Pro-Abort Catholic: Women Should Feel ‘Guilty’ if They Don’t Abort Inconvenient Child

By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 6:17pm EST WASHINGTON, D.C., June 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Proponents of feminism within a religious tradition play a crucial role in subverting “religious fundamentalism” in Catholicism, according to a member of the pro-abortion group Catholics for the Right to Decide.  Elfriede Harth, Secretariat of European Parliament Study Group on Religion and Secularity and a Spanish member of Catholics for the Right to Decide (whose U.S. partner is Catholics for Choice), made the remarks at this month's Women Deliver conference in Washington, D.C. The conference was largely a push for population control in developing countries worldwide through […]
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U.K. Methodist Church to Clarify Abortion Stance

By James Tillman PORTSMOUTH, United Kingdom, June 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Methodist Church of Great Britain's annual conference has voted in favor of a new briefing to clarify its position on abortion and abortion-related issues. The briefing, which will be produced by the Joint Public Issues Team, is not intended to alter the Church's official position on abortion but to clarify it in modern language and in the context of modern law and science. The Methodist Church's current position is that abortion is permissible before viability and under other limited circumstances, such as cases of fetal deformity. The “Methodist Church’s […]
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Christian Views on Homosexuality Deemed “Hate Speech” by European Rights Agency

By Hilary White ROME, June 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When a European Christian pro-family group applied to join the Fundamental Rights Platform (FRP) of the EU’s Human Rights Agency, they did not expect to be denounced as promoters of “hate.” The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) objected to a statement by the Alliance of Romania’s Families (ARF) calling same-sex “marriage” an example of “human degeneration,” and denied their request for membership. The ARF, a group lobbying to retain Romania’s traditional Christian social and legal underpinnings, had written on their website that, “So-called alternatives such as ‘families’ consisting of same-sex, are […]
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UNICEF CAUSES SCANDAL WITH HALLOWEEN BOXES

Monday October 30, 2000 UNICEF CAUSES SCANDAL WITH HALLOWEEN BOXES NEW YORK, Oct 30 – “Parents would be scandalized to know UNICEF actively promotes abortion and sexual rights to children,” said Anna Halpine, president of the World Youth Alliance. “On top of that, the realization of these goals and programs are largely fueled by donations obtained from children trick-or-treating for UNICEF programs each Halloween.” she said a press release from the WYA. Halpine pointed out that UNICEF was founded in 1946 to help starving children after the destruction of World War II. Over the past few decades, however, UNICEF’s mission […]
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Bishop Removes Catholic Pastor for Homosexual Relationship

Thursday May 20, 2010 Bishop Removes Catholic Pastor for Homosexual Relationship By Peter J. Smith JOLIET, Illinois, May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic pastor has been removed from his duties at St. Isidore Catholic Church, Bloomingdale in the Diocese of Joliet, over revelations that he had engaged in a homosexual relationship with another man a number of times. Bishop J. Peter Sartain removed Rev. Jerry Simonelli from his duties as pastor ministering to the 9,000 Catholics of St. Isidore’s, the second largest parish in the Diocese of Joliet, after a diocesan investigation revealed that Simonelli had broken his vows […]
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German Court Legalizes Euthanasia

Friday June 25, 2010 German Court Legalizes Euthanasia By Hilary White BERLIN, June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a surprise move, the German Federal Court of Justice has legalized direct euthanasia, ruling that an attempted direct euthanization of a comatose woman was not unlawful since she had given consent. “The expressed wishes of the patient … justified not only the end of treatment via the withholding of further nourishment but also the active step of ending or preventing the treatment she no longer wanted,” the court said. The ruling in the case of “Erika K” overturns a previous conviction for […]
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Robert Bork: With Elena Kagan, U.S. Moves Closer to Rule by “Committee of Ideologues”

Wednesday June 23, 2010 Robert Bork: With Elena Kagan, U.S. Moves Closer to Rule by “Committee of Ideologues” By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former U.S. Supreme Court nominee and conservative jurist Robert Bork warned Wednesday that President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan should be opposed. He also said that the nomination of liberal activists to the Supreme Court showed the United States was drifting closer to rule by a “committee of ideologues.” Bork was nominated by President Ronald Reagan for the Supreme Court in 1987, but violent opposition in the Senate to his […]
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UN-Backed Sex-Ed Program in Philippines Put on Hold

Monday June 21, 2010 UN-Backed Sex-Ed Program in Philippines Put on Hold By James Tillman MANILA, Philippines, June 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Philippine Department of Education (DepEd) has decided to put a hold on the implementation of a new UN-backed sex-education program in elementary and high schools. The program had caused an uproar in the country, and was heavily opposed by parents and the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines. “We decided to hold in abeyance the teaching of the sex education module until a final decision is made on the consultation process,” DepEd Secretary Mona Valisno said. The […]
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Baby Born Healthy Defies Doctor’s Abortion Advice

Tuesday February 26, 2008 Baby Born Healthy Defies Doctor’s Abortion Advice By Thaddeus M. Baklinski PEMBROKE DOCK, SOUTH WALES, UK, February 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Becky Weatherall and her partner Kriss Kramer where told by their doctors that their son would be born deaf and blind and would probably survive only for a couple of hours. Little Brandon Kramer was diagnosed in utero with rhomboencephalosynapsis – a condition in which the brain fuses together rather than being in two halves – as well as hydrocephalus – water on the brain. Tests conducted twice a month indicated the condition was worsening […]
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Philippines Sex Ed Program Revived, but Likely to be Killed Again

Friday June 25, 2010 Philippines Sex Ed Program Revived, but Likely to be Killed Again By James Tillman MANILA, Philippines, June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Countering earlier reports, Philippines Secretary of Education Mona Valisno said that the Department of Education (DepEd) has not halted its plans to implement a controversial new sex-education program in schools. But her renewed insistence may be too late to save the program: she is soon to be replaced by the current head of Manila’s De La Salle University, who has said he will review the program. Earlier this month it was reported that Valisno had […]
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10-Year-Old Boy Used as Grand Marshal of Arkansas Homosexual Fest

Friday June 25, 2010 10-Year-Old Boy Used as Grand Marshal of Arkansas Homosexual Fest By Kathleen Gilbert FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 10-year-old boy is being used as Grand Marshal of an Arkansas homosexual pride parade this weekend. The move has attracted opposition from pro-family leaders, who have decried the movement’s exposure of the boy to the lewd festival of sexual deviancy as “a form of child abuse.” The boy, Will Phillips, attracted national media attention last year after he refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance at school, saying that homosexuals are refused “liberty and justice” […]
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Tick, Tock: More U.S. Women Running Out Biological Clock for Childbearing

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nearly one in five U.S. women now reach the end of childbearing age without having a child, doubling the number of childless women since the seventies, according to a new study by Pew Research Center. Back in 1976, just one out of ten women (580,000) between ages 40-44 reported they were childless. As of 2008, nearly 1.9 million women ages 40-44, or 18% of women in that group, reported being childless – a jump of 80% in less than 40 years. Pew reports that rates of barrenness have risen in […]
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Some Conservatives Slam, others Downplay SCOTUS Ruling against Christian Group

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against a campus Christian group that had been denied legal status by a California university for failing to include non-Christian members, has provoked a disparate response from conservative groups. While several leaders decried the decision as a massive blow to religious freedom, others asserted that the decision is not as far-reaching or damaging as it may first appear. At the same time, the dissenting Supreme Court justices say that the ruling, though narrow, nonetheless sets bad precedent. The case, Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, was brought before […]
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New Catholic Education Official Has Strong Anti-Life, Anti-Family Record as British MP

Friday April 23, 2010 New Catholic Education Official Has Strong Anti-Life, Anti-Family Record as British MP Pro-Life leader hopes Vatican will intervene re: “oppression” of bad episcopal policies By Hilary White ROME, April 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life advocates in Britain are shocked at the decision by the Catholic Education Service of England and Wales (CESEW), a body of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, to appoint a pro-abortion former Labour MP as its new deputy director. Greg Pope, the Labour MP for the Hyndburn riding in East Lancashire since 1992, was approved unanimously for the job by […]
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules Gay, Diversity Rights Override Religious Freedom

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a Christian student group does not have the right to restrict its membership to practicing Christians, in a decision Christian rights groups are calling a significant blow to religious freedom. The court decided 5-4 Monday in the case Christian Legal Society v. Martinez to uphold a California law school’s denial of official recognition of a Christian student group. The Christian group refused to agree to let non-Christians and those engaging in a “sexually immoral lifestyle” to become voting members or leaders. The case […]
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Elderly Baptist Sues D.C. Church for Performing Gay Commitment Ceremony

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For Yvonne Moore, when her Southern Baptist congregation performed a homosexual “commitment ceremony,” it wasn't just anti-Biblical – it was a personal betrayal. That betrayal prompted the elderly African-American, who had attended the Covenant Baptist church in Washington D.C. for 37 years, to sue for a portion of her weekly donations back – which she estimated at a quarter of a million dollars. “I was upset – I give them ten cents out of every dollar. I pay tithes, and they didn't respect the members enough to listen to us,” […]
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Still Pushing: Catholic Health Association Lauds Obama’s ‘Strong Leadership’ in Pro-Abort Health Ref

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C, June 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Health Association (CHA) prolonged its fight with the U.S. bishops over the health care reform last week. The organization issued a statement reinforcing its continued support of President Obama's legislation despite unequivocal condemnation from bishops and other pro-life groups over the measure's expansion of abortion. After Obama met with health insurers and state insurance commissioners last week about implementing health care reform, CHA took the opportunity to heap praise on the controversial legislation, which CHA's support was widely acknowledged as critical in pushing through. “Once fully enacted, we are confident […]
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Fed Appeals Court Green Lights Suit Against HHS over Funding Embryonic Research

Friday June 25, 2010 Fed Appeals Court Green Lights Suit Against HHS over Funding Embryonic Research WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Overturning a lower court ruling, a federal appeals court has told adult stem-cell researchers that they have standing to fight guidelines allowing taxpayer funding of embryonic stem-cell research. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued its decision Friday, finding that doctors doing adult stem cell research have ‘competitive standing’ to sue. Therefore, the court reinstated the doctors’ federal lawsuit, filed last summer, that seeks to preliminarily enjoin and ultimately overturn the controversial […]
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Supreme Court Says Names on Washington Pro-family Petition Remain Public Domain

Friday June 25, 2010 Supreme Court Says Names on Washington Pro-family Petition Remain Public Domain By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the organizers of a 2009 referendum to repeal Washington State’s civil unions law, saying that the state’s public disclosure law does not violate the U.S. Constitution by making the petition names public. However, the Court said that the pro-family advocates could ask for special protections if they proved that the public availability of their names would lead to political reprisal. The high court voted 8-1 to reject Protect […]
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3X More Drunk Teens: Loving and Firm vs. Loving but Indulgent Parenting

Friday June 25, 2010 3X More Drunk Teens: Loving and Firm vs. Loving but Indulgent Parenting SALT LAKE CITY, June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Parenting style strongly and directly affects teens when it comes to heavy drinking – defined as having five or more drinks in a row – according to a new Brigham Young University study. The researchers surveyed nearly 5,000 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19 about their drinking habits and their relationship with their parents. Specifically, they examined parents’ levels of accountability – knowing where their children spend their time and with whom – and […]
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U.S. Bishops Back Phoenix Bishop in Nun Excommunication Abortion Case

Friday June 25, 2010 U.S. Bishops Back Phoenix Bishop in Nun Excommunication Abortion Case By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Doctrinal Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) published a document this week to clarify misunderstandings about the case of an abortion that took place in a Catholic hospital in Phoenix. A media frenzy erupted in May after Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmsted announced the automatic excommunication of a nun who contributed to the decision to go ahead with the procedure. The nun in question, Sister Margaret McBride, had claimed that the abortion was necessary […]
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Philadelphia Scouts Can Keep Building Despite Homosexual Ban: Federal Jury

Thursday June 24, 2010 Philadelphia Scouts Can Keep Building Despite Homosexual Ban: Federal Jury By James Tillman PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — In another victory for the Boy Scouts of America’s continued defiance of the homosexualist agenda, a federal jury ruled Wednesday that the city of Philadelphia cannot evict the Cradle of Liberty Council from a city-owned building for refusing to allow homosexuals to enter the Scouts. In the Boy Scouts of America v. Dale case of 2000, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a close 5-4 ruling that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) were […]
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LifeSiteNews Special Report – Paul Desmarais’ Web of Influence Over Canada

Friday May 2, 2003 Paul Desmarais’ Web of Influence Over Canada Desmarais reputed to have huge influence on current and past Prime Ministers LIFESITE, May 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For many years, astute political observers have noted what appears to be an unusually powerful web of influence over Canadian federal politics by wealthy Canadian businessman and Power Corporation founder, Paul Desmarais senior. The number of Prime Ministers and other elected and influential Canadians financially beholden to the Quebec based Canadian nationalist is astonishing. In an Ottawa Citizen article of May 2, 1995 columnist Paul Gessell asked “Why does Desmarais have […]
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Editorial: Should We Ever Elect an Openly Gay Politician?

Friday June 25, 2010 Editorial: Should We Ever Elect an Openly Gay Politician? Editorial By John-Henry Westen June 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Many social conservatives believe that in the interest of ‘big tent’ politics it is permissible to vote for practicing and openly gay politicians. But the unanimous vote in favor of the redefinition of marriage in Iceland, with openly lesbian Prime Minister Johanna Siguroardottir leading the way, should give such conservatives pause. The dilemma is similar to that which social liberals face when deciding whether to vote for a Christian politician. A social liberal would be willing, and even […]
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ND 88 Pro-Lifer Suffers Heart Attack, Diagnosed with Stress Disorder Thanks to Prosecution

Thursday June 24, 2010 ND 88 Pro-Lifer Suffers Heart Attack, Diagnosed with Stress Disorder Thanks to Prosecution By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 11:25am EST 6.25.10 SOUTH BEND, Indiana, June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thanks to the strain of being subjected to criminal prosecution on charges of trespassing, one of the 88 peaceful pro-life protesters arrested at the University of Notre Dame in May of last year recently suffered a heart attack. According to Dr. Therese Beste’s doctor, she continues to suffer from post-traumatic stress related to the prosecution. The doctor’s diagnosis has been submitted to the pro-lifers’ defense lawyer as members […]
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‘Equity’: Ontario School Board Nixes Christian References in Policy

Wednesday June 23, 2010 ‘Equity’: Ontario School Board Nixes Christian References in Policy By Patrick B. Craine SIMCOE, Ontario, June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As part of continuing efforts by Ontario’s schools to promote “equity and inclusive education,” a southern Ontario school board has removed references to Judeo-Christianity from their board policy on moral education. The Simcoe County District School Board approved the changes at a meeting in May, with opposition from only two of the 12 trustees – Peter Beacock and Debra Edwards. “The Education Act references Judeo-Christian morality,” Edwards told Simcoe.com. “There’s a question in my mind of […]
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Clinton, Obama Compete: Who Loves Homosexuality More?

Wednesday June 23, 2010 Clinton, Obama Compete: Who Loves Homosexuality More? By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — In a continuation of their presidential-primary struggle for the position of strongest supporter of homosexuality, both President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton have been straining in recent months to show their supporters that they will march in step with the full gamut of the “gay rights” agenda. Obama recently declared June to be “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.” To coincide with “Pride” month, he expanded the definition of a 1993 federal law so that private employers […]
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Big Brother: EU Declaration Will Require Google to Store Search Records for 2 Years

Wednesday June 23, 2010 Big Brother: EU Declaration Will Require Google to Store Search Records for 2 Years By Hilary White BRUSSELS, June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Promoted as a means of combating the sexual abuse of children, Written Declaration 29, sponsored by an Italian and Slovakian MEP, seeks to have Google and other online search engines store all search results in the EU for up to two years. The declaration, already signed by 324 MEPs, demands that the existing Data Retention Directive be extended to cover search engines. A Written Declaration is similar to an Early Day Motion in […]
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St. Louis Planned Parenthood to Offer Artificial Insemination

Wednesday June 23, 2010 St. Louis Planned Parenthood to Offer Artificial Insemination By James Tillman MISSOURI, St. Louis, June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood of St. Louis is planning to offer artificial insemination services in the fall of 2010. A newly-released Planned Parenthood advertisement about the new services features two women hugging each other, with text above them stating “they just found out they’re expecting, finally.” “This is disturbing, and consistent with Planned Parenthood’s warped view of sex and children,” Wendy Wright, President of the Concerned Women’s Alliance, told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN). While artificial insemination is fairly widespread, it remains […]
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Group Rebukes Canadian Gvmt for Pushing Homosexuality in Romania

Wednesday June 23, 2010 Group Rebukes Canadian Gvmt for Pushing Homosexuality in Romania By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canadian national pro-family group is taking their government to task after Canada’s ambassador to Romania, Philippe Beaulne, officially backed the country’s week-long “gay pride” event in the capital last month. “Canada should shut its mouth about the internal affairs of other countries,” said Gwen Landolt, national vice president of REAL Women Canada. Cecilia Forsyth, the group’s national president, wrote to Prime Minister Stephen Harper two weeks ago objecting to Canada’s “interference in the democratic process […]
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Clinic Stats: 86% of all STD’s among 45+ Found in Swingers and Gay Men

Friday June 25, 2010 Clinic Stats: 86% of all STD’s among 45+ Found in Swingers and Gay Men June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Swingers – straight couples who regularly swap sexual partners at organized gatherings and clubs and indulge in group sex – have rates of sexually transmitted infections comparable with those of recognized high risk groups such as gay men, reveals research published ahead of print in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. More than half (55%) of all diagnoses in the over 45s were made in swingers, compared with around a third (31%) in gay men. One in 10 […]
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Former PM Paul Martin Calls for Abortion in Maternal Health

Friday June 25, 2010 Former PM Paul Martin Calls for Abortion in Maternal Health By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former Prime Minister Paul Martin has issued a call for abortion to be included in the Canadian Government’s maternal and child health initiative at this week’s G8 summit, and openly criticized Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s handling of the issue. “Regardless of what your position is on abortion, you’ve got to understand that in a huge number of these cases, some people say the majority of these cases, the mother’s health is at risk,” he told […]
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European Human Rights Court Rules Countries May Decide on Gay “Marriage” — for Now

Friday June 25, 2010 European Human Rights Court Rules Countries May Decide on Gay “Marriage” — for Now By Hilary White STRASBOURG, June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a key ruling yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upheld an earlier decision by the Austrian Constitutional Court, saying that independent states are under no obligation to implement homosexual “marriage” or civil unions. At the same time, the European Centre for Law and Justice sounded a note of caution on the ruling, saying that the court’s “careful wording” implies a possible legal acceptance in the near future of a “human […]
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House Dems Preparing Thursday DISCLOSE Act Vote to Muzzle Pro-life, Pro-family Groups

Wednesday June 23, 2010 House Dems Preparing Thursday DISCLOSE Act Vote to Muzzle Pro-life, Pro-family Groups By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Delayed, but not undaunted, the leadership of the Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress may force a Thursday vote on a new campaign finance bill, the Orwellian-named “Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act” that has pro-life, pro-family groups, and even the ACLU crying foul. Critics say the measure will have a chilling effect on political free speech, especially with mid-term elections just around the corner. Late Wednesday afternoon, National Right […]
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North Carolina Abortuary Hammered by Pro-Life Prayers Ceases Abortions

Wednesday June 23, 2010 North Carolina Abortuary Hammered by Pro-Life Prayers Ceases Abortions By Kathleen Gilbert RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Raleigh abortuary that has seen constant prayer from pro-lifers with the popular 40 Days for Life campaign has ceased performing abortions. The Raleigh News and Observer reported Wednesday that National Women’s Health Organization of Raleigh is, in the words of one local pro-abortion affiliate, “in transition.” The affiliate, Ann Rose, said that the last abortions would be conducted on Saturday, but she would not explain what other changes the “transition” would entail. The paper reports […]
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Council of Europe Declaration Seeks to “Regulate” Physician Conscience on Abortion

Wednesday June 23, 2010 Council of Europe Declaration Seeks to “Regulate” Physician Conscience on Abortion By Hilary White STRASBOURG, June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The “problem of unregulated use of conscientious objection” by doctors who do not wish to commit abortions must be addressed by the European authorities, says a draft declaration of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Prepared by the UK’s Christine McCafferty for the PACE Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee, the draft declaration calls for the establishment of “comprehensive and clear legal and policy framework governing the practice of conscientious objection by healthcare […]
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Canadian Study Finds Strong Link Between Abortion and Premature Birth

Tuesday June 22, 2010 Canadian Study Finds Strong Link Between Abortion and Premature Birth By Patrick B. Craine MONTREAL, Quebec, June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study out of McGill University in Montreal has found a strong link between a past abortion and premature delivery in subsequent pregnancies. Dr. Ghislain Hardy, a third year resident in obstetrics and gynecology at McGill, and his team did a chart review of 17,916 women who delivered at Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill’s teaching hospital. Of their sample, 13% had obtained one abortion and 5% had procured two or more. Dr. Hardy’s team found […]
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White House Fetes Lesbian Banned from Cross-Dressing at Prom

Tuesday June 22, 2010 White House Fetes Lesbian Banned from Cross-Dressing at Prom By James Tillman and Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, DC, June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Earlier this year Constance McMillen was refused permission to attend her high-school prom with a female date while wearing a tuxedo, an event that catapulted her into the national media spotlight. Now her newfound notoriety has received an added boost, after the White House invited her to a reception honoring lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders (LGBT) scheduled for Tuesday at 5pm. Both President Obama and Vice-President Biden were expected to attend the reception. […]
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From ‘Gay Friendly’ LA Cardinal, a Grim Tale of Sex Abuse Complicity

Tuesday June 22, 2010 From ‘Gay Friendly’ LA Cardinal, a Grim Tale of Sex Abuse Complicity By Kathleen Gilbert LOS ANGELES, June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a videotaped deposition released last Tuesday, Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony admits he did not think it necessary to contact police after learning of the sex abuse perpetrated by a priest in his diocese against two boys. Instead, Mahony transferred the priest to other locations, where the abuse could potentially continue. The archdiocese had tried but failed to keep private the deposition, which was taken as part of a lawsuit that resulted in […]
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Obama Inserts Gay Dads into Father’s Day Proclamation

Monday June 21, 2010 Obama Inserts Gay Dads into Father’s Day Proclamation By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his fathers’ day proclamation President Barack Obama made what pro-family leaders have said were a number of praiseworthy statements about fatherhood and the importance of fathers in the lives of their children. At the same time, the president drew sharp criticism for using the proclamation as an opportunity to show his support for homosexual parenting. “An active, committed father makes a lasting difference in the life of a child. When fathers are not present, their children […]
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Bobby Schindler’s Letter to Florida Bishop: When Bishops Don’t Do Their Job – Innocent People Die

Wednesday March 28, 2007 Bobby Schindler’s Letter to Florida Bishop: When Bishops Don’t Do Their Job – Innocent People Die Says Bishop’s silence makes him “complicit in my sister’s murder” By Meg Jalsevac TAMPA, March 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schiavo, has written an open letter to Bishop Robert Lynch, bishop of St. Petersburg, Florida chastising the bishop for his inaction at the time of Terri’s death and asserting that the bishop’s lack of action “brought scandal to the Universal Church and to the faithful, particularly here in Florida.” March 31, 2007 will be the second […]
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Irish Politicians to Catholic Church: You Have No Business in Public Debate

Tuesday June 22, 2010 Irish Politicians to Catholic Church: You Have No Business in Public Debate By Hilary White DUBLIN, June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Justice Minister Dermot Ahern, and Green party leader John Gormley sparked a public furor in overwhelmingly Catholic Ireland earlier this month after they said that religion has no place in the politics of the country. As the Irish Parliament gears up to vote on the Civil Partnership Bill, which would recognize same-sex unions, Minister Ahern told the Irish Times in a June 12 interview that politicians must set aside their religious beliefs and not allow […]
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‘The Law Must Speak for the Unborn Child’: Senior Ghanian Leader Calls for Abortion Restrictions

Tuesday June 22, 2010 ‘The Law Must Speak for the Unborn Child’: Senior Ghanian Leader Calls for Abortion Restrictions By Hilary White June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ghanian Parliament’s Minority Leader, Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has called upon the Attorney General to significantly increase restrictions on abortion in the country. Abortion in the Republic of Ghana is currently legal in cases of rape or incest, if the pregnancy is judged to threaten the woman’s physical or mental health, or if there is “substantial risk” of fetal abnormality. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu says he wants to change the law to allow abortions only in cases […]
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Author and Mother of Three Excoriates U.K. Bishops for Failing to Oppose Explicit Sex-ed

Monday June 21, 2010 Author and Mother of Three Excoriates U.K. Bishops for Failing to Oppose Explicit Sex-ed By James Tillman BRAGA, Portugal, June 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fiorella Nash, Catholic author and mother of three, spoke to the Knights of Our Lady on the weekend of June 4-6, and upbraided the Bishops Conference of England and Wales for failing to sufficiently oppose explicit sex education in schools and even colluding with the “anti-life policies of the Government.” In her speech, “The State of Family Life in Great Britain,” Nash called the government’s aggressive promotion of sex education the “greatest […]
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A.L.L. Joins International Call for Ban on In Vitro Technologies

Tuesday June 22, 2010 A.L.L. Joins International Call for Ban on In Vitro Technologies By Kathleen Gilbert Washington, D.C., June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Life League joined the U.K.’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) on Monday calling for a ban on all in vitro fertilization (IVF) practices. IVF routinely involves the massive loss of human life as “excess” embryonic children are discarded, frozen indefinitely, or fall victim to “selective termination” following implantation. “We know that IVF kills preborn children. We know that IVF can cause severe birth defects in those children lucky enough to be […]
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No To Ontario Premier McGuinty’s Sex Education

Tuesday June 22, 2010 No To Ontario Premier McGuinty’s Sex Education Commentary By Fr. Alphonse de Valk (this article is republished with permission from the June 10, 2010 edition of Catholic Insight magazine) June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On April 22, 2010, Premier Dalton McGuinty and his education minister, Leona Dombrowsky, announced a new sex education program for public and Catholic schools in Ontario. This plan had been prepared beforehand by then-education minister Kathleen Wynne, who lives a lesbian lifestyle with her same-sex partner. The program for Grade 1 stipulated that children learn all parts of the human body, including […]
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Obama Admin to Force Businesses to Give Gay Partners Unpaid Leave

Tuesday June 22, 2010 Obama Admin to Force Businesses to Give Gay Partners Unpaid Leave By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The White House announced Monday that they would expand the definition of a 1993 federal law, with the result that many employers in all 50 states would be forced to extend family and medical leave to homosexual partners. Pro-family advocates, however, are denouncing the policy as blatant illegality, saying that it clearly contravenes the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). A current law known as the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) stipulates that […]
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USCCB Official Disputes Cardinal George’s Criticism of Sr. Keehan and CHA

Wednesday June 23, 2010 USCCB Official Disputes Cardinal George’s Criticism of Sr. Keehan and CHA Commentary by Deal Hudson June 23, 2010 (InsideCatholic.com) – Last week, when the USCCB meeting in St. Petersburg coincided with the Catholic Health Association summit in Denver, the Catholic News Agency (CNA) ran several stories based on the testimonies of bishops attending the meeting. One of these stories got a great deal of attention. In it, Cardinal George castigated Sr. Keehan and the CHA for attempting to set up a “parallel magisterium” by defying the bishops’ opposition to the recent health care legislation. That same […]
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Letter from U.S. Lawmakers Requesting Probe of Obama Admin Support for Kenya Constitution

Tuesday May 11, 2010 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 […]
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U.S. Bishops Back Phoenix Bishop in Nun Excommunication Abortion Case

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Doctrinal Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) published a document this week to clarify misunderstandings about the case of an abortion that took place in a Catholic hospital in Phoenix.  A media frenzy erupted in May after Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmsted announced the automatic excommunication of a nun who contributed to the decision to go ahead with the procedure. The nun in question, Sister Margaret McBride, had claimed that the abortion was necessary to save the life of the mother, who was suffering from pulmonary hypertension. However, while various media gave […]
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Supreme Court Says Names on Washington Pro-family Petition Remain Public Domain

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the organizers of a 2009 referendum to repeal Washington State’s civil unions law, saying that the state’s public disclosure law does not violate the U.S. Constitution by making the petition names public. However, the Court said that the pro-family advocates could ask for special protections if they proved that the public availability of their names would lead to political reprisal. The high court voted 8-1 to reject Protect Marriage Washington’s (PMW) appeal to keep secret the identities of those who signed a petition to […]
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Fed Appeals Court Green Lights Suit Against HHS over Funding Embryonic Research

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Overturning a lower court ruling, a federal appeals court has told adult stem-cell researchers that they have standing to fight guidelines allowing taxpayer funding of embryonic stem-cell research. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued its decision Friday, finding that doctors doing adult stem cell research have 'competitive standing' to sue. Therefore, the court reinstated the doctors' federal lawsuit, filed last summer, that seeks to preliminarily enjoin and ultimately overturn the controversial guidelines for public funding of embryonic stem cell research that the National Institutes of Health issued on July […]
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Wisconsin Court Tells Lesbian: Legal Adoption, Not ‘Nurturing,’ Gives Parental Rights

By Peter J. Smith MADISON, Wisconsin, June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled against a woman seeking joint custody of her former lesbian partner’s adopted children, saying that only legal adoptive status, not years of caretaking, provide parental rights. The District 4 Court of Appeals ruled against a woman identified in court documents as Wendy M., who was seeking legal guardianship of two children whom her partner, identified as Liz K., had adopted from Guatemala. “Wisconsin law neither provides for joint adoption of a child by an unmarried couple, nor permits same-sex couples to marry.  Thus, gay […]
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Criminal Complaint Against Telemed Abortions Filed With Iowa Attorney General

DES MOINES, IA, June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Operation Rescue (OR) has filed a formal complaint with the Iowa Attorney General's office asking for a criminal investigation of a remote-controlled push-button Internet abortion pill scheme operated by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland known as “telemed abortion.” Earlier this year OR investigators found that a dozen small Planned Parenthood offices in Iowa were administering the dangerous abortion drug, RU 486, without the patient having been personally examined by a physician. Instead, an abortionist briefly addresses abortion patients through a teleconferencing hook-up from her office in Des Moines. After explaining the medical abortion […]
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European Human Rights Court Rules Countries May Decide on Gay “Marriage”—for Now

By Hilary White STRASBOURG, June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a key ruling yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upheld an earlier decision by the Austrian Constitutional Court, saying that independent states are under no obligation to implement homosexual “marriage” or civil unions. At the same time, the European Centre for Law and Justice sounded a note of caution on the ruling, saying that the court’s “careful wording” implies a possible legal acceptance in the near future of a “human right” to recognized same-sex partnerships. The ECHR ruling had said that the question is one of “evolving rights” […]
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German Court Legalizes Euthanasia via Withdrawal of Food and Fluids

By Hilary White BERLIN, June 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a surprise move, the German Federal Court of Justice has legalized direct euthanasia, ruling that an attempted direct euthanization of a comatose woman was not unlawful since she had given consent. “The expressed wishes of the patient … justified not only the end of treatment via the withholding of further nourishment but also the active step of ending or preventing the treatment she no longer wanted,” the court said. The ruling in the case of “Erika K” overturns a previous conviction for manslaughter of a lawyer who advised the daughter of a comatose […]
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Lawmakers Seek Probe of Obama Admin Push for Pro-Abort Kenyan Constitution

Tuesday May 11, 2010 Lawmakers Seek Probe of Obama Admin Push for Pro-Abort Kenyan Constitution WASHINGTON, D.C., May 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal probe into whether the Obama Administration broke federal laws by promoting a proposed constitution that radically changes abortion policy in Kenya has been requested by three high ranking lawmakers with congressional oversight responsibilities. In a letter to Inspectors General of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Government Accountability Office, Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) said: “Kenya’s new proposed constitution, which will be […]
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Pro-Lifers Must Oppose Fisichella Appointment to New Pontifical Council: John Smeaton

Monday June 21, 2010 Pro-Lifers Must Oppose Fisichella Appointment to New Pontifical Council: John Smeaton By Hilary White LONDON, June 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The appointment of Archbishop Rino Fisichella to a major new Vatican office would be a “total disaster” for the defense of innocent unborn life around the world, John Smeaton said today. Smeaton, director of the British Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) and one of the most influential voices in the global pro-life movement, told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) in an interview that pro-life people everywhere must strenuously oppose the appointment. “We need people to come […]
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Michigan Bishop Withholds CCHD Funds

Thursday June 17, 2010 Michigan Bishop Withholds CCHD Funds By Patrick B. Craine GAYLORD, Michigan, June 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Another United States bishop is taking precautions in light of continuing allegations that the U.S. bishops’ domestic anti-poverty arm, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), is funding groups that support abortion and other activities contrary to Catholic teaching. Bishop Bernard Hebda of Gaylord, Michigan has decided to delay sending funds to CCHD from the 2010 collection while the organization is under review, LifeSiteNews has learned. Candace Neff, communications director for the Gaylord diocese, emphasized that the bishop has not […]
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Black Minister Forms PAC to Break Dems Party’s ‘Death Grip’ on Black Community

Thursday April 22, 2010 Black Minister Forms PAC to Break Dems Party’s ‘Death Grip’ on Black Community WASHINGTON, D.C., April 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Bishop E.W. Jackson Sr., retired attorney and Harvard Law graduate, is declaring political war on the Democrat Party and the liberal Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the pro-life leader announced this week. Bishop Jackson, who has fought for pro-life and pro-family causes for 25 years, formed STAND AMERICA PAC on April 1. The committee aims primarily to recruit and support conservative black candidates to run against liberals in Congressional Black Caucus districts. “The black community has been […]
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This Afternoon: Congress Votes on Grassroots Muzzle, ‘DISCLOSE Act’

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Armed with the inspiration that comes from political desperation, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today on a campaign finance bill that critics on both the left and the right say will disable grassroots political opposition – including the nascent “Tea Party” movement that has been looking to sweep away liberal incumbents in November. According to House Republican sources, the House began meeting at 10:00 a.m. for legislative business and are now taking up H.R. 5175, the “Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections […]
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Christian Students Sue High School over Discrimination against Pro-Life Messages

Roswell, NM, June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Late yesterday, Liberty Counsel (LC) filed a complaint in a federal court in New Mexico to stop what they called the “censorship” of a group of students at Roswell High School and Goddard High School called “Relentless in Roswell.” According to LC, the student group had previously handed out food, hot chocolate, and candy canes to the student body and faculty without opposition or prior permission from the school. In addition, the students had helped janitors with the trash and assisted fellow students with their lunch trays. The students also distributed rocks with […]
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Pro-Life Leaders Challenge CHA to Prove Pro-Life Dedication

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Several major pro-life leaders are urging the Catholic Health Association (CHA) to back a pro-life amendment to the federal health care law, days after the organization reiterated its support for health reform, thereby breaking with the leadership of U.S. bishops who have decried the vast abortion funding embedded in the legislation. At CHA's annual summit last week, President Obama, who played an active role in convincing the group to break with the bishops' pro-life stand, praised the group for supporting the measure in a videotaped message. CHA President Sr. Carol Keehan's support […]
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New Bill Introduced to Combat Child Sex-Trafficking within U.S.

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New legislation designed to aggressively address the sexual exploitation of children by sex-traffickers was introduced into the House of Representatives this week by U.S. Representatives Carolyn Maloney (NY-14) and Chris Smith (NJ-04). The bill would add $45 million to law enforcement and victim-assistance efforts. Maloney and Smith are co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Human Trafficking. They said the proposed law (H.R. 5575) is a legislative response to the findings of a 2009 study called the “National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking, America’s Prostituted Children.” The report details the facts of […]
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ND 88 Pro-Lifer Suffers Heart Attack, Diagnosed with Stress Disorder Thanks to Prosecution

By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 11:25am EST 6.25.10 SOUTH BEND, Indiana, June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thanks to the strain of being subjected to criminal prosecution on charges of trespassing, one of the 88 peaceful pro-life protesters arrested at the University of Notre Dame in May of last year recently suffered a heart attack. According to Dr. Therese Beste's doctor, she continues to suffer from post-traumatic stress related to the prosecution. The doctor's diagnosis has been submitted to the pro-lifers' defense lawyer as members of the group, known as the “Notre Dame 88,” continue to face prosecution and a possible penalty of up […]
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Foster Agency Intimidating Potential Abortion Whistleblowers: Report

By James Tillman PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Luz Navarro, a foster-mother who earlier this year had four minors under her care, had all of them removed from her home after she told a newspaper that a Philadelphia Department of Human Services (DHS) caseworker forced one of the children to have an abortion. Now Concilio, a social-service agency that oversees fostering cases and subcontracts for Philadelphia, has allegedly tried to intimidate and silence other foster parents by falsely stating that Navarro will be going to jail. After she became pregnant, the 16-year-old foster child in Navarro's care had initially been […]
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University of Calgary Students’ Union Withdraws Complaint against Campus Pro-Life

Updated: 07/19/2010, 15:14 CALGARY, June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Calgary Students’ Union* has formally withdrawn its complaint against the Campus Pro-Life (CPL) student group in relation to a pro-life display held on campus each semester. On February 10, 2009, the Students’ Union Clubs Committee had resolved that Campus Pro-Life lose its status as a sanctioned club. The Students’ Union Clubs Committee decision was appealed by CPL and discussions between the student group and the Students’ Union had been ongoing. Earlier this year the University of Calgary administration, separate from the Students’ Union, found eight members of CPL […]
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New Look, New Style, New Feel: CLC Youth Re-launches in Canada

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The political arm of Canada’s pro-life movement is rallying the country’s young people to demand protection for the youngest and most vulnerable members of society. “We need to have our voices heard and show people that we care about real issues and will go to all lengths to prevent the killing of innocent unborn children in our country,” said Alissa Golob, coordinator for Campaign Life Coalition’s newly re-launched youth division.  “As youth in our country we have an extremely powerful voice.” Campaign Life Coalition Youth (CLCY) is a network […]
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Retired British GP Admits Killing Patients without Consent: Could Face Charges

By Hilary White DURHAM, UK, June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A retired UK doctor believes he has been treated “harshly” by medical and legal authorities after he admitted to deliberately killing some of his patients without their consent. “I twice helped people die, not because they wanted to die but because they had such dreadful suffering,” Dr. Howard Martin admitted in a video interview with the Daily Telegraph. Last week the General Medical Council (GMC) found Martin guilty of professional misconduct, saying that he had knowingly “hastened the deaths” of 18 patients by giving them excessive doses of morphine. The GMC […]
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Abortion Prominent in UN Office Push for Right to Maternal Health

By Samantha Singson GENEVA, June 24, 2010 (C-FAM) – The Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) has presented a new report to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council on “Preventable Maternal Mortality and Morbidity and Human Rights” that calls for a new “right” to maternal health. The pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) heralded the new report and boasted of playing a “leading role” in getting maternal mortality put on the human rights agenda. CRR organized three panels on implanting a “human rights-based approach” to reducing maternal mortality at the recent Women Deliver 2 conference. Because […]
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Tax the Church? In Spain, it Saves the Govt Billions

Monday June 21, 2010 Tax the Church? In Spain, it Saves the Govt Billions By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MADRID, June 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As liberal groups continue to push governments to tax Christian churches, data recently published by the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) found that the Catholic Church actually saves the Spanish government billions of dollars per year in social service expenditures. The Catholic Church receives approximately 252.7 million euros per year ($311.8m) from voluntary taxpayer contributions, coming from only 7.2 million taxpayers who check a box indicating that they wish 0.7% of their tax to go to the […]
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Retired Bishop: Biden’s Kenya Constitution Support ‘Invites Canonical Censure’

Monday June 21, 2010 Retired Bishop: Biden’s Kenya Constitution Support ‘Invites Canonical Censure’ By Kathleen Gilbert CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, June 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Rene Henry Gracida, Bishop Emeritus of the Catholic Diocese of Corpus Christi, has called for a canonical reprimand against U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. Biden, a Catholic, recently travelled to Kenya to lobby for the country’s proposed constitution, which has been strenuously opposed by pro-life groups due to its pro-abortion language. Biden told a crowd earlier this month that the Kenya government should adopt the new constitution in order “to allow money to flow” to […]
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Argentine Bishop States Gays Can Overcome Same-Sex Attraction, Leads Pro-Family March

Monday June 21, 2010 Argentine Bishop States Gays Can Overcome Same-Sex Attraction, Leads Pro-Family March Calls homosexual “marriage” a “contradiction in terms” By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent SAN LUIS, Argentina, June 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the eve of a pro-family march that he was scheduled to lead last week, Bishop Jorge Lona of San Luis defended the institution of marriage, and stated that psychiatric treatment can help homosexuals overcome unwanted same-sex attraction. “The Church can illuminate that person, so that one should never believe that they lack freedom in that [homosexual] tendency,” Bishop Lona said in an […]
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Pro-Life License Plates Available in Massachusetts

Monday June 21, 2010 Pro-Life License Plates Available in Massachusetts BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Massachusetts is now offering specialty pro-life license plates, thanks to the efforts of the Massachusetts Choose Life organization. The plates have the words “Choose Life” written in black beneath the number, and an illustration of a mother cradling an infant beside the number. They are available on the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles website. There is an initial registration fee of $50 plus a special plate fee of $40 to order the plates. Twenty-eight dollars of the special plate fee goes to Choose […]
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Irish Bishops Lobby Against Gay Unions, Call for Conscience Protections

Friday June 18, 2010 Irish Bishops Lobby Against Gay Unions, Call for Conscience Protections By Hilary White DUBLIN, June 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While Irish legislators prepare to pass civil partnership legislation, the country’s Catholic bishops conference has issued a last minute call for a halt to the plans. Failing that, they said, parliament must allow for “greater recognition of the proper autonomy of Churches and the right to social and civil freedom in religious matters.” “This includes the right of individuals to the free exercise of conscience,” they said. The planned legislation includes a provision to force civil marriage […]
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Study: Donor-Conceived Children More Likely to be Isolated, Delinquent

Friday June 18, 2010 Study: Donor-Conceived Children More Likely to be Isolated, Delinquent By James Tillman NEW YORK, New York, June 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study released by the Commission on Parenthood’s Future has found that children conceived from a sperm donation are more likely than children raised by their biological parents to be isolated from their parents, to be delinquent, or have substance abuse problems. In many cases the donor-conceived child also experienced more isolation and worry than adopted children. 25% of donor-conceived children strongly agreed that no one really understood them, compared to roughly 1/2 of […]
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Montana Supreme Court Legalizes Doctor-Assisted Suicide

Tuesday January 5, 2010 Montana Supreme Court Legalizes Doctor-Assisted Suicide By Peter J. Smith HELENA, Montana, January 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Montana Supreme Court ruled last Thursday that state law does not prevent physicians from assisting patients in killing themselves, making it the third U.S. state after Oregon and Washington where doctor-assisted suicide is now legal. The high court’s 4-3 ruling in Baxter v. Montana, however, did not give “right-to-die” advocates a constitutional right to assisted suicide, or “aid in dying” as it is euphemistically called. Instead, the Supreme Court decided that Montana had no statutory prohibitions on assisted […]
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U.S. Government Spends $2 Million on Kazakhstan Condom Study

By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—The U.S. Government has spent over $2 million on a study designed to increase condom use among injection drug users (IDUs) and their sexual partners – in Kazakhstan. Nabila El-Bassel of Columbia University, the principal investigator, justified the relevance of the study saying it “addresses a significant public health threat of HIV, HVC, and other STIs among a very high risk population of active IDUs and their sexual partners in Kazakhstan – a region that is experiencing one of the fastest rising HIV epidemics in the world.” The study relied on recruiting participants from […]
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On Pill Anniversary, Pro-Life Action League Encourages Confident Opposition to Contraception

CHICAGO, IL, June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – To mark the day the U.S Food and Drug Administration first approved the birth control pill 50 years ago, the Pro-Life Action League is encouraging pro-life activists across the nation to speak out against contraception. “Contraception has radically altered sexual behavior in our culture and ultimately leads to more abortion, not less,” said Eric Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League. “We want to empower pro-life activists to confidently articulate the case against contraception, especially as we remember the day it was first approved for use in America.”  In a press release the […]
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Robert Bork: With Elena Kagan, U.S. Moves Closer to Rule by “Committee of Ideologues”

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former U.S. Supreme Court nominee and conservative jurist Robert Bork warned Wednesday that President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan should be opposed. He also said that the nomination of liberal activists to the Supreme Court showed the United States was drifting closer to rule by a “committee of ideologues.” Bork was nominated by President Ronald Reagan for the Supreme Court in 1987, but violent opposition in the Senate to his strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution and opposition to Roe v. Wade led to the demise of his […]
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House Dems Preparing Thursday DISCLOSE Act Vote to Muzzle Pro-life, Pro-family Groups

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Delayed, but not undaunted, the leadership of the Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress may force a Thursday vote on a new campaign finance bill, the Orwellian-named “Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act” that has pro-life, pro-family groups, and even the ACLU crying foul. Critics say the measure will have a chilling effect on political free speech, especially with mid-term elections just around the corner. Late Wednesday afternoon, National Right to Life Legislative Director Douglas Johnson told LifeSiteNews.com that the House Rules Committee was meeting at that […]
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Big Brother: EU Declaration Will Require Google to Store Search Records for 2 Years

By Hilary White BRUSSELS, June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Promoted as a means of combating the sexual abuse of children, Written Declaration 29, sponsored by an Italian and Slovakian MEP, seeks to have Google and other online search engines store all search results in the EU for up to two years. The declaration, already signed by 324 MEPs, demands that the existing Data Retention Directive be extended to cover search engines. A Written Declaration is similar to an Early Day Motion in the UK Parliament, or a Private Member’s Motion in the Canadian Parliament. A total of 369 signatures are […]
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Council of Europe Declaration Seeks to “Regulate” Physician Conscience on Abortion

By Hilary White STRASBOURG, June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The “problem of unregulated use of conscientious objection” by doctors who do not wish to commit abortions must be addressed by the European authorities, says a draft declaration of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Prepared by the UK’s Christine McCafferty for the PACE Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee, the draft declaration calls for the establishment of “comprehensive and clear legal and policy framework governing the practice of conscientious objection by healthcare providers” with an “effective oversight and complaint mechanism.” Under the document’s guidelines, doctors would be […]
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Cohabitation and Children Outside Marriage Linked to Higher Probability of Breakups: Aussie Study

By Hilary White June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Second marriages are more than 90% more likely to break up than first marriages, according to a new study by Australian researchers. The researchers also found that cohabiting, having children before marrying, and an imbalance between partners in the desire for children are all correlated with marital breakup. “The overwhelming bulk of research on cohabitation and marital instability finds that cohabitation before marriage is linked to a greater probability that the marriage will fail,” said the researchers. The study, titled “What’s Love Got to do With It?” by researchers from the Australian National […]
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* 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 FREE HUGS Video – Free Hugshttps://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hN8CKwdosjE OBAMA Meet the First Activist PresidentEssentially, these regulations would help sweep away the law protecting marriage and turn the Family and Medical Leave Act into another weapon that the White House will use to bludgeon DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act) into extinction. Piece by anti-democratic piece, the White House is executing its plan for a vast expansion of presidential power. […]
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A.L.L. Joins International Call for Ban on In Vitro Technologies

By Kathleen Gilbert Washington, D.C., June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Life League joined the U.K.'s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) on Monday calling for a ban on all in vitro fertilization (IVF) practices. IVF routinely involves the massive loss of human life as “excess” embryonic children are discarded, frozen indefinitely, or fall victim to “selective termination” following implantation. “We know that IVF kills preborn children. We know that IVF can cause severe birth defects in those children lucky enough to be brought to term. It is time for a ban on this barbaric practice,” said Judie […]
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New Grassroots Group Calls Quebecers to Action against Euthanasia

June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new grassroots group in Quebec is urging Quebecers to join the campaign to stop euthanasia and assisted suicide from being “smuggled” into the public health care system under the guise of medical treatment. Vivre dans la Dignité(Living with Dignity), a grassroots group network that officially launches its campaign on Tuesday, says that Quebecers must tell the Charest government that euthanasia and assisted suicide must be rejected as “unnecessary and dangerous.” “Euthanasia and assisted suicide are killing, plain and simple. We cannot allow killing to be confused with health care in Quebec,” said Linda Couture, director […]
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‘The Law Must Speak for the Unborn Child’: Senior Ghanian Leader Calls for Abortion Restrictions

By Hilary White June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ghanian Parliament’s Minority Leader, Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has called upon the Attorney General to significantly increase restrictions on abortion in the country. Abortion in the Republic of Ghana is currently legal in cases of rape or incest, if the pregnancy is judged to threaten the woman’s physical or mental health, or if there is “substantial risk” of fetal abnormality. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu says he wants to change the law to allow abortions only in cases where it is “necessitated by medical reasons.” He told the Daily Graphic newspaper that some constitutional provisions guarantee the […]
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U.K. Pro-Life Leader Calls for Ban on All IVF Procedures

Friday June 18, 2010 U.K. Pro-Life Leader Calls for Ban on All IVF Procedures By Hilary White LONDON, June 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The release of another study showing connections between artificial procreation techniques and higher instances of genetic defects has prompted a call from a pro-life leader in Britain for an outright ban on in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and related interventions. “IVF amounts to the manufacture of human beings,” said John Smeaton, director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. Pro-life opposition to IVF does not imply denying the humanity of children so conceived. “However, it’s vital […]
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Decision to Pull Plug on Gary Coleman Contradicted Living Will

Friday June 18, 2010 Decision to Pull Plug on Gary Coleman Contradicted Living Will By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman June 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former Diff’rent Strokes star Gary Coleman’s ex-wife decided to “pull the plug” on her husband after a head injury, contradicting his desires as expressed in a living will signed several years earlier, according to reports in Britain’s Sun newspaper, the New York Daily News, and other major media. Coleman reportedly checked a box in his living will, which dates from 2006, with the label “choice to prolong life” and the description “I want my life to be […]
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Western Canadian Pro-Life Campaign Changes Hearts and Minds

Friday June 18, 2010 Western Canadian Pro-Life Campaign Changes Hearts and Minds By Patrick B. Craine See LifeSiteNews’ earlier piece: Alberta Pro-Life Campaign Makes Splash in Local Media CALGARY, Alberta, June 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In addition to getting big media coverage, the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform’s “Reproductive Choice” campaign across Southern Alberta last week generated strong feedback from the public – both positive and negative. “Our hope is by getting the abortion issue discussed and debated in the public again we’re opening up what the other side has been trying to shut down for so long,” said Jose […]
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Bishop Lynch Butts Heads with Cardinal George over Bishops’ Authority

Thursday June 17, 2010 Bishop Lynch Butts Heads with Cardinal George over Bishops’ Authority By Kathleen Gilbert ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, June 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One bishop on the board of the pro-ObamaCare Catholic Health Association (CHA) has contended that U.S. bishops do not have authority to state the official Catholic position on a given piece of legislation. The remarks put Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg in apparent conflict with the position of the current head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Cardinal Francis George of Chicago. Cardinal George has maintained the USCCB’s position against the […]
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Italy’s Highest Court Rejects Same-Sex “Marriage” Bid

Wednesday April 14, 2010 Italy’s Highest Court Rejects Same-Sex “Marriage” Bid By Hilary White ROME, April 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Italy’s highest court ruled today against a bid to institute “gay marriage” in the two northern cities of Venice and Trento. Local news services report that the judges ruled that it is up to lawmakers, not the courts, to define marriage. Arguments in favour of changing the law, the Constitutional court ruled, were either “unfounded” or “inadmissible.” The ruling comes in answer to a civil suit launched by two homosexuals from Venice who sued after officials denied them a marriage […]
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A Desperate Battle – Last Call!

Friday June 18, 2010 A Desperate Battle – Last Call! Matthew C. Hoffman is the Latin America Correspondent for LifeSiteNews.com. His articles have appeared in dozens of major newspapers and magazines including the Wall Street Journal, Sunday Times of London, Detroit News, Miami Herald, and many others. Matthew has produced major investigative reports for LifeSiteNews that have received international attention and led to dramatic developments regarding the issues reported. While the abortion industry and the homosexual lobby are fighting to protect their growing empire in the English speaking world, they are simultaneously seeking to conquer new territory elsewhere. One of […]
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Southern Baptists Leaders Resolve to Rekindle Family Life, Condemn Divorce

Friday June 18, 2010 Southern Baptists Leaders Resolve to Rekindle Family Life, Condemn Divorce By Peter J. Smith ORLANDO, Florida, June 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the last day of their annual meeting, U.S. leaders of Southern Baptists, a Christian denomination boasting 16.16 million members, approved resolutions of recommittment to vigorously promoting the institution of marriage and the family in their churches. The Baptist leaders especially condemned the scandal of divorce and legislative attempts to normalize homosexuality in the military and the workplace. More than 11,000 church delegates or “messengers” from across the U.S. attended the 153rd annual meeting of […]
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Michigan Bill Demands Abortionists Give Women Best Ultrasound Images

Friday June 18, 2010 Michigan Bill Demands Abortionists Give Women Best Ultrasound Images By Peter J. Smith Updated: 06/18/10, 6:22pm EST LANSING, Michigan, June 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Michigan Senate Judiciary Committee is considering a measure to tighten up the state’s informed consent laws. The bill would mandate that mothers seeking an abortion receive high quality images of their unborn babies from the best ultrasound equipment available at the abortion facility. Under Michigan’s 2006 informed consent law, abortionists are required to give an ultrasound examination to a mother seeking an abortion, and must give her the option to view […]
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Luxembourg Parliament Set to Sweep away Remaining Abortion Restrictions

Thursday June 17, 2010 Luxembourg Parliament Set to Sweep away Remaining Abortion Restrictions By Hilary White LUXEMBOURG, June 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some members of the Luxembourg Parliament are attempting to sweep away the last remaining restrictions on abortion by inserting a so-called “social indicator” in the list of legal justifications for abortion. The group SOSvita.org warns that the Luxembourg Parliament plans to create “a comprehensive liberalization of abortion before 15 July 2010.” Pat Buckley, European officer for the UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children said, “The Luxembourg Members of Parliament in 2008 already supported the expansion of […]
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Amazing Influence

Thursday June 17, 2010 Amazing Influence Dear Friends of Life and Family, Earlier today we learned that Rush Limbaugh, the most influential talk radio host in America, referred to LifeSiteNews.com Wednesday on his program that is listened to by millions. The Limbaugh website included a direct link to the mentioned article on LifeSiteNews.com. Another LSN article was similarly referred to by Rush a few months ago. Regardless of what one might think about Rush Limbaugh, this is one of many examples illustrating the amazing influence of LifeSiteNews. In the past few years, as LSN has continued to grow in both […]
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Prop 8 Trial Wraps up with Grim Prospects for Marriage Defenders

Thursday June 17, 2010 Prop 8 Trial Wraps up with Grim Prospects for Marriage Defenders By Kathleen Gilbert SAN FRANCISCO, June 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The closing arguments of the trial against California’s Proposition 8 finished Wednesday with little fanfare. Now both sides can only wait for the verdict, which pro-family leaders expect will overturn the voter-approved constitutional amendment upholding marriage as between a man and a woman. As protesters waved placards outside the courtroom, representatives of both sides largely rehashed the testimony and arguments already presented to the judge throughout the trial, during a 5-hour long concluding session. Opponents […]
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Abortion May Increase Risk of Autoimmune Disease

Thursday June 17, 2010 Abortion May Increase Risk of Autoimmune Disease By James Tillman PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Surgical abortion may increase the likelihood of certain autoimmune diseases, according to a new report by Dr. Ralph P. Miech of Brown University. Fetal microchimerism – the transfer of fetal cells into the bloodstream of the mother, whence they may be grafted on to bone marrow or other tissues – is the key link between abortion and autoimmune disease, says Miech. The researcher pointed out that as the placenta is destroyed during a surgical abortion, there is an […]
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Catholics Defend French Cathedral de Lyon During Homosexual “Kiss-In”

Thursday June 17, 2010 Catholics Defend French Cathedral de Lyon During Homosexual “Kiss-In” By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman LYONS, June 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Approximately 200 young Catholics came to the defense of the Cathedral of Lyons, France, during a “kiss-in” protest held by homosexuals in front of the building last month. The homosexuals reportedly came on the eve of the “World Day Against Homophobia” in May to kiss each other in front of the cathedral, presumably in protest against the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year-old condemnation of homosexual sex acts. In a video recently released by ACI Prensa, the counter-protesters can be […]
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Congress to Vote on DISCLOSE Act – Condemned by Pro-Life, Pro-Family Groups

Thursday June 17, 2010 Congress to Vote on DISCLOSE Act – Condemned by Pro-Life, Pro-Family Groups By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress is preparing to vote on a new campaign finance bill, the so-called “Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act.” Pro-life and pro-family groups are feverishly campaigning against the act, saying it will have a chilling effect on political free speech, especially with mid-term elections just around the corner. The House Rules Committee is scheduled to mark up the DISCLOSE Act (HR 5175), sponsored by […]
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Caught in the LifeLight: LSN Interviews Lila Rose

Thursday June 17, 2010 Caught in the LifeLight: LSN Interviews Lila Rose By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Few youth have managed to captivate so completely the pro-life movement as Lila Rose, whose courageous undercover investigative work has helped to blow the lid on a culture of illegality and deception at Planned Parenthood facilities. Rose is President of Live Action Films, the group that has conducted investigative stings of abortion centers and released videos to the public documenting their devastating findings. The 20-year-old pro-life heroine displayed an eloquent clarity and confidence at Wednesday’s press conference […]
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USCCB Pro-life Chair Slams FDA for Approving Abortion Drug Ella as ‘Emergency Contraception’

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities voiced “grave concern” to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over its move toward approving a new drug, which pro-life leaders say would induce early abortions, as an “emergency contraceptive.” In a June 17 letter to Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the FDA, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston criticized the FDA’s move to hold an advisory committee meeting on the drug Ulipristal, sold under the brand name Ella, “without broad public input or a full record on the drug’s safety for women […]
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Author and Mother of Three Excoriates U.K. Bishops for Failing to Oppose Explicit Sex-ed

By James Tillman BRAGA, Portugal, June 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fiorella Nash, Catholic author and mother of three, spoke to the Knights of Our Lady on the weekend of June 4-6, and upbraided the Bishops Conference of England and Wales for failing to sufficiently oppose explicit sex education in schools and even colluding with the “anti-life policies of the Government.” In her speech, “The State of Family Life in Great Britain,” Nash called the government's aggressive promotion of sex education the “greatest threat to family life in Britain today.” “Sex education in Britain, as in many other countries, means the […]
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Pro-Lifers Must Oppose Fisichella Appointment to New Pontifical Council: John Smeaton

By Hilary White LONDON, June 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The appointment of Archbishop Rino Fisichella to a major new Vatican office would be a “total disaster” for the defense of innocent unborn life around the world, John Smeaton said today. Smeaton, director of the British Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) and one of the most influential voices in the global pro-life movement, told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) in an interview that pro-life people everywhere must strenuously oppose the appointment. “We need people to come out publicly, to pin their colors to the mast,” he said. “People need to understand […]
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NewsBytes

* 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 Barack Obama's Square BoxObservers are now beginning to talk about his inevitable crash. There's no dispute about Barack Obama's executive experience: he has none. In fact, he is the least qualified person ever to be elected president. Prior to being elected, he had done almost nothing. Certainly nothing requiring, or teaching, executive ability.  https://spectator.org/archives/2010/06/18/barack-obamas-square-box A Roadmap for American Renewal by Star Parker “The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan […]
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Summer Campaign Special Emails Summary

Our heartfelt thanks go to all of you who were able to donate to our summer fundraising campaign. As mentioned Friday, the campaign is officially over and Matthew Hoffman's letter on Friday was the last of the special emails for the campaign. We haven't yet reached the $100,000 goal and are at $79,129 at the time of this writing, but that is vastly better than the concerning picture of just a week ago when we were nowhere near that amount. Thanks! Hopefully, there are donations still in the mail that will make up much of the remaining $20,000 needed to […]
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Interview: Pro-Lifer says Fed Lawsuit for Entering Abortuary Based on False Information

Friday June 18, 2010 Interview: Pro-Lifer says Fed Lawsuit for Entering Abortuary Based on False Information By Kathleen Gilbert SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life witness in San Antonio, Texas, is facing a lawsuit from the federal government after entering an abortion facility to offer pro-life alternatives to an abortion-bound couple. Federal law known as the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act was passed under President Clinton in 1994 and prohibits individuals from directly interfering with access to abortion. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in San Antonio by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, 56-year-old […]
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Liberals Continue Backdoor Push for Abortion in G8

Friday June 18, 2010 Liberals Continue Backdoor Push for Abortion in G8 By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, June 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the G8 approaches, the Liberal Party of Canada has called yet again for abortion to be included in the government’s maternal health initiative. Liberals have seized onto a Wednesday report from the parliamentary Standing Committee on the Status of Women, saying it shows that funding abortion would be “evidence-based,” compared to the Conservatives’ “ideological” approach. But pro-life leaders insist that the development and release of the Wednesday report is a classic example of the pro-abortion movement’s […]
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Quebec City Cardinal Ouellet to Rome? “Only a Rumor” Says Archdiocese

Thursday June 17, 2010 Quebec City Cardinal Ouellet to Rome? “Only a Rumor” Says Archdiocese By John-Henry Westen QUEBEC CITY, June 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Popular Vatican insider reporter Andrea Tornielli has said that the powerful post of head of the Vatican congregation which deals with appointing and assigning bishops is to be taken by Quebec City Cardinal Marc Ouellet. However, the Archdiocese of Quebec told LifeSiteNews today that the report is only “a rumor.” Jasmin Lemieux-Lefebvre, director of communications for the archdiocese, noted that over the last few years there have been similar rumors about the Cardinal returning to […]
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Unveiling of Kenya Constitution with Abortion Provisions Set for Thursday

Tuesday May 4, 2010 Unveiling of Kenya Constitution with Abortion Provisions Set for Thursday By Peter J. Smith NAIROBI, Kenya, May 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The new proposed Kenyan Constitution is set to be unveiled on Thursday. Meanwhile Christian leaders are getting in full swing to vote “no” on the upcoming referendum on the document, over the inclusion of provisions which they say open the door for a legal right to abortion and would harm religious equality and justice by setting up a parallel legal system for Muslims. Kenya’s attorney general Amos Wako will make the draft constitution publicly available […]
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Reprimanded Canadian Doctor Told He May Only Perform Abortions

Thursday June 17, 2010 Reprimanded Canadian Doctor Told He May Only Perform Abortions By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, June 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An abortionist at Henry Morgentaler’s Ottawa abortuary has agreed to restrict his practice following allegations that he failed to maintain an adequate standard of care. But pro-life groups are up in arms over the fact that he has been forbidden from practicing everywhere except in abortion facilities. “Obviously abortion is at the bottom rung of the medical profession when the lowest of the low are sent to operate these clinics,” said Alissa Golob, head of Campaign […]
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Suit over Boy Scout Homosexual Discrimination Opens

Wednesday June 16, 2010 Suit over Boy Scout Homosexual Discrimination Opens By James Tillman PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Tuesday opening arguments were heard in a case involving the Cradle of Liberty Scout Council, which is challenging the city of Philadelphia’s decision to evict the Council from a building that it built and has maintained since 1929. The city said it would carry through with the eviction unless the Council rejected the Boy Scouts of America’s policy banning open homosexuals from membership. In the Boy Scouts of America v. Dale case of 2000, the Supreme Court of […]
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Spanish Clinic Investigated for Allegedly Treating Same-Sex Attraction

Wednesday June 16, 2010 Spanish Clinic Investigated for Allegedly Treating Same-Sex Attraction By James Tillman BARCELONA, Spain, June 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government in Catalonia, Spain, is investigating the clinic Policlinica Tibidabo for offering treatments to help their clients get rid of unwanted homosexual desires. The clinic could face fines if it is confirmed that such treatments are being performed. “An investigation has been opened into this clinic,” a spokeswoman for the regional government’s health department told Agence France-Presse. “We do not consider homosexuality as an illness, far from it,” she continued. Homosexual practices were only legalized in Spain […]
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Over 800 Rabbis Urge Filibuster to Prevent Homosexualization of Military

Wednesday June 16, 2010 Over 800 Rabbis Urge Filibuster to Prevent Homosexualization of Military WASHINGTON, DC, June 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rabbi Yehuda Levin, official spokesman for family issues of the more than 800 strong Rabbinical Alliance of America, has urged the Senate to filibuster rather than pass a law permitting the open service of homosexuals in the military. “Passage of such evil legislation would expedite our hurling towards Sodom and Gommorah. It would also threaten to repel Divine Grace from our military’s struggles, and beyond,” he said. “We call upon the Senate to unapologetically filibuster this legislation.” Current military […]
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The New Morning-After Pill … Another Killer

Wednesday June 16, 2010 The New Morning-After Pill … Another Killer Commentary by Judie Brown, President, American Life League June 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The disinformation campaign about the effects of various birth control pills and how they work began years ago. American Life League has testified against birth control pills on many occasions, most recently in 2003 when we pointed out the dangers inherent in taking the morning-after pill off prescription-only status and making it an over-the-counter drug. Our testimony to the federal Food and Drug Administration fell on deaf ears. In 2006, the pill was given OTC status […]
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UN Leadership in Disarray as New Research Shatters Consensus on Maternal Health

Thursday June 10, 2010 UN Leadership in Disarray as New Research Shatters Consensus on Maternal Health By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. NEW YORK, June 9, 2010 (C-FAM) – Deep divisions with top United Nations (UN) officials and abortion activists on one side and maternal health researchers on the other became public this week during the Women Deliver 2 conference in Washington, DC. The dispute threatens to derail hopes of raising $30B for family planning at international development conferences in the coming months. These include the Group of Eight summit this month and the UN High Level Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Review […]
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New Report: U.S. Taxpayers a $1 Billion+ Gold Mine for Abortion Industry

Wednesday June 16, 2010 New Report: U.S. Taxpayers a $1 Billion+ Gold Mine for Abortion Industry By James Tillman and Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, DC, June 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Taxpayers have funded abortion advocacy organizations to the tune of over a billion dollars between 2002 and 2009, according to a new report by the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO). However, these figures may only be the tip of the iceberg. At a press conference on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., members of Congress and pro-life advocates unveiled the GAO findings. According to the report, Advocates for Youth received a total […]
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Controversy Swirls around Catholic U of America’s New Prez

Wednesday June 16, 2010 Controversy Swirls around Catholic U of America’s New Prez By Patrick B. Craine WASHINGTON, D.C., June 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic University of America, the national university for the Catholic Church in the United States, announced Tuesday that they had hired John H. Garvey, dean of Jesuit’s Boston College Law School, to serve as their 15th president. Announcing the appointment, Archbishop Allen Vigneron of Detroit, who chairs CUA’s Board of Trustees and who led the search committee, praised Garvey as “an accomplished jurist, scholar, and teacher,” adding that he is “a man of strong faith in […]
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Wisconsin Abortionist at Center of Late-Term Abortion Plan Retreats to Harvard

Monday June 14, 2010 Wisconsin Abortionist at Center of Late-Term Abortion Plan Retreats to Harvard By James Tillman MADISON, Wisconsin, June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortionist Caryn Dutton is leaving the University of Wisconsin and Planned Parenthood Wisconsin to take a job at Harvard University, according to documents uncovered by Pro-Life Wisconsin and the Alliance Defense Fund. Her departure means that Madison Surgery Center is, for the moment, left without an abortionist to help implement their plans to provide late-term abortions at the Madison Surgery Center. “Caryn Dutton was central to plans to provide late-term abortions at the Madison Surgery […]
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Hillary Clinton Pushes Abortion, Gay Agenda in Lima, Peru

Wednesday June 16, 2010 Hillary Clinton Pushes Abortion, Gay Agenda in Lima, Peru Commentary by Carlos Polo Editor’s note: Carlos Polo is the Director of the Latin American office of Population Research Institute (PRI). June 16, 2010 (PRI) – From June 6 to June 8 of this year, Member States of the Organization of American States (OAS) met in Lima, Peru, and declared once again their “commitment to peace, security and cooperation” among its members. The reality is quite different. Those who look carefully will find that OAS is paying little attention to the implementation of “mechanisms to deal with […]
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Prince Charles’ Population Control Speech Backfires with References to Chesterton, C.S. Lewis

Wednesday June 16, 2010 Prince Charles’ Population Control Speech Backfires with References to Chesterton, C.S. Lewis By John Jalsevac June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Prince of Wales has come under fire after using a speech on Islam and environmentalism as an opportunity to call for a reduction in the world’s birth rate, especially among Muslims. But what has drawn the ire of some commentators is that moments after making his controversial remarks, the prince went on to quote famed Christian writers C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton in support of the thesis of his address. Dr. Dave Beresford, an expert […]
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No Gay ‘Marriage’ in Germany, Court Rules

Wednesday June 16, 2010 No Gay ‘Marriage’ in Germany, Court Rules By Hilary White BERLIN, June 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Marriage can only be between one man and one woman, a German court has ruled in a case brought by two homosexual men who were “married” in Canada. The court ruled that a same-sex “marriage” contracted abroad is to be legally considered a civil partnership in Germany. The decision is a setback for the homosexualist movement in Germany, which had hoped to use the courts to force the legalization of gay “marriage.” Andreas Boettcher, a 37-year-old German event manager, went […]
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Carrying the Load

Tuesday June 15, 2010 Carrying the Load Tens of thousands of readers pass through LifeSiteNews every single day of the year. But you may wonder how many actually stop to give a helping hand every now and then with a donation. The answer to that question may come as shocking. Anywhere from 30,000 to 50,000 people on any given day, and some days far more, read LifeSiteNews reports. Over 3 million unique visitors came to the LSN website in the last 12 months. As well, our articles are extensively forwarded and re-published on numerous websites and in other publications. But […]
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GOP House Leader Asks Obama: ‘What Happened to that Abortion Executive Order?’

Tuesday June 15, 2010 GOP House Leader Asks Obama: ‘What Happened to that Abortion Executive Order?’ By John Jalsevac June 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a meeting with President Obama last week, House Republican Leader John Boehner asked for an update about the implementation of the president’s Executive Order (EO), which purports to block abortion funding in the federal health care bill. The EO was offered by Obama during 11th hour negotiations prior to the final vote on ObamaCare. It proved to be the carrot that convinced Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak and his cadre of pro-life Democrats to cast their […]
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Nicaragua again Rejects Foreign Pressure to Legalize Abortion

Tuesday June 15, 2010 Nicaragua again Rejects Foreign Pressure to Legalize Abortion By Patrick B. Craine GENEVA, Switzerland, June 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nicaragua, one of the few countries in the world to maintain a total ban on abortion, has again rejected pressure by foreign powers to liberalize its pro-life legislation. A report from proceedings at the UN’s Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva reveals that 11 countries called for Nicarague to legalize abortion. Delegate Carlos Robelo, however, flatly refused to bow under pressure. Instead, reports Pat Buckley, the UN consultant for the UK-based Society for the Protection of Unborn […]
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Britain to Participate in Controversial EU Citizen Surveillance Scheme

Tuesday June 15, 2010 Britain to Participate in Controversial EU Citizen Surveillance Scheme By Hilary White LONDON, June 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Under Britain’s just-ousted Labour government, the country joined an EU scheme to allow the government to gather data on citizens who voice or share “radical” political opinions. The move has prompted warnings from a civil liberties watchdog. The NGO Statewatch said Monday that European governments are planning to force all of the continent’s telephone carriers, mobile network operators and Internet service providers to store details of their customers’ web use, e-mails and phone calls for up to 2 […]
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Pro-Life Anti-Constitution Rally Bombed in Kenya

Tuesday June 15, 2010 Pro-Life Anti-Constitution Rally Bombed in Kenya By David Logan, Editor, Pro-Life Reports for Africa, and John Jalsevac June 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A June 13th rally organized by pro-life and religious groups in the Kenyan capital Nairobi was bombed twice, killing 6 people and injuring more than 100. The police have not identified any motive for the attack, and are offering a reward of half a million shillings for information leading to arrests. “Any person with information regarding the incident is advised and requested to report to the nearest police or administrative office,” said Police Commissioner […]
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Adopted Children Reject Gay Adoption as “Marriage” Legislation Advances in Argentina

Wednesday June 9, 2010 Adopted Children Reject Gay Adoption as “Marriage” Legislation Advances in Argentina By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As homosexual “marriage” legislation is being debated in the Argentinean senate, a group of adopted children is speaking out against adoption by gay couples, according to ACI Prensa. Speaking on Radio Cultura, a station in Buenos Aires, the teens said that children should have the same opportunity as they have had to grow up with a father and a mother. “No to homosexual adoption. We children want to grow up in […]
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NewsBytes

Tuesday June 15, 2010 NewsBytes * 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 99.84% of messages to government oppose Marie Stopes abortion ad https://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2010/06/9984-of-messages-to-government-oppose.html The Demon of Child Sacrifice & the Valley of Slaughter By Thomas J. Euteneuer Abortion is fundamentally a business — a business based on a perverse concept of human rights. Abortion is a commodity cleverly marketed to women under the ideological rubric of “free choice” that draws in huge […]
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Kevorkian: “The Single Worst Moment of my Life … Was the Moment I Was Born”

Tuesday June 15, 2010 Kevorkian: “The Single Worst Moment of my Life … Was the Moment I Was Born” By James Tillman and John Jalsevac June 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — “The single worst moment of my life . . . was the moment I was born.” So says Dr. Jack Kevorkian in a recent interview with CNN. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the journalist conducting the interview, confessed that the remark left him speechless – especially since Kevorkian offered the strange and macabre confession without any provocation or lead-up question. Gupta writes that, “Throughout the two-and-a-half hour interview, [Kevorkian] fluctuated wildly between […]
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Majority of Brazilians Oppose Homosexual Adoption Despite Supreme Court Ruling: Poll

Wednesday June 16, 2010 Majority of Brazilians Oppose Homosexual Adoption Despite Supreme Court Ruling: Poll By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent SAO PAULO, June 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A majority of Brazilians are opposed to gay adoption according to a poll released this month, despite a recent ruling by the nation’s Supreme Court permitting a homosexual couple to adopt a child. The poll results indicate that 51% of Brazilians oppose gay adoption, while only 39% favor it. The survey consisted of interviews with 2,660 people throughout Brazil, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2%. Despite […]
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Personhood Nevada Denied Right to Circulate Petition

Tuesday June 15, 2010 Personhood Nevada Denied Right to Circulate Petition CARSON CITY, Neveda, June 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Personhood Nevada, through many legal battles, has been denied the right to circulate their pro-life petition in the state. The ACLU joined forces with Planned Parenthood, delaying the petition in court and denying the many ready and willing Nevada volunteers their right to circulate the petition. “We have several issues at the heart of this matter,” explained Keith Mason, co-founder of Personhood USA. “First, we have judicial activists ruling against the petition, despite the fact that nearly similar language has been […]
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NY Catholic Parish: ‘Live the Gospel at Pride Parade’

Tuesday June 15, 2010 NY Catholic Parish: ‘Live the Gospel at Pride Parade’ By Patrick B. Craine NEW YORK CITY, June 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Jesuit-run Catholic parish in New York City is promoting the New York City “LGBT” Pride March in defiance of a directive from New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, reports Pewsitter.com. The website says a confidential source has revealed that Archbishop Dolan has written to Fr. Joe Costantino, pastor of St. Francis Xavier parish, indicating he does not want a group participating in the June 27 march under the auspices of the parish. The text of […]
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HLI Calls for Swift Clarification from Brazilian Archbishop on Abortion

Friday April 16, 2010 HLI Calls for Swift Clarification from Brazilian Archbishop on Abortion Update: Since this article was published the archbishop has issued a statement ‘clarifying’ his remarks. Read about it here. FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, April 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of Human Life International has called upon a newly-installed Brazilian archbishop to clarify that all procured abortions are a grave evil in the eyes of the Catholic Church. The request comes after the archbishop gave interviews to local newspapers in which he appeared to say that an abortion on a minor in his diocese may be justifiable. […]
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Hand Over the Bag, Ma’am: ‘Women Deliver’ Conf. Organizers Seize Pro-Life Handouts

Monday June 14, 2010 Hand Over the Bag, Ma’am: ‘Women Deliver’ Conf. Organizers Seize Pro-Life Handouts By Kathleen Gilbert Part 5 of 5-part series from Washington Women Deliver conference WASHINGTON, D.C, June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sessions at the Women Deliver conference may have frequently employed terms such as “life-affirming” and the “right to live” in describing the push for maternal health, but this didn’t stop conference staff from putting a stop to the efforts of pro-life activists who were seeking to inform attendees about the right to life of the unborn. Volunteers with the National Right to Life Committee […]
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U.S. Blood Ban for Gays Remains

Monday June 14, 2010 U.S. Blood Ban for Gays Remains By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The federal Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability (ACBSA) voted 9-6 Friday to maintain current blood-donation rules, which effectively forbid practicing homosexuals from donating blood. Specifically, the rules defer any prospective blood donor if he is a man who has had sex with another man since 1977, approximately the beginning of the AIDS outbreak. The role of the advisory panel is to offer non-binding advice to the federal Department of Health and Human Services. “Common sense has triumphed over […]
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Interview: Pro-Lifer says Fed Lawsuit for Entering Abortuary Based on False Information

By Kathleen Gilbert SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life witness in San Antonio, Texas, is facing a lawsuit from the federal government after entering an abortion facility to offer pro-life alternatives to an abortion-bound couple. Federal law known as the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act was passed under President Clinton in 1994 and prohibits individuals from directly interfering with access to abortion. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in San Antonio by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, 56-year-old Juan Gaona is accused of entering the centre on April 17, 2009 and blocking the entrance […]
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Lawsuit Seeks Order Forcing Canadian Blood Services to Accept Blood from Homosexuals

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, June 18 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A court battle brewing between the Canadian agency in charge of collecting blood donations and an active homosexual could result in a ruling that removes the ban on homosexuals giving blood. Canada Blood Services (CBS), which collects, screens and ensures the safety of the blood supply, sued homosexual Kyle Freeman last fall after he admitted to lying in the pre-donation screening process and giving blood despite the lifetime ban on men who have sex with men (MSM) giving blood. The ban was put in place in 1985 after the Canadian Red Cross, […]
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U.K. Pro-Life Leader Calls for Ban on All IVF Procedures

By Hilary White LONDON, June 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The release of another study showing connections between artificial procreation techniques and higher instances of genetic defects has prompted a call from a pro-life leader in Britain for an outright ban on in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and related interventions. “IVF amounts to the manufacture of human beings,” said John Smeaton, director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. Pro-life opposition to IVF does not imply denying the humanity of children so conceived. “However, it's vital to oppose IVF as a way of conceiving children since it turns human beings […]
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Commentary on June 18 News

The audacity, of US VP Joe Biden is outrageous! He’s urging Kenya to pass a new pro-abortion constitution, with the bait that it’ll cause foreign money to flow into the impoverished nation. On his radio program yesterday Rush Limbaugh called the Obama administration “a bunch of thugs” and “an organized crime” outfit. It makes you wonder. But there are some encouraging developments for your weekend read.  Just check out those Calgary pro-life activists and the impact they are having. And if you want a couple of positive entertainment items, an ad will show you not all that is on TV […]
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Pentagon Will Require Military Bases to Stock “Plan-B” Morning-After Pill

Friday February 5, 2010 Pentagon Will Require Military Bases to Stock “Plan-B” Morning-After Pill By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., February 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Officials at the Pentagon have decided to require U.S. military bases all over the world to provide abortifacient morning-after pills, or emergency contraception, reports the Associated Press. Defense Department spokeswoman Cynthia Smith told the AP that the Pentagon was following through with a recommendation by an independent panel of doctors and pharmacists, who recommended the morning-after pill be included on the list of required medications stocked at military facilities. Smith said the decision will be […]
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Chicago Archdiocese-Honored Priest Pushes Women’s Ordination

Wednesday April 14, 2010 Chicago Archdiocese-Honored Priest Pushes Women’s Ordination By Patrick B. Craine CHICAGO, Illinois, April 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fresh from being honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Archdiocese of Chicago, presented by Cardinal Francis George, Fr. Michael Pfleger has come out publicly with his support for women’s ordination. In a 70-minute homily for Divine Mercy Sunday on the need to overcome fear, the pastor of Saint Sabina’s Catholic Church related how Christ’s disciples had deserted him when he was taken to be crucified. “They ran away when he most needed them. Only John at the […]
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More U.S. Pro-Life Gains on the Horizon with State Opt-Out of Abortion Mandate

Wednesday April 14, 2010 More U.S. Pro-Life Gains on the Horizon with State Opt-Out of Abortion Mandate Group has heard from people in all 50 states asking how they can lobby lawmakers to take a look at opt-out bill By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., April 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With Tennessee having become the first state to opt-out of the abortion funding mandate in the national health care reform, several more states are poised to follow suit this year, with many more to follow when their legislatures again reconvene. Americans United for Life (AUL), a pro-life public-interest law and […]
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Pro-Life Exorcist: “Never in All of History Have We Seen Evil Promoted So Effectively”

Monday June 14, 2010 Pro-Life Exorcist: “Never in All of History Have We Seen Evil Promoted So Effectively” By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Satan is normally ‘hidden’ … but nowadays he is walking tall in powerful structures of sin like abortion, pornography, sex slavery, rapacious greed and terrorism,” writes pro-life leader, Catholic priest and exorcist Reverend Thomas J. Euteneuer in his new book, Exorcism and the Church Militant. The devil, says the President of Human Life International, “flexes his muscles” with “pernicious ideologies like radical feminism and ‘pro-choice’ extremism, the militant homosexual movement and the aggressive […]
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Commentary: We Can’t Not Know

Monday June 14, 2010 Commentary: We Can’t Not Know Commentary by Dan Kennedy, CEO, Human Life of Washington State June 14, 2010 (HumanLife.net) – Individuals and nations are capable of both great good, and extreme evil. It is the same with institutions and professions. It is instructive that history is replete with evidence that respected cultural institutions (e.g., academia, the courts, media, science) can become infected with the most radical moral corruption. They have in the past “validated” evil – slavery, genocide, and other atrocities – as “good.” Cultural institutions exert a powerful influence on each other and, once corrupted, […]
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Pope Discusses Spain’s Anti-Life, Anti-Family Legislation with Spanish President

Friday June 11, 2010 Pope Discusses Spain’s Anti-Life, Anti-Family Legislation with Spanish President By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman VATICAN CITY, June 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Spanish President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero concluded a meeting yesterday with Pope Benedict XVI, during which they reportedly discussed Spain’s new abortion law, which permits women to have their unborn children killed by a doctor for any reason during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. The law, vigorously opposed by the Catholic Church and a majority of Spaniards, violates Catholic teaching on the sacredness of all human life. During the meeting, which was reportedly double the […]
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Lavish Women Deliver Meet Hijacks MDG 5, Delivers Muted but Aggressive Push for Worldwide Abortion

Friday June 11, 2010 Lavish Women Deliver Meet Hijacks MDG 5, Delivers Muted but Aggressive Push for Worldwide Abortion By Kathleen Gilbert Part 2 of 5-part series from Washington Women Deliver conference WASHINGTON, D.C, June 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 2010 Women Deliver conference in the U.S. capital this week offered a rare glimpse into the heart of the pro-abortion, pro-contraception, and population-control movement in its many facets. The conference drew international UN and political leaders to a 3-day marathon on several topics tied together by one ambitious theme: using Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, the reduction of maternal mortality, […]
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LSN From My Eyes

Friday June 11, 2010 LSN From My Eyes Editor’s Note: Patrick Craine is one of LSN’s main writers, covering primarily Canadian, but also a fair number of US and international developments. He wrote the following letter from Halifax, Nova Scotia with the Atlantic Ocean just a short walk from his home. Patrick is a meticulous investigative journalist whose reports are respected by Canadian and US leaders for their quality and obvious thorough research. Hello LifeSiteNews Readers, As we make our regular and oh-so-necessary plea for funds during this campaign, I wanted to take the opportunity to share with you why […]
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Georgia Police Impound Anti-Abortion Billboard Truck, Jail Driver

Tuesday November 27, 2007 Georgia Police Impound Anti-Abortion Billboard Truck, Jail Driver ATLANTA, Georgia, November 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bob Roethlisberger was arrested and jailed over Thanksgiving weekend in a northern suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, on the charge of “Disorderly Conduct” for driving Operation Rescue’s Truth Truck bearing signs with photos of aborted babies. The Truth Truck was impounded. Gwinnett County Police Department officers arrested Roethlisberger Saturday after telling him that signage on the Truth Truck was “vulgar and obscene.” According to Operation Rescue, officers ransacked the back of the Truth Truck without a warrant and ordered Roethlisberger to change […]
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What Are We Up Against?

Monday June 14, 2010 What Are We Up Against? Editor’s Note: Kathleen Gilbert is the LifeSiteNews U.S. bureau chief. She resides near Washington D.C. She has a B.A. in classical studies from Christendom College, located in Front Royal, Virginia, from which she graduated with a near-perfect GPA, winning her the position of salutatorian of her class. Imagine finding yourself on a mission to conduct espionage in enemy territory. You see human faces around you. None of them have a personal grudge against you; some you could even be friends with. But should they know who you are, or why you […]
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Louisiana Passes Opt-Out Bill Voiding ObamaCare’s Abortion Mandate

Monday June 14, 2010 Louisiana Passes Opt-Out Bill Voiding ObamaCare’s Abortion Mandate By Peter J. Smith Updated 0614/2010 8:20pm BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Louisiana State House successfully has passed a measure that will make “the Bayou State” the fourth in the nation to opt-out of the abortion mandates of the recently enacted national health care reform. Democrats and Republicans in the state Senate approved HB 1247, the Abortion Insurance Opt-Out Act, authored by Representative Frank Hoffman (R-West Monroe), by an overwhelming majority of 28 – 3 on Monday. H.R. 1247 prohibits abortion coverage by health […]
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Coalition Says Illegal Porn at ‘Epidemic Proportions,’ Demands Feds Take Action

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Firing what was called “the first salvo” in a new battle against the porn industry, a broad-based coalition called upon Congress and the Obama Administration to take immediate action against the producers and peddlers of obscene materials who are fueling the sexual exploitation of women and reshaping society into their own pornified image. At a congressional briefing in the Capitol Visitor’s Center on Tuesday, a standing-room-only crowd listened for 90 minutes to a panoply of speakers - experts in the field of pornography, sexual trauma, and criminal prosecution of obscenity, and a former […]
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Iceland Legalizes Gay ‘Marriage’

By James Tillman REYKJAVIK, Iceland, June 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNew.com) – Iceland's general assembly voted June 11 to legalize same-sex “marriage,” making Iceland the 9th country in the world to do so. Iceland is the only nation with an openly homosexual head of government, Johanna Siguroardottir. The law passed Iceland's Althingi 49-0, with 14 members abstaining. It takes effect on June 27.  Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), which fought against the legalization of same-sex 'marriage' in Canada, pointed to Iceland's vote as a warning against the election of homosexual politicians.  “Obviously, this is the result of electing openly homosexual politicians,” said CLC's Jeff Gunnarson.  “As […]
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British Crisis Pregnancy Centre Plans Campaign to Counter Abortion Ads

By Hilary White LONDON, June 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Good Counsel Network, a British pro-life crisis pregnancy centre, is raising funds to launch a counter campaign against abortion ads currently airing on British television. The group is planning a poster campaign for the London public transit system that would feature a famous painting of the Madonna and Child and the caption “Maria Stops Abortion.” The slogan is a pun on the name of one of the world’s largest abortionist groups, Marie Stopes International, which is currently advertising its abortion services on Channel 4. The group hopes to reach some of the […]
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Canadian Women Sue Birth Control Pill Manufacturer

Tuesday June 8, 2010 Canadian Women Sue Birth Control Pill Manufacturer By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, June 8, 2010 (LifeSIteNews.com) – A group of Canadian women is suing Bayer Pharmaceutical, claiming that the contraceptive pill manufacturer does not adequately inform users of the potential serious health risks associated with the oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin. The legal firm of Siskinds LLP is representing the group. It will present evidence that the hormonal birth control pills cause conditions ranging from decreased bone density to strokes, gallbladder problems leading to surgery, pulmonary embolisms, and numerous other serious health issues. Matthew Baer, legal […]
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Commentary on June 14 News

Monday June 14, 2010 Commentary on June 14 News Kathleen Gilbert makes a fascinating case today for readers to support LifeSiteNews. If you have not yet read “What Are We Up Against“, please do. I know most readers will enjoy reading about her experiences last week that are a crucial part of her letter. In conjunction with the above, Kathleen’s two additional reports today on the Women Deliver conference are a must read. By the way, all photos in the five part series were taken by Kathleen. The passage of the Louisiana opt out bill is good news indeed! Fr. […]
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‘Women Deliver’ Conference Urges Women to Push Pro-Abort Agenda Internationally

Monday June 14, 2010 ‘Women Deliver’ Conference Urges Women to Push Pro-Abort Agenda Internationally Melinda Gates says lack of numerous contraceptives worldwide is “reckless” By Kathleen Gilbert Part 4 of 5-part series from Washington Women Deliver conference WASHINGTON, D.C, June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although the message was rarely overt, population control via contraception and abortion (i.e. “family planning”) was a driving concern in many of the conversations and events at the Women Deliver conference in Washington last week. Swedish population control expert Dr. Hans Rosling explained that, while many countries have drastically reduced their fertility rate in recent decades, […]
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Quebec Ethicist: ‘Tax Breaks for Organs’

Monday June 14, 2010 Quebec Ethicist: ‘Tax Breaks for Organs’ By Patrick B. Craine MONTREAL, Quebec, June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Quebec philosopher and ethicist has proposed that governments promote organ harvesting by offering tax credits to the individual’s family members. But according to one expert on ‘brain death,’ people are right to have a healthy fear of organ harvesting and, rather than being offered “government bribes,” they should be given more education about the problems inherent to the practice. Jurgen De Wispelaere, a visiting fellow with the Université de Montréal’s Centre for Ethics Research, presented his plan in […]
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Pro-Life TV Show Nominated For Emmy Award

Friday June 11, 2010 Pro-Life TV Show Nominated For Emmy Award By Thaddeus M. Baklinski CINCINNATI, June 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cincinnati-based Life Issues Institute has announced that their compelling pro-life TV show, Facing Life Head-On, captured the attention of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) and has earned a nomination for the prestigious Emmy Award. Facing Life Head-On, a weekly television show sponsored by Life Issues Institute, is one of 4 nominees in the NATAS Ohio Valley Chapter’s “Interview/Discussion Program” category. Winners will be announced July 31. “This is great news-not just for us, but for […]
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“Fox News North” Coming to Canada?

Friday June 11, 2010 “Fox News North” Coming to Canada? By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, June 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With rumours circulating about the launch of a conservative-leaning 24-hour news network in Canada, the editor of Canada’s pro-life newspaper has expressed hopes that the venture could open the public square to a pro-life and pro-family voice. “Having something to add balance to the overwhelmingly anti-life, anti-family left-wing broadcasters in Canada would be a very welcome development,” commented Paul Tuns of The Interim. Canada’s media has been abuzz in the last few days over reports that the Montreal-based media […]
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Breaking: Florida Governor Crist Vetoes Abortion Ultrasound Bill

Friday June 11, 2010 Breaking: Florida Governor Crist Vetoes Abortion Ultrasound Bill By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 5:30pm EST 6.14.10 TALLAHASSEE, June 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who has repeatedly claimed to be a pro-life politician, has vetoed a measure that would have required an ultrasound to be performed on abortion-bound women after weeks of high-pressure lobbying on both sides of the abortion issue in the state. The bill was seen as potentially a key step forward for the pro-life movement in Florida. Had it become law, abortionists would have been obligated to perform an ultrasound to show […]
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New Report: U.S. Taxpayers a $1 Billion+ Gold Mine for Abortion Industry

By James Tillman and Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, DC, June 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Taxpayers have funded abortion advocacy organizations to the tune of over a billion dollars between 2002 and 2009, according to a new report by the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO). However, these figures may only be the tip of the iceberg.  At a press conference on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., members of Congress and pro-life advocates unveiled the GAO findings. According to the report, Advocates for Youth received a total of $8.7 million (2002-2009); the Guttmacher Institute, $12.7 million (2002-2008); International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), $93.8 million (2002-2009); […]
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Majority of Brazilians Oppose Homosexual Adoption Despite Supreme Court Ruling: Poll

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent SAO PAULO, June 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A majority of Brazilians are opposed to gay adoption according to a poll released this month, despite a recent ruling by the nation's Supreme Court permitting a homosexual couple to adopt a child. The poll results indicate that 51% of Brazilians oppose gay adoption, while only 39% favor it. The survey consisted of interviews with 2,660 people throughout Brazil, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2%. Despite the Catholic Church's strong condemnation of homosexual behavior and opposition to gay adoption, Catholics were far […]
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Prince Charles’ Population Control Speech Backfires with References to Chesterton, C.S. Lewis

By John Jalsevac June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Prince of Wales has come under fire after using a speech on Islam and environmentalism as an opportunity to call for a reduction in the world’s birth rate, especially among Muslims. But what has drawn the ire of some commentators is that moments after making his controversial remarks, the prince went on to quote famed Christian writers C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton in support of the thesis of his address. Dr. Dave Beresford, an expert on G.K. Chesterton who writes for the Chesterton Society’s Gilbert Magazine, told LifeSiteNews.com that, “To quote Chesterton […]
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Commentary on June 16 News

Many thanks for the super boost in donations we've received over the past few days bringing us up to $53,240 – over half way to our goal. There is now a chance the goal could be achieved by Sunday evening, the end of the campaign. Will you make that happen? We are sending a special letter each day for just this last stretch. We hope you are finding these letters informative, if not even a bit entertaining at times. The past few days surge included a $10,000 donation from an anonymous supporter. Thank you! Since this is a matching donation […]
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Italian Government to Launch Homosexualist Campaign in Schools

Monday June 14, 2010 Italian Government to Launch Homosexualist Campaign in Schools By Hilary White ROME, June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Italian Department of Equal Opportunities has issued a report calling for “maximum efforts of law enforcement” against “homophobic” violence. The ministry has called for “the first corporate campaign to raise awareness against homophobia and gender discrimination” and is urging Parliament to support a new law on the issue. The campaign, which will cost an estimated 2 million euro, will include TV spots and thousands of brochures to be distributed in schools. The Minister for Equal Opportunities, Mara Carfagna, […]
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Rep. Smith Vows to Oppose Military Abortions in Defense Bill

Friday June 11, 2010 Rep. Smith Vows to Oppose Military Abortions in Defense Bill By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, June 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) has vowed to block an amendment to the FY 2011 Department of Defense Authorization bill that would permit abortions in military medical facilities. The amendment would destroy a ban on abortion in military facilities that has existed since 1996. “Our military facilities should be a place of hope and healing, not intentional destruction of innocent human life,” said Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04). “This amendment will mean that as many as 260 military […]
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Alberta Pro-Life Campaign Makes Splash in Local Media

Friday June 11, 2010 Alberta Pro-Life Campaign Makes Splash in Local Media By Patrick B. Craine LETHBRIDGE, Alberta, June 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canadian pro-life group is making waves across southern Alberta this week as they travel through communities showing graphic images that expose the truth about abortion. The Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR) began a week-long tour Monday, cruising highways and community streets with an 11-meter long box-bodied truck bearing billboards showing aborted human beings. At the same time, CCBR staff are taking to the sidewalks with hand-held versions of the graphic images on the truck, in […]
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NewsBytes

* 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 99.84% of messages to government oppose Marie Stopes abortion adhttps://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2010/06/9984-of-messages-to-government-oppose.html The Demon of Child Sacrifice & the Valley of Slaughter By Thomas J. Euteneuer Abortion is fundamentally a business — a business based on a perverse concept of human rights. Abortion is a commodity cleverly marketed to women under the ideological rubric of “free choice” that draws in huge profits from the deaths of innocents. […]
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Judge’s Order Gives Rosary Student Reprieve from School’s Discipline

Friday June 11, 2010 Judge’s Order Gives Rosary Student Reprieve from School’s Discipline By Peter J. Smith SCHENECTADY, New York, June 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge ordered a New York school district to cease preventing a seventh grade student from wearing his rosary for the rest of the school year, giving time for lawyers to settle the conflict over the summer and sparing the boy from further disciplinary measures over his Catholic prayer beads. U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Kahn in Albany slapped a temporary restraining order on Schenectady school officials, preventing them from applying any sort of […]
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27-Year-Old Abortion Facility Closed Down Over Health Code Violations

Friday June 11, 2010 27-Year-Old Abortion Facility Closed Down Over Health Code Violations By James Tillman MONTGOMERY, Alabama, June 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Montgomery, Alabama location for the Summit Medical Centers chain of abortion mills has closed after the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) produced a 68-page long document detailing numerous violations of state law and of medical standards. The center had been operating on a probationary license since October 2006 due to the legal and health deficiencies found on a 2006 survey. Among medical deficiencies, the ADPH document notes failure to inspect medical equipment annually, failure to […]
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Pope Warns World’s Priests Against “Heresy”

Friday June 11, 2010 Pope Warns World’s Priests Against “Heresy” By Hilary White VATICAN CITY, June 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sin, satanic influence and the toleration of heresy lie at the root of the priestly sexual abuse scandals, Pope Benedict XVI said today. Precisely because it is an institution erected by God to make himself sacramentally “present to all men and women,” the devil is interested in destroying the priesthood, he said. Referring to the line in Psalm 22 (“Your rod and your staff – they comfort me”), Benedict became explicit about the need for the “rod” of discipline to […]
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Poll Shows Big Bounce for Harry Reid’s GOP Challenger

Thursday June 10, 2010 Poll Shows Big Bounce for Harry Reid’s GOP Challenger By Peter J. Smith LAS VEGAS, Nevada, June 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle has surged in the polls after capturing the Republican nomination in Nevada, seizing a substantial lead over Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, whose popularity tanked after forcing through the unpopular and pro-abortion health care reform. Angle, the dark-horse GOP Tea Party candidate who decisively won Tuesday’s 3-way GOP primary, has seized an 11-point lead over Reid in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race, according to a new Rasmussen poll. A […]
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The Cost of Contraception: Women’s Health – Response to CNN

Thursday June 10, 2010 The Cost of Contraception: Women’s Health – Response to CNN By Jenn Giroux FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, June 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As a Registered Nurse and mother of 9 I am stunned at the mis-information found in Adam Sonfield’s CNN article entitled: “What if Contraception were always covered?” Sonfield claims that there is overwhelming medical, social and economic benefit to contraception access. The complete opposite is true. Undeniable medical evidence confirms that use of the pill increases a woman’s risk and incident for Breast, Cervical, and Liver Cancer. Prior to the pill and the widespread use […]
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Trend Shows National Association of Evangelicals Joining Contraception Bandwagon

Thursday June 10, 2010 Trend Shows National Association of Evangelicals Joining Contraception Bandwagon By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Association of Evangelicals appears to be shifting away from its neutral stance on contraception in favor of a qualified endorsement of the practice. A new survey released by the NAE claiming to represent 45,000 evangelical churches reveals that Evangelical pastors overwhelmingly believe in artificial contraception. “Most associate evangelicals with Catholics in their steady leadership in pro-life advocacy, and rightly so,” said Leith Anderson, president of the NAE, in a press release. “But it may […]
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Documentary Exposes Abortion as The Evolution of Racism and Black Genocide

Thursday June 10, 2010 Documentary Exposes Abortion as The Evolution of Racism and Black Genocide By Theresa Casta June 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The new documentary film Maafa 21 provides a convincing argument that “…legalized abortion is more than just a crime against humanity, it is also the continuation of a 150 year old racial agenda, that was founded in black genocide.” The film offers an in-depth look at the plight of African Americans after the end of slavery, and demonstrates some of the shocking similarities between Hitler’s Germany and 20th century America. After viewing the powerful film, Congressman Trent […]
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A Bishop’s Gesture of Kindness to Gay Man Who Sued over Discrimination

Thursday June 10, 2010 A Bishop’s Gesture of Kindness to Gay Man Who Sued over Discrimination By John-Henry Westen PETERBOROUGH, ON, June 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A man who caused great turmoil in the Catholic Church in Canada has been shown kindness and forgiveness by the very bishop against whom he launched a human rights complaint. In June 2009, Jim Corcoran, a man who self-identifies as ‘gay’, launched a complaint seeking $25,000 in damages from Peterborough Bishop Nicola De Angelis, after he and his homosexual partner were forbidden from continuing as altar servers at St. Michael’s Church in Cobourg. It […]
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U.S. Blood Ban for Gays Remains

By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The federal Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability (ACBSA) voted 9-6 Friday to maintain current blood-donation rules, which effectively forbid practicing homosexuals from donating blood. Specifically, the rules defer any prospective blood donor if he is a man who has had sex with another man since 1977, approximately the beginning of the AIDS outbreak. The role of the advisory panel is to offer non-binding advice to the federal Department of Health and Human Services. “Common sense has triumphed over political correctness, an increasingly rare but very welcome occurrence,” said […]
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Wisconsin Abortionist at Center of Late-Term Abortion Plan Retreats to Harvard

By James Tillman MADISON, Wisconsin, June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortionist Caryn Dutton is leaving the University of Wisconsin and Planned Parenthood Wisconsin to take a job at Harvard University, according to documents uncovered by Pro-Life Wisconsin and the Alliance Defense Fund.  Her departure means that Madison Surgery Center is, for the moment, left without an abortionist to help implement their plans to provide late-term abortions at the Madison Surgery Center. “Caryn Dutton was central to plans to provide late-term abortions at the Madison Surgery Center,” Virginia Zignego of Pro-Life Wisconsin told LifeSiteNews (LSN).  “[The University of Wisconsin] is saying […]
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Letters to the Editor

Re: Documentary Exposes Abortion as The Evolution of Racism and Black Genocide Thank you so very much for the work that you do with LifeSiteNews.  Your E-mail is the first one I open each day, and it is such a privilege to receive the fruits of your labor so consistently. I am able to share with others the truth about various subjects more easily due to the incredibly accurate and detailed articles written by your dedicated staff. I especially appreciate your concern for the African American community.  My husband and I have two adopted African American sons along with our four […]
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Pro-Life Exorcist: “Never in All of History Have We Seen Evil Promoted So Effectively”

By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Satan is normally ‘hidden’… but nowadays he is walking tall in powerful structures of sin like abortion, pornography, sex slavery, rapacious greed and terrorism,” writes pro-life leader, Catholic priest and exorcist Reverend Thomas J. Euteneuer in his new book, Exorcism and the Church Militant. The devil, says the President of Human Life International, “flexes his muscles” with “pernicious ideologies like radical feminism and ‘pro-choice’ extremism, the militant homosexual movement and the aggressive mass media which is the ministry of propaganda for Satan and all his works and all his empty promises.” […]
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Hand Over the Bag, Ma’am: ‘Women Deliver’ Conf. Organizers Seize Pro-Life Handouts

By Kathleen Gilbert Part 5 of 5-part series from Washington Women Deliver conference WASHINGTON, D.C, June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sessions at the Women Deliver conference may have frequently employed terms such as “life-affirming” and the “right to live” in describing the push for maternal health, but this didn’t stop conference staff from putting a stop to the efforts of pro-life activists who were seeking to inform attendees about the right to life of the unborn. Volunteers with the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) spent about an hour on the sidewalk outside the Walter E. Washington Convention Center handing […]
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Sharp Rise in Repeat Abortions in England and Wales: Values-Free Sex Ed Blamed

By Hilary White LONDON, June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New figures showing a rise in the number of multiple abortions among younger women have prompted criticisms of government sex education policies.  A Christian doctor’s group called the statistics “profoundly depressing,” and blamed the government’s longstanding “values-free” sex education. “It is increasingly clear,” said Dr. Peter Saunders, of the Christian Medical Fellowship, “that abortion is simply being used as a form of contraception by a growing percentage of girls and women, and that tired policies of values-free sex education, condoms and morning-after pills are not working.” George Pitcher, a liberal Anglican […]
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Another Woman Dies of Hormonal Contraceptive in Switzerland

Wednesday December 23, 2009 Another Woman Dies of Hormonal Contraceptive in Switzerland By Patrick B. Craine BASEL, Switzerland, December 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Swiss Federation of Service to Patients (Patientenstellen der Schweiz) has called for a ban on a particular type of contraceptive pill after it was linked to the death last month of a 17-year-old German girl who died in a Swiss hospital. The girl, who died at the University Hospital of Basel, was taking a pill that includes drospirenone, a synthetic progestin, which is a compound included in newer brands, such as Yaz, Yasmin, and Yasminelle. This […]
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Pastor Arrested for Praying in Front of Washington Abortion Facility

Wednesday June 9, 2010 Pastor Arrested for Praying in Front of Washington Abortion Facility By James Tillman and Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, DC, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition, was arrested on Tuesday for praying on property where hundreds have prayed before – in front of the Washington, DC Planned Parenthood (PP) facility. The grass and walkway between the facility and the road have often been the scene of peaceful prayer protests. Several weeks ago, however, PP built a fence around the walkway and put up signs claiming that the area is […]
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To Equality and Beyond: CA Tax Break for Gays May Exceed that for Married Couples

Wednesday June 9, 2010 To Equality and Beyond: CA Tax Break for Gays May Exceed that for Married Couples By James Tillman SACRAMENTO, California, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The IRS has released a memorandum stating that Californian registered domestic partners (RDPs), the great majority of whom are homosexual couples, must average their incomes and each report this averaged amount on their separately filed tax returns. This ruling gives homosexual couples a tax break similar to that given to married couples and even means that (according to one analysis) that under some circumstances homosexual RDPs will pay less income tax […]
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GOP Nominates Pro-Life Tea-Party Woman to Defeat Harry Reid

Wednesday June 9, 2010 GOP Nominates Pro-Life Tea-Party Woman to Defeat Harry Reid By Peter J. Smith LAS VEGAS, Nevada, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life and former state assemblywoman Sharron Angle was carried to victory yesterday, winning the Nevada GOP nomination, thanks largely to the enthusiastic support of the local tea-party movement. She will now take on U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat whose popularity has suffered enormously in the state due to his role in passing the national health care reform law. Just two months ago, Angle was fairly unknown just two months ago when she […]
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Military Archbishop Warns of Immoral Consequences of ‘Don’t Ask’ Repeal

Friday June 4, 2010 Military Archbishop Warns of Immoral Consequences of ‘Don’t Ask’ Repeal By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, June 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Archbishop for the Military Services of the U.S. issued a statement on June 1st where he opposed allowing open homosexuals in the military, indicating such a move would promote immorality in addition to jeopardizing unit morale and cohesion. “The effect of a repeal of the current legislation has the potential of being enormous and overwhelming,” states Archbishop Timothy Broglio. “Sacrificing the moral beliefs of individuals or their living conditions to respond to merely political considerations […]
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Following iPhone’s Example Windows Phone 7 to Ban Porn Apps

Wednesday June 9, 2010 Following iPhone’s Example Windows Phone 7 to Ban Porn Apps By Thaddeus M. Baklinski REDMOND, Washington, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following Apple’s lead in trying to keep pornography off its iPad and iPhone products, Microsoft has announced a new set of policies for the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace that will not allow porn or sexually suggestive content. The application certification requirements for Windows Phone 7 program developers states that Microsoft will no longer allow content such as “Images that are sexually suggestive or provocative, Content that generally falls under the category of pornography, or Content […]
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Young Pro-Lifers Begin Trek Across Canada

Wednesday June 9, 2010 Young Pro-Lifers Begin Trek Across Canada By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VANCOUVER, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The third Canadian Crossroads walk for life got off to a wet start on Monday May 24. The 6 walkers – 4 seminarians from Christ the King in Vancouver B.C., and 2 students from Our Lady Seat of Wisdom in Barry’s Bay, Ontario – went to Mass and then drove in the rain out to the very edge of Vancouver, where it meets the Pacific Ocean. They dipped their hands and feet in the ocean, then turned their faces toward […]
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Government of Catalonia, Spain, Recommends Oral Sex and Masturbation to Teens

Wednesday June 9, 2010 Government of Catalonia, Spain, Recommends Oral Sex and Masturbation to Teens By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman CATALONIA, Spain, June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government of Catalonia, one of Spain’s most populous regions, has created a sexual education website that recommends masturbation and oral sex to teens, and claims that condoms are the best way to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. The website, called “Teen Sex” (“Sexo Jovenes”) openly encourages teens to have sexual intercourse, and never mentions abstinence. “Don’t worry” if your condom fails, the Catalonian government tells teens, “because we have the morning after pill” – […]
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Irish Anglican Bishop Calls for Abortion Legalization, Welcomes Same-Sex Unions

Wednesday June 9, 2010 Irish Anglican Bishop Calls for Abortion Legalization, Welcomes Same-Sex Unions By Hilary White CASHEL, Ireland, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Church of Ireland (Anglican) bishop has issued a statement welcoming legislation on civil unions that would allow homosexual partners to be registered, and calling for Irish society to “come of age” on the issue of abortion. The Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, Michael Burrows, wrote in the diocesan newsletter, “Civil partnership legislation is certainly not perfect but it deserves to be welcomed and to be given time.” Burrows said that Ireland is to “embark upon […]
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Pro-Life Carly Fiorina to Rumble with Boxer in California Senate Match

Wednesday June 9, 2010 Pro-Life Carly Fiorina to Rumble with Boxer in California Senate Match By Peter J. Smith SACRAMENTO, California, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life Republican and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina cruised to victory in Tuesday’s GOP Senate primary, toppling a pro-abortion as well as a pro-life challenger, winning the right to face-off against pro-abort U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer in November. Fiorina raked in 55 percent of the vote to defeat pro-abort candidate Tom Campbell, a former Congressman once favored to win the nomination. Campbell lost his primary lead over Fiorina mid-May and sank to finish […]
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New Adult Stem-Cell Treatments for Head and Heart Advance

Wednesday June 9, 2010 New Adult Stem-Cell Treatments for Head and Heart Advance By Peter J. Smith UNITED STATES, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New reports indicate that real hope for ‘miracle’ treatments using adult stem cells is on the way for those suffering from diseases afflicting both the brain and the heart. In California, researchers at the University of California in Irvine say they have discovered the method and mechanisms by which adult stem-cells can repair and replace damaged tissue in the brain. The discovery could lead to treatments for individuals with multiple sclerosis and other brain inflammation diseases. […]
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Gov. Crist Drops Pro-Life Issue Page from Campaign Website

Tuesday June 8, 2010 Gov. Crist Drops Pro-Life Issue Page from Campaign Website By James Tillman TALLAHASEE, Florida, June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Governor Crist of Florida, who has been vacillating for the past month over whether or not he will veto a recently-passed pro-life law, removed the pro-life/pro-family issue page of his U.S. Senate campaign website on Monday – an indication that he may be considering vetoing the bill after all. In addition, at a morning news briefing today Crist said that he would act “sooner rather than later” on the bill and that he has serious problems with […]
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13-Year-Old Self-Aborts Baby: 30-Year-Old Boyfriend Buries Body

Tuesday June 8, 2010 13-Year-Old Self-Aborts Baby: 30-Year-Old Boyfriend Buries Body By James Tillman LEHIGHTON, Pennsylvania, June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 30-year old Pennsylvania man has been accused of raping a 13-year-old girl and burying the body of their child after she performed a home abortion on herself with a pencil. The girl attempted to perform the abortion on herself on Wednesday, June 2. Over the next three days she became extremely ill and went into labor. After she called her 30-year-old boyfriend, he told her to “push hard,” according to the Pocono Record, and she delivered the baby […]
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Disabled Need Help to Live, Not Die: Handicapped UK Baroness

Tuesday June 8, 2010 Disabled Need Help to Live, Not Die: Handicapped UK Baroness By Hilary White LONDON, June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While pro-assisted suicide campaigners continue to press for the relaxation of Britain’s law against assisted suicide, one disabled member of the House of Lords is fighting back. Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, has urged MPs to sign on to a charter that affirms the value of the lives of disabled people and says they should receive the same protections under the law as all other citizens. Writing in the Guardian newspaper, Campbell said, “In recent years, […]
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British Abortion Ads Generate over 1,000 Complaints in First Two Weeks

Wednesday June 9, 2010 British Abortion Ads Generate over 1,000 Complaints in First Two Weeks By Hilary White LONDON, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Television spots airing in Britain advertising Marie Stopes International (MSI) abortion facilities have garnered over 1,000 complaints from viewers in their first two weeks. The volume of complaints has prompted the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to agree to investigate whether the ads have violated broadcasting rules. Channel 4, the independent broadcaster that agreed to run the ads, has received 611 complaints to date, with the ASA receiving 370 more, the Daily Telegraph reports. Channel 4’s statement […]
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Lawsuit: Specialist for NASA Mission Demoted for Sharing Intelligent Design Views

Tuesday June 8, 2010 Lawsuit: Specialist for NASA Mission Demoted for Sharing Intelligent Design Views LOS ANGELES, June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — An amended complaint was filed Monday in a lawsuit against Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on behalf of an employee who claims he was demoted, silenced, harassed, and threatened with termination for discussing his beliefs about intelligent design with co-workers. The California Institute of Technology operates JPL under a contract with NASA. In March 2009, David Coppedge – who served as a high-level “team lead” technical specialist on JPL’s Cassini mission to Saturn since 2000 – was allegedly punished […]
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North Carolina 7th Graders to Learn About IUDs, Abortifacients, Condoms

Tuesday June 8, 2010 North Carolina 7th Graders to Learn About IUDs, Abortifacients, Condoms By James Tillman RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – North Carolina schools are preparing to implement the “Healthy Youth Act,” signed on June 30, 2009 and set to take effect in the 2010-11 school year. It states that students from 7th to 9th grade should be taught “about the effectiveness and safety of all FDA-approved contraceptive methods in preventing pregnancy.” Students will be taught about male and female condoms, diaphragms, sponges, cervical caps, spermicides, oral contraceptives, contraceptive rings, the abortifacient “morning after pill,” and […]
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Gates Foundation Pledges $1.5 Billion for Maternal Health

Tuesday June 8, 2010 Gates Foundation Pledges $1.5 Billion for Maternal Health By Patrick B. Craine WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has called on global leaders to make maternal and child health care in the developing world a top priority. The Foundation announced that it investing $1.5 billion to this cause over the next 5years. While the Gates have not clearly indicated whether or not they will fund abortions or abortion advocacy, one of their top priorities will be “family planning.” Melinda Gates, who serves as the foundation’s co-chair, made the announcement […]
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Updated: President George W. Bush Receives Cardinal O’Connor Award from Legatus

Friday February 5, 2010 Updated: President George W. Bush Receives Cardinal O’Connor Award from Legatus By John-Henry Westen DANA POINT, California, February 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At a gathering Thursday night, former President George W. Bush was awarded the 2010 Cardinal John J. O’Connor Pro-Life Award, given annually by the international Catholic business executives’ organization, Legatus, for distinguished achievement in service to the pro-life effort. Less than a dozen protestors attempted to make a presence outside the 2010 Legatus Annual Summit at the St. Regis Monarch Beach hotel but left before the President arrived. Participants report that Bush seemed very […]
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1,800 Carry Cross of Abortion on Good Friday at Minn. Planned Parenthood

Thursday April 8, 2010 1,800 Carry Cross of Abortion on Good Friday at Minn. Planned Parenthood By Kathleen Gilbert ST. PAUL, Minnesota, April 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Good Friday, the headquarters of Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota witnessed a large gathering of pro-life witnesses demonstrating against the suffering caused by abortion, in union with Jesus’ death on the cross. The annual Good Friday All-Day Prayer Vigil, which attracted about 1,800 pro-lifers praying throughout the day, was organized by Pro-Life Action Ministries. PLAM executive director Brian Gibson reported that the event “was another amazing success.” “About 1,800 […]
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Ten Foreign Diplomats Pressure Romania to Change Gay Laws

Tuesday June 8, 2010 Ten Foreign Diplomats Pressure Romania to Change Gay Laws By Hilary White June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ten foreign diplomats, including ambassadors from the UK and U.S., signed a statement last month expressing “support” for and “solidarity” with the Romanian homosexualist movement. The statement, which has been published on the website of the British Embassy in Bucharest, was issued May 20 to coincide with “Gayfest,” the week-long annual festival organized by the national homosexualist lobby group. The signatories called Gayfest a “traditional occasion” to “express support for, and solidarity with, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender […]
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Women’s College Hospital Toronto Slams G8 Maternal Plan for Lack of Abortion Funding

Monday June 7, 2010 Women’s College Hospital Toronto Slams G8 Maternal Plan for Lack of Abortion Funding By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women’s College Hospital (WCH) of Toronto, long known for its feminist and pro-abortion advocacy, has decried the Canadian government’s decision against funding Third World abortions through their G8 maternal and child health initiative. In a letter to the editor for the National Post, chief of staff Dr. Jim Ruderman claims that abortion is necessary to advancing the health of children in the developing world. Ruderman wrote Monday that because of WCH’s “commitment […]
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The Power of the Media

Tuesday June 8, 2010 The Power of the Media Dear Friends of LifeSiteNews, In these difficult financial times an increasing number of people are telling me about the overwhelming number of “gimme” letters they are receiving. With only a certain amount of income available for charitable organizations, more and more people are feeling torn about which groups to donate to. Because many great organizations need money, those who give have to prioritize. However, as you engage in this necessary process of prioritization, I urge you to consider the fact that while many non-profits are nobly working to improve the lives […]
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80 British IVF Babies Aborted per Year

Monday June 7, 2010 80 British IVF Babies Aborted per Year By Hilary White LONDON, June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Figures released under Britain’s Freedom of Information Act show that an average of 80 children conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other artificial means of artificial procreation, are being aborted each year in England and Wales. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the government body that regulates artificial reproduction practices, has revealed that some of those aborted were conceived by IVF treatments funded by the country’s tax-funded medical system, the National Health Service (NHS). Former conservative MP Ann […]
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Judge Again Denies Media Request for Televised Prop. 8 Closing Arguments

By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, June 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge has once more rebuffed a request from media outlets to televise the closing arguments in the legal battle over California’s ban on same-sex “marriage,” a case which could well become the Roe v. Wade of marriage in the United States. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker once again denied the request from media organizations to televise the closing arguments in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case, where two homosexual couples and the City of San Francisco are arguing that Proposition 8, the California constitutional amendment defining marriage […]
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Lavish Women Deliver Meet Hijacks MDG 5, Delivers Muted but Aggressive Push for Worldwide Abortion

By Kathleen Gilbert Part 2 of 5-part series from Washington Women Deliver conference WASHINGTON, D.C, June 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 2010 Women Deliver conference in the U.S. capital this week offered a rare glimpse into the heart of the pro-abortion, pro-contraception, and population-control movement in its many facets. The conference drew international UN and political leaders to a 3-day marathon on several topics tied together by one ambitious theme: using Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, the reduction of maternal mortality, to promote contraception and the dismantling of pro-life laws around the world. The opulence of the movement was on […]
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Top Botswana Bishop on Homosexuals: Church Does Not Reject Them, Only Sodomy

BOTSWANA, June 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an interview with Botswana's Sunday Standard, the leader of the nation's Catholics spoke about homosexuality, explaining that homosexuals “are our brothers and sisters. We have to love them, sympathise with them, and help where we can. The Church does not reject them. We only reject attendant practices, like sodomy.” Bishop Valentine Seane called homosexual “marriage” a “sickness” mostly “of our own making.” “You can't justify it,” he insisted. “It's against the natural definition of what's male and female, and what they are there for. The Church will marry man and woman, not man and […]
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Pope Discusses Spain’s Anti-Life, Anti-Family Legislation with Spanish President

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman VATICAN CITY, June 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Spanish President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero concluded a meeting yesterday with Pope Benedict XVI, during which they reportedly discussed Spain's new abortion law, which permits women to have their unborn children killed by a doctor for any reason during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. The law, vigorously opposed by the Catholic Church and a majority of Spaniards, violates Catholic teaching on the sacredness of all human life. During the meeting, which was reportedly double the length of a normal papal meeting with a foreign leader, the two also reportedly […]
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Commentary on June 11 News

Lots of news today. Kathleen Gilbert has compiled two more instructive reports on the Women Deliver conference with more to come. She is providing likely the most comprehensive coverage available anywhere of that major international event from a social conservative perspective. It is important that we relate what went on so that pro-life, pro-family people will be armed with the information needed to counter the deadly agendas coming out of the conference. Development and Peace again. When will this issue finally be resolved? Just how much more irrefutable evidence must be provided before someone in Canadian Catholic Church authority publicly […]
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Pro-Life Hero to be Ordained a Catholic Priest

Tuesday June 8, 2010 Pro-Life Hero to be Ordained a Catholic Priest By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following a journey from Reform Judaism through the Episcopal Church, pro-life hero Deacon Paul Schenck, who was involved in founding Operation Rescue, is soon to be ordained a Catholic priest. “I consider the most important pro-life battlefield to be religious indifference,” he told LifeSiteNews. “I hope that as a Catholic priest, I’ll help to awaken Catholics and all people of conscience from the slumber of indifference to authentic concern and effort to defend innocent lives.” Together with his […]
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Homosexuals In Military Three Times More Likely to Sexually Assault Than Straights: Survey

Wednesday May 26, 2010 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 […]
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New UN Report Confirms Canada’s Refusal to Fund Third World Abortion

Friday June 4, 2010 New UN Report Confirms Canada’s Refusal to Fund Third World Abortion By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, June 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new report from the World Health Organization and UNICEF has underscored the wisdom behind Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to exclude abortion from Canada’s maternal and child health initiative. Declaring that 2 million maternal, newborn, and stillbirth deaths result each year from a lack of skilled birth attendants, the Countdown to 2015 Decade Report (2000-2010) reveals the importance of the simple solutions that Harper outlined when he first announced the initiative in January. […]
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Florida Enacts Legislation Protecting Private Prayer in Schools

Monday June 7, 2010 Florida Enacts Legislation Protecting Private Prayer in Schools By Peter J. Smith TALLAHASSEE, Florida, June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Florida has enacted a new law protecting the rights of individuals at public schools to engage freely in prayer and other religious expression. Gov. Charlie Crist signed the bill, which had been passed by the legislature in May, on Friday. The bill (HB 31) originated as a response to a controversy surrounding the Santa Rosa County School District, which had been pressured by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to adopt a policy that forbade all school […]
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Trend Shows National Association of Evangelicals Joining Contraception Bandwagon

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Association of Evangelicals appears to be shifting away from its neutral stance on contraception in favor of a qualified endorsement of the practice. A new survey released by the NAE claiming to represent 45,000 evangelical churches reveals that Evangelical pastors overwhelmingly believe in artificial contraception. “Most associate evangelicals with Catholics in their steady leadership in pro-life advocacy, and rightly so,” said Leith Anderson, president of the NAE, in a press release. “But it may come as a surprise that unlike the Catholic church, we are open to contraception.” “Our leaders […]
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Poll: 9 out of 10 Canadian Women Accept Pre-Marital Sex

By Patrick B. Craine June 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Less than 1 out of 10 engaged women in Canada disagrees that it is bad to have sex before marriage, a new poll shows, according to Canwest News Service. The survey is being published in the June issue of the Canadian magazine Weddingbells, and shows that merely 8% of engaged women agree that “sex before marriage is not a good idea.”  Only half of those at 4% indicated they strongly agree with that statement. The poll underscores the great need for women to hear the positive message about the true meaning of love […]
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UN Leadership in Disarray as New Research Shatters Consensus on Maternal Health

By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. NEW YORK, June 9, 2010 (C-FAM) – Deep divisions with top United Nations (UN) officials and abortion activists on one side and maternal health researchers on the other became public this week during the Women Deliver 2 conference in Washington, DC. The dispute threatens to derail hopes of raising $30B for family planning at international development conferences in the coming months. These include the Group of Eight summit this month and the UN High Level Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Review in September. The medical journal The Lancet published a study in April refuting UN research claiming […]
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Abortion Breast Cancer Link Raised in Victorian (Australia) Parliament

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MELBOURNE, June 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Peter Kavanagh, DLP (Democratic Labor Party) Member for Western Victoria, urged the Victorian Parliament last night to study scientific evidence of the abortion-breast cancer link and to warn women of the risk if it is confirmed by scientific studies. Kavanagh raised an adjournment motion in the Legislative Council after he was made aware that neither the Cancer Council of Victoria nor the Cancer Council of Australia had replied to letters sent by experts from Endeavour Forum Inc., an NGO having special consultative status with ECOSOC of the UN, of three studies […]
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Commentary on June 10 News

The huge Women Deliver 2 Conference in Washington was a very unexpected bust for the international pro-abortion movement according to some observers. LSN reporter Kathleen Gilbert attended the three day conference for LifeSiteNews expecting to report the usual radical feminist histrionics as occurred during the 2007 Women Deliver conference in London, England. That didn’t happen this time. Two of our Thursday stories explain what did happen, with more to come from Kathleen in the next few days. The eugenics driven abortions of millions of black babies is a continuation of the anti-human slavery mentality of hundreds of years. See the […]
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Two More Women Die After Medical Abortion with Abortion Pill RU-486, FDA Warns

Friday March 17, 2006 Two More Women Die After Medical Abortion with Abortion Pill RU-486, FDA Warns By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, March 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a Public Health Advisory released today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has alerted consumers to an additional two deaths of women after taking the abortion pill mifepristone (also known as Mifeprix or RU-486). The known death toll stemming from the abortion drug in the US is six women and countless unborn children since the drug’s legalization in 2000. Beyond that there have been over 600 adverse effects recorded from the drug. Among […]
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Commentary: Homosexuality and the Military – What’s Really at Stake?

Monday June 7, 2010 Commentary: Homosexuality and the Military — What’s Really at Stake? Commentary by Albert Mohler, President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary June 7, 2010 (AlbertMohler.com) – Get ready. Big changes are coming to the United States military. Congress seems poised to pass legislation that would call for the elimination of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy put in place in 1993. With the support of the Obama administration, and with Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, it appears that the official normalization of homosexuality within the U.S. armed forces may take place sometime this summer, after […]
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USCCB Belongs to Pro-Abort Coalition Supporting Kagan with Video Ad

Tuesday May 18, 2010 USCCB Belongs to Pro-Abort Coalition Supporting Kagan with Video Ad By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A civil rights coalition that boasts the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) among its members has published a 30-second ad endorsing Solicitor General Elena Kagan, who is pro-abortion and homosexualist, for the Supreme Court. The advertisement, which lists Kagan’s various achievements while President Obama describes the ideal Supreme Court nominee in a voiceover, is available on the website of The Coalition for Constitutional Values, a project of the Leadership Counsel for Civil and Human Rights […]
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UN Attacks Poland’s Pro-Life Laws at Human Rights Meetings

Monday June 7, 2010 UN Attacks Poland’s Pro-Life Laws at Human Rights Meetings By Hilary White GENEVA, June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Officials of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva have launched a full-scale attack on Poland’s pro-life laws. Poland protects the right to conscientious objection for health care workers and the rights of the Catholic Church. Pat Buckley, European officer for the United Kingdom’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) said that the 14th session of the Human Rights Council sitting this week “promises to be lively.” A report submitted to the council by Anand […]
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To Equality and Beyond: CA Tax Break for Gays May Exceed that for Married Couples

By James Tillman SACRAMENTO, California, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—The IRS has released a memorandum stating that Californian registered domestic partners (RDPs), the great majority of whom are homosexual couples, must average their incomes and each report this averaged amount on their separately filed tax returns. This ruling gives homosexual couples a tax break similar to that given to married couples and even means that (according to one analysis) that under some circumstances homosexual RDPs will pay less income tax than would heterosexual married couples with the same income. The 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage to be only […]
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Adopted Children Reject Gay Adoption as “Marriage” Legislation Advances in Argentina

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As homosexual “marriage” legislation is being debated in the Argentinean senate, a group of adopted children is speaking out against adoption by gay couples, according to ACI Prensa. Speaking on Radio Cultura, a station in Buenos Aires, the teens said that children should have the same opportunity as they have had to grow up with a father and a mother. “No to homosexual adoption. We children want to grow up in a family that consists of a mother who is a woman and a father who […]
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Irish Anglican Bishop Calls for Abortion Legalization, Welcomes Same-Sex Unions

By Hilary White CASHEL, Ireland, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Church of Ireland (Anglican) bishop has issued a statement welcoming legislation on civil unions that would allow homosexual partners to be registered, and calling for Irish society to “come of age” on the issue of abortion. The Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, Michael Burrows, wrote in the diocesan newsletter, “Civil partnership legislation is certainly not perfect but it deserves to be welcomed and to be given time.” Burrows said that Ireland is to “embark upon something of a new social order” with the proposed law. “I dare to hope […]
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Colorado Abortionist works at Catholic Hospital

Friday June 4, 2010 Colorado Abortionist works at Catholic Hospital By James Tillman DURANGO, Colorado, June 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Dr. Richard Grossman earns his living delivering babies at the Catholic hospital Mercy Regional Medical Center (MRMC). But one day a week, he is paid to kill them at the Durango Planned Parenthood. The abortionist’s work at a Catholic hospital has elicited outrage from local pro-lifers since at least 2007. Michaela Dasteel, past director of the local pro-life organization LifeGuard, has written that a “Church that tolerates abortionists on staff in its hospitals is not a prophetic Church. It is […]
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B.C. Pro-Life Researcher Calls on Province to Release Abortion Info

Wednesday February 3, 2010 B.C. Pro-Life Researcher Calls on Province to Release Abortion Info By Patrick B. Craine VICTORIA, B.C., February 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – British Columbia pro-life researcher Ted Gerk appeared before a government committee today to call on the government to allow access to information relating to abortions performed in the province. The Kelowna native, presenting to the Special Committee to Review the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, called for the repeal of Bill 21, an amendment to the province’s Freedom of Information Act that was enacted in 2001 by the NDP government to specifically […]
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Gibbons Case May Be Headed to Supreme Court

Friday June 4, 2010 Gibbons Case May Be Headed to Supreme Court By Tony Gosgnach TORONTO, June 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Constitutional arguments and an application for a change in bail conditions consumed an entire day of Provincial Court time on June 2, when Linda Gibbons appeared for her latest hearings as part of an increasingly complex web of legal issues surrounding her more recent pro-life demonstrations outside a Toronto abortion site. Gibbons has been imprisoned continuously since Jan. 20, 2009, when she was arrested outside the downtown “Scott Clinic,” which is protected by a court injunction banning pro-life activity […]
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D.C. Prohibits Prayer and Free Speech on Sidewalk outside Planned Parenthood

Friday June 4, 2010 D.C. Prohibits Prayer and Free Speech on Sidewalk outside Planned Parenthood D.C. police officers have threatened to arrest people praying and counseling on the public sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood. WASHINGTON, June 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For many years, the pro-life community has been allowed to pray, counsel and have a peaceful witness on the public property surrounding the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Washington, D.C. Several weeks ago Planned Parenthood put up a fence around that public property, and police are now threatening to arrest anyone who stands inside that fence. Calling the move an […]
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FDA Readies Public Hearing for Next Generation Abortion Drug

Wednesday June 2, 2010 FDA Readies Public Hearing for Next Generation Abortion Drug By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) readies a June public hearing for a new drug billed as an advanced form of “emergency contraception,” pro-life advocates are warning that ulipristal acetate is in fact the “next generation” of the abortion drug RU-486. Ulipristal acetate functions similarly to RU-486, which has been related to a number of maternal deaths both in the U.S. and abroad. Americans United for Life filed testimony with the FDA’s Advisory Committee […]
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Connecticut Judge Rules Assisted Suicide for “Humanitarian Reasons” a Crime

By Peter J. Smith HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Connecticut Superior Court judge has ruled against two doctors who argued that a state law against assisted suicide did not prohibit them from prescribing lethal drugs to consenting patients who were expected to die anyway. The Hartford Courant reports that Judge Julia Aurigemma dismissed the case brought by Ronald Levine and Gary Blick, who asserted in their lawsuit against the state that “assisted suicide” is not the same thing as “aid in dying”– a claim Aurigemma flatly rejected. “[The statute] is aimed at precisely the situation presented by the […]
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Lawsuit: Specialist for NASA Mission Demoted for Sharing Intelligent Design Views

LOS ANGELES, June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — An amended complaint was filed Monday in a lawsuit against Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on behalf of an employee who claims he was demoted, silenced, harassed, and threatened with termination for discussing his beliefs about intelligent design with co-workers.  The California Institute of Technology operates JPL under a contract with NASA. In March 2009, David Coppedge – who served as a high-level “team lead” technical specialist on JPL’s Cassini mission to Saturn since 2000 – was allegedly punished on the basis of “pushing [his] religion.” According to the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), the public interest […]
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Princeton Philosopher: ‘Why Not Sterilize the Human Race and Party into Extinction?’

By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Princeton philosopher Peter Singer one of the world’s foremost contemporary utilitarian philosophers infamous for his advocacy of infanticide, would like individuals to consider this question: would sterilizing the human race to spare future generations the pain of existence be a good idea? In a blog post for the New York Times entitled “Should this be the last generation?” Singer discusses in glowing terms the thought of South African philosopher David Benatar. Singer calls Benator the “author of a fine book with an arresting title: ‘Better Never to Have Been: The […]
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Sisters of Life to Open Toronto Visitation Mission for Pregnant Women

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski and Steve Jalsevac TORONTO, June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Sisters of Life, who first came to Toronto in 2007, will be hosting an open house at their new Visitation Mission to Pregnant Women on June 12. The June 12 event will include a Mass and special blessing of the center by Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins at 1 o'clock. Mass will be followed by a social gathering and tour of the newly renovated former rectory of St. Catherine of Siena parish, 1099 Danforth Ave., located along Toronto's Bloor subway line. The sisters Toronto mission is the first one established outside of New […]
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British Columbia Gvmt Rejects Request for Abortion Info

By Patrick B. Craine VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British Columbia Office of Information and Privacy has rejected an attempt by pro-life activists to gain access to information on abortions at the province’s hospitals. In a Monday ruling, senior adjudicator Celia Francis rejected applications from pro-life researchers John Hof and Ted Gerk for information on the abortions conducted at Vancouver General Hospital and Kelowna General Hospital. Campaign Life Coalition BC, for which Hof is president, has fought to gain access to abortion statistics in the province since 2001, when Bill 21 amended the province's Freedom of […]
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Gates Foundation Pledges $1.5 Billion for Maternal Health

By Patrick B. Craine WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has called on global leaders to make maternal and child health care in the developing world a top priority. The Foundation announced that it investing $1.5 billion to this cause over the next 5years.  While the Gates have not clearly indicated whether or not they will fund abortions or abortion advocacy, one of their top priorities will be “family planning.” Melinda Gates, who serves as the foundation’s co-chair, made the announcement Monday at the Women Deliver 2010 conference in Washington, D.C., a gathering of […]
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Anti-Catholic Homosexualist Campaigner Tapped to Produce Papal Bio for British TV

By Hilary White LONDON, June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a choice that has been denounced as a “calculated insult,” Channel 4, an independent British television broadcaster, has chosen radical homosexualist activist Peter Tatchell as presenter for its biography of Benedict XVI in the lead-up to the pope's visit to Britain. Tatchell is a founder of the Protest the Pope coalition, which is planning demonstrations of the state funding of the Pontiff's visit. He has regularly attacked Catholic moral teachings and Pope Benedict personally, whom he has called “the ideological inheritor of Nazi homophobia”. Channel 4 has said that film […]
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Letters to the Editor

Re: The Power of the Media You are absolutely right about how PROLIFE is the #1 priority… It fathoms me that this is so hard for some people to realize! As if the SPCA and ProLife were of the same importance!!! This tells me that although being good people, many good people lack lumen rationis. Thanks for the effect clarification letter for our confused friends. Mark Weusten Mississauga, Ontario Canada ____________________________________________________________________ Re: Letters to the EditorSister Keehan Off Prestigious Hospital Board over Obamacare Fallout I was interested in James A. Marples' letter defending Sister Keehan for agreeing to an abortion to […]
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Notre Dame Pres Jenkins: Visit to Notre Dame was Good for Obama

Thursday June 3, 2010 Notre Dame Pres Jenkins: Visit to Notre Dame was Good for Obama By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, June 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an interview with the Chronicle of Higher Education, University of Notre Dame president Fr. John Jenkins said that he thought inviting President Obama to the school’s commencement last year influenced the president for the better, and dismissed the heavy criticism over the invitation as a “scorched-earth strategy toward disagreement.” After Notre Dame invited President Obama to give the commencement address and receive an honorary law degree in May 2009, the school received […]
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35,000 Forced Abortions Committed Daily in China: Rep Smith

Thursday June 3, 2010 35,000 Forced Abortions Committed Daily in China: Rep Smith By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WASHINGTON, DC, June 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – About 35,000 abortions are committed daily on women who are victimized by the country’s coercive one-child policy, said Congressman Chris Smith Tuesday. Smith spoke at a lunch discussion entitled “No Choice Allowed: China’s Hollow Celebration of International Children’s Day” on June 1. The leading pro-life congressman was joined by four other panelists, including T. Kumar, Asia Director for Amnesty International, in a lunch-hour meeting that addressed the grave systemic consequences of China’s one-child policy and the […]
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Memos Show Kagan’s Hand in Clinton-Era Abortion, Assisted Suicide Policy Decisions

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A number of memos have come to the fore with information about the views of President Barack Obama’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, on abortion and assisted suicide. The memos show that Kagan opined against a federal ban on assisted suicide, and demonstrated political savvy in keeping the Clinton administration from endangering already liberal abortion laws by antagonizing a Republican-led Congress. When the Clinton Administration was faced by Oregon’s decision to legalize assisted suicide, Kagan, serving during this time as deputy director of Clinton's Domestic Policy […]
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The Armageddon Factor: A Book Review

Review by Paul Tuns, Editor, The Interim The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canadaby Marci McDonald (Random House, $32, 419 pages) If you deliberately set out to write a bad book you would have a hard time outdoing Marci McDonald, whose The Armageddon Factor is so comprehensively awful that there is no reason whatsoever to ever read it. The long-time journalist has set her sights on exposing the rise of the Religious Right in Canada and its supposed coziness with Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, but the book is so rife with errors and misleading arguments that it […]
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Women’s College Hospital Toronto Slams G8 Maternal Plan for Lack of Abortion Funding

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women’s College Hospital (WCH) of Toronto, long known for its feminist and pro-abortion advocacy, has decried the Canadian government’s decision against funding Third World abortions through their G8 maternal and child health initiative.  In a letter to the editor for the National Post, chief of staff Dr. Jim Ruderman claims that abortion is necessary to advancing the health of children in the developing world. Ruderman wrote Monday that because of WCH’s “commitment to women's health and to women's reproductive freedom,” they “feel compelled to comment” on the government’s decision. “Prime […]
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Letters to the Editor

Re: Sister Keehan Off Prestigious Hospital Board over Obamacare FalloutIt is incomprehensiable how a person who is a member of a religious community can on the one hand be a religious and on the other hand support the destruction of human life in the form of human life.  Pope Paul VI called for a civilization of love and Pope John Paul II called for a culture of life.  Is it not interesting how people have gone in the other direction? Lawrence Beaton British Columbia Canada________________________________ While I agree that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have every right to define […]
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More Info on New Initiative

Dear Friends of LifeSiteNews, On June 2 we advised you of the new Real Estate for Life program that you can take advantage of to significantly help LifeSiteNews without costing you anything. There have since been questions about which countries this initiative applies to. The basic answer is that wherever English is widely spoken, you can use this service to either buy or sell your property while at the same time helping LifeSiteNews. Already, we have been advised of a few LifeSiteNews readers taking advantage of this special service to help LSN. We repeat again, it might sound too good to be […]
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UK Disability Rights Group Launches Campaign

Friday June 4, 2010 UK Disability Rights Group Launches Campaign By Hilary White LONDON, June 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Disability rights activists are taking aim at campaigners who say legalising euthanasia could benefit them. This week the group Not Dead Yet UK launched a campaign urging members of parliament to resist efforts to bring legal euthanasia or assisted suicide to Britain. The efforts have been gaining strength in recent years. Not Dead Yet UK has asked MPs to sign the Resistance Charter, a document that says “disabled and terminally ill people fear that calls to legalise assisted suicide and euthanasia […]
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Alaska Supreme Court Upholds Petitions for Parental Notification Initiative

Friday June 4, 2010 Alaska Supreme Court Upholds Petitions for Parental Notification Initiative ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Alaska Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a trial court’s finding that petitions for a parental notification initiative do not contain confusing and misleading language and are therefore valid. The decision means that the measure, which would require parents to be notified if their minor daughter seeks an abortion, will go on the ballot for voter approval during the Aug. 24 primary. Planned Parenthood had filed suit to stop the initiative, claiming that the lieutenant governor’s summary of the proposed measure […]
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Fox Commentator: Family of Girl Berated by Bus Driver Should be Sued for Instilling Pro-Family Views

Thursday June 3, 2010 Fox Commentator: Family of Girl Berated by Bus Driver Should be Sued for Instilling Pro-Family Views By Kathleen Gilbert June 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An attorney commentating for the Fox News show “Kelly’s Court” not only dismissed as irrelevant a lawsuit against an Indiana bus driver caught berating a middle-school girl for her pro-family views, but said that the girl’s family should instead be sued for instilling belief in traditional marriage. A family is suing Carmel Clay Schools for emotional damages after bus driver Betty Campbell, angered by their daughter’s belief in traditional marriage, summoned her […]
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Obama Makes Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Marriage Benefits for Homosexual Couples

Thursday June 3, 2010 Obama Makes Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Marriage Benefits for Homosexual Couples By James Tillman Updated 5:50 pm EST WASHINGTON, DC, June 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — In a memorandum issued Wednesday, President Obama ordered executive departments and agencies to extend to same-sex partners the same benefits enjoyed by married couples, to the maximum extent permitted by the law. President Obama said the memorandum “paves the way for long-overdue progress in our nation’s pursuit of equality.” The new memorandum is the result of a review Obama ordered the Office of Personnel Management to conduct in order to […]
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Alaska Gov Vetoes Child Health Insurance Program over Abortion Concerns

Friday June 4, 2010 Alaska Gov Vetoes Child Health Insurance Program over Abortion Concerns By Peter J. Smith JUNEAU, Alaska, June 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alaska’s governor Sean Parnell has nixed an expansion of the state’s child health insurance program (CHIP) after he discovered that the program pays for elective abortions and could end up financing more. Parnell struck out $2.9 million dollars for the program from Alaska’s eight billion dollar operating budget with a veto of SB 13, the Denali Kid Care program, which sponsors said would add 1,277 children and 225 pregnant women to the rolls of the […]
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Help LSN Help the World

Friday June 4, 2010 Help LSN Help the World Dear LifeSiteNews Friends, With $11,963 already raised (Thursday) toward our needed goal of $100,000, we can see that our supporters are standing with us in this financially difficult time. But with our bank accounts near empty, we need each one of our readers to make a commitment to help LSN in some way during this campaign. “I wish I could give more…Is there anything else that I can do to help?” Time and again I have heard loyal supporters of LSN sincerely express to me how they wish they could do […]
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LifeSiteNews Special Report – Abortion still dangerous, Finnish study shows women who abort more likely to die in next year

Tuesday August 29, 2000 Abortion still dangerous, Finnish study shows women who abort more likely to die in next year Edmonton Journal – August 27, 2000 By Lorne Gunter Like most of life’s best coincidences, it possessed more than it’s share of irony and wasn’t glaringly obvious. The week after some demented individual stabbed Vancouver abortionist Garson Romalis in an insane attempt to prove the sanctity of life by taking a life (D’oh), and the week after the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League tried to pin blame for the attack on the newly elected Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day, and […]
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Levant, Stefanowicz Trounce Imposition of Pro-Gay Policy on all Ontario Schools

Wednesday June 2, 2010 Levant, Stefanowicz Trounce Imposition of Pro-Gay Policy on all Ontario Schools Government representative says no debate will be allowed on rightness or wrongness of policy TORONTO, Ontario, June 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative columnist and blogger Ezra Levant criticized the involvement of members of the Ontario Human Rights Commission in the Ontario government’s upcoming Pro-homosexual ‘Inclusive Boards-Inclusive Schools’ symposium. Levant insists that, far from promoting true equity, the OHRC has descended to the point where “now it is in the full-time propaganda business.” Levant has been at the forefront of a growing wave of criticism against […]
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Ethicist Shatters Myth of ‘Virtually No’ Canadian Late-Term Abortions

Wednesday June 2, 2010 Ethicist Shatters Myth of ‘Virtually No’ Canadian Late-Term Abortions By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MONTREAL, June 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After surveying available statistics on Canadian abortions, a prominent ethicist at McGill University has taken apart the myth that few late-term abortions are committed in the country. Margaret Somerville, the Samuel Gale Professor of Law, and the Founding Director of the Faculty of Law’s Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill stated in an article in the Montreal Gazette that there are two abortion myths in Canada: “one is that there is a general consensus on […]
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CAUGHT ON TAPE: School Bus Driver Brings Girl to Tears for Opposing Gay ‘Marriage’

Wednesday June 2, 2010 CAUGHT ON TAPE: School Bus Driver Brings Girl to Tears for Opposing Gay ‘Marriage’ School won’t reprimand driver who called student “Stupid Little Bigot” By Kathleen Gilbert CARMEL, Indiana, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Indiana family has filed a civil lawsuit against a local school bus driver caught on tape harassing their daughter to the point of tears and calling her a “stupid little bigot” based on her pro-family views. Several news stations reported the story with video from a school bus camera capturing Carmel School Bus Driver Betty Campbell’s tirades, sparked after the girl […]
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‘Abortion never saves a mother’s life’: Ireland Ads Clarify Ectopic Treatment Not Abortion

Wednesday June 2, 2010 ‘Abortion never saves a mother’s life’: Ireland Ads Clarify Ectopic Treatment Not Abortion By Hilary White DUBLIN, June 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Abortion never saves a mother’s life – it just kills a baby,” says a newspaper advertisement that will appear in all of Ireland’s major papers starting today. The Irish pro-life group Youth Defence said that the ads, which they have sponsored together with the Life Institute, are to counter implications by abortionist groups that there is no moral difference between treatment for an ectopic pregnancy and direct abortion. The ad quotes “Rene” who describes […]
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Fed Court Vindicates Student Suspended for Wearing Rosary

Wednesday June 2, 2010 Fed Court Vindicates Student Suspended for Wearing Rosary NEW YORK, June 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal court judge has ordered a New York school district to readmit a seventh-grade student suspended indefinitely for wearing a rosary to school after officials said the Catholic prayer beads violated the school’s dress code. U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence E. Kahn issued a temporary restraining order on Tuesday ordering Schenectady City School District to permit 13-year-old Raymond Hosier to return to classes at Oneida Middle School wearing his rosary. Kahn responded to a same-day request by the American Center […]
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LifeSiteNews in Portuguese Reaches First Birthday

Thursday June 3, 2010 LifeSiteNews in Portuguese Reaches First Birthday By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, June 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Noticias Pro-Familia (Pro-Family News), LifeSiteNews.com’s service in Portuguese, has completed its first year of service, with over 42,000 page views and wide republishing of its articles in the Portuguese-speaking blogosphere. Although the first articles published on the site are dated from early April of 2009, they were posted in late May, with backdating to reflect the date of their authorship. Pro-life and pro-family activist Julio Severo provides the translations to the site, and says that it […]
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Over 800 Iowa Church Leaders Support the Traditional Family

Thursday June 3, 2010 Over 800 Iowa Church Leaders Support the Traditional Family By James Tillman DES MOINES, Iowa, June 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — A letter and a petition in support of traditional marriage, signed by a total of 834 Iowa pastors and church leaders, are being circulated throughout Iowa in anticipation of the November election. “We, the undersigned, affirm our strong belief that the traditional definition of marriage is fundamentally important and necessary for a stable society,” states one petition. “More than five thousand years of world history, more than two centuries of American history, and more than one […]
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Pro-Life Ad Campaign Urges Black Women to Choose Adoption Over Abortion

Thursday June 3, 2010 Pro-Life Ad Campaign Urges Black Women to Choose Adoption Over Abortion By Peter J. Smith ATLANTA, Georgia, June 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fresh from their first success, a Georgia billboard campaign exposing the abortion industry’s deliberate targeting of the black community has begun phase two: informing black women that adoption, not abortion, is the answer for a crisis pregnancy. The new billboard campaign “Black and Unwanted,” launched by Georgia Right to Life and the Radiance Foundation, is continuing to hit home with black Americans by revealing that abortion is devastating their communities and dwindling their demographic […]
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IPPF Report Calls for Youth Sex Rights and Reveals New UN Funding

Thursday June 3, 2010 IPPF Report Calls for Youth Sex Rights and Reveals New UN Funding By Samantha Singson and Terrence McKeegan, J.D. NEW YORK, June 3, 2010 (C-FAM) – The abortion giant, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), has just released its latest financial statement. The report boasts of increased spending on youth programs and a significant increase in funding from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), with an overall 20% boost in income as compared to 2008. In 2009, IPPF raked in a staggering $140 million, the bulk of which came from government grants. Sweden, the United Kingdom […]
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Researchers Asked to Hide Scientific Debate over Maternal Deaths

Thursday June 3, 2010 Researchers Asked to Hide Scientific Debate over Maternal Deaths By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D., co-authored by Catherine Foster NEW YORK, June 3, 2010 (C-FAM) – At a meeting on maternal and child health research in Washington last week, United Nations (UN) staff and abortion advocates told scientists they should “harmonize” their findings or discuss them “in a locked room” so that the press could not report maternal death numbers that conflicted with the ones they use to lobby policy makers and major international donors. Ann Starrs, co-founder and president of the abortion advocacy organization Family Care International […]
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Nova Scotia Priest Spreads New York Times Attack on Vatican

Thursday June 3, 2010 Nova Scotia Priest Spreads New York Times Attack on Vatican By Patrick B. Craine ANTIGONISH, Nova Scotia, June 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic priest of the Diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia has defended submitting an article to a local paper in which an American journalist accuses the Vatican of “male domination” and being “self-absorbed.” The article, which was originally published in the New York Times on April 17th, also dissents from Church teachings against contraception and the ordination of women. The op-ed, which leans heavily to the leftist Catholic “social justice” perspective of the 1960s […]
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U.S. Senate Committee Oks Amendment Ditching Military Abortion Ban

Friday May 28, 2010 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 […]
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Egyptian Court Orders Coptic Orthodox Church To Allow Divorce and Remarriage

Tuesday June 1, 2010 Egyptian Court Orders Coptic Orthodox Church To Allow Divorce and Remarriage By Thaddeus M. Baklinski CAIRO, June 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court ruled May 29 that the Coptic Orthodox Church must allow its members to divorce and remarry. The court, headed by Justice Mohammed Husseini, based its ruling on constitutional law which holds that the “right to family formation is a constitutional right, which is above all other considerations.” The ruling effectively quashed an appeal by Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III against a lower court ruling that approved the request of litigant Hani […]
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Pelosi – Latest Poster Child for Need to Deny Communion

Tuesday June 1, 2010 Pelosi – Latest Poster Child for Need to Deny Communion Editorial by John-Henry Westen and Kathleen Gilbert June 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It may come as a shock to some that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed a group of Catholics last month telling them that public policy should be “in keeping with the values of the Word,” referring to Christ. Pelosi, who describes herself as “an ardent practicing Catholic,” is a leading political advocate for abortion and homosexuality. Already in 2008, her bishop, San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer, said publicly that he was considering denying […]
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President of the Vatican Bank: Zero Population Growth Responsible for World-wide Recession

Friday February 26, 2010 President of the Vatican Bank: Zero Population Growth Responsible for World-wide Recession By Peter J. Smith ROME, February 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A top Italian economist and current President of the Vatican Bank says the culprit standing at the heart of the worldwide economic recession is not banking practices, but rather the low birth rate that has resulted in zero population growth in Western countries. “The true cause of the crisis is the decline in the birth rate,” said Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, president of the Vatican bank, Institute for the Works of Religion, on Vatican Television’s […]
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Lombardy Offers Women $5.5K to Reject Abortion

Wednesday June 2, 2010 Lombardy Offers Women $5.5K to Reject Abortion By Hilary White MILAN, June 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women in Italy’s northern region of Lombardy who are considering abortion out of financial fears, will be offered monetary assistance of up to €4500 (US $5500) per year, Roberto Formigoni, president of the regional government announced last month. The Lombardy regional government has offered pregnant women in financial difficulties €250 for 18 months after the birth of their child. “No woman will abort in Lombardy because of economic difficulties,” Formigoni said during the regional elections in March. The Italian birth […]
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Ontario Gvmt to Host Symposium on “Equity” for School Trustees

Wednesday June 2, 2010 Ontario Gvmt to Host Symposium on “Equity” for School Trustees TORONTO, Ontario, June 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario Ministry of Education is set to host a symposium later this month to educate school board trustees on the Ministry’s new “Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy”. Co-hosted by he Ontario Education Services Corporation, the ‘Inclusive Boards-Inclusive Schools’ symposium,is scheduled for June 17th in Toronto and will feature an opening plenary address by Barbara Hall, chief commissioner of the controversial Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC). The day-long program also includes 2 workshops by staff members of the OHRC […]
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Filipino Bishops: Sex Education Undermines Parents’ Role

Wednesday June 2, 2010 Filipino Bishops: Sex Education Undermines Parents’ Role By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MANILA, June 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) states that imposing lessons about sex on children as young as eleven by the school system is an attempt to wrest responsibility for bringing up children from parents. The bishops of the Philippines have consistently opposed the introduction of sex-ed into the nation’s schools. In 2006 the Filipino government backed off from a sex education pilot project in two Manila school districts. This resulted from strong resistance by the Catholic Bishops, […]
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Russia Must Introduce Laws to Slow Abortion: Russian Orthodox Cleric

Wednesday June 2, 2010 Russia Must Introduce Laws to Slow Abortion: Russian Orthodox Cleric By Hilary White MOSCOW, June 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Russia must enact pro-life laws or face demographic disaster, a leader in the Russian Orthodox Church said last week. “In Soviet times we got used to abortion and we got used to considering it an unavoidable part of our legal reality and that there is no way to the turn back the page,” Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin told Interfax news agency on Thursday. “But we see today that it is possible to turn back a great deal.” The […]
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HIV-infected Women Present Charges of Forced Sterilization to Namibia High Court

By Peter J. Smith WINDHOEK, Namibia, June 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Namibian High Court will hear on Friday the cases of several women who allege that hospitals sterilized them by force, denying their right to motherhood, because they were diagnosed as HIV-positive. Three Namibian women are being represented by the Legal Assistance Centre, a public interest firm representing the human rights cases, in their lawsuit against the state, which runs the two hospitals where the sterilizations are claimed to have taken place. LAC says that reports of the forced sterilization of HIV-positive women at state hospitals began surfacing in […]
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Evangelicals Launch Effort to ‘Reduce Abortions,’ Float Contraceptive Advocacy

Monday May 31, 2010 Evangelicals Launch Effort to ‘Reduce Abortions,’ Float Contraceptive Advocacy By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Association of Evangelicals has issued a new resolution on abortion advocacy that calls for pursuing “common ground” towards reducing the abortion rate in America, and included contraception as among possible means of achieving that goal. The “common ground” talking point is often heard from the likes of pro-abortion giants such as President Obama, who famously lectured University of Notre Dame graduates on using “fair-minded words” and not “demonizing” proponents of the legalized killing of unborn […]
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Further Sexualization Proposed For Britain’s Schoolchildren: “Let’s talk about rape.”

Monday May 31, 2010 Further Sexualization Proposed For Britain’s Schoolchildren: “Let’s talk about rape.” To be used by children as young as 11 in Britain’s schools By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LONDON, May 31, 2010 (LifeSIteNews.com) – An “educational pack” containing information about rape, pornography, prostitution, female genital mutilation, forced marriages and human trafficking, has been produced by a UK group called Rape Crisis, to be used by children as young as 11 in Britain’s schools. According to a report in the Daily Mail the author of the proposed course, Laura Colclough, said the £100 pack supports the government’s policies focused […]
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Pope’s Prayer for June: ‘Respect for Human Life from Conception to Natural Death’

Monday May 31, 2010 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 […]
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Summer Matching Campaign Launch Today

Monday May 31, 2010 Summer Matching Campaign Launch Today Dear LifeSiteNews Readers, LifeSiteNews’ scheduled summer matching donation drive begins today This campaign happens to coincide with the fact that our bank accounts are currently near empty at both LifeSiteNews US and LifeSiteNews Canada. We have enough to keep us going for about two weeks. That’s it. Everything goes towards the mission – to the maximum. Can you help us with a financial gift? Before you do, I want to tell you that this matching campaign is operating slightly differently than what you may have seen before. Normally, a matching donation […]
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Pro-Life Carly Fiorina Now Ahead in GOP Battle for Cal. Senate Nomination

Thursday May 27, 2010 Pro-Life Carly Fiorina Now Ahead in GOP Battle for Cal. Senate Nomination By Peter J. Smith SACRAMENTO, California, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With less than two weeks remaining before the Republican primary, pro-life businesswoman Carly Fiorina has managed to take the lead in a three-way primary over a pro-abortion rival and a pro-life “tea party” candidate in California. Recent polls show Fiorina surging ahead in the primary set for June 8. The winner of the three-way GOP battle royal will then challenge pro-abortion California Democratic senator Barbara Boxer, a three-term incumbent, in November. Survey USA […]
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Campaign Life Coalition Launches Petition in Support of Cardinal Ouellet

Wednesday May 19, 2010 Campaign Life Coalition Launches Petition in Support of Cardinal Ouellet By John Jalsevac To sign the petition in support of Cardinal Ouellet, click here. May 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The last four days have not been easy for Cardinal Marc Ouellet. The archbishop of Quebec City and primate of Canada has been pilloried in the mainstream press across the country, and slammed by Quebec and federal politicians, after he explained Christian teaching on abortion at a pro-life conference hosted by Quebec Life Coalition this past Sunday. Asked by reporters about abortion in the case of rape, […]
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From Bush to Obama: Sanctity of Human Life Day to Gay Pride Month

Monday May 31, 2010 From Bush to Obama: Sanctity of Human Life Day to Gay Pride Month By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, May 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Barack Obama has for the second year in a row issued a proclamation declaring June “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.” While prior to his leaving office President George W. Bush issued a Sanctity of Life Day proclamation for 2009, such a proclamation was rejected by President Obama for 2010. Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America was not surprised by President Obama’s actions. “Obama is consistent,” Wright told LifeSiteNews. “He […]
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California Catholic College Hosted Pro-Abort Commencement Speaker

Tuesday May 25, 2010 California Catholic College Hosted Pro-Abort Commencement Speaker By Patrick B. Craine MORAGA, California, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – St. Mary’s College of California is under fire after hosting a commencement speaker this past Sunday who has been a high-profile proponent of same-sex “marriage” and abortion. Jack O’Connell, California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, delivered the address at the college’s graduate commencement ceremony on Sunday. O’Connell was a strong opponent of Proposition 8, which amended California’s constitution to define marriage as being between one man and one woman. During the lead-up to the November 2008 vote, he appeared […]
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Jewish Ezra Levant Slams Anti-Christian Bigotry in Canadian Parliament

Monday May 31, 2010 Jewish Ezra Levant Slams Anti-Christian Bigotry in Canadian Parliament By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, May 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative columnist Ezra Levant , who is Jewish, has slammed a growing trend of overt anti-Christian bigotry expressed by some elected members of Canada’s parliament. Following a lunch arranged last week by Conservative Member of Parliament for Regina-Qu’Appelle Andrew Scheer for some of his colleagues to meet Msgr. Frederick Dolan, vicar of the Catholic lay organization Opus Dei in Canada, some MPs publicly expressed objections to a representative of a Catholic group meeting with other MPs in […]
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Gary Coleman’s Quick Removal off Life Support and Resulting Death Raises Questions

Monday May 31, 2010 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 […]
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Acton Institute: Bring Back ‘Subsidiarity’ Into Health Care Debate, Catholic Bishops

Tuesday June 1, 2010 Acton Institute: Bring Back ‘Subsidiarity’ Into Health Care Debate, Catholic Bishops Charges USCCB’s social justice bureaucrats have long history of ignoring principles of subsidiarity By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Acton Institute applauded the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ demand for reform of national health care legislation. But the Catholic economic think tank believes an issue remains to be voiced: the need for subsidiarity in health care. On the Acton Institute PowerBlog, Director of Research Dr. Samuel Gregg wrote that the USCCB was right to lay a threefold stress […]
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Mexican Supreme Court: Distribute Morning After Pill, or Go to Prison

Tuesday June 1, 2010 Mexican Supreme Court: Distribute Morning After Pill, or Go to Prison By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, May 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of Mexico has ruled that the abortifacient ‘morning after pill’ must be distributed by all hospitals in Mexico, public and private. A Supreme Court Minister stated that officials who refuse to comply with the ruling may be removed from their positions, prosecuted, and imprisoned. Doctors universally acknowledge that the pill can take the life of the zygote, which is a human life at the earliest stage. But the […]
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In Wake of Abortion Death, Groups Call for Revocation of Maryland Abortionist’s License

Tuesday June 1, 2010 In Wake of Abortion Death, Groups Call for Revocation of Maryland Abortionist’s License BALTIMORE, MD, June 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-Life groups are calling for the Maryland Board of Physicians (MBP) to revoke the medical license of abortionist Romeo Ferrer at a disciplinary hearing tomorrow concerning the abortion death of a woman in 2006. “It is shocking that this abortionist has been allowed to continue endangering women for four years while the fact that he killed one of his patients was concealed from the public,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “We urge the Maryland Board […]
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Canadian MP Hedy Fry Turns Down Abortion Debate

Tuesday June 1, 2010 Canadian MP Hedy Fry Turns Down Abortion Debate By Patrick Craine CALGARY, Alberta, June 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Hedy Fry, Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre, has rejected an opportunity to debate abortion with a former patient she treated in-utero. Last month, the CBC reported Fry as saying she was ready to debate abortion with anyone. When a former patient, international pro-life speaker Stephanie Gray, took her up on her offer, Fry declined in a voicemail left for Gray by one of Fry’s staff (listen to the voicemail here). The staff member explains that Fry […]
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Italian Bishops Warn of Nation’s ‘Demographic Suicide’

Friday May 28, 2010 Italian Bishops Warn of Nation’s ‘Demographic Suicide’ By Thaddeus M. Baklinski ROME, May 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a May 25 address to his fellow Italian bishops at the 61st plenary assembly, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, archbishop of Genoa President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, warned about his nation’s “slow demographic suicide” thanks to a plummeting birthrate. “Over 50% of families today are without children,” he said. Another quarter have only one child, 20% have two, while just 5.1% have three or more. “Because of this, an urgent policy is needed that is oriented to children, which […]
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Obama Makes Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Marriage Benefits for Homosexual Couples

By James Tillman Updated 5:50 pm EST WASHINGTON, DC, June 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—In a memorandum issued Wednesday, President Obama ordered executive departments and agencies to extend to same-sex partners the same benefits enjoyed by married couples, to the maximum extent permitted by the law.  President Obama said the memorandum “paves the way for long-overdue progress in our nation's pursuit of equality.”   The new memorandum is the result of a review Obama ordered the Office of Personnel Management to conduct in order to determine what benefits could be extended to homosexual federal employees under existing law. As the openly-homosexual John Berry, Director […]
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Fox Commentator: Family of Girl Berated by Bus Driver Should be Sued for Instilling Pro-Family Views

By Kathleen Gilbert June 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An attorney commentating for the Fox News show “Kelly's Court” not only dismissed as irrelevant a lawsuit against an Indiana bus driver caught berating a middle-school girl for her pro-family views, but said that the girl's family should instead be sued for instilling belief in traditional marriage. A family is suing Carmel Clay Schools for emotional damages after bus driver Betty Campbell, angered by their daughter's belief in traditional marriage, summoned her onto an empty school bus to lecture her on why she should support homosexual “marriage.” The girl can be seen crying in […]
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Study: Rise in Autism and introduction of Aborted Fetal DNA in Vaccines Correlate

By James Tillman PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—Dr. Theresa Deisher, founder of the pro-life Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute, presented a study revealing the link between autism and aborted fetal DNA in vaccinations at the International Meeting for Autism Research in May. “The temporal connection between the introduction of aborted fetal DNA and autism rises is found over decades and across continents,” Dr. Deisher told LifeSiteNews.  “This temporal connection is more compelling than any mercury connection,” which, she said, had no temporal connection to rising rates of autism. As the abstract of the study indicates, autism rates in the US and […]
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Linda Gibbons Now Serving Indeterminate Sentence for Life: June 2 Protest

Monday May 31, 2010 Linda Gibbons Now Serving Indeterminate Sentence for Life: June 2 Protest by Theresa Casta TORONTO, Ontario, May 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life prisoner of conscience and grandmother, Linda Gibbons, has served nearly 500 consecutive days in prison during the latest of her many lengthy imprisonments of the past fifteen years. Arrested for peaceful attempts to speak to women considering abortion in front of Toronto’s Scott abortion facility, her next court date is set for June 2nd. Gibbons’ biographer Gordon Truscott is organizing a peaceful protest Wednesday to show support for Linda outside the court house where […]
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Pro-Life Bus Ads In Regina Spark Only Mild Protest

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski REGINA, Saskatchewan, June 2, 2010 (LifeSIteNews.com) – Pro-life ads that began appearing on City of Regina buses on May 31 have met with only mild protest. Robert Walldigger, president of Regina Pro-Life which is sponsoring the ad campaign, told LifeSiteNews that he has received only two calls from women upset with the images. The advertisements feature images of unborn children that might appear in any school textbook adjacent to a message about abortion. One woman identified by CBC News as Shannon Tessier, told Walldigger she disliked an ad that read “Growing, Growing, Gone” under images of […]
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‘Abortion never saves a mother’s life’: Ireland Ads Clarify Ectopic Treatment Not Abortion

By Hilary White   DUBLIN, June 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –“Abortion never saves a mother’s life – it just kills a baby,” says a newspaper advertisement that will appear in all of Ireland’s major papers starting today. The Irish pro-life group Youth Defence said that the ads, which they have sponsored together with the Life Institute, are to counter implications by abortionist groups that there is no moral difference between treatment for an ectopic pregnancy and direct abortion.   The ad quotes “Rene” who describes the loss of her unborn child, who implanted in her fallopian tube instead of her uterus, […]
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Lombardy Offers Women $5.5K to Reject Abortion

By Hilary White MILAN, June 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women in Italy's northern region of Lombardy who are considering abortion out of financial fears, will be offered monetary assistance of up to €4500 (US $5500) per year, Roberto Formigoni, president of the regional government announced last month. The Lombardy regional government has offered pregnant women in financial difficulties €250 for 18 months after the birth of their child. “No woman will abort in Lombardy because of economic difficulties,” Formigoni said during the regional elections in March. The Italian birth rate is at an all-time low, with 1.32 children born per […]
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Promising New Initiative Will Help LifeSiteNews at No Cost to You

Dear Friends of LifeSiteNews, Everyone wants to support pro-life and pro-family organizations, but in today's economic times it can be hard to do so effectively. Well, we are very pleased to be able to tell you about a NEW initiative that allows you to support organizations such as LifeSiteNews at absolutely no cost to you! It might sound too good to be true, but we know for a fact that other organizations have had thousands of dollars raised for them. Please take a few minutes to view this website and see if you or anyone you know can help us. […]
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Bishop Vasa Slams ‘Positively Evil’ Health Care Reform Law

Monday March 29, 2010 Bishop Vasa Slams ‘Positively Evil’ Health Care Reform Law By Kathleen Gilbert BAKER, Oregon, March 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Robert Vasa of the Baker, Ore. diocese has issued a tough rebuttal against health reform lobbyists who downplayed the abortion funding in the federal health care bill, which the Catholic prelate called “positively evil.” “It is often necessary for us to live with that which is imperfect but a plan that includes funds for the direct and intentional killing of innocent human beings is much more than imperfect, it is nothing short of positively evil,” wrote […]
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Pepsi Accused of Funding Gay Religious Doctrines

Monday March 29, 2010 Pepsi Accused of Funding Gay Religious Doctrines PLANO, TX, March 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) is calling on all PepsiCo shareholders to vote for a shareholder proposal that asks PepsiCo to divulge its standards for donating over $75 million in corporate assets to controversial groups. PepsiCo, Inc. is the leading corporate sponsor of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Inc. (PFLAG). PFLAG’s latest publication, a religious guidebook, labels ex-gay conferences as “anti-gay” and urges PFLAG members to protest against religious conferences which feature ex-gay speakers. The faith […]
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Only Hope for a More Conservative Britain is a Tory Loss: Conservative Insider

Monday March 29, 2010 Only Hope for a More Conservative Britain is a Tory Loss: Conservative Insider Cameron’s attempts to play both sides costing Tories By Hilary White LONDON, March 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The only hope for both Britain and the UK Conservative party is for David Cameron to lose the upcoming general election, a Tory insider told LifeSiteNews.com this weekend. Cameron’s lead in the polls is falling several points below that needed for an outright majority with only a month left before election day, and his support among the much-courted homosexualist movement is fading. With the formerly sure […]
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Cardinal: Equating Marriage and Homosexuality in Schools is ‘Harmful to Children’

Friday May 28, 2010 Cardinal: Equating Marriage and Homosexuality in Schools is ‘Harmful to Children’ ‘In Canada There is no Real Equality of Rights’ By John-Henry Westen QUEBEC CITY, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Currently, in Canada there is no real equality of rights because children, in the mother’s womb, are not at all protected: not at all,” said Quebec City Cardinal Marc Ouellet at the May 15 Congress of Campaign Life Quebec. “We are one of the rare countries in the world, in the whole world, where children in the maternal womb have no protection at all.” The talk […]
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South Korean Court Rules that Frozen Human Embryos are ‘Not Human’

Friday May 28, 2010 South Korean Court Rules that Frozen Human Embryos are ‘Not Human’ By Matthew Cullian Hoffman SEOUL, May 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite parents’ pleas, a South Korean court has ruled that frozen embryos are not living and thus may be experimented upon and destroyed at will. The ruling was issued against a suit filed by the parents of the embryos, as well as eleven other individuals, including philosophers, ethicists, and doctors. In addition, the two embryos themselves were listed among the plaintiffs. The embryos were created for a couple with the surname Nam. A total of […]
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Marquette Prof: Why was Lesbian Sociologist Offered Job in the First Place?

Monday May 17, 2010 Marquette Prof: Why was Lesbian Sociologist Offered Job in the First Place? By James Tillman MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, May 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Marquette University has seen much controversy erupt over its retraction of a job offer last week to sociologist Jodi O’Brien over her sexually explicit writings. But according to Christopher Wolfe, emeritus professor at Marquette University and director of Thomas International Center, the uproar has been over the wrong thing. “The question that should be asked is not why Marquette President Father Robert A. Wild backed off the hiring,” Wolfe writes, “but how in heaven […]
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Woman Sentenced to 10 Years in Jail for Murdering Baby One Day after Birth

Friday May 28, 2010 Woman Sentenced to 10 Years in Jail for Murdering Baby One Day after Birth By Peter J. Smith FARGO, North Dakota, May 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal appeals court has ruled that a US district judge was justified in sentencing a woman to over ten years in prison for the murder of her baby just a day after his birth. The court agreed that reducing the sentence further than the clemency already extended would undermine justice and the recognition that “an innocent life that was lost.” The three-judge panel for the 8th U.S. Circuit Court […]
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Ozzy Osbourne Finds Musical Muse in Canada ‘Mercy-Killing’

Friday May 28, 2010 Ozzy Osbourne Finds Musical Muse in Canada ‘Mercy-Killing’ By Peter J. Smith TORONTO, May 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – British heavy-metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne’s musical muse has derived new inspiration from Robert Latimer, a Canadian found guilty of the murder of his disabled daughter, which will feature prominently in a new album entitled “Scream.” The song, “Latimer’s Mercy,” will feature alongside such death-delighting tracks as “Let it Die” and “Let Me Hear You Scream and Crucify.” According to CanWest News Service, Osbourne wanted to describe what he thought must have gone through Latimer’s mind in 1993 as […]
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Pro-life Patience Wears Thin as Illinois Parental Notice Law Languishes in Legal Limbo

By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, June 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Illinois' parental notice law has languished unenforced for nearly 15 years since its initial passage. Now that the constitutionality of the law has been repeatedly vindicated in the courts, pro-life attorneys are demanding the law be enforced. The embattled Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act of 1995 requires that one parent or legal guardian must be notified 48 hours in advance when a minor aged 17 or younger seeks an abortion. Attorneys from the Thomas More Society filed an appeal with the First District Appellate Court on Friday in an effort […]
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In Wake of Abortion Death, Groups Call for Revocation of Maryland Abortionist’s License

BALTIMORE, MD, June 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-Life groups are calling for the Maryland Board of Physicians (MBP) to revoke the medical license of abortionist Romeo Ferrer at a disciplinary hearing tomorrow concerning the abortion death of a woman in 2006. “It is shocking that this abortionist has been allowed to continue endangering women for four years while the fact that he killed one of his patients was concealed from the public,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “We urge the Maryland Board of Physicians to act decisively tomorrow to protect women from further harm by revoking Ferrer's medical license.” On February 3, […]
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Egyptian Court Orders Coptic Orthodox Church To Allow Divorce and Remarriage

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski CAIRO, June 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court ruled May 29 that the Coptic Orthodox Church must allow its members to divorce and remarry. The court, headed by Justice Mohammed Husseini, based its ruling on constitutional law which holds that the “right to family formation is a constitutional right, which is above all other considerations.” The ruling effectively quashed an appeal by Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III against a lower court ruling that approved the request of litigant Hani Wasfi Naguib to remarry. In his judgment, Justice Husseini said that “By law, a Christian […]
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Irish Abortionist Group Demands Legal Abortion

Friday May 28, 2010 Irish Abortionist Group Demands Legal Abortion By Hilary White DUBLIN, May 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The abortionist group, the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) has demanded that the Irish government legalize abortion, and blasted it for refusing to liberalize the country’s abortion laws, calling it “political cowardice.” The occasion for the attack was the publication of statistics this week by the UK department of health showing that 4,422 women traveled from Ireland to England and Wales in 2009 to abort their children. IFPA Chief executive Niall Behan told the Herald, “These figures are compelling evidence of […]
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U.S. House, Senate Committee Vote to Repeal ‘Don’t Ask’

Friday May 28, 2010 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 […]
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Cardinal Ouellet Clarifies: Church Still Asks States ‘To Penalize the Practice of Abortion’

Thursday May 27, 2010 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 […]
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Kagan Calls Extreme Activist Liberal Judge ‘My Judicial Hero’

Thursday May 27, 2010 Kagan Calls Extreme Activist Liberal Judge ‘My Judicial Hero’ By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservatives are raising the alarm after it was revealed that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan once hailed an Israeli judge famous for his aggressive judicial activism as “my judicial hero.” Aharon Barak, the former president of the Supreme Court of Israel, received glowing praise from Kagan when she introduced him for a Harvard University award ceremony in September 2006. “He is the judge who has best advanced democracy, human rights, the rule of law and justice,” […]
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Religious Broadcasting a “Tiresome Obligation” for BBC Execs: Veteran Broadcaster

Thursday May 27, 2010 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 […]
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Shameless ‘Abortion Profiteers’: HLI Blasts Marie Stopes UK Abortion Ads

Wednesday May 26, 2010 Shameless ‘Abortion Profiteers’: HLI Blasts Marie Stopes UK Abortion Ads By Hilary White LONDON, May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two more pro-life groups, Life and U.S.-based Human Life International, have blasted the decision to allow abortion advertising on British television funded by Marie Stopes International. Fr. Thomas Euteneuer, president of Human Life International, said that groups like Marie Stopes, one of the major players in the international population control movement, are nothing more than “abortion profiteers.” “They literally have no shame. These profit-seeking commercials point out the lie that abortion is a ‘choice’ or an act […]
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Netherlands Funds Homosexualist Propaganda Campaign in Chile

Friday May 14, 2010 Netherlands Funds Homosexualist Propaganda Campaign in Chile By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent SANTIAGO, Chile, May 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chileans are being subjected to a massive homosexualist campaign in the nation’s capital, funded by the government of the Netherlands, according to national and international reports. The campaign uses massive images to promote the acceptance of homosexual relationships, including a billboard with two lesbians kissing each other on the lips posted in Santiago’s Plaza Italia. The subtitle states: “If love bothers you, make yourself look,” and claims that, “Homophobia and transphobia are violence.” Another image, […]
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After Unanimous Anti-Life Vote: Not Even One Pro-Life Pol in Quebec?

Friday May 28, 2010 After Unanimous Anti-Life Vote: Not Even One Pro-Life Pol in Quebec? By Patrick B. Craine QUEBEC CITY, Quebec, May 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the wake of a unanimous motion in the Quebec National Assembly emphasizing “the right … to free and accessible abortion services,” a key leader in the province’s pro-life movement is calling on the bishops of Quebec to join Cardinal Marc Ouellet in taking a stand for the unborn. In an all-party motion May 19, the Quebec legislature voted 109-0 to reaffirm “the right of women to free choice and to free and […]
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Vast Majority of Latin Americans Support Criminal Penalties for Abortion

Friday May 28, 2010 Vast Majority of Latin Americans Support Criminal Penalties for Abortion By Mathew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, May 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The vast majority of Latin Americans are in favor of maintaining criminal penalties for abortion, according to a new study. The study, which polled residents of several Latin American countries, indicates that 60.4 percent of Mexicans favor criminal penalties for illegal abortions. Mexico, however, is on the low end of the scale. In Brazil, 67.3 percent favor such penalties, and in Chile, 71.7 percent. In Nicaragua, where abortion is completely illegal, the […]
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