover up the dangers of abortion and “trivialize” the taking of human life. Marie Stopes, one of the world’s largest international abortionist groups that receives an estimated £30 million a year from the National Health Service, claimed that the ads were needed to “inform” women and help them “confront the taboo” surrounding abortion. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) approved the airing of the ads, which will run from May 24 to the […]
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Religious Exemption Adopted in Council of Europe ‘Anti-discrimination’ Resolution

By Hilary White STRASBOURG, May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family advocates at the Council of Europe have scored a victory with substantial changes of language to protect religious freedom of expression in a resolution on “Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.” On April 29, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) voted 51 to 25 to adopt Resolution 1728 (2010), which the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) had helped to delay until wording had been inserted to protect religious objections to homosexuality. A report by the PACE committee on justice said that […]
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Commentary on May 20 News

Dear readers, The Catholic Church finds itself at the front of the culture wars in today's news, and all pro-lifers need to assist in these battles regardless of their denomination or religion. The whole issue of giving Catholic funerals to those who leave the faith in spirit and remain in name only is revisited as a lesbian who claims to have been ordained a 'Catholic' priest was denied a Catholic funeral.  An Illinois Bishop has removed a priest for having 'consensual' homosexual sex, hopefully the policy for dealing seriously with sexual abuse of minors is also put in place for […]
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Re: Human Services Dept. Allegedly Pressured Teen to Get Abortion Dear Editor, We see many late term abortions taking place at the Cherry Hill Women's Center and forced abortions and children brought in for abortions by guidance counselors straight from school without their parents' knowledge.  It is one of the worst abortion clinics in our country.  Between 40 and 80 abortions take place daily at this one clinic!  But we have seen many miracles happening also because of our peaceful presence on the sidewalk of the clinic.  Last week two new volunteers had the joy of witnessing a six month […]
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Knights of Columbus Rejection of Request to Expel Pro-Abort Knights Receives Criticism

By Kathleen Gilbert and Steve Jalsevac BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Knights of Columbus have confirmed that local councils do not have the authority to take action against members of the group that support abortion or same-sex “marriage.” The policy is receiving some criticism for seemingly contradicting the Knights' leading role in recent years in efforts to defend the unborn and traditional marriage. The policy clarification came in response to a Massachusetts member of the K of C who proposed a resolution calling for the suspension of any member who publicly dissented from the Catholic Church's teaching on […]
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Republicans Not Planning to Filibuster Kagan: Sen. Kyl

Monday May 17, 2010 Republicans Not Planning to Filibuster Kagan: Sen. Kyl By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A judiciary committee Republican has said he does not expect that the GOP will attempt to mount a filibuster against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, who would bring a homosexualist and pro-abortion voice to the nation’s highest court. On CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday, Republican Senator John Kyl of Arizona, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that “the filibuster should be relegated to the extreme circumstances, and I don’t think Elena Kagan represents that.” Kagan […]
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150,000 Rally at St. Peter’s Basilica to Show Support for Pope

Monday May 17, 2010 150,000 Rally at St. Peter’s Basilica to Show Support for Pope By Hilary White ROME, May 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican police estimate that over 150,000 people packed into St. Peter’s Piazza this Sunday for the pope’s weekly Regina Caeli prayers, to show their support for and “solidarity” with Pope Benedict, who has been accused in the media of helping to cover up clerical sexual abuse. The rally was organized by a coalition of 68 lay organizations and Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, the head of the Italian bishops conference. “We have gathered here today because we […]
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Embattled George Rekers Resigns From NARTH, Offered Legal Aid by Liberty Counsel

Friday May 14, 2010 Embattled George Rekers Resigns From NARTH, Offered Legal Aid by Liberty Counsel By Peter J. Smith MIAMI, Florida, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Professor George Rekers, a pro-family leader and expert on homosexuality, who is embroiled in a scandal after he was found to have hired a traveling companion with a profile on a homosexual escort service website, has resigned his membership on the board of National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). He said that he made the decision in order to resolve the allegations made against him through defamation attorneys. At […]
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Canada’s March for Life Draws Unprecedented Media Coverage

Monday May 17, 2010 Canada’s March for Life Draws Unprecedented Media Coverage By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, May 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian March for Life on Parliament Hill in Ottawa drew unprecedented media coverage from across the country this year, hitting the front page of major national papers, and receiving prominent attention from the broadcast networks. The event made the cover of the National Post (NP), which featured a large shot of a young pro-life man, and the headline ‘Sense of momentum bolsters pro-life rally.’ The march also got full front-page coverage from the Toronto and Ottawa […]
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Lila Rose Seeking to Bring Abortion Sting Operations to Canada

Monday May 17, 2010 Lila Rose Seeking to Bring Abortion Sting Operations to Canada By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, May 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lila Rose, the president of Live Action, the student-led pro-life group that has rocked the U.S. abortion industry in recent years following the release of undercover footage showing abortion clinic employees across the country covering up statutory rape and giving pregnant girls false medical information, says she is eager to bring her group’s work to Canada. Live Action is looking for “very reliable, mature young adults and students in Canada to do your own investigations […]
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Curtains for Pro-Abort Specter: Pro-Life Toomey Faces New Dem. Challenger in Pennsylvania

By Peter J. Smith PHILADELPHIA, May 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After 30 years in the Senate and a politically-motivated party switch last year, pro-abortion Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter watched Democratic voters pull the plug on his political career last night. Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak, who is also pro-abortion, trounced Specter to win his party’s Senate primary, and will now square off against pro-life Republican Pat Toomey, who has waited six years for this moment to happen again, in the November election. While Specter has claimed in the past that he is “personally” against abortion, the National Right to Life Committee […]
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U.S. Bishops Withdraw from Pro-Abortion, Homosexualist Civil Rights Coalition

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has pulled out of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition that lobbies against pro-life and pro-family legislation and boasts top pro-abortion and homosexualist groups among its members. The break was confirmed in a release sent to LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) by Sister Mary Ann Walsh, USCCB Director of Media Relations, on Wednesday afternoon. The release stated that the bishops withdrew following the group's published support for the pro-abortion and homosexualist Supreme Court nominee, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, which was pointed out earlier […]
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CBO: Senate Same-sex Partner Scheme Ups Gov’t Spending $700 million in 10 Years

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., May, 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Shelling out federal benefits to same-sex couples under a proposed U.S. Senate bill will cost U.S. taxpayers a whopping $704 million over the next ten years, reports the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Nevertheless the Senate proposal, while it obscures the traditional rationale for spousal benefits in the first place, would be less costly than the House version. The CBO has just released its analysis of the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009 (S. 1102) revealing that extending health and employment benefits to the domestic partners of […]
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Pope Benedict in Portugal: Christians, Answer to Secularism is to Re-Evangelize World

By Hilary White ROME, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict said in his many addresses and homilies during his recently concluded trip to Portugal that “vast effort at every level” is needed to answer the threats of growing secularism in Europe, of which abortion and homosexual “marriage” are among “today's most insidious and dangerous.” To the assembled bishops in Fatima on Thursday, he forthrightly called for “a new missionary vigor,” to counter “politicians, intellectuals, communications professionals who profess and who promote a monocultural ideal, with disdain for the religious and contemplative dimension of life”. “In such circles are found […]
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Boston Archdiocese Retreats from School’s Rejection of Lesbian Guardians

Friday May 14, 2010 Boston Archdiocese Retreats from School’s Rejection of Lesbian Guardians By James Tillman BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Archdiocese of Boston has said that it will help find a Catholic school for the ward of two lesbian parents, whose boy was rejected from a Catholic school after school administrators discovered that they were lesbian. The ward of the lesbian guardians had been admitted to St. Paul’s elementary school, but the acceptance was withdrawn after the lesbians’ relationship was discovered. One of the boy’s guardians told the AP that they knew the Church opposed homosexual […]
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Lesbian Couple Demands Listing as Child’s Parents on Birth Certificate

Friday May 14, 2010 Lesbian Couple Demands Listing as Child’s Parents on Birth Certificate By James Tillman DES MOINES, Iowa, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Two lesbian woman legally “married” in Des Moines last year have filed a lawsuit against the state health department after it refused to name both women on the birth certificate of one woman’s biological daughter. Heather Gartner and Melissa Gartner filed the lawsuit last Friday on behalf of the infant Mackenzie, who was born last September, with the assistance of the “gay rights” organization Lambda Legal. Prior to the 2009 legalization of gay marriage in […]
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Colombian Doctor Fined and Suspended for Refusing to do an Abortion

Friday May 14, 2010 Colombian Doctor Fined and Suspended for Refusing to do an Abortion By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BOGOTÁ, May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The executive branch of the Colombian government is seeking to overturn the conviction of a doctor who refused to perform an abortion in 2008 on a mentally handicapped girl. Dr. Germán Arango Rojas says he only saw the girl a single time and refused to do the abortion for reasons of conscience. He was convicted despite the fact that he was never allowed to present a defense. Arango Rojas’ conviction was upheld […]
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Pro-Aborts Rally, Urging Florida Gov. Crist to Kill Pro-Life Ultrasound Bill

Thursday May 13, 2010 Pro-Aborts Rally, Urging Florida Gov. Crist to Kill Pro-Life Ultrasound Bill By James Tillman TALLAHASSEE, Florida, May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Pro-abortion protestors gathered Thursday in cities across Florida to protest the pro-life HB 1143 – just one part of a barrage of pressure against Governor Charlie Crist to try to force him to veto the measure. Crist, who has a mixed record on abortion, recently said that although he considers himself “pro-life,” he may veto the landmark bill out of a reluctance to “impose my will on others.” Planned Parenthood has launched a massive statewide […]
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Aussie Filmaker’s ‘Virgin Auction’ Generates Outrage, Faces Legal Obstacles

Thursday May 13, 2010 Aussie Filmaker’s ‘Virgin Auction’ Generates Outrage, Faces Legal Obstacles By Peter J. Smith SYDNEY, Australia, May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Not in our backyard: that’s the message that horrified Australian officials have sent to a Melbourne filmmaker who intends to film a documentary involving young people auctioning of their virginity to the highest bidder. However, even amid plans to move his venue to Nevada, there is a strong chance that US officials could intervene to put an end to a scheme that has generated revulsion on both sides of the Pacific. The Sydney Daily Telegraph reports […]
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Wednesday video Report 1 on Ottawa’s National March For Life

Thursday May 13, 2010 Wednesday video Report 1 on Ottawa’s National March For Life OTTAWA, May 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Students and adults began arriving by the thousands Wednesday evening in preparation for the main events of the annual March for Life in Canada’s capital city. A prayer service and special Catholic Mass celebrated by Canada’s new Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Pedro López Quintana, was jammed to the full capacity of St. Theresa’s Church. Three other bishops concelebrated along with several priests. The religious events were followed by a candlelight vigil at the Ottawa Human Rights monument. Kevin Dunn of Dunnmedia, […]
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Pro-Life Dem Topples Pro-ObamaCare Incumbent in West Virginia Primary

Thursday May 13, 2010 Pro-Life Dem Topples Pro-ObamaCare Incumbent in West Virginia Primary By Peter J. Smith CHARLESTON, West Virginia, May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life advocates have claimed their first victory in their effort to topple Democrat Congressmen who identify as pro-life, but who voted for abortion-expanding health care reform legislation earlier this year. Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-W.Va.) was ousted from the seat he has held for nearly 28 years by his more pro-life and conservative challenger in the Democratic primary on Tuesday. Pro-life state Sen. Mike Oliverio won the primary with 56 percent of the vote to […]
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Palestinian Woman Killed because Pregnant with Girl

Friday May 14, 2010 Palestinian Woman Killed because Pregnant with Girl By James Tillman NABLUS, West Bank, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — A Palestinian man has confessed to killing his 27-year-old wife because she was pregnant with a girl rather than a boy, according to MaanNews.net. The woman was found dead in her home in a village northeast of Nablus. The mother, three months pregnant, already had three boys and a girl. Her husband was arrested after the discovery of scratch wounds on his body corresponding to DNA evidence from blood found under his wife’s nails. Witnesses told police that […]
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Gallup: Pro-Life the “New Normal” on Abortion in U.S.

By Kathleen Gilbert PRINCETON, New Jersey, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One year after a Gallup poll found that a majority of Americans identified as pro-life for the first time in the history of the question being asked by the pollster, the pro-life majority has survived, leading the pollster to declare the pro-life position the “new normal” on the question of abortion. In the latest survey, 47 percent of Americans identified as pro-life, while 45 percent said they were pro-choice. Last May, the divide was 51 percent to 42 percent in favor of pro-life. “While the two-percentage-point gap in current […]
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Mother Angelica Receives Honorary Law Degree from Ave Maria Law

By Kathleen Gilbert NAPLES, Florida, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ave Maria School of Law awarded Mother Mary Angelica, foundress of EWTN and beacon of outspoken fidelity to orthodox Catholic teaching, including on the life and family issues, an honorary law degree on Sunday. In the resolution attending the award at the school's commencement ceremonies, Ave Maria Law President and Dean Eugene R. Milhizer praised Mother Angelica as “a robust advocate for the unborn child” and “an icon in the Catholic media.” Milhizer also lauded the 87-year-old for having “served the Roman Catholic Church with outstanding devotion” and having […]
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Episcopal Church Ordains Practicing Lesbian as Bishop of Los Angeles

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman LOS ANGELES, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On May 15 the Episcopal Church ordained a practicing lesbian, Mary Glasspool, as bishop of the Los Angeles diocese. Glasspool, 56, has been living with her lesbian partner since 1988. She is the second practicing homosexual to be named a bishop by the Episcopalians.  The first was Gene Robinson, appointed in 2003, who also lives with his gay lover. The selection of Robinson created a serious commotion among the Anglicans, leading to a continuing process of rupture. Thousands of Episcopalians and other Anglican groups have left the Communion, and […]
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Rainbow Sash Protesters Set to Disrupt Masses across U.S. on Pentecost Sunday

By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexualist activists belonging to the Rainbow Sash Movement (RSM) are planning to demonstrate at Catholic Cathedrals and parishes across the United States this Sunday. They have targeted particularly Cardinal Francis George of the Chicago Archdiocese, since he is the head of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Catholic Bishops, which has publically engaged in promoting and preserving the natural definition of marriage and family in civil law. The RSM is an organization of activists that link together and coordinate through the internet. Ordinarily they wear a 2-inch wide ribbon of rainbow […]
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Cardinal Primate of Canada Slammed by Media, Receives Death Wish for Abortion/Rape Comments

By John-Henry Westen and John Jalsevac To sign a petition in support of Cardinal Ouellet, click here. QUEBEC CITY, May 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Quebec City Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Cardinal Primate of Canada, has erupted into the national spotlight after he defended Christian teaching about the immorality of abortion in all circumstances at a Campaign Life Coalition Conference in Quebec City Saturday. Asked by a reporter about the Church’s teaching on abortion in cases of rape, the cardinal said: “the child is not responsible for how he was conceived, it is the aggressor who is responsible. We can see him (the […]
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Saskatchewan Court Reserves Decision on Conscience Rights of Marriage Commissioners

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski REGINA, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After hearing submissions from both sides of the issue in the case involving proposed legislation that would allow the province's marriage commissioners to refuse to perform same-sex “marriages,” the five judges of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal have reserved their decision and will issue a written ruling after further deliberation. The provincial government is seeking the court's advice on the constitutionality of two versions of a proposed law. The law is intended to resolve the situation that has seen marriage commissioners sue the provincial government over its insistence that they […]
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Canadian MPs Praise Pro-Life Successes, Vow to Keep up Fight at March for Life

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The annual National March for Life in Ottawa was blessed again this year with a strong voice on the podium on Parliament Hill from a group of 21 federal Members of Parliament. The MPs used the occasion to celebrate the successes for the Canadian pro-life movement over the last year, and to pledge their continued efforts in the fight for life on the Hill. Conservative MP Jeff Watson (Essex), standing alongside his wife and five children, gave voice to the upbeat optimism of the pro-life event when he said, […]
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Vatican’s New Evangelization Office Needs a Leader in “Complete Fidelity” on Life Issues: Pro-Life L

By Hilary White ROME, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The news that the current head of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV), Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, may be appointed to head up the Vatican’s new office of the “New Evangelization” continues to anger pro-life advocates who maintain that he has demonstrated his lack of fidelity to the teaching of the Church on the sacredness of human life. John Smeaton, director of the UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, called today for concerned pro-life people to oppose the appointment. With the article he published last year in L’Osservatore Romano appearing […]
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Pope Benedict in Portugal: Christians, Answer to Secularism is to Re-Evangelise World

By Hilary White ROME, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict said in his many addresses and homilies during his recently concluded trip to Portugal that “vast effort at every level” is needed to answer the threat of secularism in Europe, of which abortion and homosexual “marriage” are among “today's most insidious and dangerous threats to the common good”. To the assembled bishops in Fatima on Thursday, he forthrightly called for “a new missionary vigour,” to counter “politicians, intellectuals, communications professionals who profess and who promote a monocultural ideal, with disdain for the religious and contemplative dimension of life”. “In […]
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Christendom College May 15, 2010 Commencement Address Given by Prof. Charles Rice

CHRISTENDOM COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS MAY 15, 2010 CHARLES E. RICE Professor Emeritus, Notre Dame Law School When President O'Donnell asked me to give this address, I expressed one concern:  “Will there be a protest?  And will you prosecute the protestors?  Or at least 88 of them?”  He made no commitment.  I accepted anyway.  So what can I tell you?  This is a time of crises.  The economy is a mess, the culture is a mess, the government is out of control.   And, in the last three years, Notre Dame lost 21 football games.  But this is a great time for […]
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Cardinal Ouellet to Canadian Gvmt: Take Stand For Life at Home Too

Thursday May 13, 2010 Cardinal Ouellet to Canadian Gvmt: Take Stand For Life at Home Too By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada, applauded the Conservative-led Canadian government at the March for Life on Parliament Hill today, for its refusal to fund abortions in the developing world. At the same time, however, he called on the government to replicate this policy at home. “We support this stance of the government not to finance abortion in countries of the Third World,” he told the cheering crowd of […]
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Bishop Says Nun is Automatically Excommunicated for Rubberstamping Hospital Abortion

By Peter J. Smith PHOENIX, Arizona, May 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Bishop of Phoenix has announced that a Catholic nun and administrator of St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix has automatically excommunicated herself by approving an abortion on a woman who was 11-weeks pregnant, and whose life hospital officials allege they were trying to save. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted said the excommunications apply to all involved, and lambasted the hospital’s defense of their decision by comparing the ill woman’s unborn child to a disease that needed to be removed. The Arizona Republic reports that in late 2009, Sister […]
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TLC Singer Chilli Describes Abortion Grief: ‘I Cried Almost Every Day for 9 Years’

Friday May 14, 2010 TLC Singer Chilli Describes Abortion Grief: ‘I Cried Almost Every Day for 9 Years’ By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rozanda “Chilli” Thomas, better known as a member of the successful 1990s hip-hop trio TLC, has joined a growing number of women and men who have come forward with horrendous stories of post-abortion grief. In a recent interview, the singer revealed that an abortion that she got when she was 20 years old “broke my spirit,” and robbed her of her “strong self.” The singer discussed her abortion on the May 9 […]
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Commentary: Take me to Your Lizard – Britain Votes for None of the Above

Thursday May 13, 2010 Commentary: Take me to Your Lizard – Britain Votes for None of the Above Commentary by Hilary White ROME, May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The dust has settled a bit from last week’s British general election and taking a look about, one finds that the landscape has been changed in strange and subtle ways that many outside the Islands have trouble understanding. Yes, David Cameron has become the new Prime Minister. Yes, the Conservatives won the largest share of the votes. Yes, Britain, the “cradle of democracy” still has a government. But that’s about as clear […]
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Uproar after Catholic Marquette U. Rescinds Job Offer to Homosexualist Prof

Thursday May 13, 2010 Uproar after Catholic Marquette U. Rescinds Job Offer to Homosexualist Prof By James Tillman MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — An uproar among homosexualist forces has ensued after Marquette University President Father Robert Wild withdrew a job offered to an openly lesbian professor, citing her academic writings’ sexually explicit content as out of line with Catholic teaching. According to some reports, Milwaukee Archboshop Jerome Listecki’s input on the matter was a key influence his decision to withdraw the offer. Jodi O’Brien, who is currently a Sociology professor at Seattle University, which is also a Jesuit […]
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12,500 Gather on Parliament Hill for Canadian March for Life

Thursday May 13, 2010 12,500 Gather on Parliament Hill for Canadian March for Life By John Jalsevac OTTAWA, May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Under balmy skies that were greeted with prayers of thanksgiving by those recalling last year’s cold and blustery weather, thousands of pro-life Canadians gathered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa for the 2010 Canadian March for Life on Thursday – a crowd that Jim Hughes, president of Campaign Life Coalition, estimated at about 12,500 people. “This is something that God sent us as a special gift,” said Hughes, the main organizer of the annual pro-life event, about the […]
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Sarah Palin: I Understand the Temptation for the “Easy Way Out” of a Difficult Pregnancy

Friday May 14, 2010 Sarah Palin: I Understand the Temptation for the “Easy Way Out” of a Difficult Pregnancy By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin spoke at a breakfast fundraiser Friday for the Susan B. Anthony List in the nation’s capital, during which she told the well over 500 attendees that she and her daughter Bristol can empathize with those who face the temptation of abortion. Palin spoke about her experience of learning that she was pregnant with her son Trig, a Down-syndrome baby. While she never actually contemplated abortion, […]
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Appeals Court Denies ACLU Request to Remove Kentucky Ten Commandments Display

Friday May 14, 2010 Appeals Court Denies ACLU Request to Remove Kentucky Ten Commandments Display TOLEDO, Ohio, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the American Civil Liberties Union request to rehear ACLU v. Grayson County, Kentucky, in which the Court upheld the right of a county government to have a display including the Ten Commandments. The display in Leitchfield, Kentucky, entitled “Foundations of American Law and Government,” was located on the second floor of Grayson County’s courthouse. It includes the Ten Commandments, the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the […]
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Southern California Pro-Life Walk Aims to ‘Celebrate All Life’

Friday May 14, 2010 Southern California Pro-Life Walk Aims to ‘Celebrate All Life’ SIMI VALLEY, CA, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On May 22, Celebrate All Life, a new pro-life group, will celebrate its first annual Interfaith Pro-Life Walk and Festival in Simi Valley, California. The event, which runs 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, is meant to be a celebration of life that crosses political, theological, and ideological boundaries. According to its website, the walk and festival “was born of the idea that the Life Movement could benefit from more positive representation in a setting that not only espoused […]
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Leaders of Spanish Medical Associations Blast Abortion Law

Tuesday May 11, 2010 Leaders of Spanish Medical Associations Blast Abortion Law By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MADRID, May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leadership of Spain’s medical associations, gathered together at their annual Congress of the Medical Profession, have denounced Spain’s new abortion law, which allows doctors to kill unborn children for any reason during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. In a statement “Abortion is Not a Right,” the General Council of Official Medical Associations (CGCOM) repudiates the idea that killing an infant inside its mother’s womb could possibly be a “right,” despite contrary language in the law, which […]
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March for Life Canada Expects Biggest Turnout Ever

Wednesday March 3, 2010 March for Life Canada Expects Biggest Turnout Ever By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, March 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The organizer of Canada’s National March For Life, Campaign Life Coalition, is predicting that, with the help of a massive turnout from Ottawa area Catholic schools, 20,000 people will participate in this year’s annual pro-life march on May 13th, 2010. On February 22, 2010 Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) held a meeting to discuss strategies to bring about Ottawa Catholic high school participation at the National March for Life (NMfL). Chris Murawsky from CLC’s National March for Life organizing […]
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AUL: Kagan Donated to Pro-Abort Group

Thursday May 13, 2010 AUL: Kagan Donated to Pro-Abort Group By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While Soliciter General Elena Kagan has been touted by many in the media as a “moderate” pick for the Supreme Court, even on the volatile issue of abortion, Kagan has revealed her pro-abortion loyalties by contributing financially to the pro-abortion National Partnership for Women and Families (NPWF), reported Americans United for Life Wednesday. NPWF, according to its own website, works “to increase women’s access to quality, confidential reproductive health services and block attempts to limit reproductive rights and reverse hard-won […]
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Memo Shows Kagan Helped Clinton-Era Defeat of Partial Birth Abortion Ban

Wednesday May 12, 2010 Memo Shows Kagan Helped Clinton-Era Defeat of Partial Birth Abortion Ban By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., May 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Contrary to media reports, a memo authored by Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan for President Bill Clinton reveals that she actually helped the White House defeat a Congressional ban on partial-birth abortion in 1997, rather than upholding a pro-life position. Both the Associated Press, which unearthed the memo from the Clinton Library archives, and Washington Post gave the impression that the May 13, 1997 memo authored by Kagan and Bruce Reed, President Bill Clinton’s […]
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Commentary: New U.K. Government Spells Dangers for Both Born and Unborn

Wednesday May 12, 2010 Commentary: New U.K. Government Spells Dangers for Both Born and Unborn Commentary by John Smeaton LONDON, England, May 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After 13 years of anti-life laws and policies being enacted by the Labour government, we face a renewal of such laws and policies under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. David Cameron has made clear that faith schools should not be free to teach that abortion is wrong. Andrew Lansley, who is expected to be named health secretary, has made clear his support for easier access to abortion. Nick Clegg has confirmed his support for an […]
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K of C Cancels Pro-Abort NARAL Event after Priests Resign in Protest

Wednesday May 12, 2010 K of C Cancels Pro-Abort NARAL Event after Priests Resign in Protest By Kathleen Gilbert PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, May 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A fundraiser for abortion lobby giant NARAL, slated to occur at a New Hampshire function center jointly owned by the Knights of Columbus, has been cancelled after two priests resigned from the local chapter of the Catholic fraternity in protest, reports the Portsmouth Herald. Local Catholics reacted in shock after it was discovered that NARAL Pro-Choice New Hampshire was scheduled to hold the event, titled “Choice Chocolate 2010: Celebrating Your Choice for 25 […]
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Homeschool Legal Giants Intervene in Sweden State Abduction of Homeschooler

Tuesday March 2, 2010 Homeschool Legal Giants Intervene in Sweden State Abduction of Homeschooler By Peter J. Smith STOCKHOLM, March 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two major legal defense organizations for homeschooling rights are now examining options for a Christian Swedish couple whose seven-year old son was seized by Swedish police and social workers, because his parents chose to educate him at home. Nearly eight months have passed since Christer and Annie Johansson, with their young son Dominic, boarded a plane to move to India. With one minute before takeoff, Swedish authorities arrested Christer and Annie and whisked Dominic away into […]
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Actor Neal McDonough Sacked for Refusing Sex Scene

Tuesday April 6, 2010 Actor Neal McDonough Sacked for Refusing Sex Scene By Kathleen Gilbert HOLLYWOOD, California, April 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sticking to his principles as a Christian and a family man, Hollywood actor Neal McDonough has been fired from a spot in a television series because he refuses to perform explicit sex scenes. ABC sacked McDonough only three days into filming, according to an industry source cited on Hollywood columnist Nikki Finke’s blog, Deadline.com, for declining to perform the scenes with co-star Virginia Madsen on the network’s new series “Scoundrels.” ABC officially said the decision was a simple […]
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Nebraska Moves Ahead with Abortion Ban Based on Fetal Pain

Thursday April 8, 2010 Nebraska Moves Ahead with Abortion Ban Based on Fetal Pain By Peter J. Smith OMAHA, Nebraska, April 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Nebraska legislature is getting ready for its second vote on a measure that would ban abortion after 20 weeks gestation on the basis of fetal pain. If passed and signed into law, the legislation could pose a direct challenge to the 1973 Roe v. Wade case, because it applies a different standard for restricting abortion than the one used by the Supreme Court. The “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” (LB 1103), authored by […]
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Historic Fetal Pain Bill Passes 2nd Reading in Neb. Legislature

Friday April 9, 2010 Historic Fetal Pain Bill Passes 2nd Reading in Neb. Legislature Updated 5:47 EST OMAHA, Nebraska, April 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Nebraska legislature on Friday gave its second approval to a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks gestation, when pre-born babies are known to feel pain. The bill is now expected to undergo final approval within the next several days, before going to the governor’s desk for his signature. The bill provides what may be the first direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, which in 1973 established a “right” to unrestricted abortion until fetal […]
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McGill Forces Pro-Life Club to Accept Special Restrictions

Thursday April 8, 2010 McGill Forces Pro-Life Club to Accept Special Restrictions By Patrick B. Craine MONTREAL, Quebec, April 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Student Society of McGill University (SSMU) has reinstated the club status of Choose Life, the campus pro-life club, but only after forcing them to submit to special requirements that restrict the club’s ability to share the pro-life message. The SSMU Council voted April 1st to reinstate the club, but also required them to attach an appendix to their constitution in order to “facilitate their compliance” with SSMU’s equity policy. Natalie Fohl, Choose Life’s president, said that […]
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CCHD Pushes Pro-Abort Groups in Lent Stations of the Cross: Pro-Life Coalition

Friday March 12, 2010 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 […]
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Sasketchewan Court Considers Legislation Protecting Conscience Rights of Marriage Commissioners

Wednesday May 12, 2010 Sasketchewan Court Considers Legislation Protecting Conscience Rights of Marriage Commissioners By Thaddeus M. Baklinski REGINA, May 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) will appear before the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal Thursday, May 13 and Friday, May 14 in a case involving proposed legislation that would allow the province’s marriage commissioners to refuse to perform same-sex “marriages” because of sincerely held religious beliefs. In July, 2009, Justice Minister of Saskatchewan, Don Morgan, asked the Court of Appeal for an opinion on the constitutionality of the potential legislation. Morgan told the media that his […]
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New Zealand University Pro-Life Club Overcomes Discrimination to Gain Official Status

Wednesday May 12, 2010 New Zealand University Pro-Life Club Overcomes Discrimination to Gain Official Status By Thaddeus M. Baklinski AUCKLAND, New Zealand, May 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Auckland pro-life group, Prolife Auckland, today announced their successful affiliation at the University of Auckland. The announcement comes on the heels of the group’s recent overturning of a policy discriminating against pro-life groups at the university. Since 2002, anyone wanting to start a pro-life club on campus has had only one opportunity every 365 days, at an annual general meeting, to try and gain official club status, whereas any other […]
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OUTRAGE: Bloc Quebecois Leader Mocks Biblical Christianity in Commons

Tuesday May 11, 2010 OUTRAGE: Bloc Quebecois Leader Mocks Biblical Christianity in Commons By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, May 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a May 6 speech criticizing the Conservative Government for defunding various pro-abortion groups, Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe made remarks mocking Christianity which have shocked even members of the Commons. With laughs and guffaws coming from opposition benches last week, Duceppe blasted the Conservative Government for the “ideological decision” to fund “religious groups that believe in the imminent return of the Messiah and translate the Bible into African and Asian dialects.” In a follow-up comment Duceppe went […]
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LifeSiteNews Special Report – An open letter From Professor Josef Seifert to Miss Hillary White of

Thursday March 4, 2010 An open letter From Professor Josef Seifert to Miss Hillary White of LifeSiteNews.com March 2, 1010 Dear Miss White, I apologize for answering only now your “general plea for information regarding the last meeting of the Pontifical Academy for Life.” Knowing that LifeSiteNews has been deeply involved in the reporting on Monsignor Fisichella’s L’Osservatore Romano (OR) article of 15 March 2009, you would have deserved an answer much quicker. I waited with my answer because I knew that you had already received a very open answer to your inquiry, signed by five highly respected members of […]
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Catholic Bishop: Social Worker Wanted My Mom to Abort Me During the Depression

Wednesday May 12, 2010 Catholic Bishop: Social Worker Wanted My Mom to Abort Me During the Depression By Peter J. Smith ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, May 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Victor Galeone, who has been a priest for nearly fifty years and the bishop of St. Augustine Florida for the past nine, recently revealed that he owes his life to his mother, who resisted pressure by a government social worker to abort him during the Great Depression. In the May-June edition of the St. Augustine Catholic, Galeone told the story of how he might never been born, if the social […]
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Pro-Life Youth to Walk Across Canada this Summer

Wednesday May 12, 2010 Pro-Life Youth to Walk Across Canada this Summer CALGARY, AB, May 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over a dozen Canadian youth will be walking across Canada with a group called Crossroads this summer. Starting in Vancouver on May 24th and ending in Ottawa on August 14th, the group will spend 12 weeks walking across the country to promote the dignity and sanctity of all human life. Instead of taking the summer to spend time with friends or earn needed money for school, these young Canadians say they hope to save lives and change hearts and minds through […]
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Development and Peace Attacks Pro-life Movement: Catholic Insight

Wednesday May 12, 2010 Development and Peace Attacks Pro-life Movement: Catholic Insight By Fr. Alphonse de Valk TORONTO, May 12, 2010 ( – Many readers are aware that in 2009, LifeSiteNews uncovered the fact that the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P), the arms-length international development side of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, was partnering with overseas agencies which on the domestic front had adopted pro-abortion or pro-homosexual policies. (We should note here that D&P describes itself as “an independent lay organization” with two bishops on its board.) Subsequent to the damning news, several dioceses in Canada—Toronto, […]
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Poll Finds 33% Favor Kagan for Supreme Court, 33% Oppose, 34% Unsure

Tuesday May 11, 2010 Poll Finds 33% Favor Kagan for Supreme Court, 33% Oppose, 34% Unsure By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A nearly perfect divide has split U.S. voters over Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s eligibility as the next Supreme Court Justice, according to a Rasmussen Reports Survey released Tuesday. Taken the night after President Obama announced the pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality Kagan as his nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the survey found 33 percent of U.S. voters favoring Kagan for the position, 33 percent opposing, and 34 percent uncertain. Nonetheless, most were […]
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Controversial Mojave Desert Cross Stolen

Tuesday May 11, 2010 Controversial Mojave Desert Cross Stolen By Kathleen Gilbert LOS ANGELES, May 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a cross display in the Mojave Desert, the 75-year-old landmark has been stolen, reported the National Park Service Monday. Mojave National Preserve officials discovered Monday that the 7-foot cross had been stolen, and the metal bolts anchoring the cross cut off, National Park Service spokeswoman Linda Slater said. A wooden cross was originally erected on the spot in 1934 by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, with a plaque stating, “The Cross, […]
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Vatican Official Thanks the World Press for Sexual Abuse Coverage

Tuesday May 11, 2010 Vatican Official Thanks the World Press for Sexual Abuse Coverage By John-Henry Westen VATICAN CITY, May 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking to Vatican Radio on May 3, Richard Rouse, an official at the Pontifical Council for Culture, thanked the world press for its coverage of the sexual abuse scandal. Asked about the Vatican’s handling of the abuse scandal coverage in the press, Rouse said, “I want to take this occasion of World Press Day to thank the press for what they’re doing. It is of extreme importance that the press continue to help all the people […]
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Conservatives Deny Funding to 2010 Toronto Gay Pride Festival

Tuesday May 11, 2010 Conservatives Deny Funding to 2010 Toronto Gay Pride Festival By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, May 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Industry Minister Tony Clement has announced that the Conservative federal government will not be giving any money to Toronto’s homosexual “pride” festival this year. Last year, the government’s Marquee Tourism Events Program, which is geared toward assisting Canadian tourism events, awarded a $400,000 grant to the event. The government, and the then-Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism Diane Ablonczy, who approved the money for the homosexual exhibition, were harshly criticized by pro-family advocates and members […]
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Nat’l Organization for Marriage: a Vote for Kagan is a Vote against Traditional Marriage

Monday May 10, 2010 Nat’l Organization for Marriage: a Vote for Kagan is a Vote against Traditional Marriage By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-homosexuality views of Solicitor General Elena Kagan could have dire implications for traditional marriage in America should her nomination to the Supreme Court be approved, says the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). President Obama on Monday nominated Kagan, who sports a pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality record, for an opening on the Supreme Court left by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. “A vote for Elena Kagan as Supreme Court Justice will be a […]
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Oklahoma Senate Sends Abortion Reporting Law to Governor’s Desk

Tuesday May 11, 2010 Oklahoma Senate Sends Abortion Reporting Law to Governor’s Desk By John Jalsevac May 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The deluge of pro-life legislation in Oklahoma has continued after the state Senate on Tuesday voted to pass a controversial abortion reporting law, and sent it on to the governor’s desk. The Senate voted 32-11 to approve House Bill 3284, known as the “Statistical Abortion Reporting Act,” which had already been approved by the House in an overwhelming 88-8 vote. HB 3284 mandates the reporting of all abortions performed in Oklahoma, the reasons abortions are sought, and the complications […]
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2010 Regional Marches For Life – Update about PEI March

Wednesday May 12, 2010 2010 Regional Marches For Life – Update about PEI March CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I., May 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The third annual Prince Edward Island March for Life takes place on Thursday May 13, at Province House near St. Dunstan’s Basilica in Charlottetown. Hemke Vanderzwaag, president of PEI Right to Life Association said last year over 200 people gathered to demonstrate in support of the sanctity of human life. Guest speakers will include Marion Marshall, president of PEI Catholic Women’s League, Alvin Curley, state deputy PEI Knights of Columbus, Fr. Danny Wilson, rector of St. Dunstan’s Basilica and […]
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Appeals Court Denies ACLU Request to Remove Kentucky Ten Commandments Display

TOLEDO, Ohio, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the American Civil Liberties Union request to rehear ACLU v. Grayson County, Kentucky, in which the Court upheld the right of a county government to have a display including the Ten Commandments.  The display in Leitchfield, Kentucky, entitled “Foundations of American Law and Government,” was located on the second floor of Grayson County’s courthouse. It includes the Ten Commandments, the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Preamble to the Kentucky Constitution, the Star-Spangled Banner, the National Motto, […]
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Embattled George Rekers Resigns From NARTH, Offered Legal Aid by Liberty Counsel

By Peter J. Smith MIAMI, Florida, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Professor George Rekers, a pro-family leader and expert on homosexuality, who is embroiled in a scandal after he was found to have hired a traveling companion with a profile on a homosexual escort service website, has resigned his membership on the board of National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). He said that he made the decision in order to resolve the allegations made against him through defamation attorneys. At the same time, a leading Christian legal advocacy group, Liberty Counsel, has offered to provide him […]
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Sarah Palin: I Understand the Temptation for the “Easy Way Out” of a Difficult Pregnancy

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin spoke at a breakfast fundraiser Friday for the Susan B. Anthony List in the nation’s capital, during which she told the well over 500 attendees that she and her daughter Bristol can empathize with those who face the temptation of abortion. Palin spoke about her experience of learning that she was pregnant with her son Trig, a Down-syndrome baby. While she never actually contemplated abortion, she said she can empathize with women struggling with the temptation for “the easy way-out.” “I never ordered up, planned […]
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TLC Singer Chilli Describes Abortion Grief: ‘I Cried Almost Every Day for 9 Years’

By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rozanda “Chilli” Thomas, better known as a member of the successful 1990s hip-hop trio TLC, has joined a growing number of women and men who have come forward with horrendous stories of post-abortion grief. In a recent interview, the singer revealed that an abortion that she got when she was 20 years old “broke my spirit,” and robbed her of her “strong self.” The singer discussed her abortion on the May 9 episode of the VH1 reality TV series “What Chilli Wants,” which follows the singer as she seeks help to establish a long-lasting relationship. […]
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Abortion, Gay ‘Marriage’ among the Most ‘Insidious and Dangerous’ Challenges: Pope

By Hilary White FATIMA, Portugal, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an address to assembled social and pastoral care workers in Fatima, Portugal yesterday, Pope Benedict identified abortion and the pressure for gay “marriage” as among the most “insidious and dangerous challenges that today confront the common good,” and expressed his “deep appreciation” for those who fight for the rights of the unborn. Benedict hailed “all those social and pastoral initiatives” that combat the “socio-economic and cultural mechanisms which lead to abortion, and are openly concerned to defend life and to promote the reconciliation and healing of those harmed by the […]
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Bah Humbug: Toronto Looks at Eliminating Christmas, New Years for Retailers

Monday May 10, 2010 Bah Humbug: Toronto Looks at Eliminating Christmas, New Years for Retailers By John Jalsevac May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Bah humbug!” These two words have come to embody the lack of Christmas spirit, but even Scrooge, the money-grubbing, Christmas-loathing protagonist of Charles Dickens’ classic tale who infamously uttered the phrase, begrudgingly gave his clerk Christmas Day off. Councillors for the City of Toronto, however, are now considering a proposal that would go a step further than even Scrooge was willing to go, and eliminate the few remaining mandatory holidays that exist for retailers in the city […]
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European Court of Human Rights Will Hear Italian Crucifix Appeal

Thursday March 11, 2010 European Court of Human Rights Will Hear Italian Crucifix Appeal By Hilary White STRASBOURG, March 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Court of Human Rights has agreed to hear an appeal of its ruling that Italy must ban crucifixes from public school classrooms. The court has agreed to hear the case in the Grand Chamber, with the full panel of justices. This means that interested third parties will be able to make interventions, similar to amicus curae briefs in North American courts. The court said in a statement March 2, “The college of five judges in […]
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Delaware Suspends Abortionist’s License for Appalling Clinic Conditions

Wednesday March 3, 2010 Delaware Suspends Abortionist’s License for Appalling Clinic Conditions DOVER, DE, March 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Delaware Board of Medical Practice suspended the medical license of Pennsylvania abortionist Kermit B. Gosnell on Tuesday during an emergency hearing. Gosnell’s Pennsylvania license was suspended last week after authorities investigating an abortion death and drug violations discovered appalling conditions and a collection of frozen aborted baby remains dating back 30 years. Members of the Delaware Board based their decision to suspend Gosnell’s license on action taken against him in Pennsylvania. Raymond L. Moore Sr., the president of the Board […]
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Obama Sends Conflicting Signals Over Supreme Court Nominee and Abortion

Wednesday April 21, 2010 Obama Sends Conflicting Signals Over Supreme Court Nominee and Abortion By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., April 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. President Barack Obama sent conflicting signals on how abortion would play into his pick for a candidate to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, saying that while he did not intend to have a litmus-test for a Supreme Court nominee, he wanted to see someone on the bench who would take into account “women’s rights” – alluding to abortion – in his interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. The president held a meeting with bipartisan […]
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Yale Study Says Babies Have Built-In Developing Sense of Morality

Monday May 10, 2010 Yale Study Says Babies Have Built-In Developing Sense of Morality By Peter J. Smith LONDON, May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers in baby psychology at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut say that they have gathered evidence that suggests babies demonstrate a “rudimentary” moral sense very soon after they are born, indicating that morality may be hardwired into human beings from the very beginning. The UK Daily Mail reports that researchers at Yale University devised several tests that they say showed that babies under a year old had an innate sense of “naïve morality,” as opposed […]
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Obama Nominates Pro-Abort Elena Kagan for Supreme Court

Monday May 10, 2010 Obama Nominates Pro-Abort Elena Kagan for Supreme Court By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — At 10 a.m. Monday morning, President Obama announced U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, who favors legalized and taxpayer-funded abortion, as his nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens as “impartial guardian of the law” on the nation’s highest court. Marjorie Dannenfelser of the Susan B. Anthony List, however, stated after the nomination that “Ms. Kagan’s publicly demonstrated prejudices do not lend themselves well to blind justice.” Kagan, a graduate and former dean of Harvard Law school, worked […]
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Calgary U Finds Pro-Life Students Guilty over Display

Monday May 10, 2010 Calgary U Finds Pro-Life Students Guilty over Display CALGARY, Alberta, May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Eight members of the University of Calgary’s pro-life club, Campus Pro-Life (CPL), have been found guilty after closed-door hearings late last month over their presentation of a pro-life display on campus, says the group. U of C’s Acting Associate Vice-Provost Meghan Houghton told the students that she was issuing “a formal written warning” that if the students “fail to comply with directives of Campus Security staff in the future” it will “result in more severe sanctions.” Houghton conducted the hearings, at […]
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Free iPad Pregnancy App Reveals Development of Unborn Baby

Monday May 10, 2010 Free iPad Pregnancy App Reveals Development of Unborn Baby By James Tillman May 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Pro-lifers have often struggled to counter the assertion that unborn babies are “just a clump of cells” that look nothing like human beings. Now, they have one more method to help show the truth: an application for the iPad that displays images of unborn babies from week four to week forty. The app allows the baby’s gender, size, due date, and weight to be entered to customize the information it displays. It can display life-size images of the baby […]
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Commentary: Sister Carol Keehan Misrepresents Her Support of the Health-Care Bill

Monday May 10, 2010 Commentary: Sister Carol Keehan Misrepresents Her Support of the Health-Care Bill Commentary by Deal W. Hudson May 10, 2010 (InsideCatholic.com) – Sr. Carol Keehan responded to the standing ovation she received at a gathering of Obama’s Catholic coalition by making a very strange claim about her support of the recent health-care legislation signed by President Barack Obama. “We were in complete accord with our bishops and our church that abortion is a grave evil. There is no justification for abortion, and we would not ever have supported this bill if we thought it funded abortion.” Huh? […]
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Wisconsin Facility Asserts Continued Interest in Late-Term Abortions, Vague on Location

Thursday May 6, 2010 Wisconsin Facility Asserts Continued Interest in Late-Term Abortions, Vague on Location By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 6:21 EST MADISON, Wisconsin, May 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The health system for the University of Wisconsin, UW Health, is denying that it has abandoned its intent to begin late-term abortions – a denial apparently meant to contradict a communication from the Wisconsin state Attorney General’s office, which affirmed Wednesday that plans to provide the procedure at the Madison Surgery Center had been shot down. But pro-Life Wisconsin and the Alliance Defense Fund are pointing out that the statements from the […]
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SPUC’s John Smeaton: Appointment of Fisichella to New Pontifical Council a sign of ‘Cancer’ in the Church

Thursday May 6, 2010 SPUC’s John Smeaton: Appointment of Fisichella to New Pontifical Council a sign of ‘Cancer’ in the Church By Hilary White ROME, May 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One prominent international pro-life leader has reacted angrily to the rumor, circulated last month by Italian and U.S. journalists, that the head of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV), Archbishop “Rino” Salvatore Fisichella, could be promoted to the head of a new dicastery. John Smeaton, the head of the Society for the Protection for Unborn Children (SPUC), one of Europe’s most prominent and successful pro-life and pro-family organizations, wrote […]
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U.S. Study: Women Waiting Longer to Have Children and Record Number are Unmarried

Friday May 7, 2010 U.S. Study: Women Waiting Longer to Have Children and Record Number are Unmarried By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WASHINGTON, DC, May 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A report published by the Pew Research Center yesterday says that women in the United States are waiting longer to begin having children, and far fewer of them are married. The study by Gretchen Livingston and D’Vera Cohn examined the changing demographic characteristics of U.S. mothers by comparing women who gave birth in 2008 with those who gave birth in 1990. The researchers found that since 1990, the percentage of new mothers […]
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Updated: Obama to Pick Pro-Abort Elena Kagan for Supreme Court

Friday May 7, 2010 Updated: Obama to Pick Pro-Abort Elena Kagan for Supreme Court By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 10:21 a.m. EST 5.10.2010 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Obama is widely expected to select Solicitor General Elena Kagan on Monday as the Supreme Court justice to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. “Kagan’s relative youth (50) is a huge asset for the lifetime post. And President Obama considers her to be a persuasive, fearless advocate who would serve as an intellectual counterweight to Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Scalia, and could lure swing Justice Kennedy into some coalitions,” […]
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Pro-Life Candidates Duking it Out for Endorsements in Hotly-Contested California Senate Republican Primary

Friday May 7, 2010 Pro-Life Candidates Duking it Out for Endorsements in Hotly-Contested California Senate Republican Primary Split vote between two social conservatives allowing very liberal Tom Campbell to hold lead By Peter J. Smith and Steve Jalsevac SACRAMENTO, California, May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two pro-life candidates are battling it out for endorsements from the pro-life community in the Republican Party’s hotly-contested three-way California Senate primary, where a substantive split in the pro-life vote might lead to the nomination of a pro-abortion candidate. Former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina and pro-life legislator Chuck DeVore and are busy trying to claim […]
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Aging Sex Icon Raquel Welch: Contraceptives Shattered Marriage, the ‘Cornerstone of Civilization’

By Kathleen Gilbert May 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Once hailed as the female sex symbol Playboy deemed the “Most Desired Woman” of the 1970s, actress Raquel Welch has now taken a more critical look at the contraceptive revolution during which she shot to stardom. In a recent column for CNN, Welch rejoices in the experience of pregnancy, and laments the havoc that the free-sex ethos has wreaked on marriage and family life. Welch opens her column by noting that, after Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger opened America's first “family-planning clinic” in 1916,” “nothing would be the same again.” “Since then the […]
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Catholic Bishop: Social Worker Wanted My Mom to Abort Me During the Depression

By Peter J. Smith ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, May 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Victor Galeone, who has been a priest for nearly fifty years and the bishop of St. Augustine Florida for the past nine, recently revealed that he owes his life to his mother, who resisted pressure by a government social worker to abort him during the Great Depression. In the May-June edition of the St. Augustine Catholic, Galeone told the story of how he might never been born, if the social worker had her way in 1935, and had not his mother courageously stood up for his life […]
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Sasketchewan Court Considers Legislation Protecting Conscience Rights of Marriage Commissioners

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski REGINA, May 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) will appear before the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal Thursday, May 13 and Friday, May 14 in a case involving proposed legislation that would allow the province's marriage commissioners to refuse to perform same-sex “marriages” because of sincerely held religious beliefs. In July, 2009, Justice Minister of Saskatchewan, Don Morgan, asked the Court of Appeal for an opinion on the constitutionality of the potential legislation. Morgan told the media that his government intends to fulfill its promise to provide a religious exemption to marriage commissioners, and […]
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New ÂZealand University Pro-Life Club Overcomes Discrimination to Gain Official ÂStatusÂ

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski AUCKLAND, New Zealand, May 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Auckland pro-life group, Prolife Auckland, today announced their successful affiliation at the University of Auckland. The announcement comes on the heels of the group's recent overturning of a policy discriminating against pro-life groups at the university. Since 2002, anyone wanting to start a pro-life club on campus has had only one opportunity every 365 days, at an annual general meeting, to try and gain official club status, whereas any other club simply had to apply at a Student Forum, which takes place weekly. “The ruling had […]
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Commentary: New U.K. Government Spells Dangers for Both Born and Unborn

Commentary by John Smeaton LONDON, England, May 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After 13 years of anti-life laws and policies being enacted by the Labour government, we face a renewal of such laws and policies under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. David Cameron has made clear that faith schools should not be free to teach that abortion is wrong. Andrew Lansley, who is expected to be named health secretary, has made clear his support for easier access to abortion. Nick Clegg has confirmed his support for an anti-life approach to sex education. However, as a Catholic parent, I consider that a greater […]
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‘Safe Schools’ Czar Dodges Question on Whether to Promote Homosexuality

Tuesday March 9, 2010 ‘Safe Schools’ Czar Dodges Question on Whether to Promote Homosexuality By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, March 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kevin Jennings, a leading gay activist and President Obama’s “Safe Schools” Czar, dodged a question on whether the federal government should promote homosexuality as moral in public schools earlier this week. Instead, the embattled czar, who was the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), emphasized the limit of the government’s authority on school curriculum. When CNSNews.com asked Jennings, following a speech to teachers at the National Press Club Monday, about “issues raised […]
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With Obamacare Cash Comes New Abortion Supercenter for Planned Parenthood

Monday May 10, 2010 With Obamacare Cash Comes New Abortion Supercenter for Planned Parenthood By James Tillman ST. PAUL, Minnesota, May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (PPMNS) has announced that they are constructing a new clinic and administrative headquarters in St. Paul. According to Sarah Stoesz, President of PPMNS, Planned Parenthood is anticipating a possibly increased demand for its services because of the new federal health care bill. Stoesz said that she was unsure “exactly what health care reform will mean for our patients.” She continued, however: “But I anticipate that more people […]
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Non-Catholics Trying to Lie Their Way into Teaching at Ontario Catholic Schools

Monday May 10, 2010 Non-Catholics Trying to Lie Their Way into Teaching at Ontario Catholic Schools By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite the fact that persons must prove themselves to be practicing Catholics to be considered for a teaching position within the Catholic school boards of Ontario, several media reports have surfaced saying that some individuals are lying to not only board officials but even to Catholic priests about heir adherence to the faith, in order to land a job. A Toronto-area woman, who did not want to be identified, told the Canadian Press that […]
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Vilnius ‘Baltic Pride’ Homosexual March Goes Ahead Amidst Violent Clashes

Monday May 10, 2010 Vilnius ‘Baltic Pride’ Homosexual March Goes Ahead Amidst Violent Clashes By Hilary White VILNIUS, Lithuania, May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite efforts by legislators to stop it, the “Baltic Pride March” went ahead this weekend, resulting in violent clashes between homosexuals, citizens and police. Between 300 and 500 homosexuals and their supporters marched in the capital Vilnius, Lithuania on Saturday, and were met by a crowd of counter-demonstrators estimated at about 2000. When the clashes became violent, about 600 police resorted to tear gas to disperse crowds. At least twelve arrests were made. The homosexualists were […]
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Pennsylvania Seeks to Shut Down ‘House of Horrors’ Phila. Abortuary

Friday May 7, 2010 Pennsylvania Seeks to Shut Down ‘House of Horrors’ Phila. Abortuary By Kathleen Gilbert PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Pennsylvania Department of Health is seeking to shut down the abortuary run by Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell, whose practice was abruptly halted in February after investigators stumbled upon the detestable conditions inside the clinic, including blood-stained floors and dozens of fetuses preserved in jars. A local grand jury is also currently investigating the abortionist. Gosnell’s medical license was suspended immediately after the raid, which was sparked by the death of a woman in a botched […]
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Brazilian Supreme Court Approves Homosexual Adoption

Friday May 7, 2010 Brazilian Supreme Court Approves Homosexual Adoption By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BRASILIA, Brazil, May 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal, the nation’s highest court, has approved the adoption of two children by the lesbian sex partner of the woman who had originally adopted them, according to local and international news reports. In a decision that the justices themselves reportedly regard as “historic,” the court rejected an appeal by the attorney general (fiscal) of the state of Rio Grande do Sul to remove the two girls from the custody of the couple. […]
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Miscarriage of Justice in Italy – The Prenatal Disability Death Sentence

Friday May 7, 2010 Miscarriage of Justice in Italy – The Prenatal Disability Death Sentence Commentary By Kurt Konderich May 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The news story was surreal “A baby boy abandoned by doctors to die after a botched abortion was found alive nearly a day later. The mother, pregnant for the first time, had opted for an abortion after prenatal scans suggested that her baby was disabled.” As I read this article I began thinking about my past career as a police Officer. When a police officer makes an arrest the suspect is always presumed innocent until proven […]
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Canada’s Last Conservative National Newspaper Avoids Takeover by Liberal Toronto Star

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, May 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Post, owned by Canwest Global Communications Corp, and seen by many to be Canada's last somewhat conservative national newspaper, has avoided a buy-out and probable demise, by a last minute development that saw Torstar Corporation, publisher of the liberal Toronto Star newspaper, lose out in a bid to buy the newspaper chain. The new owners are a group of CanWest’s unsecured creditors who were able to scrape together the cash to back their bid to take over CanWest’s newspaper division – a bid valued at $1.1-billion. The creditor group, […]
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Letter from U.S. Lawmakers Requesting Probe of Obama Admin Support for Kenya Constitution

Dear Mr. Gene Dodaro (Mr. Geisel and Mr. Gambatesa): We are writing to request an immediate audit of any and all uses of United States Government (USG) funds, or anticipated use of such funds, to support or engage in activities related to the proposed new constitution of Kenya (the “proposed constitution”).  We submit this request on the basis of our deep moral obligation and ethical duty to rigorously pursue congressional oversight of potential violations of the Siljander Amendment by the current Administration.  As you know, the Siljander Amendment appears as proviso eight under the heading “Global Health and Child Survival” […]
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Overwhelming Positive Response From LSN Subscribers to New Daily News HTML Email Format

Friday May 7, 2010 Overwhelming Positive Response From LSN Subscribers to New Daily News HTML Email Format By Steve Jalsevac May 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since LifeSiteNews launched its Daily News email HTML format option, there has been a very positive response to the change from LSN subscribers. The addition of this option brings the LifeSiteNews email subscription service up to the latest Internet design standards for such services, emphasizing brevity, simplicity, attractive presentation and links to the website for full content. We hope this will spur many more regular visitors to the LifeSiteNews website to try out the free […]
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NY Archbishop, KofC Launch National Prayer Campaign for Life

Friday May 7, 2010 NY Archbishop, KofC Launch National Prayer Campaign for Life By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, May 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, together with the Knights of Columbus and the Sisters of Life, have launched a campaign of prayer aimed at combatting the Culture of Death and inspiring a greater respect for the dignity of human life in all its stages. The National Prayer Campaign for Life was announced at a Mass May 3, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the death of New York Archbishop John Cardinal O’Connor. The campaign’s Web site states […]
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D&P; Thailand-Based Partner Promotes Abortion/Contraception, Blasts “Reactionary” Vatican

Friday May 7, 2010 D&P; Thailand-Based Partner Promotes Abortion/Contraception, Blasts “Reactionary” Vatican By Patrick B. Craine BANGKOK, Thailand, May 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Another partner of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development & Peace (D&P) has been found promoting abortion and contraception in the developing world. Ironically, the group, which admits that one of its main sources of funding is the Canadian Catholic bishops’ official development arm, has also repeatedly criticized the Catholic Church and its bishops for their stance on “reproductive choice.” Bangkok-based Focus on the Global South (FGS) was founded in 1995, and works in Thailand, India, and […]
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Lawmakers Raise Concerns about Pentagon Approval of Plan B Pill for U.S. Bases

Friday May 7, 2010 Lawmakers Raise Concerns about Pentagon Approval of Plan B Pill for U.S. Bases By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., May 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A cadre of U.S. Congressmen has demanded that the U.S. Department of Defense explain its decision to stock the abortifacient Plan-B contraceptive on U.S. bases, citing concerns over the health effects it may have on female soldiers, conscience protections, and the potential for exploitation of minors. Nebraska Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.), along with thirteen House colleagues, sent a letter Wednesday to Defense Secretary Robert Gates regarding the Defense Department’s policy on stocking […]
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Hormonal Birth Control Pill Reduces Women’s Sexual Function: Study

Friday May 7, 2010 Hormonal Birth Control Pill Reduces Women’s Sexual Function: Study By Hilary White May 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the same time as the hormonal birth control pill turns 50, researchers have found a link between it and sexual dysfunction in the women who take it. In a German study, 32 per cent of over 1000 women surveyed who took the pill, were found to have some form of sexual dysfunction. “Our data show that hormonal contraception in particular, was associated with lower desire and arousal scores when compared with other contraceptives,” the researchers, led by Lisa-Maria […]
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Amnesty International Demands Lithuanian President Support ‘Gay Pride’ March

Thursday May 6, 2010 Amnesty International Demands Lithuanian President Support ‘Gay Pride’ March By Hilary White VILNIUS, May 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amnesty International has issued a media statement demanding that the president of Lithuania allow Gay Pride activities in the country. Lithuanian President, Dalia Grybauskaite, has been instructed in a press release by the group to “ensure that the 2010 Baltic Pride march goes ahead on 8 May despite a new attempt to have it banned.” The press release comes in response to a decision by a court to suspend the permit for the event. Yesterday morning, the Vilnius […]
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Florida Gov. Crist Swaying Toward Veto for Abortion Mandate Opt-Out, Ultrasound Bill

Thursday May 6, 2010 Florida Gov. Crist Swaying Toward Veto for Abortion Mandate Opt-Out, Ultrasound Bill By Kathleen Gilbert TALLAHASSEE, Florida, May 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Facing immense pressure to veto a measure that both opts the state out of the federal health law’s abortion mandate and requires ultrasounds before abortion, Florida governor Charlie Crist has said that, even though he is personally “pro-life,” he may strike down the bill out of unwillingness “to impose my will on others.” The controversial bill, HB 1143, requires abortionists to give women an opportunity to view ultrasound images of their unborn children before […]
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FRC Responds to Reports of Pro-Family Leader Accused of Affair with Male Escort

Thursday May 6, 2010 FRC Responds to Reports of Pro-Family Leader Accused of Affair with Male Escort By Peter J. Smith and John-Henry Westen MIAMI, Florida, May 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family advocates in North America have been left scratching their heads after news broke earlier this week that a prominent pro-family leader was caught on camera on April 13 with a homosexual male escort called “Lucien” when they arrived at Miami International Airport on Iberian Airlines Flight 6123. Professor George Rekers, a co-founder of the Family Research Council (FRC) and an officer on the boards of the National Association […]
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Ontario Court Protects Anonymity of Commentators on Conservative Message Board

Thursday May 6, 2010 Ontario Court Protects Anonymity of Commentators on Conservative Message Board By Patrick B. Craine May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Free-speech advocates are celebrating the Monday decision of the Ontario Divisional Court to protect the right to privacy of anonymous internet commentators. Richard Warman, the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s serial complainant, sought the release of information identifying eight anonymous posters to the conservative message board Free Dominion, which is run by Mark and Connie Fournier. Judge Stanley Kershman had ruled in March 2009 that the Fourniers were to give Warman personal information such as IP addresses and […]
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State Governors Sue Mexico City to Stop Gay “Marriage” and Homosexual Adoption

Friday February 19, 2010 State Governors Sue Mexico City to Stop Gay “Marriage” and Homosexual Adoption ‘Children are not pets,’ says Jalisco state official By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, February 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Five Mexican state governors are suing the nation’s Federal District, Mexico City, for legalizing homosexual “marriage” in December of last year. The governors of the states of Jalisco, Tlaxcala, Guanajuato, Morelos, and Sonora say that the law is unconstitutional, and will require their state governments to recognize “marriages” between people of the same sex, despite the states’ rejection of such unions. Moreover, […]
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Mexican Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuits against Capital’s Gay ‘Marriage’ Law

Wednesday February 24, 2010 Mexican Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuits against Capital’s Gay ‘Marriage’ Law By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, February 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Mexican Supreme Court has rejected lawsuits filed by several states to overturn Mexico City’s new homosexual “marriage” and adoption law. However, the dismissal may be a double-edged sword for the homosexualist movement in Mexico. While the ruling dismisses the lawsuits with sweeping language, calling them “clearly and undoubtedly” inadmissible, its reasoning indicates that homosexuals will not be able to automatically use the Mexico City law to impose gay “marriage” on the […]
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Large Majority of French Women Agree that Abortion Has Detrimental Psychological Effects

Friday March 26, 2010 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 […]
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13-Year-Old Pro-Life Superstar Tackles Euthanasia

Tuesday March 2, 2010 13-Year-Old Pro-Life Superstar Tackles Euthanasia By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, March 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – 13-year-old Lia Mills, who wowed judges and garnered widespread international attention last year for her bold speech on abortion (a video of that speech has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times), has taken on euthanasia this year. In another powerful and articulate address, the young Toronto native explores the devastating consequences Canada would face if it welcomed euthanasia, and implores Canadians to find ways of caring for suffering patients rather than killing them. “Imagine a society where people live […]
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Notre Dame Paper Snubs Prof’s Column Upholding Church Teaching on Homosexuality

Wednesday March 3, 2010 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 […]
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Uproar over Ann Coulter Speech Cancellation Continues

Friday March 26, 2010 Uproar over Ann Coulter Speech Cancellation Continues By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, March 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Repercussions continue to reverberate across Canada following the cancellation of Ann Coulter’s scheduled talk at the University of Ottawa on Tuesday. The speech was canceled after organizers and security officials expressed concerns that they could not guarantee Coulter’s safety, due to a crowd of protesters, reportedly up to 2,000 strong. Numerous commentators are decrying what they consider the erosion of free speech evidenced by the cancellation, and the broader implications that recent events have for Canadian society. On Thursday […]
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‘Catholic’ King of Spain Signs Abortion Bill into Law

Friday March 5, 2010 ‘Catholic’ King of Spain Signs Abortion Bill into Law By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman SPAIN, March 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, has signed a bill into law legalizing abortion on demand for the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy. The law, which was recently passed by the Spanish Congress and Senate, also declares abortion as a “right,” allows minors as young as 16 to obtain abortions without their parents’ consent, and requires abortionist and homosexualist education in the nation’s schools. The king, a professed Catholic, ignored pleas from a number of theologians […]
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Court Vindicates Illinois Law against Secret Abortions for Minors

Monday March 29, 2010 Court Vindicates Illinois Law against Secret Abortions for Minors By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, March 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Illinois state judge has dismissed a case launched by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the constitutionality of the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act, moving the law one step closer to full implementation. Judge Daniel Riley of Cook County Court ruled that the 1970 Illinois State Constitution does include a right to abortion, but he said the law should stand, since the Illinois right to abortion is not broader than the federal right, thereby allowing […]
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Personhood Amendment Qualified for Mississippi’s November 2011 Ballot

Tuesday April 6, 2010 Personhood Amendment Qualified for Mississippi’s November 2011 Ballot JACKSON, Mississippi, April 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Personhood Mississippi has enough certified voter signatures to ensure a spot on the November 2011 ballot, according to Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann. Personhood Mississippi, a client of Liberty Counsel, worked to gather 130,000 signatures for the 89,285 needed to place the amendment on the ballot. The amendment reads, “The term ‘person’ or ‘persons’ shall include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof.” “Medical science unequivocally establishes the personhood of the child from […]
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Ontario Gov’t Initiative Would Force Catholic Schools to Violate Church Teaching

Thursday January 7, 2010 Ontario Gov’t Initiative Would Force Catholic Schools to Violate Church Teaching By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, January 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario Ministry of Education has mandated that every school board in Ontario, Catholic and public, implement a new equity and inclusiveness policy by September 2010. While the new initiative was devised with participation from the curriculum arm of the Ontario Bishops’ Assembly, it nevertheless would force Ontario’s Catholic school boards to recognize “sexual orientation” as a ground protected from discrimination. The Vatican has warned, however, that such a recognition is usually part and […]
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Dr. Charles Rice: March 1 “Right or Wrong?” Column

Wednesday March 3, 2010 Dr. Charles Rice: March 1 “Right or Wrong?” Column (The following is a column written by Notre Dame Professor Emeritus Charles E. Rice intended, but rejected for print in the March 1, 2010 edition of the University of Notre Dame campus newspaper The Observer.) By Charles E. Rice March 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A big issue at Notre Dame a few weeks ago was “sexual orientation” and the status of the Notre Dame Gay/ Lesbian/ Bisexual/ Transgender (GLBT) community. Enough time has passed to make it useful to review some of the governing principles as found […]
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Judge of Abusive Priest Corrects ‘Sloppy and Inaccurate’ New York Times Smears against Pope

Tuesday March 30, 2010 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 […]
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King of Spain Excommunicated Himself by Signing Abortion Law: Human Life International

Friday March 5, 2010 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 […]
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Cutting Edge Media Campaign Links Abortion to Racism

Monday February 15, 2010 Cutting Edge Media Campaign Links Abortion to Racism By James Tillman ATLANTA, GEORGIA, February 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — A controversial new media campaign in Georgia links the racism of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, with the disproportionate numbers of African-American abortions performed in the United States every year. The campaign features billboards stating that “Black Children are an Endangered Species,” and which direct viewers to the website toomanyaborted.com. “Women are being lied to by … Planned Parenthood,” said Ryan Bomberger, founder of the Radiance Foundation, which is sponsoring the ads. “And that’s what toomanyaborted.com […]
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Composing Effective Communications in Response to LifeSiteNews Reports

Wednesday April 29, 2009 Composing Effective Communications in Response to LifeSiteNews Reports Commentary by Steve Jalsevac LifeSiteNews reports often end with contact information given for those who may wish to communicate with key persons or organizations about the particular reports. Such communications, when properly composed, often have a surprisingly strong positive impact. On the other hand, poorly thought out, angry emails, letters and calls can, and do, have significant negative impact – much more than most realize. Do’s and Don’t For Emails, Letters and Calls: 1. Facts, calmly presented, can have the greatest impact in convincing persons in influential positions […]
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Commentary: Sister Carol Keehan Misrepresents Her Support of the Health-Care Bill

Commentary by Deal W. Hudson    May 10, 2010 (InsideCatholic.com) – Sr. Carol Keehan responded to the standing ovation she received at a gathering of Obama's Catholic coalition by making a very strange claim about her support of the recent health-care legislation signed by President Barack Obama. “We were in complete accord with our bishops and our church that abortion is a grave evil. There is no justification for abortion, and we would not ever have supported this bill if we thought it funded abortion.” Huh? The bishops made it very clear they did not want the health-care bill to pass the […]
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Nat’l Organization for Marriage: a Vote for Kagan is a Vote against Traditional Marriage

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-homosexuality views of Solicitor General Elena Kagan could have dire implications for traditional marriage in America should her nomination to the Supreme Court be approved, says the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). President Obama on Monday nominated Kagan, who sports a pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality record, for an opening on the Supreme Court left by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. “A vote for Elena Kagan as Supreme Court Justice will be a vote for imposing gay marriage on all 50 states,” said Brian Brown, President of NOM, in a press […]
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Non-Catholics Trying to Lie Their Way into Teaching at Ontario Catholic Schools

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite the fact that persons must prove themselves to be practicing Catholics to be considered for a teaching position within the Catholic school boards of Ontario, several media reports have surfaced saying that some individuals are lying to not only board officials but even to Catholic priests about heir adherence to the faith, in order to land a job. A Toronto-area woman, who did not want to be identified, told the Canadian Press that she and other teachers who are non-religious are attending Mass every Sunday in hopes of getting […]
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Church Should Give ‘More Consideration’ to ‘Quality’ of Homosexual Relationships: Cardinal Archbisho

ROME, May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Church should “give more consideration” to “the quality” of homosexual relationships, the cardinal archbishop of Vienna said this weekend. Christoph Schönborn told the far-left British Catholic magazine the Tablet that the Church should also consider allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion since “many people don’t even marry at all any longer.” “We should give more consideration to the quality of homosexual relationships. A stable relationship is certainly better than if someone chooses to be promiscuous,” Schönborn said. He also declined to comment when asked if the discipline of clerical celibacy is one […]
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Premiere of Abortion Industry Exposé Delayed by Pro-Abort Activists

By Peter J. Smith ALBANY, New York, May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The world premiere of the abortion industry exposé”BloodMoney” has been delayed by what its producers say was the pressure that pro-abortion activists put on the owner of the theatre where the film was to feature. The Albany Times-Union reports that Roman Jaquez, a filmmaker from Troy, New York and producer of “BloodMoney,” said that the owner of the Spectrum 8 Theatres called him over a week ago to inform him that he had canceled the screening after receiving phone calls from pro-abortion activists threatening to picket the theater for […]
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Contact Info for G8 Members

Tuesday May 4, 2010 Contact Info for G8 Members France: President President Nicolas Sarkozy Elysee Palace 55 rue du faubourg Saint-Honoré 75700 Paris France Fax: 011 331 47 422 465 Use this link to access e-mail: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://www.elysee.fr/ecrire/&prev=/search%3Fq%3DElysee%2BPalace%26hl%3Den&rurl=translate.google.ca&usg=ALkJrhitbECHnFboXYQ7IvPkzp6-N49dqw Foreign Minister Mr. Bernard Kouchner Minister of Foreign & European Affairs 244, boulevard Saint-Germain 75006 Paris France Fax: 011 331 3705 2739 Email: [email protected] Germany: Chancellor Chancellor Angela Merkel Federal Chancellery Willy-Brandt-Straße 1 10557 Berlin, Germany Fax: 011 49 304000 1850 Use this link to access e-mail: https://www.bundesregierung.de/Webs/Breg/EN/SendArticle/sendmail.html?handOverParams=docId%3D22204%26uriHash%3Dddc7a9469e3a7400%26uri%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.bundesregierung.de%252FContent%252FEN%252FBiographien%252Fbiographie-angela-merkel__en.html Foreign Minister Dr. Guido Westerwelle FDP parliamentary group Platz der Republik 1 11011 Berlin Fax: […]
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Radical Pro-Abort Diane Wood Headed to Supreme Court?

Thursday May 6, 2010 Radical Pro-Abort Diane Wood Headed to Supreme Court? By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Diane Wood, a Chicago federal judge known for her extreme hostility to even minimal legal protections for the unborn, may be topping President Obama’s short list of replacements for retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, according to various news reports in recent days. Obama has long entertained a Supreme Court possibility for Wood, who met face-to-face with the president and Vice President Biden Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Obama had also considered Wood following the retirement of Supreme […]
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Commentary: It’s Getting Dangerous Out There – A Preacher Is Arrested in Britain

Thursday May 6, 2010 Commentary: It’s Getting Dangerous Out There — A Preacher Is Arrested in Britain By Rev. Albert Mohler We are witnessing the constriction of Christian speech and the criminalizing of Christian ministry. The Bible clearly condemns homosexual behaviors, and the Christian church has been clear about this teaching for twenty centuries. But now, the statement that homosexuality is a sin can land a preacher in jail. May 6, 2010 (AlbertMohler.com) – We have seen this coming for some time now. The public space has been closing, especially when it comes to Christian speech — and especially when […]
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Tennessee Abortion Opt-Out Becomes Law without Gov.’s Signature

Wednesday May 5, 2010 Tennessee Abortion Opt-Out Becomes Law without Gov.’s Signature By Peter J. Smith NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Tennessee law opting the state out of the new national health care reform’s abortion mandate went into effect Wednesday, after Democratic governor Phil Bredesen refused to either sign or veto legislation passed by overwhelming majorities in both chambers of Tennessee’s state house. The law forbids insurance companies receiving public subsidies in the state-run health exchange from offering or requiring abortion coverage when the exchanges come online in 2014. Bills approved by the legislature in Tennessee can […]
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Kansas Senate One Vote Short of Veto Override on Late-Term Abortion Restriction Bill

Wednesday May 5, 2010 Kansas Senate One Vote Short of Veto Override on Late-Term Abortion Restriction Bill Lawmakers may reconsider override before end of session By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 12:15 pm EST 5.6.10 TOPEKA, Kansas, May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Kansas Senate’s attempt to override Gov. Mark Parkinson’s veto of a bill restricting late-term abortions fell just one vote short Wednesday, after the House earlier this week succeeded in the same effort. The Senate voted 26-14 to to override Parkinson’s veto of the bill, but 27 votes are needed for the two-thirds majority in a veto override. 24 senators […]
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Poll: Support Growing for Overturning Roe

Wednesday May 5, 2010 Poll: Support Growing for Overturning Roe By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Support for overturning Roe v. Wade is the highest among American adults since 2005, according to a Washington Post/ABC telephone survey released Friday. At the same time, however, a significantly larger number of respondents to the survey said that they would like to see Roe kept intact. The poll presented a series of questions regarding what Americans would like to see in President Obama’s choice for the next Supreme Court judge. About 60 percent of adults said they would support […]
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Florida School District Faces Lawsuit Over Ban on Religious Expression

Wednesday May 5, 2010 Florida School District Faces Lawsuit Over Ban on Religious Expression PENSACOLA, Florida, May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Santa Rosa County School District faces a lawsuit from a Christian legal advocacy group for allegedly violating First Amendment rights of teachers, students, and other individuals by muzzling their ability to exercise their religious beliefs in public. Liberty Counsel (LC) has filed a comprehensive lawsuit against the Santa Rosa County School District and its Superintendent, Timothy S. Wyrosdick, accusing them of persistent and widespread violations of First Amendment rights. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of two dozen […]
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“Hypocritical” Green Party Calls for Abortion in Canada’s Maternal Health Plan

Monday May 3, 2010 “Hypocritical” Green Party Calls for Abortion in Canada’s Maternal Health Plan By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, May 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to Canada’s Green Party, the country has been “embarrassed on the world stage” due to the unwillingness of the Conservative government to include abortion in its G8 maternal health initiative – a stance that one Canadian pro-life leader has slammed as “hypocritical.” “The point of the maternal health plan was to provide health for women who are pregnant, who need doctors, who need good medical care for themselves and their babies, and that’s […]
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Too Much TV for Toddlers Dangerous Says New Study

Monday May 3, 2010 Too Much TV for Toddlers Dangerous Says New Study MONTREAL, May 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Children who are exposed to higher television at 29 months of age appear to have more problems in school and poorer health behaviors in fourth grade, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Linda S. Pagani, Ph.D., of Université de Montréal, Canada, and colleagues studied 1,314 children in this age group whose parents reported their weekly hours of television exposure. The researchers assessed parent and teacher reports of […]
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Kansas House Overrides Veto of Late-Term Abortion Restriction Law

Monday May 3, 2010 Kansas House Overrides Veto of Late-Term Abortion Restriction Law By Kathleen Gilbert TOPEKA, Kansas, May 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kansas House of Representatives this morning overturned Governor Mark Parkinson’s veto of legislation requiring late-term abortionists to report the medical justification for performing the procedure. The 86-35 overturn came Monday, after an initial attempt on Friday fell short of the 84-vote minimum by two votes. Parkinson had vetoed the legislation April 16. The measure was crafted in response to the vague reporting methods that investigators say supported the decades-long business of slain late-term abortionist George Tiller. Nebraska […]
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Negotiations on Pro-Abort Kenyan Constitution Break Down

Monday May 3, 2010 Negotiations on Pro-Abort Kenyan Constitution Break Down By Peter J. Smith NAIROBI, Kenya, May 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Negotiations have finally broken down between Kenya’s Christian leaders and the government over a proposed draft-constitution, which would enshrine a right to abortion and establish Islamic courts within the African nation’s legal structure. The leaders of Kenya’s National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK), the Anglican Church of Kenya, the Catholic Church, and Evangelicals have recognized that the country needs a reformed constitution, but they say that they will vigorously oppose the adoption of the proposed constitution – […]
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Canadian Sociologist Slams ‘Flawed’ Poll on Sex Abuse Crisis

Monday May 3, 2010 Canadian Sociologist Slams ‘Flawed’ Poll on Sex Abuse Crisis By Patrick B. Craine May 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sociologist Reginald Bibby, revered as one of Canada’s lead observers on religious trends, has slammed an Ipsos-Reid poll released last month that claimed that two million Canadians personally know someone who was sexually abused by a Catholic priest. The poll, commissioned by Canwest News Service and Global Television, was released April 12th. Global National anchor Kevin Newman led with the poll that day and claimed that it “hints at just how widespread the problem of pedophilia may be.” […]
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Kenyan Parliament Approves Pro-Abortion Constitution

Thursday April 1, 2010 Kenyan Parliament Approves Pro-Abortion Constitution April 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues expressed its deep regret that today, the Kenyan Parliament passed a Draft Constitution which will enshrine a right to abortion in the highest law of the land. The constitution does not contain any meaningful restrictions on abortion, despite recognition of the right to life from conception. Section 26 contains language which allows abortion when in the “opinion of a trained health professional, there is need for emergency treatment, or the life or health of the mother is in danger, or […]
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Notre Dame Prez Accuses ND 88 of Threatening Peace and Order on Campus

Tuesday May 4, 2010 Notre Dame Prez Accuses ND 88 of Threatening Peace and Order on Campus By Kathleen Gilbert Edit (11:22 am EST 5.5.2010): A previous version of this story indicated that many, if not most, of the “ND 88” were not associated with activist Randall Terry. This assertion was based on information that had not been verified. We apologize for any confusion. SOUTH BEND, Indiana, May 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In what may be his first public statement on the situation of 88 pro-life protesters arrested on campus last May, University of Notre Dame President Fr. John Jenkins […]
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Thousands of Women Forcibly Sterilized in Uzbekistan

Tuesday May 4, 2010 Thousands of Women Forcibly Sterilized in Uzbekistan By Hilary White TASHKENT, May 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When doctors told a 28 year-old Uzbek woman that she had been sterilized after her first pregnancy without her knowledge or consent by government order, her husband left her. “Not a day passes without me crying,” said Gulbahor Zavidova. “I was outraged when I found out what they had done. How could they do such a horrible thing without asking me?” Human rights groups have said that a government program of stealth sterilizations is part of larger systematic human rights […]
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US Catholic Preacher/Scholar Fr. Corapi: “socialism is not in conformity with biblical teaching”

Tuesday May 4, 2010 US Catholic Preacher/Scholar Fr. Corapi: “socialism is not in conformity with biblical teaching” by Patrick Novecosky ST. LOUIS, May 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking to a crowd of more than 7,000 faithful during an intense day-long event in St. Louis on Saturday, renowned Catholic preacher Fr. John Corapi warned, “The day for fence-sitting is over; the days to be a lukewarm Catholic are rapidly coming to an end.” In a wide-ranging discourse, sponsored by the international Catholic businessmen’s organization Legatus, Corapi called Christians to task for dropping the ball and losing the culture to “neo-pagan” elements. […]
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Polygamy Controversy Presents Dilemma for Post-Christian France

Tuesday May 4, 2010 Polygamy Controversy Presents Dilemma for Post-Christian France By Hilary White NANTES, France, May 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When a Muslim woman was fined late last month in Nantes, France for driving while wearing a full face veil, the issue of polygamy burst into the spotlight when it was revealed that her husband had three other “wives.” The incident has re-opened the debate in Europe over the dilemma faced by European governments with, on the one hand, aging native populations and below-replacement birth rates, and, on the other, burgeoning Muslim immigrant populations with customs incompatible with existing […]
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Canadian Gvmt: Pro-Abort Group Lost Funding Over Performance Issues, Not Policy

Wednesday May 5, 2010 Canadian Gvmt: Pro-Abort Group Lost Funding Over Performance Issues, Not Policy By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian government has explained that a feminist and pro-abortion group working in the Third World lost federal funding due to questions about their ability to deliver their programs – an explanation that contradicts claims by the Liberal Party that the funding cut is evidence of the government’s effort to silence critics of its decision not to include abortion in the G8 maternal and child health initiative. Kim Bulger, executive director of MATCH International, […]
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Cameron’s U.K. Conservatives Promise to Consider Gay ‘Marriage’ in Equalities Manifesto

Wednesday May 5, 2010 Cameron’s U.K. Conservatives Promise to Consider Gay ‘Marriage’ in Equalities Manifesto More long-time Conservative supporters warn, “Anyone but Cameron” By Hilary White LONDON, May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday, just three days before the election, the U.K. Conservatives announced that under their leadership, the government would ‘consider’ changing the law to allow gay civil partnerships to be called marriages. Meanwhile, more British Tory supporters are warning conservative Brits not to cast their vote for David Cameron’s party in the general election tomorrow. Shadow women’s minister Theresa May made the announcement as part of the Tories’ […]
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New York High Court Grants Parental Rights to Ex-Lesbian Partner

Wednesday May 5, 2010 New York High Court Grants Parental Rights to Ex-Lesbian Partner By Peter J. Smith ALBANY, New York, May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New York’s high court, the Court of Appeals, ruled Tuesday to give visitation rights over a child born into a Vermont civil union to the mother’s former lesbian partner. The court based its decision on the fact that Vermont courts have interpreted civil unions to confer legal parenthood on the partners. At the same time, the Court resisted efforts to overturn a 19-year-old precedent that holds only a biological connection or legal adoption establishes […]
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Regional Marches for Life Set to Go Across Canada – Complete List

Wednesday May 5, 2010 Regional Marches for Life Set to Go Across Canada – Complete List By Thaddeus M. Baklinski May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More and larger Marches for Life are taking place in cities across Canada this year to coincide with the annual National March for Life in Ottawa on May 13. Intended for those who want to make a pro-life statement but do not have the time or resources to make the trek to Ottawa, these regional marches take place in nearly every province and, like the National March for Life, have seen an increase in participation […]
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Former Patient Challenges Pro-Abort MP to Debate Abortion

Wednesday May 5, 2010 Former Patient Challenges Pro-Abort MP to Debate Abortion CALGARY, Alberta, May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In response to Liberal Member of Parliament Dr. Hedy Fry’s claim that the abortion debate is unnecessary in Canada, one of her former patients is publicly challenging her to discuss the issue – a patient cared for by Dr. Fry in-utero and beyond. Yesterday, Fry, Member of Parliament from Vancouver Centre, stated that she was ready to debate abortion with anyone, but that the debate was not necessary in Canada. “She obviously hasn’t paid attention to what’s going on at universities […]
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Russian Patriarch Calls for More Babies

Tuesday May 4, 2010 Russian Patriarch Calls for More Babies By Patrick B. Craine BELGOROD, Russia, May 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has stressed the need for more children to solve Russia’s growing demographic problems, reports Interfax. “What’s the good of having economy, if our nation is sick? How will we reclaim these boundless spaces, vast lands, not only in European part of Russia, but in Siberia as well?” said Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at a meeting of the Belgorod branch of the World Russian People’s Council. The Russian population has […]
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Polish Parents Group Launches Campaign For Ethical-Origin Vaccines

Tuesday May 4, 2010 Polish Parents Group Launches Campaign For Ethical-Origin Vaccines By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WARSAW, May 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of parents from Poland has launched a campaign for ethical-origin vaccines for their children to be made available in their country. “We want Polish parents to be aware that many of the most popular and mandatory vaccines are prepared on cells derived from aborted human fetuses,” said Karol Piekutowski, spokesman for the group Dobre Szczepionki (Ethical Vaccines), in an email to LifeSiteNews. “Our goal is to initiate discussion and accelerate the actions that Polish authorities and […]
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Poll Shows 70% of Irish Oppose Abortion – Boosts Pro-Life Election Campaigners

Tuesday May 4, 2010 Poll Shows 70% of Irish Oppose Abortion – Boosts Pro-Life Election Campaigners By Hilary White DUBLIN, May 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A recent poll showing that 70 per cent of the people of the Republic of Ireland support keeping the country’s constitutional protections for the unborn, has bolstered the work of pro-life lobbyists in Northern Ireland in the build-up to the UK general election on May 6. The poll by PLC/Millward Brown found that 70 per cent of Irish people favor retaining a prohibition on abortion, while allowing the existing practice of intervening to save a […]
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California Therapist Association Pressured to Disbar Members Who Treat Unwanted Homosexuality

Monday May 3, 2010 California Therapist Association Pressured to Disbar Members Who Treat Unwanted Homosexuality By Kathleen Gilbert SAN DIEGO, California, May 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – California’s pro-family therapists are striving to persuade the state’s largest therapist association to stand firm against demands to suppress or kick out members who seek to help clients with unwanted same-sex attraction. LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) reported in March that the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) has already submitted to demands from the gay-rights community to retract articles in the organization’s magazine that supported traditional views on marriage and sexuality, apologize for and […]
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Human Services Dept. Allegedly Pressured Teen to Get Abortion

Monday May 3, 2010 Human Services Dept. Allegedly Pressured Teen to Get Abortion By James Tillman PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — A caseworker with the Philadelphia Department of Human Services (DHS) allegedly pressured a pregnant teenager in foster care into a late-term abortion by threatening to take away her toddler or her yet-unborn baby. Additionally, Marisol Rivera, the girl’s social worker, said that she was fired for refusing to take the teen to a late-term abortion clinic. “They hired me to work in child protection, not to kill children,” Rivera told the Philadelphia Daily News. According to the […]
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Defense Secretary Gates to Phase Out Ban on Openly Gay Military

Wednesday February 3, 2010 Defense Secretary Gates to Phase Out Ban on Openly Gay Military By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, February 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two top military officials confirmed to Congress yesterday that the U.S. military would heed President Obama’s urging in his State of the Union address, and begin evaluating how to phase out enforcement of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy banning open homosexuals from serving in the military. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that, “The question before us is not whether the military prepares to make this change, but […]
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U.S. Study: Women Waiting Longer to Have Children and Record Number are Unmarried

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WASHINGTON, DC, May 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A report published by the Pew Research Center yesterday says that women in the United States are waiting longer to begin having children, and far fewer of them are married. The study by Gretchen Livingston and D’Vera Cohn examined the changing demographic characteristics of U.S. mothers by comparing women who gave birth in 2008 with those who gave birth in 1990. The researchers found that since 1990, the percentage of new mothers over the age of 35 has risen by five per cent, while the percentage of unmarried mothers […]
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Lawmakers Raise Concerns about Pentagon Approval of Plan B Pill for U.S. Bases

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., May 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A cadre of U.S. Congressmen has demanded that the U.S. Department of Defense explain its decision to stock the abortifacient Plan-B contraceptive on U.S. bases, citing concerns over the health effects it may have on female soldiers, conscience protections, and the potential for exploitation of minors. Nebraska Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.), along with thirteen House colleagues, sent a letter Wednesday to Defense Secretary Robert Gates regarding the Defense Department's policy on stocking and distributing the “morning-after pill,” an emergency contraception also known as “Plan B” or “Next Choice.” The […]
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D&P Thailand-Based Partner Promotes Abortion/Contraception, Blasts “Reactionary” Vatican

By Patrick B. Craine BANGKOK, Thailand, May 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Another partner of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development & Peace (D&P) has been found promoting abortion and contraception in the developing world. Ironically, the group, which admits that one of its main sources of funding is the Canadian Catholic bishops’ official development arm, has also repeatedly criticized the Catholic Church and its bishops for their stance on “reproductive choice.” Bangkok-based Focus on the Global South (FGS) was founded in 1995, and works in Thailand, India, and the Philippines.  They conduct research and advocacy related to “globalisation, neo-liberalism and militarisation,” […]
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Letters to the Editor

Re: Human Services Dept. Allegedly Pressured Teen to Get Abortion  Dear Editor: Tragically, once again the concept of “choice” is shown to be a myth. Jennifer Schmidt Baltimore, Maryland ____________________________________________________________________ Re: Poll Shows 70% of Irish Oppose Abortion – Boosts Pro-Life Election Campaigners That the poll shows 70% is actually sad news and good news. Not long ago the irish were 90% pro-life so that is a loss of 20%.  The prolife work has kept the fall from being much more, I am sure, but faulty education and lack of direction from the pulpit and the rabidly anti-life media have been […]
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Overwhelming Positive Response From LSN Subscribers to New Daily News HTML Email Format

By Steve Jalsevac May 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since LifeSiteNews launched its Daily News email HTML format option, there has been a very positive response to the change from LSN subscribers. The addition of this option brings the LifeSiteNews email subscription service up to the latest Internet design standards for such services, emphasizing brevity, simplicity, attractive presentation and links to the website for full content. We hope this will spur many more regular visitors to the LifeSiteNews website to try out the free daily news email subscription service which saves them from having to make frequent visits to the website to keep track of the posting of LSN reports.  […]
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Wisconsin Facility Asserts Continued Interest in Late-Term Abortions, Vague on Location

By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 6:21 EST MADISON, Wisconsin, May 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The health system for the University of Wisconsin, UW Health, is denying that it has abandoned its intent to begin late-term abortions – a denial apparently meant to contradict a communication from the Wisconsin state Attorney General's office, which affirmed Wednesday that plans to provide the procedure at the Madison Surgery Center had been shot down. But pro-Life Wisconsin and the Alliance Defense Fund are pointing out that the statements from the attorney general and UW Health are not necessarily contradictory. UW Health's statement says that the “timing [and] location” of the procedure would now […]
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FRC Responds to Reports of Pro-Family Leader Accused of Affair with Male Escort

By Peter J. Smith and John-Henry Westen MIAMI, Florida, May 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family advocates in North America have been left scratching their heads after news broke earlier this week that a prominent pro-family leader was caught on camera on April 13 with a homosexual male escort called “Lucien” when they arrived at Miami International Airport on Iberian Airlines Flight 6123.   Professor George Rekers, a co-founder of the Family Research Council (FRC) and an officer on the boards of the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) and American College of Pediatricians (ACP), has denied accusations […]
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Florida Gov. Crist Swaying Toward Veto for Abortion Mandate Opt-Out, Ultrasound Bill

By Kathleen Gilbert TALLAHASSEE, Florida, May 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) -  Facing immense pressure to veto a measure that both opts the state out of the federal health law's abortion mandate and requires ultrasounds before abortion, Florida governor Charlie Crist has said that, even though he is personally “pro-life,” he may strike down the bill out of unwillingness “to impose my will on others.” The controversial bill, HB 1143, requires abortionists to give women an opportunity to view ultrasound images of their unborn children before an abortion, and to provide a “description of the fetus, including a description of the various […]
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Ontario Court Protects Anonymity of Commentators on Conservative Message Board

By Patrick B. Craine May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Free-speech advocates are celebrating the Monday decision of the Ontario Divisional Court to protect the right to privacy of anonymous internet commentators. Richard Warman, the Canadian Human Rights Commission's serial complainant, sought the release of information identifying eight anonymous posters to the conservative message board Free Dominion, which is run by Mark and Connie Fournier. Judge Stanley Kershman had ruled in March 2009 that the Fourniers were to give Warman personal information such as IP addresses and email addresses for these anonymous posters, whom Warman had named as co-defendants in a […]
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Denmark Allows Gay Partners to Jointly Adopt Children

By Hilary White COPENHAGEN, May 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Danish parliament voted this week to allow homosexuals in legal civil partnerships to adopt children jointly. Monday’s vote, however, was not supported by the government, but was pushed through by a coalition of opposition and breakaway members of the ruling Liberal party. The law was tabled a year ago and follows existing permissions for homosexuals to adopt the existing children of their civil partners. The Copenhagen Post quoted Justice minister Lars Barfoed who said last week that the government would remain firm in its commitment to vote against the bill. […]
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SPUC’s John Smeaton: Appointment of Fisichella to New Pontifical Council a sign of ‘Cancer’ in the C

By Hilary White ROME, May 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One prominent international pro-life leader has reacted angrily to the rumor, circulated last month by Italian and U.S. journalists, that the head of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV), Archbishop “Rino” Salvatore Fisichella, could be promoted to the head of a new dicastery. John Smeaton, the head of the Society for the Protection for Unborn Children (SPUC), one of Europe’s most prominent and successful pro-life and pro-family organizations, wrote on his blog today that the position Fisichella outlined in his now infamous article about a Brazilian abortion case – together […]
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U.S., U.K. Criticize Canada for Refusing to Bring Abortion Funding Debate Into G8

By Terrence McKeegan, J.D. NEW YORK, May 6, 2010 (C-FAM) – The campaign to insert abortion funding into maternal health initiatives has dominated the media coverage leading up to the 36th annual G8 Summit, which will be held in Huntsville, Canada in late June.  The host government, Canada, has come under considerable criticism from the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK), pro-abortion NGOs and the Canadian media for refusing to bring abortion into the debate. The G8 Summit brings together the leaders of eight of the largest economies of the world.  Traditionally, the host country has wide latitude to […]
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UNFPA, Amnesty and CRR to Push “Reproductive Rights” on UN Treaty Bodies

By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, May 6, 2010 (C-FAM) – This week, abortion advocates, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) and Amnesty International (AI), are teaming up with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to host the “first-ever” briefings on “reproductive rights” for the committees responsible for monitoring compliance with the Convention Against Torture (CAT) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). According to the CRR website, the briefing with the UN Committee against Torture (CAT) will focus on “reproductive rights violations” such  “denial of reproductive healthcare services, including abortion and post-abortion care.” Critics point out […]
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Commentary: It’s Getting Dangerous Out There — A Preacher Is Arrested in Britain

By Rev. Albert Mohler We are witnessing the constriction of Christian speech and the criminalizing of Christian ministry. The Bible clearly condemns homosexual behaviors, and the Christian church has been clear about this teaching for twenty centuries. But now, the statement that homosexuality is a sin can land a preacher in jail. May 6, 2010 (AlbertMohler.com) – We have seen this coming for some time now. The public space has been closing, especially when it comes to Christian speech — and especially when that speech is about homosexuality. Now, a Christian preacher has been arrested in Britain for the crime […]
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Three Anglican Bishops Discuss Reunion with Rome

Monday May 3, 2010 Three Anglican Bishops Discuss Reunion with Rome By James Tillman LONDON, April 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Three traditionally-inclined Church of England bishops recently travelled to Rome for exploratory talks regarding Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus, which allows Anglicans to join the Catholic Church while retaining some of their distinctive religious practices. Bishop John Broadhurst of Fulham, Bishop Keith Newton of Richborough, and Bishop Andrew Burnham of Ebbsfleet met with officials of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Each of the three Bishops are well-known for opposing the increasingly liberal path that the Church […]
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Florida Axes Taxpayer Abortion Mandate from Health Care Exchanges

Friday April 30, 2010 Florida Axes Taxpayer Abortion Mandate from Health Care Exchanges By Peter J. Smith Updated at 6:25pm on 4/30/10. WASHINGTON, D.C., April 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a dramatic wrap-up to this year’s legislative session, Florida lawmakers passed a health care bill that makes Florida the fourth state to opt out of the national health care bill’s abortion-mandate, guaranteeing that insurance plans that cover abortions and participate in the state’s new health care exchange cannot receive tax dollars. The bill also requires abortionists to give their patients an ultrasound before performing an abortion, a provision which generated […]
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Vancouver Hospital Opens ‘Angel’s Cradle’ Anonymous Baby Drop-Off

Monday May 3, 2010 Vancouver Hospital Opens ‘Angel’s Cradle’ Anonymous Baby Drop-Off By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VANCOUVER, May 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver today launched a newborn drop-off facility called Angel’s Cradle that will provide a place for mothers to abandon their babies anonymously and safely. The door to the Angel’s Cradle, set in a private alcove near the hospital’s emergency entrance, is set up to automatically trigger an alarm 30 seconds after a baby is placed inside. After the alarm has alerted nurses to the presence of the child, doctors at the hospital will assess […]
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Gay Anglican Bishop Lectures Pope on Abuse Scandal

Monday May 3, 2010 Gay Anglican Bishop Lectures Pope on Abuse Scandal By James Tillman May 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Bishop Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal bishop whose 2003 ordination threatened to tear apart the Global Anglican Communion, has published an open letter to Pope Benedict XVI, in which he advises the pope how to reform the Church and denies any connection between homosexuality and the sex abuse crisis. In his letter Robinson recalls how the Episcopal Church became aware of the sexual abuse of minors in its ranks twenty years ago in the United States, and relates in […]
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New PRI Video Debunks Food Supply Fears: There’s Lots of It

Monday May 3, 2010 New PRI Video Debunks Food Supply Fears: There’s Lots of It FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, May 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Population Research Institute (PRI) has just released the third video in its YouTube cartoon series, designed to refute the idea of overpopulation with science — and stick figures. Contrary to claims advanced by population control advocates, the latest video reveals data indicating that world hunger is not caused by a lack of food, but by wars, lack of transportation, and economic factors. To date the series has garnered well over 200,000 views on YouTube, and has […]
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Pelosi Invoked Fr. Hesburgh to Turn ‘No’ Health Bill Vote to ‘Yes’

Monday March 29, 2010 Pelosi Invoked Fr. Hesburgh to Turn ‘No’ Health Bill Vote to ‘Yes’ By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, March 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, the prestigious former president of the University of Notre Dame, may have helped swing a critical House Democrat vote to the “yes” column after House Speaker Pelosi asked for his help, reported the LA Times and the Associated Press last Tuesday. The South Bend Tribune confirmed the report on Friday. Hesburgh was called in to persuade U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) to vote for the health care bill despite the […]
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Bishop Tells Pro-Life Democrat: Nuns Can’t Absolve ObamaCare Vote

Tuesday March 30, 2010 Bishop Tells Pro-Life Democrat: Nuns Can’t Absolve ObamaCare Vote By Peter J. Smith EVANSVILLE, Indiana, March 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic nuns cannot absolve U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-Ind.) for voting for the Senate’s health care reform bill and failing to protect the sanctity of life, says Ellsworth’s own bishop. Bishop Gerald Gettelfinger of Evansville went after Ellsworth, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, and other “skitterish” pro-life politicians for using the statements of Network, a “social justice” lobby of Catholic nuns, and the Catholic Health Association to “digress and absolve themselves from the constant position […]
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Christian Couple Forced to Sell Hotel after being Cleared of Religious Discrimination Charges

Thursday April 1, 2010 Christian Couple Forced to Sell Hotel after being Cleared of Religious Discrimination Charges By Hilary White LIVERPOOL, April 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UK Christian couple has been forced to put their hotel up for auction, even after having been cleared of all accusations in a religious discrimination case. Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang said that business at their nine-bedroom Bounty House hotel has collapsed and they are losing about £8,000 per month. The couple is receiving help from the Christian Institute and is considering legal action against Merseyside police and the Crown Prosecution Service. The charges […]
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Coalition: Keep Students Home on Homosexualist ‘Day of Silence’

Tuesday March 16, 2010 Coalition: Keep Students Home on Homosexualist ‘Day of Silence’ TINLEY PARK, Illinois, March 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A national coalition of organizations committed to preserving parental rights in public education is urging parents to keep their children at home from schools that are complying with the Day of Silence endorsing homosexuality. The Day of Silence on April 16 is a political protest sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) that encourages acceptance of homosexuality and Gender Identity Disorder by asking students to refuse to speak in class, in honor of homosexual victims of […]
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U.S. Study Finds Doctors May Be Euthanizing Dying Children at Parents’ Request

Wednesday March 31, 2010 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 […]
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Benedict “Has Done More than Any other Pope or Bishop” to Confront Sex Abuse

Tuesday March 30, 2010 Benedict “Has Done More than Any other Pope or Bishop” to Confront Sex Abuse By John-Henry Westen ANCHORAGE, March 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mainstream media effort to tar Pope Benedict with the sexual abuse scandal has served to bring to the fore evidence that Cardinal Ratzinger – now Pope Benedict – has in fact, in the words of one of his defenders, “done more than any pope or bishop” to halt the sexual abuse scandal. In recent days, numerous commentators, including in some cases even critics of the Church who believe that there is more […]
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Glenn Beck on President Obama’s Deep Socialist Roots

Wednesday April 7, 2010 Glenn Beck on President Obama’s Deep Socialist Roots By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., April 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative commentator Glenn Beck revealed evidence which he says shows that President Obama’s upbringing was steeped in socialism – the primary political ideology Beck contends formed the man who has made clear he intends to “fundamentally transform America.” While Beck emphasized repeatedly on his FOX television program that he was not attacking Obama’s family, he said that Americans should know the philosophical foundations of Obama’s life and that “the tragedy of this kid’s childhood is staggering.” “His […]
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U.S. Congressmen: Clinton’s G8 Abortion Push is “Outrageous,” Misrepresenting America

Thursday April 1, 2010 U.S. Congressmen: Clinton’s G8 Abortion Push is “Outrageous,” Misrepresenting America By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, April 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has received a flurry of criticism from politicians on both sides of the border for pushing abortion as a necessary component of the Canadian government’s G8 maternal and child health initiative. While Canadian Conservative politicians and even the prime minister resented Clinton’s interference into Canadian politics, several Congressmen from her own nation have decried her intervention as misrepresenting America. Speaking by telephone, leading pro-life Congressman Chris Smith told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that […]
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UN Report Calls for $24 Billion/Year on “Modern Family Planning” including Abortion

Thursday April 1, 2010 UN Report Calls for $24 Billion/Year on “Modern Family Planning” including Abortion By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. April 1, 2010 (C-FAM) – A just-released United Nations (UN) report backed by the world’s top population organizations argues that nations should double their investment in family planning and abortion in poor countries for a total of $24 billion a year, claiming this would dramatically reduce maternal and child deaths and solve a host of social ills. The report, entitled “Adding it Up: the Costs and Benefits of Investing in Family Planning and Maternal and Newborn Health,” makes the claim […]
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Pro-Abort Garrison Keillor to Deliver Catholic Teachers Assoc. Keynote Address

Monday March 1, 2010 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,” […]
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Swedish Respirator Decision Not “Euthanasia” Despite Confusing Media Reportage

Monday May 3, 2010 Swedish Respirator Decision Not “Euthanasia” Despite Confusing Media Reportage By Hilary White STOCKHOLM, May 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) has announced that there is no legal bar to incapacitated patients, who are not terminally ill, removing life-sustaining equipment such as respirators, even if doing so will cause death. While the media is widely interpreting this as permission for euthanasia, a prominent anti-euthanasia activist has cautioned that this language could be creating confusion. In a statement issued today, spokesman Anders Printz, said, “It is always the individual patient who […]
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Canadian Pro-Life Victory: Liberal Abortion Motion Defeated

Tuesday March 23, 2010 Canadian Pro-Life Victory: Liberal Abortion Motion Defeated By John-Henry Westen and John Jalsevac OTTAWA, March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During a nail-biting session in Canadian parliament Tuesday, the Liberal motion which sought to force Prime Minister Stephen Harper to include abortion in the Canadian plan to address maternal and child health at the G8 summit was defeated in a narrow 144-138 vote. Rae’s motion stated that the maternal health plan “must include the full range of family planning, sexual and reproductive health options,” which would have included abortion. Minister for International Cooperation Bev Oda, announced this […]
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Breaking: Wisconsin Facility Abandons Late-term Abortion Plan under Pro-Life Fire

By Kathleen Gilbert MADISON, Wisconsin, May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-Life Wisconsin (PLW), through the Alliance Defense Fund, announced Wednesday that they have received official confirmation from the Wisconsin Attorney General’s office that the Madison Surgery Center (MSC) has abandoned its plans to perform late-term abortions.   “We give credit first and foremost to God for this pro-life victory,” said Peggy Hamill, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin, in a statement Wednesday. “Pro-life grassroots activism works. We have held countless prayer vigils, attended by thousands; aired hundreds of pro-life television commercials in the Madison area; tens of thousands of people signed […]
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Tennessee Abortion Opt-Out Becomes Law without Gov.‘s Signature

By Peter J. Smith NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Tennessee law opting the state out of the new national health care reform’s abortion mandate went into effect Wednesday, after Democratic governor Phil Bredesen refused to either sign or veto legislation passed by overwhelming majorities in both chambers of Tennessee’s state house. The law forbids insurance companies receiving public subsidies in the state-run health exchange from offering or requiring abortion coverage when the exchanges come online in 2014. Bills approved by the legislature in Tennessee can take effect even if the governor declines to take action on them. A […]
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Canadian Gvmt: Pro-Abort Group Lost Funding Over Performance Issues, Not Policy

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian government has explained that a feminist and pro-abortion group working in the Third World lost federal funding due to questions about their ability to deliver their programs – an explanation that contradicts claims by the Liberal Party that the funding cut is evidence of the government's effort to silence critics of its decision not to include abortion in the G8 maternal and child health initiative. Kim Bulger, executive director of MATCH International, claimed Tuesday that her group and ten other feminist groups have been defunded as part of […]
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At only 14 Months of Age, Boy Towers Over Mother

Friday April 30, 2010 At only 14 Months of Age, Boy Towers Over Mother By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman LONDON, April 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amanda Moore, a twenty-five year old woman who suffers from a crippling bone disease, was advised by her physicians to get an abortion when she became pregnant in 2008. She stands only three feet tall, and was told that her body could not sustain a child. However, Moore said her love of her child was stronger than her fear of death, and she decided to continue with the pregnancy. Today, only 14 months after his birth, […]
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Pro-Lifers to Protest Largest Planned Parenthood Facility in Western Hemisphere

Friday April 30, 2010 Pro-Lifers to Protest Largest Planned Parenthood Facility in Western Hemisphere HOUSTON, April 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Houston Pro-life groups are planning a huge prayer vigil today (Friday, April 30) in protest of Planned Parenthood’s Gala celebration of the completion of the largest abortion facility in the western hemisphere. The 78,000-square foot facility, which has been constructed to perform late-term abortions, is scheduled to open on May 11. In a press release the Houston Coalition for Life notes that the new facility will make Houston “the abortion capital of the southern part of the United States and […]
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Hawaii House Sneaks Gay Civil Unions Bill out of the Closet and into Law with Surprise Vote

Friday April 30, 2010 Hawaii House Sneaks Gay Civil Unions Bill out of the Closet and into Law with Surprise Vote By Peter J. Smith HONOLULU, April 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family advocates were taken by surprise when the Hawaii House of Representatives unexpectedly revived and passed legislation that would establish same-sex civil unions and make them equivalent to marriage, nearly three months after everyone thought the issue was a dead letter. The Senate bill taken up by the House (HB 444) “extends the same rights, benefits, protections, and responsibilities of spouses in a marriage to partners in a civil […]
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French Religious Community Welcomes Girls with Down Syndrome

Monday March 29, 2010 French Religious Community Welcomes Girls with Down Syndrome By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LE BLANC, France, March 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Little Sisters Disciples of the Lamb are a contemplative religious community in France that enables girls with Down syndrome to respond to a religious vocation. The tiny community, founded in 1985 and based in Le Blanc, in the diocese of Bourges, is made up of seven sisters, five of whom have Down syndrome. In a world where up to 90 percent of Down syndrome children are aborted, the Prioress of the Little Sisters Disciples of […]
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University of Victoria Pro-Life Club Takes Student Union to Court

By Patrick B. Craine VICTORIA, British Columbia, May 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Youth Protecting Youth (YPY), the University of Victoria's pro life club, filed a petition Monday in the British Columbia Supreme Court, initiating legal proceedings against the University of Victoria Students’ Society (UVSS). “We have watched pro life student groups throughout the province, and across the country, face the stifling and discriminatory decisions of Student Societies that deny them funding or club status,” said YPY president Anastasia Pearse, a UVic student and member of UVSS. The lawsuit seeks various court orders declaring that UVSS has acted unlawfully in denying […]
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Commentary: Pro-Life Women Urge Lobbying of G8 Members on Abortion Push at G8 Summit

Commentary by Gwen Landolt and Cecilia Forsyth of REAL Women Canada Note: Contact information for members of the G8 can be found here. Background May 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as President of the G-8 this year, stated in January 2010, that maternal health care would be a priority at the G-8 meeting. He has stated that maternal health would include only positive assistance to women and children, which includes clean water, inoculations and better nutrition, as well as the training of health workers to care for women and deliver babies.   Canadian feminists and population […]
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Why Some Letters to Editor Not Published

LSN receives many letters to the editor which we would like to publish but cannot for four main reasons: The writers fail to include their full name and address at the end of the letter. This is the most common reason letters cannot be published. The letters are far too long. They are more denominational religious or theological pieces rather than commentary on the facts of a story. LifeSiteNews is not a religious or Catholic news service although we do heavily report on many Catholic and otherwise religious developments in the context of the culture war. We do not assume all […]
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US Catholic Preacher/Scholar Fr. Corapi: ‘Socialism is Not in Conformity with Biblical Teaching’

by Patrick Novecosky ST. LOUIS, May 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking to a crowd of more than 7,000 faithful during an intense day-long event in St. Louis on Saturday, renowned Catholic preacher Fr. John Corapi warned, “The day for fence-sitting is over; the days to be a lukewarm Catholic are rapidly coming to an end.”  In a wide-ranging discourse, sponsored by the international Catholic businessmen's organization Legatus, Corapi called Christians to task for dropping the ball and losing the culture to “neo-pagan” elements. “The unraveling of Christianity has led to the unraveling of the world,” he explained. “We are at […]
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Pro-Life Freedom Rides Announced for This Summer

Friday April 30, 2010 Pro-Life Freedom Rides Announced for This Summer BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, April 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More than 100 people listened on in Birmingham’s Kelly Ingram Park Tuesday as Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, and Dr. Alveda King, director of the organization’s African-American Outreach, formally announced plans for Pro-Life Freedom Rides that will begin this summer. “We are here to launch a movement within the greater pro-life movement, a movement of Freedom Rides for the Unborn,” Father Pavone said during the morning press conference. “Like the Freedom Rides of five decades ago, these freedom […]
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Lesbian Teacher’s Allegation She Was ‘Fired’ From B.C. Catholic School Sparks Debate

Friday April 30, 2010 Lesbian Teacher’s Allegation She Was ‘Fired’ From B.C. Catholic School Sparks Debate By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VANCOUVER, April 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Debate over the right of religious schools to expect staff to follow a code of conduct in keeping with the school’s moral values has been re-ignited after lesbian music teacher Lisa Reimer claimed she was “fired” by Little Flower Academy, one of three private Vancouver Catholic schools. Reimer says she was fired when school administration discovered that she and her homosexual partner were having a baby. Reimer, who is not Catholic, said she signed […]
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U.S. Bill Would Amend Health Care to Exclude Abortion Funding

Thursday April 29, 2010 U.S. Bill Would Amend Health Care to Exclude Abortion Funding WASHINGTON, D.C., April 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA) has introduced bipartisan legislation that aims to apply the Hyde amendment to the recently passed health care law. Rep. Pitts’ bill would amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to prevent federal funding for abortion or abortion coverage through government exchanges, community health centers, or any other program funded or created by PPACA. Additionally, the bill protects the right of conscience for health care professionals and ensures that private insurance companies are not forced […]
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From the Experts: The Keys to Ending Maternal Mortality

Thursday April 29, 2010 From the Experts: The Keys to Ending Maternal Mortality By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., April 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two experts on maternal mortality spoke at a congressional briefing on Tuesday sponsored by U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), a pro-life and human rights leader, explaining the global decline in maternal deaths and why life-affirming maternal care, not abortion, is a practical solution. According to the World Health Organization, maternal conditions contributed to 1.9 percent of the world’s total deaths in 2004. While the death of the mother is already a tragedy, the tragedy is compounded […]
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New York Proposes ‘Presumed Consent’ Organ Harvesting Law

Thursday April 29, 2010 New York Proposes ‘Presumed Consent’ Organ Harvesting Law By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, April 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Citing the shortage in organs available for transplant, a state assemblyman in New York has proposed that all citizens of the state become automatically enrolled as candidates for organ harvesting. New York State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky has introduced a new bill in Albany that aims to enroll all New Yorkers as organ donors unless they take action to opt out. If passed, Brodsky’s bill would become the first such law the U.S. However, a similar bill was also […]
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Military Chaplains Urge Obama to Maintain Ban on Open Homosexuals in Military

Wednesday April 28, 2010 Military Chaplains Urge Obama to Maintain Ban on Open Homosexuals in Military By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over 40 retired military chaplains are urging President Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates to consider the impairment of religious liberty that would likely result from imposing a “non-discrimination” policy regarding open homosexuals in the military. The Family Research Council (FRC) and the Alliance Defense Fund Wednesday released a letter signed by the chaplains expressing concern over what they claim would be a threat to Christian free speech if the military’s “don’t ask, don’t […]
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Dutch Pro-Lifers Erect Display with 30,000 Unborn Baby Models

Friday April 30, 2010 Dutch Pro-Lifers Erect Display with 30,000 Unborn Baby Models By Michael van der Mast, the Netherlands April 30, 2010, (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the decriminalization of abortion in the Netherlands, the Dutch Pro-Life organization Cry for Life laid down 30,000 models of a 10-week-old unborn child. The display was erected in the Square next to the government buildings in centre of The Hague, the Netherlands, on Wednesday, April 28. On that date in 1981, the Dutch Senate approved the Pregnancy Termination Bill, by the narrowest possible margin of thirty-eight votes […]
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Marvel/DC Comics Illustrator Creates Pro-Life Comic Book

Thursday April 29, 2010 Marvel/DC Comics Illustrator Creates Pro-Life Comic Book By Peter J. Smith UNITED STATES, April 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Professional illustrators come in all shapes and sizes, but very few of them have a pro-life or Christian perspective. But that is something that Dan Lawlis, a professional illustrator for over 20 years who has created comic book art for companies like Marvel and DC Comics, wants to change. Lawlis is endeavoring to use the internet to bring a new comic book vision to the world, and has made his first go at the effort with the comic […]
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California Therapist Association Pressured to Disbar Members Who Treat Unwanted Homosexuality

By Kathleen Gilbert SAN DIEGO, California, May 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – California's pro-family therapists are striving to persuade the state's largest therapist association to stand firm against demands to suppress or kick out members who seek to help clients with unwanted same-sex attraction. LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) reported in March that the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) has already submitted to demands from the gay-rights community to retract articles in the organization's magazine that supported traditional views on marriage and sexuality, apologize for and condemn them as “homophobic,” and submit an amicus curiae brief opposing California's gay “marriage” ban.  […]
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Swedish Respirator Decision Not “Euthanasia” Despite Confusing Media Reportage

By Hilary White STOCKHOLM, May 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) has announced that there is no legal bar to incapacitated patients, who are not terminally ill, removing life-sustaining equipment such as respirators, even if doing so will cause death. While the media is widely interpreting this as permission for euthanasia, a prominent anti-euthanasia activist has cautioned that this language could be creating confusion. In a statement issued today, spokesman Anders Printz, said, “It is always the individual patient who decides, together with their doctor, over treatment and care. “While the board does not make […]
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News Briefs on Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse VI

Friday April 30, 2010 News Briefs on Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse VI * Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. Compiled by Steve Jalsevac Some Further Tidying Up Regarding Hitchens Claims – Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post My dispute with Hitchens is not about ecclesiology or spirituality. It is about journalism and telling the truth. In his March 18 column, Hitchens wrote that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger sent a letter to all the bishops of the world about […]
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Kansas House Fails Veto Override on Late-Term Abortion Bill

Friday April 30, 2010 Kansas House Fails Veto Override on Late-Term Abortion Bill By John Jalsevac TOPEKA, Kan., April 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Kansas House of Representatives on Friday failed in a bid to override Gov. Mark Parkinson’s veto of HB 2115, which would have provided new reporting standards for late-term abortions. The vote of 82-40 fell just two votes shy of the 84 votes needed to override. In vetoing the bill the governor had said that, “My view is that all abortions are tragedies, which is why I would encourage women who have unwanted pregnancies to consult with […]
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New Push to Extend Pro-Abort Backed Maputo Plan of Action in Africa

Thursday April 29, 2010 New Push to Extend Pro-Abort Backed Maputo Plan of Action in Africa By Samantha Singson April 29, 2010 (C-FAM) – Last week, the African Union (AU) held a continental conference on maternal and child health in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss the possibility of extending the non-binding Maputo Plan of Action on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (Maputo PoA), which was scheduled to expire this year. The conference, themed “Achieving the MDGs through the Accelerated Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality in Africa,” brought together maternal and child health experts from AU Member States, United […]
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Letters to the Editor

Wednesday April 28, 2010 Letters to the Editor Re: “We Will Not Abandon the Unborn Child”: Calgary Pro-Life Students Threatened with Expulsion Copy of letter to the interim Dean at the University of Calgary. I fully support the 8 students who are having to endure this –please pass this on to them if you are able. Dear Dr. Veale, I am writing to ask you to support our right as Canadians to free speech. I understand that at least eight of the students from the U of C are facing discipline as a result of their convictions to speak for […]
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Law Targeting International Sex Trafficking Moves Forward in U.S. House – Sponsored by Chris Smith

Wednesday April 28, 2010 Law Targeting International Sex Trafficking Moves Forward in U.S. House – Sponsored by Chris Smith By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The battle against international sex-trafficking took a new step forward Wednesday after the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs approved legislation that would establish an international database of registered sex offenders and traffickers – an international version of the U.S. “Megan’s Law” – which its sponsors say would greatly assist authorities worldwide in preventing the exploitation of children by international sex tourists. The measure, sponsored by U.S. Congressman Chris Smith, […]
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Parents Must Stand against Explicit Sex Ed in Ontario Catholic Schools: Pro-Family Group

Wednesday April 28, 2010 Parents Must Stand against Explicit Sex Ed in Ontario Catholic Schools: Pro-Family Group By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A prominent Catholic pro-life and pro-family organization is calling on parents and other concerned individuals to take action in the wake of an attempt by the Ontario Ministry of Education to force a new controversial elementary sex-ed curriculum on Catholic schools. Campaign Life Catholic (CLC), which has been lobbying against the curriculum behind-the-scenes since the fall, says that parents cannot let up on the pressure against the curriculum despite the government’s decision […]
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Book Shows Why Abortion for Young Rape Victim Is Likely to Harm, Not Help

Wednesday April 28, 2010 Book Shows Why Abortion for Young Rape Victim Is Likely to Harm, Not Help Springfield, IL, April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The news that an 11-year-old girl in Mexico who became pregnant through rape, allegedly by her stepfather, has decided to continue her pregnancy has caused a lot of controversy in recent days. Some abortion advocates have argued that the girl in Mexico is too young to continue the pregnancy and should have an abortion, with some even suggesting that it be done despite her expressed wish to have the baby. Such issues are also a […]
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Canadian Gvmt: No Abortion in G8 Maternal Health Plan

Tuesday April 27, 2010 Canadian Gvmt: No Abortion in G8 Maternal Health Plan By Patrick B. Craine HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, April 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada will not fund abortion as part of its ‘signature’ initiative to promote maternal and child health care as president of this June’s G8 summit, International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda announced Monday. “Canada’s contribution to maternal and child health may involve various interventions, including family planning, which includes the use of contraceptive methods,” said Oda, who heads the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), according to the Toronto Star. “The details remain to be determined; however, […]
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Gruesome Find: 300 Urns Dumped in Lake Zurich, Likely by Swiss Suicide Facility

Wednesday April 28, 2010 Gruesome Find: 300 Urns Dumped in Lake Zurich, Likely by Swiss Suicide Facility By Hilary White ZURICH, April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Local authorities in Zurich are asking questions about the assisted suicide facility Dignitas, after 300 urns containing human ashes were found in Lake Zurich this week. The urns bear the logo of the Nordheim crematorium, which is used by Dignitas. The Daily Telegraph quoted Roman Ruetz, a police diver, who said, “After 50 we stopped counting. They lay there in a big heap.” The urns were discovered accidentally by divers from a rescue service […]
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Over 2000 Participate in Prague March For Life

Tuesday March 23, 2010 Over 2000 Participate in Prague March For Life By Thaddeus M. Baklinski PRAGUE, March 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The tenth annual March for Life in the Czech capital took place on Saturday, March 20th, with over 2000 participants taking to the streets carrying white wooden crosses, which the organizers prepared “as symbols of the genocide of abortion.” The march began at the Dominican church of St. Giles in Prague’s Old City, where special guest Msgr. Andreas Laun, the auxiliary bishop of Salzburg, Austria, and the secretary general of the Czech Bishop’s Conference, Msgre. Ladislav Hucko, concelebrated […]
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U.K. Religious Schools Forced to Promote Abortion, Homosexuality under Sex-Ed Bill

Tuesday February 23, 2010 U.K. Religious Schools Forced to Promote Abortion, Homosexuality under Sex-Ed Bill By Hilary White LONDON, February 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Britain’s Labour government clarified this week that an amendment to the Children, Schools and Families bill, that says faith schools may teach the mandatory Personal Social and Health Education (PSHE) program “in a way that reflects the school’s religious character,” does not, in fact, give the schools freedom to oppose abortion, contraception and homosexual activity on moral grounds. The clarification has been hailed by a local pro-life and pro-family group as evidence that the spectre of […]
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LifeSiteNews Interviews Ron Paul: How Congress Can Stop Roe v. Wade Now

Tuesday February 16, 2010 LifeSiteNews Interviews Ron Paul: How Congress Can Stop Roe v. Wade Now By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., February 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Back in 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion on demand in the infamous Roe v. Wade and companion case Doe v. Bolton decisions and overturned the abortion restrictions of 46 states – of these thirty states banned the practice outright. Thirty-seven years later, approximately 52 million unborn children have been killed in the womb, and pro-life advocates are still waiting for a change in the Court. But Congressman Ron Paul of Texas […]
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Gay Carnival “Prince” Denied Communion by Dutch Priest

Wednesday February 17, 2010 Gay Carnival “Prince” Denied Communion by Dutch Priest By Patrick B. Craine REUSEL, Netherlands, February 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic priest in the small Dutch town of Reusel is drawing criticism for his decision last week to deny communion to an openly homosexual man, reports Chrétienté.info. Gijs Vermeulen, 24, served as the “prince” for the town’s carnival this year. In the official program for the event, he was pictured alongside his 5-year homosexual partner, Michael, and it is reported that the description of him focused on his homosexual lifestyle. Fr. Luc Buyens called Vermeulen in […]
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Arrest Warrant Issued for Lisa Miller in Vermont

Tuesday February 23, 2010 Arrest Warrant Issued for Lisa Miller in Vermont By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman RUTLAND, VERMONT, February 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Vermont judge has issued an arrest warrant for Lisa Miller for failing to transfer custody of her daughter to her former lesbian partner. Miller, an ex-lesbian who has returned to her childhood faith in Jesus Christ, has been ordered to give up her daughter to her former partner Janet Jenkins, whom she says she left after years of abuse. After years of legal struggles to prevent unauthorized visits of her daughter, Isabella, with Jenkins, Miller severed […]
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Bishop Nails Pelosi and ‘Catholic’ Groups for Spreading ‘Fog of Confusion’ on ObamaCare

Friday March 26, 2010 Bishop Nails Pelosi and ‘Catholic’ Groups for Spreading ‘Fog of Confusion’ on ObamaCare Bishop Robert Morlino says Catholic legislators were “bound to oppose” health care bill By Peter J. Smith MADISON, Wisconsin, March 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Neither Catholic nuns nor Nancy Pelosi speaks for the Catholic Church, says the Catholic Bishop of Madison, who had choice words in his latest column for the Catholic Health Association for spreading confusion about the Church’s position on health care reform and right to life issues. “I cannot pass over the actions of the Catholic Health Association and an […]
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Exclusive: Shipments of Medical Aid to Haiti Delayed by Massive Condom Overload

Thursday February 18, 2010 Exclusive: Shipments of Medical Aid to Haiti Delayed by Massive Condom Overload By John-Henry Westen and Kathleen Gilbert PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, February 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The flow of medical supplies waiting to be distributed to tens of thousands of earthquake victims in Haiti was delayed for weeks by a massive supply of condoms dominating the space of the main storage facility there, an eyewitness with insider information has told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN). The central pharmaceutical supply center, known as PROMESS (Program on Essential Medicine and Supplies), is home to the operations of the World Health Organization (WHO)/Pan […]
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Seattle Mom: School Sent My Daughter for Secret Abortion without Telling Me

Wednesday March 24, 2010 Seattle Mom: School Sent My Daughter for Secret Abortion without Telling Me By Patrick B. Craine SEATTLE, Washington, March 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Seattle mother is furious after learning that her 15-year-old daughter was sent by her school’s health center for a secret abortion, reports ABC-affiliate KOMO. The mother, identified only as “Jill,” says her daughter was given a pregnancy test at Ballard High School’s Teen Health Center, which came back positive. Rather than informing the parents, she said, the center gave the girl a pass and put her in a taxi for the abortuary, […]
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Fr. Paul Marx’s Last Article – Prophesies of Humanae Vitae

Tuesday March 23, 2010 Fr. Paul Marx’s Last Article – Prophesies of Humanae Vitae March 23, 2010 (pop.org) – Introduction: Only a few days before he died, Father Paul Marx returned to the topic that had so often occupied him during his long decades as a pro-life missionary – namely, the great encyclical Humanae Vitae. He sent this short article, in which he underlines the accuracy of Pope Paul VI’s predictions about what would happen, if contraception became prevalent in society. We send it out now both because it contains timeless truths, and also to honor our Founder and long-time […]
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Federal Court: NJ School Board Can’t Abort Student Pro-life Event

Wednesday April 28, 2010 Federal Court: NJ School Board Can’t Abort Student Pro-life Event CAMDEN, N.J., April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — A federal court ruled Thursday that the Bridgeton Board of Education should not have prohibited a student at Bridgeton High School from expressing a religious viewpoint on the 6th annual Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity. The student was prohibited from participating in the Stand True Ministries-sponsored event by distributing pro-life literature during non-instructional times and wearing a red arm band. School officials told the student that nothing “religious” is allowed in public schools and that they feared the student’s […]
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Swedish Officials Set to Review State Kidnapping Case of Homeschooled Child

Wednesday April 21, 2010 Swedish Officials Set to Review State Kidnapping Case of Homeschooled Child By Peter J. Smith STOCKHOLM, April 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Swedish authorities will convene soon to decide what to do about seven-year-old Dominic Johansson, who was seized by Swedish police and social workers last year because his parents chose to educate him at home. The Home School Legal Defense Association reports they have learned that the “Swedish Social Services Committee” has scheduled to meet on April 23 to decide whether or not they will return custody of Dominic to his parents, Christer and Annie Johansson. […]
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Bishop Slattery Decries Pain of Women Who ‘Lost Part of their Soul’ to Abortion

Wednesday April 28, 2010 Bishop Slattery Decries Pain of Women Who ‘Lost Part of their Soul’ to Abortion By Kathleen Gilbert April 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a stirring homily delivered in the magnificent National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. this Sunday, Bishop Edward Slattery of Tulsa, Oklahoma, called attention to the pain of countless post-abortive women who now grieve the loss of their child – pain that is largely ignored or silenced by the pro-abortion lobby and media. (Read the complete homily here) Slattery was celebrating a pontifical high Mass in honor of the anniversary of […]
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USA Today: ObamaCare Sparked State-Level Pro-Life Legislation Frenzy

Tuesday April 27, 2010 USA Today: ObamaCare Sparked State-Level Pro-Life Legislation Frenzy By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A rush to restrict abortion in the wake of the passage of President Obama’s abortion-expanding health care bill has led to a flurry of pro-life legislation on the state level, a fact that USA Today acknowledged in a front-page article Monday. Although abortion emerged as the decisive factor at every major turning point in the federal health care bill’s journey toward law, the mainstream media largely resisted giving the issue center stage during the debate about the bill, […]
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Church has a Right to Speak in Public: Pope to Belgian Ambassador

Tuesday April 27, 2010 Church has a Right to Speak in Public: Pope to Belgian Ambassador By Hilary White ROME, April 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a few pointed phrases addressed to the new Belgian ambassador to the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI gently chided the Belgian government for seeking to suppress the Church’s right to speak on moral issues – an apparent reference to the Belgium Parliament’s decision last year to pass a motion criticizing remarks made by the pope about Catholic teaching on condoms. While receiving the letters of credence of Charles Ghislain, the pope called upon the Belgian […]
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British Party Leaders Bash Pope Benedict in Televised Debate

Tuesday April 27, 2010 British Party Leaders Bash Pope Benedict in Televised Debate By Hilary White April 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a televised debate last week, all three leaders of the major British political parties accused Pope Benedict XVI of failing sufficiently to recognize and deal with the sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. With Britain’s next general election looming and the country gearing up for an official papal visit, the televised debate featured the leaders of Britain’s political class scolding Pope Benedict for upholding Catholic teaching on homosexuality, contraception and abortion, and for what was alleged to […]
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‘I Stand by My Statement Absolutely’: Scottish Candidate Sacked by Conservatives for Opposing Gay Agenda

Wednesday April 28, 2010 ‘I Stand by My Statement Absolutely’: Scottish Candidate Sacked by Conservatives for Opposing Gay Agenda By Hilary White LONDON, April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Being sacked by the UK’s Conservative party as their candidate for the Ayshire and Arran riding in Scotland has not led Philip Lardner to back away from his stand supporting traditional Christian moral values, nor has it stopped him from running in the riding as an independent, even though he says it may cost him his job. Lardner told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) today that since being dropped by the party yesterday for defending […]
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Calgary U to Judge Pro-Life Students in Closed-Door Hearings Today

Wednesday April 28, 2010 Calgary U to Judge Pro-Life Students in Closed-Door Hearings Today CALGARY, Alberta, April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Calgary is proceeding with individual non-academic misconduct hearings, which include the possibility of expulsion, for eight members of the Campus Pro-Life (CPL) student group regarding a pro-life display held earlier this month. The University administration notified students that “legal representatives are not suitable Advisors and are not welcome” at the individual, closed-door hearings, scheduled for April 28th and April 30th. “This feels like a show trial where they’ve already convicted us unjustly and now want to […]
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Commentary: Why Abortion Does Not Solve Child Rape

Tuesday April 27, 2010 Commentary: Why Abortion Does Not Solve Child Rape By Colin Mason and Steven W. Mosher April 27, 2010 (www.pop.org) – There is no tragedy that the abortion movement does not seek to turn to its own advantage. Consider the case of a young girl in Quintana Roo, Mexico, who was raped by her supposed stepfather and impregnated at the tender age of 10. After the girl’s mother belatedly notified the authorities, she is now, at nearly 18 weeks of pregnancy, receiving proper medical care. The offending rapist has since been arrested. We should all decry the […]
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Newsbytes – Obama, Religion, Climate Change, Homosexuality, Miscellaneous

Tuesday April 27, 2010 Newsbytes – Obama, Religion, Climate Change, Homosexuality, Miscellaneous * Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. Compiled by Steve Jalsevac OBAMA Obama Sends in the Clowns – “progressive” Movement Imploding? – Matt Barber With a potential political bloodbath looming in November, liberals are understandably desperate. They see it all slipping away — and it shows. The grassroots groundswell of opposition to Barack Obama’s neo-Marxist, secular-humanist agenda intensifies daily despite the left’s best efforts to silence […]
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Maryland AG: Gov’t Can Recognize Out-of-State Gay ‘Marriages’

Friday February 26, 2010 Maryland AG: Gov’t Can Recognize Out-of-State Gay ‘Marriages’ By Kathleen Gilbert BALTIMORE, February 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Maryland’s attorney general issued an opinion Wednesday determining that, under current law, the state could recognize gay “marriages” performed out-of-state. Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler addressed the opinion to state Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr., an open homosexual, who had asked whether such recognition would be feasible. “You have asked whether those marriages may be recognized under State law. The answer to that question is clearly ‘yes,'” wrote Gansler in the 53-page opinion. A footnote emphasizes that, “An Attorney […]
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UN Still Blanketing Ravaged Haiti with Condoms

Tuesday April 27, 2010 UN Still Blanketing Ravaged Haiti with Condoms By James Tillman and Kathleen Gilbert PORT-AU-PRINCE, April 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A document obtained by LifeSiteNews.com that carries the logos of the UNFPA, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and UNAIDS, calls on the camp managers in earthquake ravaged Haiti to be careful to ensure a supply of free condoms to the Haitians whose homes were destroyed by the January Earthquake. One of the access points that the document directs displacement site managers to is “the PROMESS warehouse in Port au Prince.” LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) had reported shortly after […]
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Italian Government Investigates Baby Left to Die after Failed Abortion

Tuesday April 27, 2010 Italian Government Investigates Baby Left to Die after Failed Abortion By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman ROSSANO, Italy, April 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Italian government has announced that it will launch an investigation of a hospital where a premature baby born alive following an attempted abortion was left to die for hours, before receiving medical attention thanks to the intervention of a priest. “If the reports are correct we are talking about a grave case of therapeutic abandonment of a very premature newborn, probably also with some form of disability: an act against the sense of human […]
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Oklahoma Senate Overrides Governor Veto of Pro-Life Legislation

Tuesday April 27, 2010 Oklahoma Senate Overrides Governor Veto of Pro-Life Legislation By John Jalsevac April 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two bills putting restrictions on abortion in Oklahoma became law Tuesday morning after the Oklahoma Senate overrode Governor Brad Henry’s veto. The governor had vetoed both bills, HB2780 and HB2656, on Friday. The House easily overrode the vetoes on Monday, before the Senate followed suit the next day. Tony Lauinger, the state chairman of Oklahomans for Life, told LifeSiteNews.com in an interview Tuesday that “We are very appreciative of the wonderful pro-life actions taken by our Senate and House these […]
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Breakthrough: ND 88 Judge Allows Defense Access to University Documents

Monday April 26, 2010 Breakthrough: ND 88 Judge Allows Defense Access to University Documents By Kathleen Gilbert CHICAGO, April 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a major ruling that may prove decisive for the defense of pro-lifers arrested on Notre Dame’s campus last year, an Indiana Judge has lifted a stay order barring the lead defense attorney in the cases from pursuing discovery of crucial evidence from Notre Dame officials. St. Joseph County, Superior Court Chief Judge Michael P. Scopelitis has authorized Thomas More Society-allied attorney Tom Dixon to pursue testimony under oath from officials who were key decision makers in […]
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Catholic Loyola Marymount University Announces Pro-Abortion 2010 Commencement Speakers

Monday April 26, 2010 Catholic Loyola Marymount University Announces Pro-Abortion 2010 Commencement Speakers By James Tillman April 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Loyola Marymount University, a Jesuit institution in Los Angeles, has announced that Deval Patrick, the current governor of Massachusetts, and Marlene Canter, former member of the Los Angeles Unified School District board, will be speaking at their 2010 commencement; both are on record as being in favor of abortion and homosexual “marriage.” Deval Patrick, who served as Assistant Attorney General during the Clinton administration, worked to prevent a referendum eliminating same-sex “marriage” from coming before the people while governor […]
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D&P; Rep Admits Partner Pushes Contraception, Opposes Philippine Bishops

Monday April 26, 2010 D&P; Rep Admits Partner Pushes Contraception, Opposes Philippine Bishops By Patrick B. Craine MONTREAL, Quebec, April 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A representative of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P), the official development arm of the Canadian bishops, has issued a public statement in which, at the same time as he lambasts a March LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) story about a D&P partner, he openly admits that the partner in question pushes contraception. The admission marks the first time that a representative of D&P has publicly confirmed that a specific partner is involved in activities that […]
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National Pro-Life T-Shirt Week Kicks Off April 27

Monday April 26, 2010 National Pro-Life T-Shirt Week Kicks Off April 27 April 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Pro-Life T-Shirt Week (NPLTW) begins this Tuesday, along with a photo scavenger hunt contest in which contestants can enter to win a free iPod Touch. NPTW and the “Yo! Where’s the Shirt?” Photo Scavenger Hunt are sponsored by the American Life League (ALL). “Thousands of young people across the country will take to the streets and the schools a civil rights message for the 21st century: All human beings deserve human rights,” announced ALL in a press release Monday. ALL has […]
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2010 Canadian March for Life Rose Dinner Features Undercover Investigator Lila Rose

Monday April 26, 2010 2010 Canadian March for Life Rose Dinner Features Undercover Investigator Lila Rose By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, April 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Rose Dinner at this year’s National March for Life in Ottawa will feature undercover pro-life journalist, investigator, and organizer of numerous sting operations against Planned Parenthood, Lila Rose. Lila is a student activist at UCLA who has dedicated herself to building a culture of life and ending abortion. At age fifteen, Lila founded Live Action, a student-led organization and that uses “new media” to educate and mobilize both local and national audiences to […]
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