Sacramento Bishop: Catholics Must Realize Church Teaching on Marriage Benefits Society

Tuesday July 27, 2010 Sacramento Bishop: Catholics Must Realize Church Teaching on Marriage Benefits Society By Kathleen Gilbert SACRAMENTO, California, July 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In light of a poll showing more California Catholics supporting same-sex “marriage” than opposing it, one California bishop has faulted a political climate that suppresses support for true marriage in the state, and a lack of fervor among nominal Catholics. Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento also said that there is a need for the Catholic Church to correct the pervasive “confusion about sexuality in general” in order to rekindle an appreciation of true marriage as […]
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Tiller Associate Faces Discipline from Kansas Medical Board

Wednesday July 28, 2010 Tiller Associate Faces Discipline from Kansas Medical Board Kansas, July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (KSBHA) has filed an 11-count petition against Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus for negligence while making late-term abortion referrals for the late Dr. George Tiller. “This petition is verification that we were correct about our allegations that Neuhaus and Tiller were operating outside the law,” said Operation Rescue Senior Policy Advisor Cheryl Sullenger. “It is also evidence that the efforts to work peacefully within the legal system that have been employed by us for over two […]
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South Korea Looks at Legalizing Abortion

Wednesday July 28, 2010 South Korea Looks at Legalizing Abortion By Thaddeus M. Baklinski SEOUL, July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Early-term abortion may be legalized in South Korea, according to a Ministry of Justice committee considering changes to the law, reports the Korean journal JoongAng Daily. South Korea’s Mother and Child Health Law permits abortion only when the mother’s health is in serious danger, or in cases of rape, incest or severe genetic disorder. Abortion is illegal after 24 weeks of pregnancy and technically punishable by the Korean Penal Code. However, the government has for decades turned a blind eye […]
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WH Spokesman Admits Abortion Exec. Order Merely “Reiterates” Law

Thursday March 25, 2010 WH Spokesman Admits Abortion Exec. Order Merely “Reiterates” Law By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., March 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs admitted on Wednesday that President Obama’s executive order regarding abortion funding in the health care bill merely “reiterates” what was already stated in the bill, providing further fuel for critics who have blasted the order as useless for banning the abortion funding embedded in the bill. During a back and forth exchange with reporters, Gibbs dodged direct questioning on the actual effect of the executive order, before agreeing that it was […]
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Hawaii Democratic Primary for Governor Splits Over Same-sex ‘Marriage’

Tuesday July 20, 2010 Hawaii Democratic Primary for Governor Splits Over Same-sex ‘Marriage’ By Peter J. Smith HONOLULU, Hawaii, July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In Hawaii, new battle lines have been drawn in the Democratic primary for governor now that Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann has announced that he would have vetoed the civil unions bill rejected by outgoing Republican governor Linda Lingle. Hannemann’s opponent, former U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie, says he supports legislation that would have established civil unions for homosexuals with all the rights and benefits accorded to civil marriage. Hannemann revealed his position in a meeting with the […]
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Orthodox Rabbi Criticizes Jewish Statement Encouraging Inclusion of Open Homosexuals

By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, July 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leader of a coalition of Orthodox rabbis has criticized a declaration signed by dozens of Jewish religious leaders that urges religious communities to accept open homosexuals and eschew therapy to overcome same-sex attraction. More than 60 U.S. Orthodox rabbis signed the document, originally drafted by Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, which proposes a set of “principles with regard to the place of Jews with a homosexual orientation in our community.” According to Ynetnews.com, the statement was the result of a panel of Jewish academic leaders in New York earlier this year. […]
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Complaint Filed to Disbar Kagan for Falsifying Partial-Birth Abortion Testimony

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leader of a public interest law group has filed a complaint before the U.S. Supreme Court at the behest of pro-life organization Declaration Alliance, asking that the high court disbar Elena Kagan for falsifying testimony regarding the Clinton-era partial-birth abortion ban attempt. The complaint was submitted by Larry Klayman, the founder of corruption watchdog Judicial Watch, who also called for Kagan's actions to be investigated by the Justice Department. Kagan has admitted that while serving as an Associate White House Counsel in the Clinton administration, she altered the wording of original testimony […]
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In the LifeLight: 40 Days for Life Leader Talks Saving Lives, One Prayer at a Time

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the closure of yet another abortion facility deluged by pro-life prayer and fasting, one leader of the wildly successful 40 Days for Life campaign has discussed the principles behind a movement that has electrified the pro-life community around the world. Shawn Carney is Campaign Director for 40 Days for Life, a national prayer campaign to end abortion that has grown by leaps and bounds since it was launched in 2006, in both the U.S. and abroad. In this exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews.com, Carney shares his thoughts on the […]
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Young Sex Offenders Forced to Look at Porn in B.C. Study

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VANCOUVER, B.C., July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British Columbia government research program at the Youth Forensic Psychiatric Service subjected sex offenders as young as 13 to videos of adult pornography or pictures of children in various states of nudity, accompanied by audio descriptions of violent, coercive or forced sexual activity, while sensors attached to their genitals measured their state of arousal. The “penile plethysmograph” test is meant to measure whether corrective treatments such as psychotherapy and behavior modification are effective in helping sex offenders. The little-known program, which has been running for 25 years under […]
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Brazilian Government Joins UN to Urge Latin American Nations to Depenalize Abortion

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BRASILIA, July 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Brazilian government has signed a UN-sponsored document endorsing the depenalization of abortion throughout Latin America. The legally non-binding document, entitled the “Brasilia Consensus,” was issued by the Eleventh Regional Conference on Latin American and Caribbean Women (CEPAL) meeting in Brazil's capital city.  It contains numerous references, some oblique and others explicit, to measures in favor of abortion, homosexualism, contraception, and other anti-life and anti-family policies. In its section on “sexual and reproductive rights,” a term often used as a euphemism for the legalization of abortion, the “Consensus” […]
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John Smeaton Talks to LSN’s Hilary White about the Role of the Catholic Church in the Pro-Life Fight

By John Smeaton Editor's Note: This article was originally published by John Smeaton, the head of the UK's Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), on his personal blog. It is reprinted here with permission. July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When I was in Rome, earlier this month, I met Hilary White, the well-known writer for LifeSiteNews.com Hilary describes herself on her blog as “an Anglo-Canadian writer, researcher and art student recently re-assigned by God to Rome and desperately sand-bagging in sight of the coming flood.” The pro-life movement is, thankfully, made up of people of all faiths and […]
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Ban Bullfighting but Kill Babies?: Spain’s New Moral Values Criticized by Pro-Life Leader

By Hilary White ROME, July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Spain’s newly liberalized abortion law comes into effect the Spanish regional government of Catalonia has banned the ancient blood sport of bullfighting, and the irony has not been lost on pro-life observers. Catalonia's regional parliament voted Wednesday to ban bullfighting from January 1, 2012, making it the first region in mainland Spain to outlaw the centuries-old tradition, which has inspired artists from Goya to Picasso to Hemmingway. Bullfighting promoters have called the measure “outrageous” and have vowed to “launch a huge battle” in conjunction with the conservative opposition Popular Party […]
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Opinion: New Lesbian Parenting Study Makes Claims Unsupported by the Evidence

By A. Dean Byrd, PhD, MBA,MPH July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS) published byAmerican Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) offers the following conclusion: “Adolescents who have been reared in lesbian-mother families since birth demonstrate healthy psychological adjustment (p. 28).” Authors Gartrell and Bos generalize their findings to the lesbian population at large, claiming their research offers “implications for – same-sex parenting” (p. 28). Making an enormous scientific leap, they conclude that their study provides scientific proof that there is “no justification for restricting access to reproductive technologies or child custody on the basis of the sexual orientation […]
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One More Time: Oklahoma Legislature Faces down Governor on Abortion Coverage Veto

Thursday May 27, 2010 One More Time: Oklahoma Legislature Faces down Governor on Abortion Coverage Veto By Peter J. Smith OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-abortion Governor Brad Henry and the pro-life Oklahoma legislature are now locked in their final battle for this year’s legislative session. Late Wednesday evening the governor vetoed a measure that would prohibit health insurance providers in Oklahoma from subsidizing elective abortions. H.R. 3290 would apply to all health insurers, including those not participating in the state health exchange that goes into effect in 2014. The legislation states: “No health plan, including health […]
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Vicar of Rome to Gay Priests: Come Out and Get Out

Tuesday July 27, 2010 Vicar of Rome to Gay Priests: Come Out and Get Out By Peter J. Smith ROME, July 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the Vatican reeling from another sex scandal, this time in the heart of the Eternal City, the Vicar of Rome is sending an unequivocal message to homosexual priests: come out of the closet, and get out of the priesthood. Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the prelate in charge of administering the Rome diocese, the episcopal see of Pope Benedict XVI, made the statements in response to an exposé by Panorama. In an undercover investigation the journal […]
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Cancer Victim Finishes Pregnancy with Chemo Despite Objections of Pro-Abort Groups

Tuesday July 27, 2010 Cancer Victim Finishes Pregnancy with Chemo Despite Objections of Pro-Abort Groups By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MANAGUA, July 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A cancer victim known to the Nicaraguan press only as “Amalia” recently gave birth to her child, after frantic efforts by local and international pro-abortion groups to obtain an abortion for the woman failed, according to the local daily El Nuevo Diario. Although the pro-abortion groups claimed that Amalia could not receive chemotherapy while pregnant, she has been under treatment since February and gave birth somewhat unexpectedly. Her child died soon afterwards. […]
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Russian Ministry Denies Lobby Permit to Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Group

Tuesday July 27, 2010 Russian Ministry Denies Lobby Permit to Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Group By Peter J. Smith MOSCOW, July 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Russian government has denied the homosexual movement a permit to register as an official lobby, because its purpose would be to overturn the country’s definition of marriage, reports Interfax. The Russian Justice Ministry’s Chief Administration refused the request of Nikolay Alexeyev, a leading homosexualist agitator, because his organization’s founding documents state an intent to overturn Russia’s acting statutes that define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The Moscow Gagarinsky Court upheld the […]
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Americans More Likely than Canadians and Britons to Support True Marriage

Tuesday July 27, 2010 Americans More Likely than Canadians and Britons to Support True Marriage By James Tillman July 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — A survey conducted by VisionCritical has found that 32% of Americans think that same-sex relationships should not receive any legal recognition, whereas only 13% of Canadians and 15% of Britons think the same. Americans also scored more conservative than Canadians and Britons on a number of other key indicators. Sixty-one percent of Canadians polled said they want same-sex “marriage” to remain legal, whereas 41% of Britons and only 36% of Americans support legalizing it in their own […]
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Moms Take Babies Saved from Abortion by Pregnancy Help Centers to Congress

Monday July 26, 2010 Moms Take Babies Saved from Abortion by Pregnancy Help Centers to Congress WASHINGTON, D.C., July 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women who rejected the “choice” to abort their babies will be bringing their children to Washington D.C. this week to tell Congress how thankful they are for the life-saving work of pregnancy help centers. Babies Go to Congress, a Heartbeat International project, provides an opportunity for women to speak publicly, on Capitol Hill, about their gratitude for the support they received when faced with an unexpected pregnancy. Heartbeat International, founded in 1971, is a Christ-centered association of […]
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Russia Puts the Kibosh on U.S. Gay and Single Parent Adoptions

Monday July 26, 2010 Russia Puts the Kibosh on U.S. Gay and Single Parent Adoptions By Peter J. Smith MOSCOW, July 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American homosexual couples will not be eligible to adopt Russian children under a new accord on child adoptions that is being drafted between Russia and the United States, reports Interfax. Additional sources say that Russian officials have also indicated that single U.S. parents will no longer qualify as well. Alina Levitskaya, a senior official at Russia’s Education and Science Ministry, told the Russian news service that only heterosexual married couples will be allowed to adopt […]
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Dr. Kenneth Howell Email: Utilitarianism v. Natural Moral Law on Homosexuality

Monday July 19, 2010 Dr. Kenneth Howell Email: Utilitarianism v. Natural Moral Law on Homosexuality From: Kenneth J. Howell Date: Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:45 PM Subject: Utilitarianism and Sexuality (for those in 447 FYI) Dear Students: Since there is a question on the final exam about utilitarianism (see the review sheet), I thought I would help with an example. I realized after my lectures on moral theory that even though I talked about the substance of utilitarianism, I did not identify it as such and so you may not have been able to see it. It turns out […]
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Judge Removed for Resisting Gay Adoption Required to Return EUR100,000 in Pay

Monday July 26, 2010 Judge Removed for Resisting Gay Adoption Required to Return EUR100,000 in Pay By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MADRID, July 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fernando Ferrín Calamita, a Spanish judge who was fined and removed from the bench for failing to grant an adoption to a homosexual couple, has now been ordered to return almost €100,000 (130,000 USD) in pay that he received while he was suspended from his duties and awaiting the outcome of his trial. Ferrín Calamita was removed from his position as family judge in the Spanish region of Murcia in 2009, after he delayed […]
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Hollywood Puzzled as Family Films Top Charts

Monday July 26, 2010 Hollywood Puzzled as Family Films Top Charts HOLLYWOOD, California, July 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Family-oriented movies are again topping the box office this summer, while only one R-rated movie has grossed more than $100 million this year. The cartoon “Despicable Me,” released July 9, grossed an estimated $60.1 million on its opening weekend, well above the $30-5 million industry experts expected. The wildly successful “Toy Story 3” has also soared past $339 million after its fourth weekend, while two other children’s movies, “The Karate Kid” and “The Last Airbender” have also drawn considerable sums. “Films aimed […]
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Nicole Kidman “Thrilled” at Pregnancy News

Thursday January 10, 2008 Nicole Kidman “Thrilled” at Pregnancy News By Hilary White HOLLYWOOD, California, January 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Superstar actress Nicole Kidman will not be carrying on with a film shoot because of an unexpected pregnancy. The actress, 40, and her husband Keith Urban, a country music singer, are said to be thrilled by the development, even though it means that Kidman will not follow through with her starring role in the film The Reader. British actress Kate Winslet will take the role instead. Kidman pulled out of the film over fears about the effects of the strain […]
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Spanish Television Network Fined EUR100,000 for Criticizing Homosexuality

Monday July 26, 2010 Spanish Television Network Fined EUR100,000 for Criticizing Homosexuality By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MADRID, July 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Spain’s socialist government has fined the Intereconomia television network 100,000 euros (130,000 USD) for running a series of advertisements that it claims “attacks the dignity” of homosexuals. The spots, which are self-promotional advertisements by the group Intereconomia, show scenes of outlandishly and scantily dressed participants in “gay pride” marches making sexually suggestive gestures to the camera and denouncing religious belief. The scenes, which are typical of such “pride” events, are so lewd that Google requires viewers to state […]
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Babies Saved from Abortion Pay Visit to U.S. Congressmen

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the wake of a bill introduced in Congress that could threaten the life-saving work of crisis pregnancy centers, congressmen on Capitol Hill this week got a chance to listen to key members of a pint-sized constituency whose lives were profoundly touched by such centers. Four moms and three children – two of them babies – went to the Longworth Congressional Office Building on Wednesday as part of Heartbeat International's 6th Babies Go to Congress event. They arrived to tell their stories of how crisis pregnancy centers helped them see […]
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World Population Report: ‘Aging Populations; Fewer Workers; Decline of Developed Countries’

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WASHINGTON, DC, July 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 2010 World Population Data Sheet, published by the Population Reference Bureau (PBR) on July 28, says that a shrinking pool of working-age populations is jeopardizing social support and long-term health care programs for the elderly, and points to a decrease in the populations of developed countries. The report states that worldwide in 1950, there were 12 persons of working age for every person age 65 or older. By 2010, that number had shrunk to 9. By 2050, this elderly support ratio, which indicates levels of potential social support […]
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Scottish Bishop to Prime Minister: No Gay ‘Marriage’ in Church, Now or Ever

Monday July 26, 2010 Scottish Bishop to Prime Minister: No Gay ‘Marriage’ in Church, Now or Ever By Kathleen Gilbert PAISLEY, Scotland, July 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite a political climate pushing acceptance of homosexuality in religious communities, the Catholic Church will “not ever” marry same-sex couples, said the bishop of Paisley in Scotland. Bishop Philip Tartaglia was taking issue with a statement by British Prime Minister David Cameron, who praised the House of Lords’ February ruling that religious premises should be opened to homosexual civil partnership ceremonies. Although Britain has allowed civil partnerships between homosexuals since 2005, the country […]
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Gay “Marriage” in UK before Next General Election

Tuesday July 20, 2010 Gay “Marriage” in UK before Next General Election By Hilary White LONDON, July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A senior member of Britain’s new coalition government has promised to change the current law to allow homosexual partners to solemnise their liaisons as “marriage.” Despite recent denials by Prime Minister David Cameron, Simon Hughes, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, the party that forms half the coalition with the Conservatives, promised “gay marriage” by the time of the next general election. In an interview with Yoosk, an open forum discussion website, Hughes said, “It would be appropriate […]
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Protest to be Held at Catholic Hospital that Employs Planned Parenthood Abortionist

DURANGO, Colorado, July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNew.com)—On July 29, the pro-life organization LifeGuard will hold a press conference and protest in front of Mercy Regional Medical Center (MRMC), a Catholic hospital that has a Planned Parenthood abortionist on its staff. “A Catholic Hospital that grants full privileges to a Doctor who brutally murders babies every week is NOT a Catholic Hospital,” stated Joe Scheidler, National Director of the Pro-Life Action League in a press release. “Mercy Regional can no longer ignore this issue. We hope to send a clear message – we want Dr. Grossman out of there.” In addition to […]
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Pro-life Jeb Bush Says No to Presidential Run

By Peter J. Smith TALLAHASEE, Florida, July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida has again dismissed the possibility that he would run for president on the Republican ticket in 2012, Bush told a WHAS11 News reporter in Kentucky that he is “not running for President,” quashing speculation that the pro-life leader with strong ties to the Latino community, would extend the Bush political dynasty. Gov. Bush’s father, George H.W. Bush, and brother George W. Bush, both served as U.S. Presidents. GOP leaders have been looking for a candidate that would best maximize their political advantage […]
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Pro-Life Congressman Tells U.N. Abortion Will Harm, Not Help, Millennium Goals

By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life human rights advocate and U.S. Congressman Chris Smith testified at a U.N. subcommittee hearing on the Millennium Development Goals, where he argued that strong evidence indicates that encouraging legal abortion would harm the U.N.‘s commitment to reducing maternal and child mortality rates all over the world. The U.N. is deep in negotiations over the Outcome Document for the High-Level Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in which pro-abortion advocates are trying to include “reproductive health services”– language that can serve as a Trojan horse to introduce legal […]
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New Irish Supreme Court Appointee called the “Unjust Judge” by Pro-Life Advocates

By Hilary White DUBLIN, July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This month’s appointment of High Court Judge Liam McKechnie to the Irish Supreme Court has alarmed some Irish pro-life advocates who have compared him to the “unjust judge” of the New Testament parable, who “neither feared God nor had respect for people.” The Life Institute’s Dr. Seán Ó Domhnaill cited McKechnie’s ruling in the 2007 “D” case of an anencephalic child in which barristers argued that the child did not deserve the protection of Ireland’s pro-life law because she did not qualify as an “unborn person.” The barrister who argued the […]
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Letters to the Editor

Re: Twilight Breakdown: 'Girl Porn' and the Books of Mormon Just read the Kathleen Gilbert article on Mormons and Twilight.   In short,  a laughable bigoted bilge. I’ve been a big fan of Lifesite,  but this kind of stuff will turn off a large and vibrant population you can’t afford to offend.   If you are really about sanctity of life, sanctity of marriage, and other traditional values,  you will find no greater defenders than members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.   I wouldn’t piss’em off, especially with such goofy creations like Gilbert’s.   Dean Paynter Director of Production […]
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Comprehensive USCCB Memo again Concludes: Abortion Executive Order Meaningless

Thursday April 1, 2010 Comprehensive USCCB Memo again Concludes: Abortion Executive Order Meaningless By Kathleen Gilbert and John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, D.C., April 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A detailed legal analysis from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops of the health care bill has reinforced the bishops’ conclusion that the Executive Order that Rep. Stupak obtained in exchange for his vote does little to nothing to solve the abortion-related problems in the bill. The USCCB memo concludes that “the Executive Order cannot and does not fix the statutory problems of direct funding of abortion at CHCs (Community Health Centers), and of […]
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Knights of Columbus and Birth Choice Team Up to Save Lives with Ultrasound

ORANGE COUNTY, Clifornia, June 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an effort to help unborn children at risk for abortion in their area, four Knights of Columbus councils in South Orange County, California are holding a charitable drive that will help bring life-saving ultrasound technology to mothers who need it most. Working together, the Knights of Columbus councils from St. Edward the Confessor Parish in Dana Point, Mission Basilica Parish in San Juan Capistrano, St. Timothy Parin Laguna Niguel, and Our Lady of Fatima Parish in San Clemente, have so far raised more than $100,000 in support of Birth Choice Health […]
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Small Steps Toward Justice: A Review of Clark Forsythe’s Politics for the Greatest Good

Book review by Michael J. New July 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, when we speak of “prudence” we often mean sheer pragmatism or simple cautious moderation. In reality, it is neither of these things. Prudence is making good decisions and implementing them effectively. In his book Politics for the Greatest Good, Clarke Forsythe, Senior Counsel at Americans United for Life, uses insights from philosophy and history to restore a rightful understanding of the virtue of prudence. In so doing, Forsythe offers powerful advice for current political activists—particularly those involved with the pro-life movement. In the beginning of the book Forsythe discusses […]
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Breaking: Senate Lacks Votes to Pass DISCLOSE Act

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Democrat leaders in the U.S. Senate now lack the votes to overcome a Republican filibuster on a campaign finance disclosure bill that threatens the ability of grassroots political organizations, and the pro-life movement, to communicate effectively with voters during election cycles. The Democrat-controlled Senate is expected to attempt a cloture vote Tuesday on the “Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act” (S.3628). Similar legislation was already passed by the House in June. However, as of this afternoon, Democrats are two votes short of the […]
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Sacramento Bishop: Catholics Must Realize Church Teaching on Marriage Benefits Society

By Kathleen Gilbert SACRAMENTO, California, July 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In light of a poll showing more California Catholics supporting same-sex “marriage” than opposing it, one California bishop has faulted a political climate that suppresses support for true marriage in the state, and a lack of fervor among nominal Catholics. Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento also said that there is a need for the Catholic Church to correct the pervasive “confusion about sexuality in general” in order to rekindle an appreciation of true marriage as a positive message for Catholics and non-Catholics alike. A Public Religion Research Institute Poll conducted […]
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Cancer Victim Finishes Pregnancy with Chemo Despite Objections of Pro-Abort Groups

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MANAGUA, July 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A cancer victim known to the Nicaraguan press only as “Amalia” recently gave birth to her child, after frantic efforts by local and international pro-abortion groups to obtain an abortion for the woman failed, according to the local daily El Nuevo Diario. Although the pro-abortion groups claimed that Amalia could not receive chemotherapy while pregnant, she has been under treatment since February and gave birth somewhat unexpectedly. Her child died soon afterwards. In spite of the outcry by abortionist organizations in February against the rejection of abortion by Amalia's […]
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UK Gov’t Report Shows Schools Not Talking to Parents about Sex Ed

By John Jalsevac July 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  A recent report from the UK’s Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted), has indicated that in many cases schools are not consulting with parents about sex education lessons. The study, which analyzed how personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education is being implemented throughout the UK said that three quarters of UK schools are giving an adequate treatment of the subjects involved, but identified “weaker areas,” including sex and relationship education, and drugs and mental health education. The officials charged with drafting the report said that, “In the […]
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Pro-family Groups Act to Rescue National Day of Prayer from Lackluster Obama Defense

Friday July 23, 2010 Pro-family Groups Act to Rescue National Day of Prayer from Lackluster Obama Defense WASHINGTON, D.C., July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Family Research Council, Liberty Institute, and over a dozen pro-family groups are accusing the Obama administration of conducting a weak defense of the National Day of Prayer and have filed a motion in federal court to be allowed to help defend it from a constitutional challenge. “President Obama’s Justice Department filed a brief that doesn’t go far enough in defending the National Day of Prayer, which is why we are petitioning the court to participate in […]
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Nebraska AG: Abortion Screening Law Flawed

Friday July 23, 2010 Nebraska AG: Abortion Screening Law Flawed By James Tillman LINCOLN, Nebraska, July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Although he is pro-life, Attorney General Jon Bruning of Nebraska has said he might not exhaust all legal options trying to keep a new Nebraska abortion screening law on the books. “Despite the fact I’m very pro-life, I need to be realistic in utilizing the legal resources of the state,” Bruning said. The Women’s Health Protection Act was passed by the Nebraska Senate on April 12 in a 40-9 vote. Gov. Dave Heineman signed it into law on the day […]
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Catholics United to Bail Out Key Dems that Supported Pro-Abort Health Care Reform

Friday July 23, 2010 Catholics United to Bail Out Key Dems that Supported Pro-Abort Health Care Reform By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The left-leaning group Catholics United is dedicating $500,000 to bailing out the campaigns of key congressional “pro-life” Democrats who voted for the national health care reform, which was decried by pro-life leaders as vastly expanding abortion. Catholics United, which has many times conflicted with the U.S. Catholic Bishops over the primacy of pro-life teachings, intends to help defend the seats of Democrat Reps. John Boccieri (OH-16), Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-03), Steve Driehaus (OH-01), […]
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Canadian Politicians Seek Positive Alternatives to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Friday July 23, 2010 Canadian Politicians Seek Positive Alternatives to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the sound defeat of a bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada’s Parliament this spring, dozens of the country’s MPs – representing all parties – have come together to address the root causes that lead some of Canada’s vulnerable to desire their own deaths. “It’s not enough simply to oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia,” said Harold Albrecht (Kitchener-Conestoga), the Conservative co-chair of a new Parliamentary Committee on Palliative and Compassionate Care (PCPCC). […]
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Rep. Chris Smith to Introduce “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act”

Thursday July 22, 2010 Rep. Chris Smith to Introduce “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, July 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) is planning to introduce the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” on July 29. If passed, this bill would establish as permanent many of the pro-life policies that currently rely on regular congressional re-approval, and which are attached as riders to annual appropriations bills. “This ‘as needed’ approach,” wrote Rep. Smith in a letter to his colleagues, “usually results in a debate over abortion funding anytime Congress considers health-related legislation.” Smith’s […]
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Pro-Life Freedom Rides Launch in Alabama

Friday July 23, 2010 Pro-Life Freedom Rides Launch in Alabama By James Tillman BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — In an echo of the Freedom Rides of the civil rights movement, the nation’s first pro-life Freedom Ride begins today with a rally and concert in Birmingham, Alabama, and will conclude in Atlanta on Saturday afternoon with a prayer service held at the tomb of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “The pro-life movement is the civil rights movement,” declared Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., full-time member of the Pastoral Team of Priests for Life, and […]
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‘Partial Victory for Life’ as Pennsylvania Abortionist Shuts Down Two Clinics

Friday July 23, 2010 ‘Partial Victory for Life’ as Pennsylvania Abortionist Shuts Down Two Clinics By Peter J. Smith PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Pennsylvania abortionist whose repeated violations of state law prompted the health department to close down his facilities has managed to keep two of them in operation by transferring ownership to another entity; but the other two sites will cease performing abortions for good, reports Operation Rescue. The pro-life watchdog group says the Pennsylvania Health Department’s order for Dr. Steven Chase Brigham’s clinics represents a “partial victory for life” as Brigham’s facilities in Erie […]
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Marie Stopes Runs TV Abortion Ads in U.K.

Thursday May 20, 2010 Marie Stopes Runs TV Abortion Ads in U.K. By Hilary White LONDON, May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-Life groups have condemned the airing of TV commercials for abortionist group Marie Stopes in Britain that they say cover up the dangers of abortion and “trivialize” the taking of human life. Marie Stopes, one of the world’s largest international abortionist groups that receives an estimated £30 million a year from the National Health Service, claimed that the ads were needed to “inform” women and help them “confront the taboo” surrounding abortion. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) approved the […]
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FactCheck.org Confirms: Obamacare Dollars Were Set to Fund Abortions before Controversy

Friday July 23, 2010 FactCheck.org Confirms: Obamacare Dollars Were Set to Fund Abortions before Controversy By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The non-partisan fact-checking site FactCheck.org has vindicated the National Right to Life Committee’s (NRLC) claim that federal monies were on the brink of funding abortions in state high-risk insurance pools before the matter was exposed by NRLC, prompting the Obama administration to retroactively enforce Hyde-amendment restrictions. The controversy erupted a week and a half ago, when NRLC revealed that abortions would be funded under a $160 million Pennsylvania program, a fact that contradicted the repeated […]
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Divorce, Abortion and Gay “Marriage” Inevitable Products of Secularist Enlightenment: A Conversation with Christopher Ferrara

Monday July 19, 2010 Divorce, Abortion and Gay “Marriage” Inevitable Products of Secularist Enlightenment: A Conversation with Christopher Ferrara By Hilary White GARDONE RIVIERA, July 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The roots of the anti-life and anti-family movement in law around the world go deep into the history of philosophical errors of the 18th century, a pro-life legal expert told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) recently. “Legal positivism,” or the idea that “the law is whatever is posited,” is an idea that is divorced from 3000 years of the legal philosophy of the west, said Christopher Ferrara. It is also an idea that has […]
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Abortionist from Notorious Rockford Abortion Facility Claims Victimhood in NYT Article

Friday July 23, 2010 Abortionist from Notorious Rockford Abortion Facility Claims Victimhood in NYT Article By Kathleen Gilbert and John Jalsevac NEW YORK, July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The author of a recent New York Times article on modern abortion providers may have made a strategic misstep in the abortionist that she chose to feature, if her intent was to paint a sympathetic picture of abortion practitioners. The lengthy article shines the spotlight on abortionist Emily Godfrey, who worked for several years at what may be the United States’ most bizarre abortion clinic – the Northern Illinois Women’s Center (NIWC) […]
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Euthanasia Lobby Setting Sights on Idaho

Friday July 23, 2010 Euthanasia Lobby Setting Sights on Idaho By Patrick B. Craine BOISE, Idaho, July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A prominent euthanasia opponent is warning that the lobbying group ‘Compassion and Choices’ (CC), formerly known as the Hemlock Society, has begun an effort to promote assisted suicide in Idaho. “It appears very clear that Compassion and Choices is now focusing on Idaho, because it’s a neighbour to Oregon,” said Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. “It’s also because they think it’s an easy victory, because there isn’t a specific law about assisted suicide.” Kathryn Tucker, […]
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ABC Family Has Second Highest Proportion of “Gay Friendly” Hours, Just Behind MTV

Friday July 23, 2010 ABC Family Has Second Highest Proportion of “Gay Friendly” Hours, Just Behind MTV By James Tillman July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – ABC Family, which was founded in 1977 as an extension of Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcast Network, has earned a “good” rating from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) for its “LGBT-inclusive” programming, which took up 37% of its original prime time programming over the 2009-2010 season. The only network with a higher percentage of “LGBT-inclusive” programming was MTV, which also became the first TV network to win an “excellent” rating from GLAAD for […]
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Irish Gov’t Targets Rural Areas for LGBT Propaganda Campaign

Friday July 23, 2010 Irish Gov’t Targets Rural Areas for LGBT Propaganda Campaign By Hilary White DUBLIN, July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One day after Irish President Mary McAleese signed a civil partnerships bill into law, the government announced a full-scale campaign to promote homosexuality and the homosexualist ideology, particularly in rural areas where Catholicism remains a strong guiding force. Pat Carey, the minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, announced on Monday that the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Diversity program will counter the “isolation” felt by homosexuals living in the countryside. The program, which intends to “build LGBT […]
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Von Hildebrand Calls Christopher West to ‘Renew’ Approach to Theology of the Body

Thursday July 22, 2010 Von Hildebrand Calls Christopher West to ‘Renew’ Approach to Theology of the Body By Patrick B. Craine July 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Catholic author and lecturer Christopher West continues his six-month sabbatical for “personal and professional renewal,” Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, widow of the famed theologian Dietrich von Hildebrand, has again exhorted him to correct what she calls his “hyper-sexualized approach” in presenting the Church’s teaching on sexuality. “My general criticism of Christopher West is that he does not seem to grasp the delicacy, reverence, privacy, and sacredness of the sexual sphere,” she writes in […]
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Complete Interview with Christopher Ferrara

Monday July 19, 2010 Complete Interview with Christopher Ferrara (LifeSiteNews.com) – Christopher Ferrara is president and chief counsel of the American Catholic Lawyers’ Association, an organisation dedicated to the defence of the rights of Catholics in civil litigation and public discourse, with an emphasis on the defence and/or plaintiff’s representation of pro-life activists. He spoke with LifeSiteNews.com at the Roman Forum conference on Catholic political and social thought in Gardone Riviera, giving a summary of his lecture, “From Montesquieu to Holmes to Scalia: How Legal Positivism Triumphed over the Good, the True and the Beautiful”. Chrisopher Ferrara: We’re operating under […]
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Freedom Federation: Senators Should Filibuster Homosexualist, Pro-Abortion Defense Bill

Friday July 23, 2010 Freedom Federation: Senators Should Filibuster Homosexualist, Pro-Abortion Defense Bill By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, July 23 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Freedom Federation, a federation of faith-based and policy organizations representing more than 30 million people, has written to members of the Senate asking them to vote against or filibuster the FY 2011 Defense Authorization Act because of the negative impact it would have “on the members and culture of the military.” There are two provisions of the act with which the Freedom Federation is concerned. The first is the Burris amendment, which would repeal 10 U and […]
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More than 170 Leaders from 21 Countries Sign Kenya Pro-Life Petition

Thursday July 22, 2010 More than 170 Leaders from 21 Countries Sign Kenya Pro-Life Petition WASHINGTON, July 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With just two weeks to go until Kenyans vote on a new Constitution, World Congress of Families Managing Director Larry Jacobs announced the conclusion of a successful petition drive, “In Support Of The ‘No’ Campaign – Kenyans Opposed To The Pro-Abortion Constitution.” In less than a week, the Congress gathered signatures from more than 170 pro-life and pro-family leaders in 21 countries. Signers include former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Former Boston Mayor and Vatican Ambassador Ray Flynn and Former […]
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Spanish Television Network Fined €100,000 for Criticizing Homosexuality

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MADRID, July 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Spain's socialist government has fined the Intereconomia television network 100,000 euros (130,000 USD) for running a series of advertisements that it claims “attacks the dignity” of homosexuals. The spots, which are self-promotional advertisements by the group Intereconomia, show scenes of outlandishly and scantily dressed participants in “gay pride” marches making sexually suggestive gestures to the camera and denouncing religious belief.  The scenes, which are typical of such “pride” events, are so lewd that Google requires viewers to state that they are at least 18 years of age before showing the YouTube version. In one […]
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Russia Puts the Kibosh on U.S. Gay and Single Parent Adoptions

By Peter J. Smith MOSCOW, July 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – American homosexual couples will not be eligible to adopt Russian children under a new accord on child adoptions that is being drafted between Russia and the United States, reports Interfax. Additional sources say that Russian officials have also indicated that single U.S. parents will no longer qualify as well. Alina Levitskaya, a senior official at Russia’s Education and Science Ministry, told the Russian news service that only heterosexual married couples will be allowed to adopt Russia’s orphaned children. Although an unnamed U.S. State Department official told AOL News that “unmarried […]
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Judge Removed for Resisting Gay Adoption Required to Return €100,000 in Pay

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MADRID, July 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fernando Ferrín Calamita, a Spanish judge who was fined and removed from the bench for failing to grant an adoption to a homosexual couple, has now been ordered to return almost €100,000 (130,000 USD) in pay that he received while he was suspended from his duties and awaiting the outcome of his trial. Ferrín Calamita was removed from his position as family judge in the Spanish region of Murcia in 2009, after he delayed a decision on granting the adoption of a child to the mother's lesbian lover. He refused […]
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School District Pays $35K to Teen over Same-Sex Prom Date Ban

Tuesday July 20, 2010 School District Pays $35K to Teen over Same-Sex Prom Date Ban By Kathleen Gilbert JACKSON, Mississippi, July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A school district has agreed to pay over $35,000 to a teenager whose insistence on bringing a same-sex partner to her high school prom prompted the district to cancel the event. The district also agreed to follow a “non-discrimination” policy regarding teens who call themselves homosexual, a move the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called precedent-setting. Constance McMillen has won acclaim from the homosexualist movement after suing the Itawamba County School District over the affair. […]
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Disabled UK Man Petitions to Change Law to Allow Direct Killing for “Compassion”

Wednesday July 21, 2010 Disabled UK Man Petitions to Change Law to Allow Direct Killing for “Compassion” Hilary White LONDON, July 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A disabled British man with “locked-in” syndrome due to a stroke in 2005 is seeking a court order allowing his wife to kill him without fear of prosecution. Tony Nicklinson, a 56 year-old engineer in Melksham, Wiltshire, is completely paralyzed and unable to speak. He communicates with the use of a Perspex board and letters, looking, blinking and nodding to spell out words. He said through his lawyers that he is “fed up with life” […]
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Michigan Abortions Decrease 13.9%

Tuesday July 20, 2010 Michigan Abortions Decrease 13.9% By James Tillman July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A total of 22,357 abortions were reported in Michigan in 2009. This is a 13.9% decrease since 2008 and a 54.4% decrease since 1987, which saw the greatest recorded number of abortions in Michigan. “We are extremely grateful for the continuing decrease in Michigan abortions despite the hard economic times we’ve faced in Michigan,” said Right to Life of Michigan President Babara Listing. “The fact that fewer mothers are having abortions in Michigan shows more and more women are coming to the realization that […]
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29 States File to Defend National Day of Prayer in Court

Monday July 12, 2010 29 States File to Defend National Day of Prayer in Court AUSTIN, Texas, July 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, leading a multi-state coalition of 29 attorneys general, took legal action on Thursday to defend the annual National Day of Prayer. An amicus brief authored by Attorney General Abbott urges the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to overturn a lower court ruling, which held that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. The National Day of Prayer statute was established by Congress in 1952. Since then, presidents have issued proclamations […]
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Spanish Region to Show Sonogram Images to Mothers Seeking Abortions

Tuesday July 20, 2010 Spanish Region to Show Sonogram Images to Mothers Seeking Abortions By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MADRID, July 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Spanish region of Valencia will be requiring women to learn about fetal development and abortion before they proceed with the latter, according to the Spanish newspaper El Pais. Mothers who want to end their unborn children’s lives through an abortion will be required to receive written information about abortion, and will also receive ethical counseling that will include videos, photos of abortions, and even 3-D sonogram images regarding the development of the fetus, according to […]
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Video: Police Idle as Homosexualists Terrorize Small Children at Providence Pro-Family Rally

Wednesday July 21, 2010 Video: Police Idle as Homosexualists Terrorize Small Children at Providence Pro-Family Rally By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 2:30pm EST 7.22.10 PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Unhampered by police, a peaceful pro-life rally devolved into chaos Sunday after an army of homosexualist activists shouted down presenters, screamed insults, and even targeted for harrassment small children of families who had come in support of marriage between a man and a woman. A group organized by Queer Action Rhode Island began by chanting loudly through bullhorns as they approached the rally, organized by the National Organization for […]
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Argentinean Health Minister in Hot Water Following Attempt to Depenalize Abortions

Thursday July 22, 2010 Argentinean Health Minister in Hot Water Following Attempt to Depenalize Abortions By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, July 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Blasted by representatives of Argentina’s pro-life majority, and threatened with legal action, Argentinean Health Minister Juan Manzur is distancing himself from a new “guide” issued by his agency that would permit women to obtain abortions by signing an oath that they have been raped, and would allow minors to receive abortions against their parents’ will. While Argentina’s legal code omits criminal penalties only for abortions in cases of the rape of […]
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Health Order Shuts Down Pennsylvania Abortion Clinics

Thursday July 22, 2010 Health Order Shuts Down Pennsylvania Abortion Clinics By Peter J. Smith PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, July 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After two decades of playing fast and loose with state laws and medical licensing rules, one abortion provider in Pennsylvania has been ordered to permanently close four of his facilities; at the same time, unpaid taxes may forfeit the rest of his abortion business to pay off the Internal Revenue Service. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the Pennsylvania Department of Health has ordered Dr. Steven Chase Brigham (a physician whose medical license, as the Inquirer reports “has been […]
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Nuncio to Iraq Appointed as New Head of Holy See Mission to UN

Thursday July 22, 2010 Nuncio to Iraq Appointed as New Head of Holy See Mission to UN By Terrence McKeegan, J.D. NEW YORK, July 22 (C-FAM) – Late last week, Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Francis Assisi Chullikatt as the new permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations (UN) in New York, succeeding Archbishop Celestino Migliore, who was recently appointed papal nuncio to Poland. Archbishop Chullikatt has extensive experience as a member of the Holy See diplomatic corps, having served most recently in one of the most challenging posts, apostolic nuncio to war-torn Iraq and also Jordan, […]
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Poll: More than Half of Americans Favor Abortion Restrictions

Thursday July 22, 2010 Poll: More than Half of Americans Favor Abortion Restrictions By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over half of U.S. adults say they would favor some form of abortion restrictions, according to a new poll by Angus-Reid Public Opinion. Forty-six percent of respondents said they believe abortion should be legal “only under certain circumstances,” while an additional 15% said that abortion should be illegal regardless of the circumstances. However, a solid 30% of respondents said they believe abortion should be completely legal. This marks a 3% increase from an Angus Reid poll […]
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Poll Finds Majority of Californians Supporting Same-Sex ‘Marriage’

Thursday July 22, 2010 Poll Finds Majority of Californians Supporting Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ By Kathleen Gilbert SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two polls released this week found 51% of California voters saying they favor same-sex “marriage” – a number that is relatively unchanged from polling in the lead-up to the vote to include a same-sex “marriage” ban in the state constitution. Forty-two percent of voters in the Field Poll released Tuesday said they supported Proposition 8, California’s constitutional same-sex “marriage” ban, while 45% in the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) survey released Wednesday said the same. The news […]
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Edinburgh Pensioner Sentenced in Attempted Murder of Disabled Wife

Thursday July 22, 2010 Edinburgh Pensioner Sentenced in Attempted Murder of Disabled Wife By Hilary White EDINBURGH, July 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During his trial for attempted murder, an Edinburgh pensioner told the court that he thought killing his disabled wife by smothering her with a pillow would “be a good thing to do … for both of us.” The Edinburgh High Court found John Millar, 67, guilty of attempted murder last week and has sentenced him to four and half years in prison. His wheelchair-bound wife, Phyllis Millar, has suffered from Multiple Sclerosis for 20 years and Millar was […]
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Last Ditch Effort to Be Filed to Block Release of Washington Pro-Family Petitioners

Wednesday July 21, 2010 Last Ditch Effort to Be Filed to Block Release of Washington Pro-Family Petitioners By Peter J. Smith TACOMA, Washington, July 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family campaigners will once again try to shield the identities of individuals who signed a petition for a referendum (R-71) contesting Washington state’s “everything but marriage” domestic partnership law. The law gives homosexual couples in domestic partnerships all the rights and responsibilities of marriage, except the name, putting the state one step closer to legal same-sex “marriage.” The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that Protect Marriage Washington (PMW) intends to file a motion requesting […]
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Amnesty International Calls on Latin America to Legalize Homosexual ‘Marriage’

Wednesday July 21, 2010 Amnesty International Calls on Latin America to Legalize Homosexual ‘Marriage’ By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent NEW YORK, July 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amnesty International (AI), an organization that is increasingly abandoning its historic role as a human rights organization, has congratulated Argentina for creating homosexual “marriage” and is encouraging other Latin American countries to follow suit. “This is an historic step on the road to equality of rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people in Argentina,” said Luis Finer, an AI spokesman. “Now it will depend on the rest of the countries of […]
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Montana Personhood Amendment Only 6,000 Signatures Short of Reaching Ballot

Wednesday July 21, 2010 Montana Personhood Amendment Only 6,000 Signatures Short of Reaching Ballot By James Tillman HELENA, Montana, July 21 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Montana Personhood Amendment Initiative fell only 6,000 signatures short of the required 48,674 signatures necessary to put the amendment on the 2010 ballot. “We have barely begun the fight for the rights and liberties of unborn babies, and we will keep working at it until their personhood is established in our Montana Constitution,” promised Dr. Annie Bukacek, the initiative organizer. “All unpaid volunteers, this grassroots prolife network will work to influence the November elections and bills […]
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Sperm Bank Offers Celebrity Look-A-Like Donors

Wednesday July 21, 2010 Sperm Bank Offers Celebrity Look-A-Like Donors By James Tillman LOS ANGELES, California, July 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — California Cryobank, a 30-year-old fertility business, has launched a “Donor Look-A-Like” program which allows women to search for sperm donors that the company claims resemble Tom Cruise, Viggo Mortensen, Will Smith, and other celebrities or athletes. The program has drawn harsh criticism from pro-life quarters for effectively turning children into commodities to be bought and sold. Dr. David Stevens, Chief Executive Officer of the Christian Medical and Dental Associations, told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that the “program is another step down […]
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Constance McMillen Case Has Put Every U.S. High School ‘in Jeopardy’: AFA

Wednesday July 21, 2010 Constance McMillen Case Has Put Every U.S. High School ‘in Jeopardy’: AFA By Kathleen Gilbert JACKSON, Mississippi, July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Mississippi school district’s decision to capitulate to the demands of a teen who sued for permission to wear a tuxedo and bring her same-sex partner to a high school prom has done great harm to high schools across America, the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) Wednesday morning. The Itawamba County School District agreed this week to pay $35,000 in addition to legal fees to Constance McMillen, who became a darling […]
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Indiana Planned Parenthood Caught On Tape Giving Fabricated Medical Information

Tuesday July 20, 2010 Indiana Planned Parenthood Caught On Tape Giving Fabricated Medical Information INDIANAPOLIS, July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) -The youth-led pro-life group Live Action released a new undercover video today showing staff at an Indianapolis Planned Parenthood clinic using manipulative and medically inaccurate counseling to convince a young woman to have an abortion. This is the third undercover video Live Action has released showing abusive counseling practices at Planned Parenthood of Indiana. When the woman, purportedly 10-weeks pregnant, asks the clinician, named “Sarah,” when her baby’s heart begins to beat, Sarah replies, “It’s around I think the 8th or […]
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School Group Told Not to Pray on U.S. Supreme Court Steps

Monday July 19, 2010 School Group Told Not to Pray on U.S. Supreme Court Steps By James Tillman WASHINGTON, July 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Earlier this year police reportedly told a Christian school teacher who was leading her students in quiet, private prayer on the steps of the Supreme Court building that she was not permitted to pray there. The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a Christian legal association, has sent a letter to Supreme Court officials threatening legal action unless the Supreme Court police retract their policy and permit the teacher to exercise her constitutionally-protected right to the free exercise […]
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Elena Kagan Nomination Approved by Senate Judiciary Committee

Tuesday July 20, 2010 Elena Kagan Nomination Approved by Senate Judiciary Committee By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the nomination of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court by a vote of 13-6, after two hours of further debate. The full Senate will now have to take up the task of confirming Kagan, President Obama’s choice to succeed the retiring Associate Justice John Paul Stevens. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) broke ranks with fellow Republicans on the committee to cast the only GOP vote in favor of Kagan. Graham […]
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Judge Orders Immigration Board to Reconsider Asylum for Chinese Forced-Abortion Opponent

Monday July 19, 2010 Judge Orders Immigration Board to Reconsider Asylum for Chinese Forced-Abortion Opponent By James Tillman July 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Seventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals has ordered the Board of Immigration Appeals to review Qiu Ping Li’s request for asylum in the United States because of her resistance to China’s one-child policy – and subsequent punishment by Chinese authorities. In denying her asylum, Judge Richard Posner said, the Board of Immigration “overlooked the critical facts, and then it unconvincingly denied having overlooked them.” When she lived in China, Qiu Ping Li had […]
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ABC Family Has Second Highest Proportion of “Gay Friendly” Hours, Just Behind MTV

By James Tillman July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – ABC Family, which was founded in 1977 as an extension of Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcast Network, has earned a “good” rating from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) for its “LGBT-inclusive” programming, which took up 37% of its original prime time programming over the 2009-2010 season. The only network with a higher percentage of “LGBT-inclusive” programming was MTV, which also became the first TV network to win an “excellent” rating from GLAAD for its portrayal of homosexuals in shows such as “The Real World” and “America's Best Dance Crew.” Among […]
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FactCheck.org Confirms: Obamacare Dollars Were Set to Fund Abortions before Controversy

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The non-partisan fact-checking site FactCheck.org has vindicated the National Right to Life Committee's (NRLC) claim that federal monies were on the brink of funding abortions in state high-risk insurance pools before the matter was exposed by NRLC, prompting the Obama administration to retroactively enforce Hyde-amendment restrictions. The controversy erupted a week and a half ago, when NRLC revealed that abortions would be funded under a $160 million Pennsylvania program, a fact that contradicted the repeated assurances of President Obama and pro-life Democrats that abortions would not be funded under the federal health care […]
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Freedom Federation: Senators Should Filibuster Homosexualist, Pro-Abortion Defense Bill

By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, July 23 (LifeSiteNews.com)—The Freedom Federation, a federation of faith-based and policy organizations representing more than 30 million people, has written to members of the Senate asking them to vote against or filibuster the FY 2011 Defense Authorization Act because of the negative impact it would have “on the members and culture of the military.” There are two provisions of the act with which the Freedom Federation is concerned.  The first is the Burris amendment, which would repeal 10 U.S.C. § 1093(b)1 and thereby permit abortions at overseas and domestic military hospitals. The second is the Lieberman amendment, […]
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Catholics United to Bail Out Key Dems that Supported Pro-Abort Health Care Reform

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The left-leaning group Catholics United is dedicating $500,000 to bailing out the campaigns of key congressional “pro-life” Democrats who voted for the national health care reform, which was decried by pro-life leaders as vastly expanding abortion. Catholics United, which has many times conflicted with the U.S. Catholic Bishops over the primacy of pro-life teachings, intends to help defend the seats of Democrat Reps. John Boccieri (OH-16), Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-03), Steve Driehaus (OH-01), and Tom Perriello (VA-05). The lawmakers face an all-out pro-life assault in the November elections, a contest […]
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Abortionist from Notorious Rockford Abortion Facility Claims Victimhood in NYT Article

By Kathleen Gilbert and John Jalsevac NEW YORK, July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The author of a recent New York Times article on modern abortion providers may have made a strategic misstep in the abortionist that she chose to feature, if her intent was to paint a sympathetic picture of abortion practitioners. The lengthy article shines the spotlight on abortionist Emily Godfrey, who worked for several years at what may be the United States' most bizarre abortion clinic – the Northern Illinois Women's Center (NIWC) in Rockford, Illinois. While Godfrey attempted to paint a grim picture of a threatening crowd of pro-lifers who allegedly “surrounded” her as she walked to and […]
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Pro-family Groups Act to Rescue National Day of Prayer from Lackluster Obama Defense

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Family Research Council, Liberty Institute, and over a dozen pro-family groups are accusing the Obama administration of conducting a weak defense of the National Day of Prayer and have filed a motion in federal court to be allowed to help defend it from a constitutional challenge. “President Obama's Justice Department filed a brief that doesn't go far enough in defending the National Day of Prayer, which is why we are petitioning the court to participate in oral arguments,” said FRC President Tony Perkins. “The President's attorneys failed to cite any of the key […]
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Canadian Politicians Seek Positive Alternatives to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the sound defeat of a bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada’s Parliament this spring, dozens of the country’s MPs – representing all parties – have come together to address the root causes that lead some of Canada’s vulnerable to desire their own deaths. “It’s not enough simply to oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia,” said Harold Albrecht (Kitchener-Conestoga), the Conservative co-chair of a new Parliamentary Committee on Palliative and Compassionate Care (PCPCC).  “We have to go deeper than that and ask why people are even considering […]
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HIV-infected Women Present Charges of Forced Sterilization to Namibia High Court

Friday June 4, 2010 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 […]
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Thousands Support Catholic Prof Fired for Explaining Church Teaching on Homosexuality

Monday July 19, 2010 Thousands Support Catholic Prof Fired for Explaining Church Teaching on Homosexuality By Kathleen Gilbert URBANA, Illinois, July 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A University of Illinois professor fired for explaining the Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexuality has gathered several thousands of students, alumni, and others – including the head of the the University’s atheist club – demanding that the Catholic professor be reinstated. Meanwhile, some faculty have reacted by eyeing the local Catholic diocese with suspicion for being permitted to control the content of courses teaching the Catholic faith. Dr. Kenneth Howell was fired from the University […]
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Suit Challenges Regulations Hitting Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Friday May 21, 2010 Suit Challenges Regulations Hitting Crisis Pregnancy Centers By James Tillman GREENBELT, Maryland, May 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed suit this Wednesday against Maryland’s Montgomery County on behalf of the Centro Tepeyac Women’s Center. The suit concerns a new regulation that would force some crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) to post signs telling women that the CPC does not have a licensed medical professional on staff and that the Montgomery County Health Officer encourages women to consult with such an individual. “There is no abortion exception to the First Amendment,” said Mark […]
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Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan Hearings Set for June 28

Friday May 21, 2010 Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan Hearings Set for June 28 By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., May 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senate hearings to vet Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, who is known to favor taxpayer-funded abortion and same-sex “marriage,” are set to begin June 28, according to reports. Meanwhile, the William J. Clinton Presidential Library, part of the National Archives, has rendered about 168,000 pages of documents left behind by Solicitor General Kagan from her service as presidential assistant in the Clinton White House. National Archives officials were reticent to say whether archivists will finish the […]
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Lesbian ‘Catholic’ Priestess Denied Catholic Funeral Rites

Thursday May 20, 2010 Lesbian ‘Catholic’ Priestess Denied Catholic Funeral Rites By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of Chicago has denied a Catholic funeral to a practicing lesbian because she incurred automatic excommunication by receiving “ordination” from the “Womenpriests” movement. Janine Denomme, 45, recently lost a battle with liver and colon cancer. While local CBS 2 reported that the denial raised “tough questions for the Archdiocese of Chicago,” the matter is cut and dry according to Church teaching, which considers only male ordination by a Catholic bishop valid. Although Denomme was “ordained” in April […]
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Oklahoma Ultrasound Law to Remain Under Injunction

Monday July 19, 2010 Oklahoma Ultrasound Law to Remain Under Injunction By James Tillman OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, July 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) Oklahoma District Judge Norma Gurich ruled today that a pro-life ultrasound law will remain under an injunction keeping it from taking effect until at least January 21. The order is a continuation of one issued in May. The setback is just the latest of many difficulties the law has encountered. The law, which passed the Oklahoma legislature in March, would require abortionists to show to women and describe in detail an ultrasound of their unborn child within the hour […]
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Chilean Chamber of Deputies Condemns Spain for ‘Despicable’ New Abortion Law

Monday July 19, 2010 Chilean Chamber of Deputies Condemns Spain for ‘Despicable’ New Abortion Law By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent VALPARAISO, Chile, July 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Chilean Chamber of Deputies has issued a ringing condemnation of Spain’s new abortion law, which removes all penalties for abortions up to the 14th week of gestation and permits adolescent girls to obtain abortions without parental consent. The law has been allowed to remain in effect as the Spanish Constitutional Tribunal reviews its constitutionality, despite the fact that it contradicts a previous ruling by the same court. The Chilean deputies […]
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Argentinean Health Minister in Hot Water Following Attempt to Depenalize Abortions

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, July 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Blasted by representatives of Argentina's pro-life majority, and threatened with legal action, Argentinean Health Minister Juan Manzur is distancing himself from a new “guide” issued by his agency that would permit women to obtain abortions by signing an oath that they have been raped, and would allow minors to receive abortions against their parents' will. While Argentina's legal code omits criminal penalties only for abortions in cases of the rape of a mentally disabled woman, the guide, which was posted on the ministry's website yesterday, would […]
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Commentary on July 22 News

First there has been the University of Illinois and Prof Howell situation and now Augusta State University and Jennifer Keeton. As we mentioned two days ago, this fascistic gay activist movement is a danger to our freedoms and is rapidly growing in influence and power. It is morphing into an oppressive, intimidating, totalitarian thought control movement. Becoming increasingly tolerant and “open-minded” as a response is great foolishness and downright cowardice. It is also being closed minded to some pretty obvious truths. We have published a lot of reports on LifeSiteNews from physicians, psychiatrists and many other professionals and leaders. Facts count. […]
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Commentary on July 22 News

First there has been the University of Illinois and Prof Howell situation and now Augusta State University and Jennifer Keeton. As we mentioned two days ago, this fascistic gay activist movement is a danger to our freedoms and is rapidly growing in influence and power. It is morphing into an oppressive, intimidating, totalitarian thought control movement. Becoming increasingly tolerant and ”open-minded” as a response is great foolishness and downright cowardice. It is also being closed minded to some pretty obvious truths. We have published a lot of those on LifeSiteNews from physicians, psychiatrists and many other professionals and leaders. Facts count. Feelings don't - when health, life and the protection of crucial freedoms […]
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Von Hildebrand Calls Christopher West to ‘Renew’ Approach to Theology of the Body

By Patrick B. Craine July 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As Catholic author and lecturer Christopher West continues his six-month sabbatical for “personal and professional renewal,” Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, widow of the famed theologian Dietrich von Hildebrand, has again exhorted him to correct what she calls his “hyper-sexualized approach” in presenting the Church’s teaching on sexuality. “My general criticism of Christopher West is that he does not seem to grasp the delicacy, reverence, privacy, and sacredness of the sexual sphere,” she writes in a lengthy essay published by Catholic News Agency Wednesday.  “He also underestimates the effects of Original Sin […]
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Last Ditch Effort to Be Filed to Block Release of Washington Pro-Family Petitioners

By Peter J. Smith TACOMA, Washington, July 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family campaigners will once again try to shield the identities of individuals who signed a petition for a referendum (R-71) contesting Washington state’s “everything but marriage” domestic partnership law. The law gives homosexual couples in domestic partnerships all the rights and responsibilities of marriage, except the name, putting the state one step closer to legal same-sex “marriage.”  The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that Protect Marriage Washington (PMW) intends to file a motion requesting a specific exemption from the state’s public disclosure law, which requires the names and addresses of all petition […]
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Constance McMillen Case Has Put Every U.S. High School ‘in Jeopardy’: AFA

By Kathleen Gilbert JACKSON, Mississippi, July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Mississippi school district's decision to capitulate to the demands of a teen who sued for permission to wear a tuxedo and bring her same-sex partner to a high school prom has done great harm to high schools across America, the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) Wednesday morning. The Itawamba County School District agreed this week to pay $35,000 in addition to legal fees to Constance McMillen, who became a darling of the homosexualist movement for suing the school after it cancelled the prom rather than allow her to bring […]
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Video: Police Idle as Homosexualists Terrorize Small Children at Providence Pro-Family Rally

By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 2:30pm EST 7.22.10 PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Unhampered by police, a peaceful pro-life rally devolved into chaos Sunday after an army of homosexualist activists shouted down presenters, screamed insults, and even targeted for harrassment small children of families who had come in support of marriage between a man and a woman.   A group organized by Queer Action Rhode Island began by chanting loudly through bullhorns as they approached the rally, organized by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) as part of the month-long Summer for Marriage Tour 2010, in front of […]
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Congressmen Demand Answers about U.S. Involvement in Pro-Abort Kenyan Constitution Campaign

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life Congressmen are demanding further answers from the Obama Administration regarding the U.S. government’s support for groups in Kenya that are campaigning for the adoption of a new constitution, which critics say would liberalize Kenya’s abortion laws. In two weeks, Kenyans will vote on the constitution, which supporters say is intended to cut down the potential for corruption and give the African nation greater political stability. But two provisions have drawn the fire of conservative and Christian groups: an ill-defined health exception for the ban on abortion, and the […]
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Amnesty International Calls on Latin America to Legalize Homosexual ‘Marriage’

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent NEW YORK, July 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amnesty International (AI), an organization that is increasingly abandoning its historic role as a human rights organization, has congratulated Argentina for creating homosexual “marriage” and is encouraging other Latin American countries to follow suit. “This is an historic step on the road to equality of rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people in Argentina,” said Luis Finer, an AI spokesman. “Now it will depend on the rest of the countries of Latin America to follow its example.” Argentina's Senate passed a bill on Wednesday of last week […]
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Disabled UK Man Petitions to Change Law to Allow Direct Killing for “Compassion”

Hilary White LONDON, July 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A disabled British man with “locked-in” syndrome due to a stroke in 2005 is seeking a court order allowing his wife to kill him without fear of prosecution. Tony Nicklinson, a 56 year-old engineer in Melksham, Wiltshire, is completely paralyzed and unable to speak. He communicates with the use of a Perspex board and letters, looking, blinking and nodding to spell out words. He said through his lawyers that he is “fed up with life” and does not wish to spend the next 20 years in this condition. Under the current law, […]
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Argentinean University Urges Government not to Legalize Gay ‘Marriage’

Monday July 5, 2010 Argentinean University Urges Government not to Legalize Gay ‘Marriage’ By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Argentinean university is urging the nation’s Senate to reject gay “marriage.” The Austral University, a Catholic school associated with the organization Opus Dei, has issued a 170 page report on the issue, which notes that “the inadmissability of homosexual marriage is not a religious issue, but rather a public, secular, and civil debate and is supported by international human rights treaties, which only recognize the right to marriage between a man and […]
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U.K. “Deceitful” for Re-Issuing Court-Rejected Abortion Guidelines for N. Ireland

Wednesday February 10, 2010 U.K. “Deceitful” for Re-Issuing Court-Rejected Abortion Guidelines for N. Ireland By Hilary White BELFAST, February 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life advocates in Northern Ireland may have cheered too soon when in November of last year a court ordered the recall of health guidelines that threatened the province’s pro-life laws. The U.K. government now is being called “deceitful” for re-issuing the same guidelines that were rejected last year. Bernadette Smyth, the director of Northern Ireland’s leading pro-life group Precious Life, called the re-issuing of the same guidelines, for the third time, “arrogant and deceitful.” In a press […]
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Next Obama Takeover, Education?

Friday July 16, 2010 Next Obama Takeover, Education? By James Tillman WASHINGTON, July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some education policy experts and Republicans are expressing concern that the Obama administration is moving education in the United States further beneath Washington’s control – and is doing so behind Congress’ back. The Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) is a project led by the National Governor’s Association’s Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers. The website for the CCSSI claims that the nation-wide educational standards they propose are “in no way mandatory.” But according to […]
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Media Frenzy over Women’s Ordination Distracts from New Vatican Sex Abuse Norms

Friday July 16, 2010 Media Frenzy over Women’s Ordination Distracts from New Vatican Sex Abuse Norms By John Jalsevac VATICAN CITY, July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Critics of the Catholic Church’s handling of the sex-abuse scandals finally got what they wanted from the Vatican this week – a sweeping new set of guidelines on how to deal with sex abuse allegations that will be applied on a global scale. The document, issued yesterday, includes provisions for the automatic excommunication of and laicization or “defrocking” for any priest who sexually abuses a minor. Additionally, priests who are found to have used […]
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New PAV Head says Attacks on Embryo are based in Desire for Power

Friday July 16, 2010 New PAV Head says Attacks on Embryo are based in Desire for Power By Hilary White ROME, July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Attacks on the life and dignity of human embryos are based on a desire for power, said the recently appointed head of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) in an interview with Zenit news service this week. Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula said that from the viewpoint of science, the “embryo is very well defended.” “The problem is essentially of a socio-political and ideological nature and here scientific arguments don’t count.” “It is a […]
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CDC Finds Most Teens are Virgins, Contrary to Planned Parenthood: ALL

Wednesday July 14, 2010 CDC Finds Most Teens are Virgins, Contrary to Planned Parenthood: ALL Washington, D.C., July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Center for Disease Control and Prevention released a new study last month showing that most teens are virgins – which American Life League (ALL) has said contradicts propaganda disseminated by sex-education giant Planned Parenthood. “This study has huge significance for our nation’s public and even private schools – many of whom have been regurgitating Planned Parenthood’s dangerously inaccurate sex-education curriculum,” said Judie Brown, president of ALL. In the 2006-2008 period, 58% of never-married teen girls and 57% […]
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Indiana Planned Parenthood Caught On Tape Giving Fabricated Medical Information

INDIANAPOLIS, July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) -The youth-led pro-life group Live Action released a new undercover video today showing staff at an Indianapolis Planned Parenthood clinic using manipulative and medically inaccurate counseling to convince a young woman to have an abortion. This is the third undercover video Live Action has released showing abusive counseling practices at Planned Parenthood of Indiana.   When the woman, purportedly 10-weeks pregnant, asks the clinician, named “Sarah,” when her baby's heart begins to beat, Sarah replies, “It's around I think the 8th or the 9th week that you can hear the heartbeat.” The heart actually begins […]
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Michigan Abortions Decrease 13.9%

By James Tillman July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A total of 22,357 abortions were reported in Michigan in 2009.  This is a 13.9% decrease since 2008 and a 54.4% decrease since 1987, which saw the greatest recorded number of abortions in Michigan. “We are extremely grateful for the continuing decrease in Michigan abortions despite the hard economic times we've faced in Michigan,” said Right to Life of Michigan President Babara Listing. “The fact that fewer mothers are having abortions in Michigan shows more and more women are coming to the realization that abortion is not the answer for an unplanned […]
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Disabled Black Pastor Arrested for Preaching on Public Right of Way

By Kathleen Gilbert CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, July 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A disabled black pastor was arrested in Charlotte Saturday after giving pro-life witness on public property outside an abortion facility. At 8:30 AM on July 17, Pastor Ronnie Wallace, a pastor and disabled veteran, was arrested by seven police officers on the public right of way in front of the Family Reproductive Health Abortion Clinic on Hebron St, Charlotte N.C. The police reportedly insisted that Wallace was violating an ordinance that forbids blocking the right of way “in consideration of the harm or risk created by the obstruction.” Pastor […]
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UVic Pro-Life Club Wins Back Club Status

By Patrick B. Craine VICTORIA, BC, July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The embattled University of Victoria pro-life club, Youth Protecting Youth (YPY), is declaring victory after reaching a settlement last week with UVic’s student society (UVSS) that reinstates the club’s status and funding. “This is a great victory for YPY,” said club president Anastasia Pearse in a statement on the group’s website. “We interpret the UVSS’ concessions as an admission of wrongdoing, and we’re happy with the new direction it’s taking.” The club had been subject to growing discrimination over the last two years, which came to a head this […]
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Homosexualist Group Side-Steps Normal UN Procedure to Gain NGO Status with U.S. Help

By James Tillman NEW YORK, July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) was granted consultative non-governmental organization (NGO) status at the UN, after the U.S. helped the group side-step the UN’s NGO Committee, whose approval is normally necessary to gain such status. The White House issued a statement from President Obama stating that the IGLHRC's admission was an “important step forward for human rights,” and that the “more full inclusion” of the ILGHRC moved the UN “closer to the ideals on which it was founded, and to values of inclusion and equality […]
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Abortion Clinic in Colombia Accused of Selling Children – Third this Year

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BOGOTÁ, July 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A “clinic” shut down in Colombia for performing illegal abortions is also being accused of child trafficking, according to Radio Santa Fe in Bogotá. The clinic, which falsely claimed to give sonograms to women, was actually selling children for between 1.5 and 5 million pesos (the equivalent of 800 and 2,660 USD), as well as performing abortions that carry criminal penalties under Colombian law, according to authorities. It reportedly specialized in late-term abortions. Police who raided the clinic reportedly found three babies alive inside, which have been […]
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Commentary on July 20 News

US Senator Lindsay Graham's inane comments about Elena Kagan and the generally limp opposition by establishment Republicans to Kagan's nomination reveal more of why US voters are massively disenchanted with politicos in both parties. Anti-incumbent sentiment threatens to turn into enragement. The University of Illinois firing of Dr. Kenneth Howell is only one of many current stories revealing the brutal intolerance and fascistic tendencies of the international gay activist movement. We have long suspected that movement is itself being advanced and exploited by others for larger goals. In the light of history, current developments cause us to conclude that persons being drawn into the […]
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Nigerian Archbishop Upbraids Western Churches for Rejecting Gospel and Accepting Homosexuality

Friday July 16, 2010 Nigerian Archbishop Upbraids Western Churches for Rejecting Gospel and Accepting Homosexuality By James Tillman ABUJA, Nigeria, July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In Anglican Archbishop Nicholas Okoh’s first press conference on July 14, he addressed the controversy that is sweeping the global Anglican communion and condemned homosexual behavior as well as other Anglican provinces that have adopted an unbiblical acceptance of it. “In this matter silence can be detrimental to public well-being,” he said. “The issue at stake of human sexuality is not an Anglican prerogative and it is by no means limited to the Anglican circle […]
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Brazilian President Seeks to Outlaw Spanking

Friday July 16, 2010 Brazilian President Seeks to Outlaw Spanking By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BRASILIA, July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Brazil’s socialist President Luiz Lula da Silva is proposing changes to the nation’s Children and Adolescents Statute that will prohibit parents from spanking their children or applying any other form of corporal punishment. In accordance with the proposed law, parents caught spanking or pinching their children, after a warning, could be required to receive psychological treatment. The case could also be turned over to child protective services, according to the AP. “The proposed definition is applicable not […]
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LifeSiteNews Special Report – What Kind of Human Rights Museum is This?

Thursday July 12, 2007 What Kind of Human Rights Museum is This? Reality, July/August 2007 National newsletter of REAL Women of Canada Israel (Izzy) Asper, head of CanWest Global Communications Corporation, had a dream. It was to leave as his legacy, not just to his family, or to his country, but to the whole world, a museum on human rights so people all over the world could come for inspiration, education and instruction. This dream is to be realized in 2011. However, there were a few problems with his dream. In the first place, as wealthy as he was personally, […]
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Denver Archdiocese Vindicates Priest Falsely Accused of Sex Abuse

Friday July 16, 2010 Denver Archdiocese Vindicates Priest Falsely Accused of Sex Abuse By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of Denver has released a statement that highlights the other victims of the sex abuse scandal that has battered the Catholic Church in the United States and other parts of the Western world: innocent priests defamed by false accusations. Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput announced Tuesday that a deceased priest was vindicated of allegations of sexual abuse, said to have occurred decades ago, after a thorough diocesan investigation. Monsignor William Higgins, a priest who served […]
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Bishop Congratulates East Timor Government for Resisting Foreign Pressure on Abortion

Friday July 16, 2010 Bishop Congratulates East Timor Government for Resisting Foreign Pressure on Abortion By James Tillman East Timor, July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “The Church,” said Bishop of Dili, Dom Alberto Ricardo Da Silva, “has a duty and a call to contribute to the well-being of women and children and their families.” For this reason Catholics should work for the health of both mother and the unborn child, despite the “fashionable trend” of promoting abortion as a means of population control, as a number of NGO’s – including at least two that are funded by the Canadian bishops’ […]
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Chinese Government Asks Internet Service Providers to Stop Pornographic Content

Friday July 16, 2010 Chinese Government Asks Internet Service Providers to Stop Pornographic Content By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BEIJING, July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hard on the heels of the China’s renewal of Google’s license to operate its search engine in the country, the Chinese General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) has asked a number of Web sites to stop offering online reading and downloading services with pornographic content. An official with GAPP told Xinhua News that 122 Internet service providers were contacted with the request to remove pornography, and that those websites failing to comply would be shut […]
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HLI Asks Prayers for Kenya as it Faces Referendum on Pro-Abort Constitution

Friday July 16, 2010 HLI Asks Prayers for Kenya as it Faces Referendum on Pro-Abort Constitution By Fr. Tom Euteneuer July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In less than three weeks, on August 4, the East African country of Kenya will be holding a referendum of the people to vote on a revision of their national Constitution (Americans use radical Justices of the Supreme Court to amend our Constitution – but that’s another matter). The problem with this “revision” of the Kenyan Constitution is that it would de facto legalize abortion on demand in that land and perhaps even lead to […]
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Kagan Partial-Birth Abortion Role ‘Seriously Compromised’ Federal Court Testimony: Report

Friday July 16, 2010 Kagan Partial-Birth Abortion Role ‘Seriously Compromised’ Federal Court Testimony: Report By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Americans United for Life (AUL) has issued a report shedding new light on Elena Kagan’s role in manipulating key medical testimony on partial-birth abortion, saying that she failed to admit her actions in Senate confirmation hearings and calling on lawmakers to investigate. It was revealed last month that an amendment to a statement issued by the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists on partial-birth abortion, which Kagan is believed to have added, tampered with medical testimony […]
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Indonesia Gvmt Vows to Block All Porn in 2 Months

Thursday July 15, 2010 Indonesia Gvmt Vows to Block All Porn in 2 Months By Patrick B. Craine JAKARTA, Indonesia, July 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Indonesian government has pledged to have all porn websites blocked in the country within the next two months as it works to implement the country’s strict anti-pornography laws. “We should not wait for too long to close down these sites because otherwise more will people copy and disseminate this material,” said Tifatul Sembiring, the Minister for Communication and Information Technology, on Wednesday, according to the Jakarta Globe. Tifatul noted that pornography was already prohibited […]
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People Have no Right to Vote on Gay ‘Marriage’ Rules D.C. Appeals Court

Thursday July 15, 2010 People Have no Right to Vote on Gay ‘Marriage’ Rules D.C. Appeals Court By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, July 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a 5-4 decision, the D.C. Court of Appeals held today that the residents of Washington D.C. do not have the right to vote on the issue of same-sex “marriage,” and that allowing a vote on the issue would amount to allowing “discrimination.” The decision is the latest in a lengthy battle by Stand 4 Marriage DC, a coalition of the federal district’s religious leaders led by Bishop Harry Jackson of Hope Christian Church, […]
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New Documentary on Homosexual Threat to Religious Freedom

Thursday May 13, 2010 New Documentary on Homosexual Threat to Religious Freedom By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Family Research Council (FRC) has released a new documentary addressing the threat that a homosexualist non-discrimination law being pushed in America poses to religious liberty and to freedom of speech. The documentary, entitled “ENDA: The End of Religious Freedom in America,” exposes the proposed Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which ostensibly intends to prohibit businesses from discriminating against individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation. However, as pro-family leaders warn, the legislation has already been shown to wreak […]
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School Group Told Not to Pray on U.S. Supreme Court Steps

By James Tillman WASHINGTON, July 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Earlier this year police reportedly told a Christian school teacher who was leading her students in quiet, private prayer on the steps of the Supreme Court building that she was not permitted to pray there. The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a Christian legal association, has sent a letter to Supreme Court officials threatening legal action unless the Supreme Court police retract their policy and permit the teacher to exercise her constitutionally-protected right to the free exercise of religion. “Christians shouldn’t be silenced for exercising their beliefs through quiet prayer on public […]
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Maryland Plan Indicates HHS Approved High Risk Pools With No Abortion Requirements

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Was the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) approving state applications for running federal high-risk insurance pools without a second thought to abortion? That is how it seems to the National Right to Life Committee, which discovered that Maryland’s plan to cover individuals with pre-existing conditions also had no restrictions on abortion coverage until media attention and public controversy propelled the HHS to clarify the matter. In an email sent Friday to LifeSiteNews.com, NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson said that Maryland was “on the way to providing […]
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Feds Hand $23 Million to Kenya Proxies Fighting for Pro-Abortion Constitution

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With Kenya’s pivotal referendum on a new pro-abortion constitution just a few weeks away, three pro-life congressmen have brought forward more evidence that the U.S. federal government has heavily invested in procuring the approval of the document – to the tune of $23 million*. The U.S. has also enlisted pro-abortion groups to convince Kenyans to approve the constitution, they said, despite the existence of federal laws prohibiting such activity. Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Africa and Global Health Subcommittee, along with Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), Ranking Member […]
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Thousands Support Catholic Prof Fired for Explaining Church Teaching on Homosexuality

By Kathleen Gilbert URBANA, Illinois, July 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A University of Illinois professor fired for explaining the Catholic Church's teaching on homosexuality has gathered several thousands of students, alumni, and others – including the head of the the University's atheist club – demanding that the Catholic professor be reinstated. Meanwhile, some faculty have reacted by eyeing the local Catholic diocese with suspicion for being permitted to control the content of courses teaching the Catholic faith.    Dr. Kenneth Howell was fired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) after an email explaining the Church's teaching on homosexuality […]
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A Great Lady, Mary Florence Hughes, Passes Away

By Steve Jalsevac TORONTO, July 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Jim Hughes is vice-president of International Right to Life and the president of Canada's national pro-life organization, Campaign Life Coalition. For Jim, other than his wonderful wife Ginny (Virginia), his mother has been a major inspiration and support in his life. Mary Florence Hughes passed away on Saturday in her 101st year and will be greatly missed by Jim and his family, his sister Pat and the extended Hughes family. In addition, the Canadian and international pro-life movements owe a debt of gratitude to this great, always faithful Irish Catholic lady for having raised and strongly supported […]
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Divorce, Abortion and Gay “Marriage” Inevitable Products of Secularist Enlightenment: A Conversation

By Hilary White GARDONE RIVIERA, July 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The roots of the anti-life and anti-family movement in law around the world go deep into the history of philosophical errors of the 18th century, a pro-life legal expert told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) recently. “Legal positivism,” or the idea that “the law is whatever is posited,” is an idea that is divorced from 3000 years of the legal philosophy of the west, said Christopher Ferrara. It is also an idea that has resulted, inevitably, in legalized abortion, contraception and “gay marriage.” Ferrara, whose New Jersey-based American Catholic Lawyer’s Association focuses on […]
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Judge Orders Immigration Board to Reconsider Asylum for Chinese Forced-Abortion Opponent

By James Tillman July 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Seventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals has ordered the Board of Immigration Appeals to review Qiu Ping Li's request for asylum in the United States because of her resistance to China's one-child policy – and subsequent punishment by Chinese authorities. In denying her asylum, Judge Richard Posner said, the Board of Immigration “overlooked the critical facts, and then it unconvincingly denied having overlooked them.” When she lived in China, Qiu Ping Li had opposed the one-child policy, as did her mother, who had been forcibly sterilized.  So when […]
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Letters to the Editor

Re: Development & Peace Apologizes to Pro-Life Group after Legal Threat  I strongly suggest that an important action is missing on the part of Development and Peace: the letter of apology to CLC is not showing on D&P's website. The same willful misinformation is evident on their website, as there is no mention whatsoever of the CCCB's ad-hoc committee that is to report  on the D&P review in October 2010. These omissions are very important, as they intend to keep their own “troops”, members and donors ignorant of their review and/or apology as much and as long as they can! […]
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Last Day to Voice Concerns about Euthanasia to Quebec Government

Friday July 16, 2010 Last Day to Voice Concerns about Euthanasia to Quebec Government By Thaddeus M. Baklinski QUEBEC CITY, Quebec, July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On May 25, 2010 the Quebec government announced that it was soliciting feedback from Quebec citizens about whether euthanasia and assisted suicide are acceptable forms of “care.” Citizens of Quebec have until today, July 16, 2010, to provide this feedback to the government. The Quebec National Assembly’s special commission on “dying with dignity” asked for input from the general public on the consultation document after having heard from legal, medical, ethical, and philosophical experts […]
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Nebraska Judge Blocks Bill Screening High-Risk Abortion-Bound Women

Thursday July 15, 2010 Nebraska Judge Blocks Bill Screening High-Risk Abortion-Bound Women By Kathleen Gilbert OMAHA, Nebraska, July 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A U.S. District Court Judge in Nebraska has granted a preliminary injunction requested by Planned Parenthood and blocked enforcement of a law that would have ensured that mothers seeking abortions undergo mental health screening. Judge Laurie Smith Camp of Federal District Court on Wednesday blocked enforcement of LB 594, saying that the bill’s framework “creates a profound chilling effect” on abortionists’ practice, and creates “substantial, likely insurmountable obstacles in the path of women seeking abortions in Nebraska.” The […]
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New U.N. “Superhero” Advocacy Team for MDGs Includes Noted Abortion/Population Control Supporters

Thursday July 15, 2010 New U.N. “Superhero” Advocacy Team for MDGs Includes Noted Abortion/Population Control Supporters By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, July 15 (C-FAM) – For months, the international community has been preparing for the September review summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). As part of the preparations, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently announced the formation of an MDG advocacy team composed of prominent politicos and philanthropists who will “build political will and mobilize action on the eight Goals.” The list, which includes noted population control supporters and abortion advocates, is causing concern. At the announcement, Ban […]
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Calls for “Reproductive Health” for Youth Ahead of International Mexico Conference

Thursday July 15, 2010 Calls for “Reproductive Health” for Youth Ahead of International Mexico Conference By Terrence McKeegan, J.D. NEW YORK, July 15 (C-FAM) – Two recently released documents prepared in anticipation of an upcoming international youth conference in Mexico make unprecedented claims for new youth “rights” that experts say directly conflict with traditional norms and international law. The draft declaration which will be considered by governmental participants at the World Youth Conference, to be held at the end of August in Leon, Mexico, calls for a “comprehensive development of young people that includes: a humanist education to face ethical […]
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Health Minister in India: No Government Coercion to Control Population Growth

Thursday July 15, 2010 Health Minister in India: No Government Coercion to Control Population Growth By Thaddeus M. Baklinski NEW DELHI, July 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told a large gathering at an event held to mark World Population Day on July 11 that his government would not use coercive policies to stabilize India’s population. He said that “awareness among the people of the benefits of small families was the most effective way to achieve the goal.” World Population Day is an annual event established by the United Nations Development Program that focuses […]
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Anti-Euthanasia Activist: Report that S. Korea Legalized Euthanasia May be Wrong

Thursday July 15, 2010 Anti-Euthanasia Activist: Report that S. Korea Legalized Euthanasia May be Wrong By Patrick B. Craine SEOUL, South Korea, July 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Agence France-Presse (AFP), the oldest and one of the largest news agencies in the world, may have erroneously reported that South Korea has legalized euthanasia, says the leader of a Canadian-based anti-euthanasia group. While the headline for the AFP story declares “S.Korea legalises euthanasia for terminally ill,” the article in fact reports only that the South Korean health ministry has approved guidelines for the removal of life support from terminally-ill patients, after receiving […]
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Pro-Life Leader: Quebec’s Free IVF Plan Turns Children into Property

Wednesday July 14, 2010 Pro-Life Leader: Quebec’s Free IVF Plan Turns Children into Property By Patrick B. Craine QUEBEC, July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Quebec’s Liberal government has announced a sweeping plan to publicly fund all in-vitro fertilization procedures in the province as of August 5th, offering up to three rounds per couple. But the plan has been denounced by a Quebec pro-life leader who emphasizes that IVF kills unborn babies, and that the government is effectively making children out to be their parent’s “property.” The initiative, announced Tuesday by Health Minister Yves Bolduc, makes Quebec the first jurisdiction in […]
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HHS Moves to Block Abortion Funding in High-Risk Pools Following Controversy

Thursday July 15, 2010 HHS Moves to Block Abortion Funding in High-Risk Pools Following Controversy By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Facing allegations that federal high-risk insurance pools administered through the states may cover elective abortion, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services now states that its guidelines will make sure Hyde amendment restrictions apply to these programs in the spirit of President Obama’s executive order. However, until the press investigated the allegations, at least one federal plan in New Mexico was ready to subsidize elective abortions, and further revelations show that the executive […]
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Argentineans Take to the Streets While Senate Debates Gay ‘Marriage’ and Adoption

Wednesday July 14, 2010 Argentineans Take to the Streets While Senate Debates Gay ‘Marriage’ and Adoption By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tens of thousands of Argentineans took to the streets in protest yesterday as the nation’s Senate entered into its final debate over a bill to create homosexual “marriage.” The bill was passed in May by the Chamber of Deputies, the nation’s lower legislative house. Prior to taking a vote on the same-sex “marriage” bill, the Senate will vote on a bill to reject the Chamber of Deputies bill, a proposal […]
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Christian Missionaries Arrested at Michigan Arab Festival

Wednesday July 14, 2010 Christian Missionaries Arrested at Michigan Arab Festival By Thaddeus M. Baklinski DEARBORN, Michigan, July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Four Christian missionaries were arraigned in the 19th District Court in Dearborn on July 12 and charged with disorderly conduct. Police had arrested them at Dearborn’s Arab International Festival on June 18 for handing out Christian literature. Police also seized the group’s video equipment. Nabeel Qureshi of Virginia, Negeen Mayel of California, and Paul Rezkalla and David Wood of New York, all members of a Christian group called Acts 17 Apologetics, said they only spoke to people who […]
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N. Ireland Withdraws Controversial Abortion Guidelines

Wednesday July 14, 2010 N. Ireland Withdraws Controversial Abortion Guidelines By Patrick B. Craine BELFAST, Northern Ireland, July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Northern Ireland’s Department of Health has withdrawn controversial abortion guidelines, which have been criticized by pro-life groups as an attempt to bring in abortion through the back door, after having reissued them in violation of a court order. The Department of Health made the announcement in a letter to Jim Wells, the chairman of the Northern Ireland Assembly’s health committee. It also announced that it will be launching a public consultation on the guidelines. Both of the country’s […]
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Spanish Archbishop Urges Defiance of New Abortion Law: ‘This Law is no Law’

Wednesday July 14, 2010 Spanish Archbishop Urges Defiance of New Abortion Law: ‘This Law is no Law’ By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BURGOS, Spain, July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archbishop of Burgos, Francisco Gil Hellín, has issued a call to Spanish Catholics to resist the country’s new abortion law, which he says is no law at all. In a statement published on the bishops’ Catholic Information Service, Gil Hellín laments the recent promulgation of the law, an “evil law which is directly opposed to right reason and the most elemental justice. Such is the law that establishes that the Spanish […]
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Obamacare to Pay for Abortions under New $160 Million Pennsylvania Program

Tuesday July 13, 2010 Obamacare to Pay for Abortions under New $160 Million Pennsylvania Program WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the first known instance of direct federal funding of abortion under the new health care legislation, the Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new “high-risk” insurance program – and has quietly approved a plan submitted by an appointee of Governor Edward Rendell (D) under which the new program will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania. The high-risk pool program, which will be funded entirely by the federal government, is one […]
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Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg: ‘We Will Never Go Back’ to Outlawing Abortion

Tuesday July 13, 2010 Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg: ‘We Will Never Go Back’ to Outlawing Abortion By Kathleen Gilbert ASPEN, Colorado, July 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg insisted last Thursday that America would “never go back” to outlawing the murder of the unborn, now that a whole generation of women has experienced the effects of Roe v. Wade. “Over a generation of young women have grown up, understanding they can control their own reproductive capacity, and in fact their life’s destiny,” Ginsburg said in remarks at the Aspen Ideas Festival. “We will never go […]
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Documentary Revealing Truth about the Pill Now Available Online

Wednesday July 14, 2010 Documentary Revealing Truth about the Pill Now Available Online By Thaddeus M. Baklinski July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Filmmaker Trent Herbert has produced a well-researched documentary called “28 Days on the Pill” that exposes the abortifacient properties of the birth control pill. To mark the 50th anniversary of the Pill, the documentary is being made available online for the first time. Featuring Dr. Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Christian author Randy Alcorn (“Heaven, Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions?”) and Dr. Walt Larimore (formerly with Focus on the Family), the film […]
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U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Vatican’s Immunity Not What it Seems, Says Legal Expert

Tuesday July 13, 2010 U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Vatican’s Immunity Not What it Seems, Says Legal Expert By Patrick B. Craine WASHINGTON, July 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision over whether the Holy See can be named as a defendant in a sex abuse case is not what most media have reported, says a noted legal expert on religious discrimination. “Unlike just about everyone else who seems to have commented on the subject I decided to find the facts first and comment afterwards and the actual legal facts are quite different from what is being […]
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A Deadly Climate

Tuesday January 19, 2010 A Deadly Climate An Editorial from the January 2010 edition of The Interim newspaper (Re-published with permission) January 19, 2010 (theinterim.com) – In our day and age, the reality of climate change cannot be doubted: it is experts’ grave concern, the popular politicians’ top priority, the famous film stars’ fashionable cause. Last month, the leaders of the world gathered in Copenhagen to avert an impending ecological disaster – an effort (so we are told) that may already be too little, too late. Indeed, it is impossible to question the reality of global warming, when concerns about […]
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Dems for Life Starts ‘Whole Life Heroes’ PAC to Save Health Bill Supporters

Tuesday July 13, 2010 Dems for Life Starts ‘Whole Life Heroes’ PAC to Save Health Bill Supporters By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democrats for Life, the sole supporter of the federal health care bill among all major U.S. pro-life groups, is re-branding its political action committee to support Democrats who voted in favor of the federal health care bill – and drawing criticism for using the term “whole life” to describe that effort. The PAC will support the fifteen U.S. House Democrats who professed to oppose the bill on pro-life principles, but then switched their […]
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Birmingham Abortuary under Probation following Live Action Investigation

Thursday February 11, 2010 Birmingham Abortuary under Probation following Live Action Investigation By Kathleen Gilbert MONTGOMERY, Alabama, February 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The state of Alabama has put a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Birmingham under probation. The action follows a Live Action Films investigation, which caught an employee advising an abortion-seeking teen on how to evade the parental notification law. According to state health officials cited by the AP, the abortion clinic has been ordered to present a plan by next week showing how the clinic will correct an apparent habit of violating Alabama law. A report by state […]
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More U.S. Taxpayer Funds for Pro-Abortion Kenyan Constitution: Rep. Smith

Wednesday May 26, 2010 More U.S. Taxpayer Funds for Pro-Abortion Kenyan Constitution: Rep. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Potentially illegal U.S. taxpayer funding in support of Kenya’s proposed pro-abortion constitution may now exceed five times the level originally expected, announced the office of leading pro-life U.S. congressman Chris Smith Wednesday. In a May 6 letter to the Inspectors General at the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), three leading Republicans called for investigations into the funding, including whether a $2 million donation to promote the proposed constitution violates a provision of law known as […]
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For Bill Gates Even Improving World Health is about Population Control

Wednesday July 14, 2010 For Bill Gates Even Improving World Health is about Population Control By John-Henry Westen and Patrick B. Craine NEW YORK, July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A relatively little-known video made last year provides a fascinating look at billionaire Bill Gates and his philanthropic endeavors. In an interview with Chris Anderson of the show TED, the Microsoft mogul is asked whether by aiding the world’s sick he is not in fact “adding enormously to the problem of overpopulation in the world.” Gates is enlivened by the question, and responds: “Okay, this is a very important question to […]
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Prominent Priest: People Should Pray for Christopher Hitchens

Wednesday July 14, 2010 Prominent Priest: People Should Pray for Christopher Hitchens July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fr. Robert Barron, founder of WordOnFire.org, says that news of the well-known atheist Christopher Hitchens’ esophageal cancer should bring more people to pray for him – and that, despite Hitchens’ well-known hatred for Catholicism, the “vast, vast majority” of Catholics who have reported on his disease in the media have urged people to pray for him. Christopher Hitchens is commonly seen as one of the four chief spokesmen for the so-called “new atheism.” His 2007 book “God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons […]
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Passing on the Pro-Life Hope: One Video at a Time

Monday July 12, 2010 Passing on the Pro-Life Hope: One Video at a Time By Peter J. Smith MADISON, Wisconsin, July 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One Wisconsin pro-life organization has adopted a unique and simple strategy to inspire people to celebrate a culture of life. Wisconsin Right to Life’s new pro-life evangelism is the “Pass this on for me” campaign: a section of their website, where they find uplifting videos posted on YouTube celebrating life and family, allowing others to pass on their powerful and positive messages. Perhaps the most powerful video WRTL has posted on their website is the […]
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Global Pro-Life Movement Must Adopt Comprehensive Cultural Approach: A Conversation with Professor John Rao

Wednesday July 14, 2010 Global Pro-Life Movement Must Adopt Comprehensive Cultural Approach: A Conversation with Professor John Rao By Hilary White GARDONE RIVIERA, Italy, July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The global pro-life movement must take a holistic approach to the society it is attempting to change, or it risks failure by compartmentalizing the issues into discrete and isolated topics, a professor of history told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) last weekend. For Catholics, he said, this means adopting the complete and comprehensive tradition of the Church, without editing for political reasons. (read the complete interview here) Dr. John C. Rao, who holds a […]
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Bishops Urge New Philippine President to Shun ‘Contraceptive Mentality’

Tuesday July 13, 2010 Bishops Urge New Philippine President to Shun ‘Contraceptive Mentality’ By James Tillman MANILLA, July 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a statement issued at the conclusion of their 101st Plenary Assembly, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has urged the new government of President Benigno Aquino III to shun a “contraceptive mentality” and has reiterated the Church’s stand against contraception and abortion. Immoral educational and medical practices, the bishops told President Aquino, will “not bring about a people that is God-fearing, holding on to the sacredness of sexuality, life and the family.” Br. Armin Luistro, […]
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Pro-Abort Quebec Priest to Concerned Catholic: ‘Keep Your Nonsense to Yourself!’

Friday July 9, 2010 Pro-Abort Quebec Priest to Concerned Catholic: ‘Keep Your Nonsense to Yourself!’ By Patrick B. Craine JOLIETTE, Quebec, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “I do not accept being judged by idiots of your temper,” wrote the infamously pro-abortion and homosexualist Fr. Raymond Gravel this week in response to a concerned fellow Catholic. “Keep your nonsense to yourself!” the priest added. The LifeSiteNews (LSN) reader, described by friends as a mild-mannered professor, had sent an e-mail to Fr. Gravel’s bishop, Gilles Lussier of Joliette, after a report Tuesday that the priest is scheduled to train catechists and others […]
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U. of IL to ‘Review’ Firing of Catholic Prof.

Tuesday July 13, 2010 U. of IL to ‘Review’ Firing of Catholic Prof. By Kathleen Gilbert URBANA, Illinois, July 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Illinois has issued an open-ended statement regarding a professor of a Catholicism course who was fired after stating that homosexual activity is contrary to the natural moral law. The university statement says only that the school preserves a “commitment to the principles of academic freedom” and that the matter is being reviewed. The university did not respond to LifeSiteNews.com’s (LSN) request for comment Monday. However, in an email response posted on CatholicVoteAction.org, University of […]
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Civil Partnership Passes Irish Senate: Will Create “Social Chaos” Says Catholic Union Chair

Wednesday July 14, 2010 Civil Partnership Passes Irish Senate: Will Create “Social Chaos” Says Catholic Union Chair By Hilary White DUBLIN, July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Civil Partnership Bill, which was passed by the Irish Upper House yesterday, will create ripples of change throughout Irish society and end in “social chaos,” a UK barrister warned last week. Under the proposed law, as in the UK, registered civil partnerships are effectively equivalent to marriage. Separations must be litigated in divorce courts, and the partners are treated as married by banks, government departments and officials and by the tax and benefits […]
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Arguments Conclude in Christian Legal Society’s Supreme Court Battle for Status at University

Tuesday April 20, 2010 Arguments Conclude in Christian Legal Society’s Supreme Court Battle for Status at University By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., April 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Oral arguments concluded Monday before the U.S. Supreme Court over whether a public university could deny recognition to a Christian legal society that would not allow non-Christians to be full voting members. The court heard arguments from attorneys representing both a chapter of the Christian Legal Society and University of California’s Hastings College of the Law, based in San Francisco. Hastings has fought since 2004 to deny CLS the status of an […]
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Care for the Poor is the Work of Individuals, not the State: Pope Benedict

Monday March 8, 2010 Care for the Poor is the Work of Individuals, not the State: Pope Benedict By Hilary White ROME, March 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Care for the poor and vulnerable is the concern of individuals, motivated by genuine charity, rather than the exclusive concern of the state, Pope Benedict XVI has said in a pair of addresses this weekend. In an address to a group of bishops from Uganda, the pope praised their efforts to defend the sacredness of human life and of the family, and urged them to help their flocks resist the “seductions” of materialism. […]
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POPE: TRUE DEMOCRACY IS NOT “TRUTH” BY MAJORITY VOTE

Friday February 25, 2000 POPE: TRUE DEMOCRACY IS NOT “TRUTH” BY MAJORITY VOTE VATICAN, Feb 25 (LSN.ca) – Pope John Paul II addressed the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences Wednesday who are meeting on the theme “Democracy – Reality and Responsibility.” The pope denounced the view that “truth is determined by the majority and varies in accordance with passing cultural and political trends.” He noted that these trends are currently so entrenched in popular thought that “those who are convinced that certain truths are absolute and immutable are considered unreasonable and unreliable.” “As Christians we firmly believe that ‘if there […]
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Sex Abuse Victims in Malta ‘Impressed’ and ‘At Peace’ After Meeting Pope

Monday April 19, 2010 Sex Abuse Victims in Malta ‘Impressed’ and ‘At Peace’ After Meeting Pope By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman LA VALETA, Malta, April 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Victims of clerical sexual abuse in Malta are expressing strong approval of Pope Benedict XVI following a private meeting with him yesterday, according to the Times of Malta, the Sydney Morning Herald, and other international news outlets. According to the victims, who say they were abused during their childhood at a Maltese orphanage, the pope listened to their individual stories, thanked them, and cried with them. Holding back tears, Lawrence Gretch, one […]
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Argentinean Mormons Reminded of Opposition to Gay ‘Marriage’

Tuesday July 13, 2010 Argentinean Mormons Reminded of Opposition to Gay ‘Marriage’ By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BUENOS AIRES, July 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In anticipation of the July 14 vote on legalizing homosexual “marriage” in Argentina’s Senate, the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon) have issued a letter reaffirming the doctrine that marriage is between a man and a woman. The Argentinean Chamber of Deputies, the nation’s lower legislative house, approved a bill to legalize homosexual “marriage” in May. The bill then passed to the nation’s Senate. In a single-paragraph letter dated July […]
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More Sex Abuse Allegations Emerge after Belgian Cardinal’s Interrogation

Tuesday July 13, 2010 More Sex Abuse Allegations Emerge after Belgian Cardinal’s Interrogation By Hilary White BRUSSELS, July 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the week following the deposition of Cardinal Godfried Danneels, allegations that he knew of and ignored decades of sexual abuse of young people by his priests have begun to appear in the Belgian papers. Police raided the offices of the Archdiocese of Brussels and Danneels’s home early this month. Shortly thereafter, on July 6, Danneels spent a gruelling ten hour day answering questions from Brussels prosecutors about the extent of his knowledge and involvement in the cover-up […]
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“Pro-Choice” Quebec Priest Slams LifeSiteNews in Major Media Outlets

Monday July 12, 2010 “Pro-Choice” Quebec Priest Slams LifeSiteNews in Major Media Outlets Editorial by John-Henry Westen July 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fr. Raymond Gravel, Canada’s infamous priest/politician who was ordered out of politics by Vatican pressure, has issued an open letter in Quebec’s daily Le Devoir in which he accuses LifeSiteNews of embarking on “an organized witch hunt” against him. Today CBC French television interviewed me on the matter. I explained that at LifeSiteNews we have indeed been concerned with Fr. Gravel’s actions and statements, and that we care enough about him to voice objections to the harm he […]
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UK Archdiocese to Welcome Pope with Theology of the Body Lecture

Monday July 12, 2010 UK Archdiocese to Welcome Pope with Theology of the Body Lecture By Matt Anderson LONDON, July 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster has announced it will host its annual Theology of the Body lecture on September 14 in honor of Pope Benedict XVI’s scheduled visit to Great Britain that month. The lecture, entitled “In the Service of Woman – Men are Called to Greatness,” will be given by Brian J. Gail, author of the Christian novel Fatherless. Edmund Adamus, the Director of Pastoral Affairs for the Diocese, told LifeSiteNews.com that the event “will […]
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NARAL Enraged, USCCB Cautiously Pleased with HHS ‘Clarification’ on High-Risk Pool Abortion Funding

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortion advocates are fuming that the Obama administration has moved to implement a “Stupak-style” ban on funding abortions in state high-risk insurance pools under the federal health care law, prompted by the National Right to Life Committee's (NRLC) exposure of the issue and resulting media attention. “To our dismay, the Obama administration just announced it will exclude abortion coverage in the temporary health-insurance pools that will transition us into the new health-care system,” wrote NARAL Pro-Choice America president Nancy Keenan in an email to constituents Thursday. “I am outraged that […]
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Kagan Partial-Birth Abortion Role ‘Seriously Compromised’ Federal Court Testimony: Report

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Americans United for Life (AUL) has issued a report shedding new light on Elena Kagan's role in manipulating key medical testimony on partial-birth abortion, saying that she failed to admit her actions in Senate confirmation hearings and calling on lawmakers to investigate. It was revealed last month that an amendment to a statement issued by the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists on partial-birth abortion, which Kagan is believed to have added, tampered with medical testimony that proved crucial to later litigation. “Because of the lack of other reliable scientific data, […]
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Media Frenzy over Women’s Ordination Distracts from New Vatican Sex Abuse Norms

By John Jalsevac VATICAN CITY, July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Critics of the Catholic Church’s handling of the sex-abuse scandals finally got what they wanted from the Vatican this week – a sweeping new set of guidelines on how to deal with sex abuse allegations that will be applied on a global scale. The document, issued yesterday, includes provisions for the automatic excommunication of and laicization or “defrocking” for any priest who sexually abuses a minor. Additionally, priests who are found to have used child pornography or who abuse the mentally ill or disabled face the same penalty – the […]
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Chinese Government Asks Internet Service Providers to Stop Pornographic Content

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BEIJING, July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hard on the heels of the China's renewal of Google's license to operate its search engine in the country, the Chinese General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) has asked a number of Web sites to stop offering online reading and downloading services with pornographic content. An official with GAPP told Xinhua News that 122 Internet service providers were contacted with the request to remove pornography, and that those websites failing to comply would be shut down. A nationwide crackdown on pornography by the GAPP since December 2009 has resulted […]
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Bishop Congratulates East Timor Government for Resisting Foreign Pressure on Abortion

By James Tillman East Timor, July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –”The Church,” said Bishop of Dili, Dom Alberto Ricardo Da Silva, “has a duty and a call to contribute to the well-being of women and children and their families.” For this reason Catholics should work for the health of both mother and the unborn child, despite the “fashionable trend” of promoting abortion as a means of population control, as a number of NGO's – including at least two that are funded by the Canadian bishops’ official development arm – have recently done in East Timor. The country only recently staved off […]
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Nigerian Archbishop Upbraids Western Churches for Rejecting Gospel and Accepting Homosexuality

By James Tillman ABUJA, Nigeria, July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In Anglican Archbishop Nicholas Okoh's first press conference on July 14, he addressed the controversy that is sweeping the global Anglican communion and condemned homosexual behavior as well as other Anglican provinces that have adopted an unbiblical acceptance of it. “In this matter silence can be detrimental to public well-being,” he said.  “The issue at stake of human sexuality is not an Anglican prerogative and it is by no means limited to the Anglican circle as … is clearly shown all over the world.” “Same sex marriage, paedophilia and all […]
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FRC Report Addresses ‘Faulty’ Fetal Pain Study

Tuesday July 13, 2010 FRC Report Addresses ‘Faulty’ Fetal Pain Study WASHINGTON, D.C., July 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Family Research Council (FRC) has released a new report attacking the claim of the London-based Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) that unborn babies do not feel pain before 24 weeks because their brains are not sufficiently formed until then. “RCOG is using a faulty definition of pain in this study,” said Jeanne Monahan, Director of the FRC’s Center for Human Dignity. “A number of experts in the field of fetal development … previously have refuted the idea that the […]
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Fate of Washington Bill to Hobble Pregnancy Centers Remains Uncertain

Monday February 1, 2010 Fate of Washington Bill to Hobble Pregnancy Centers Remains Uncertain By James Tillman OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, February 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a heated hearing last Wednesday, the Washington state Senate’s Health and Long-Term Care Committee has neither endorsed nor rejected a bill that would impose upon crisis pregnancy centers several new regulations that would not be imposed upon pro-abortion facilities. While its backers tout the bill’s requirements for higher medical accuracy and privacy standards, SB 6452 also mandates that pro-life pregnancy centers immediately inform all visitors that the center does not provide abortion, referral for abortion, […]
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Still Pushing: Catholic Health Association Lauds Obama’s ‘Strong Leadership’ in Pro-Abort Health Reform

Monday June 28, 2010 Still Pushing: Catholic Health Association Lauds Obama’s ‘Strong Leadership’ in Pro-Abort Health Reform 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 […]
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UK Minister Admits Failure to Bring Down Teen Pregnancy Rate: Solution? More Sex-Ed

Friday February 26, 2010 UK Minister Admits Failure to Bring Down Teen Pregnancy Rate: Solution? More Sex-Ed By Hilary White LONDON, February 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Figures released this week by the Office of National Statistics show that about 40,000 British girls under 18 became pregnant in 2008, or 40 per 1000, a decline from 46,000 in 1998, or a fall of 13.3 per cent. The figures come as a disappointment to the governing Labour party who, in 1999, pledged to halve the teen pregnancy rate by this year. The Daily Telegraph quotes Schools Secretary Ed Balls admitting he is […]
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PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST MARY WAGNER ARRESTED – AS INNOCENT BYSTANDER

Tuesday October 24, 2000 PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST MARY WAGNER ARRESTED – AS INNOCENT BYSTANDER VANCOUVER, Oct 24 (LSN.ca) – Pro-life heroine Mary Wagner was part of a crowd of onlookers today watching three pro-lifers engaged in civil disobedience at Vancouver’s Everywoman’s abortuary. John Hof of Campaign Life Coalition BC told LifeSite that police arrested the three pro-lifers involved in the demonstration but also approached Mary Wagner, the BC young person who was jailed earlier for praying and handing out roses within the abortuary’s “bubble zone”. Ms. Wagner was asked if she was allowed to be there since she is on probation […]
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Catholic Pelosi to Receive Planned Parenthood Award for Stopping Stupak Abortion Funding Ban

By John Jalsevac July 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a self-professed devout Catholic, will receive an award from abortion giant Planned Parenthood at a reception Thursday evening. The award will be given in recognition of her efforts in passing the federal health care legislation, and in particular for her help in ensuring that the Stupak abortion funding ban was not inserted in the bill. A spokesperson for Planned Parenthood confirmed with LifeSiteNews.com that Pelosi would be receiving the Champion for Women's Health award, which recognizes “efforts to support women and their reproductive health.” Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro […]
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People Have no Right to Vote on Gay ‘Marriage’ Rules D.C. Appeals Court

By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, July 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a 5-4 decision, the D.C. Court of Appeals held today that the residents of Washington D.C. do not have the right to vote on the issue of same-sex “marriage,” and that allowing a vote on the issue would amount to allowing “discrimination.” The decision is the latest in a lengthy battle by Stand 4 Marriage DC, a coalition of the federal district's religious leaders led by Bishop Harry Jackson of Hope Christian Church, to put the issue of gay “marriage” to a vote by the people. In May of 2009 […]
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HHS Moves to Block Abortion Funding in High-Risk Pools Following Controversy

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Facing allegations that federal high-risk insurance pools administered through the states may cover elective abortion, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services now states that its guidelines will make sure Hyde amendment restrictions apply to these programs in the spirit of President Obama’s executive order. However, until the press investigated the allegations, at least one federal plan in New Mexico was ready to subsidize elective abortions, and further revelations show that the executive order itself is silent on the matter of restricting abortion coverage under these high-risk pools. […]
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Anti-Euthanasia Activist: Report that S. Korea Legalized Euthanasia May be Wrong

By Patrick B. Craine SEOUL, South Korea, July 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Agence France-Presse (AFP), the oldest and one of the largest news agencies in the world, may have erroneously reported that South Korea has legalized euthanasia, says the leader of a Canadian-based anti-euthanasia group. While the headline for the AFP story declares “S.Korea legalises euthanasia for terminally ill,” the article in fact reports only that the South Korean health ministry has approved guidelines for the removal of life support from terminally-ill patients, after receiving their consent. “From the information in the report, there’s nothing indicating anything about euthanasia,” said Alex Schadenberg, […]
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Health Minister in India: No Government Coercion to Control Population Growth

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski NEW DELHI, July 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told a large gathering at an event held to mark World Population Day on July 11 that his government would not use coercive policies to stabilize India's population. He said that “awareness among the people of the benefits of small families was the most effective way to achieve the goal.” World Population Day is an annual event established by the United Nations Development Program that focuses on the UN's agenda of global population control. The event in New Delhi, titled “Run […]
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Calls for “Reproductive Health” for Youth Ahead of International Mexico Conference

By Terrence McKeegan, J.D. NEW YORK, July 15 (C-FAM) – Two recently released documents prepared in anticipation of an upcoming international youth conference in Mexico make unprecedented claims for new youth “rights” that experts say directly conflict with traditional norms and international law. The draft declaration which will be considered by governmental participants at the World Youth Conference, to be held at the end of August in Leon, Mexico, calls for a “comprehensive development of young people that includes: a humanist education to face ethical challenges” and “sexuality education.”  There is also a call to “guarantee the highest level of […]
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New U.N. “Superhero” Advocacy Team for MDGs Includes Noted Abortion/Population Control Supporters

By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, July 15 (C-FAM) - For months, the international community has been preparing for the September review summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).  As part of the preparations, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently announced the formation of an MDG advocacy team composed of prominent politicos and philanthropists who will “build political will and mobilize action on the eight Goals.” The list, which includes noted population control supporters and abortion advocates, is causing concern. At the announcement, Ban Ki-moon praised his advocacy team as “a collection of superheroes in fighting poverty.”  Co-chairing the superheroes are […]
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U. of Illinois Fires Catholic Prof for Explaining Church Teaching on Homosexuality

Monday July 12, 2010 U. of Illinois Fires Catholic Prof for Explaining Church Teaching on Homosexuality By Kathleen Gilbert URBANA, Illinois, July 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic professor has been fired from the University of Illinois for sending an email to students in a course on Catholic doctrine, explaining how homosexual activity is contrary to the natural moral law. Kenneth Howell of Champaign, IL, also lost his job with the diocese of Peoria at the Newman center on campus, where he had been employed for 12 years, after university officials confronted Howell about the email. Howell had taught “Introduction […]
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West Chicago Backs Down, Allows Pro-Life Demonstration at 11th Hour

Friday July 9, 2010 West Chicago Backs Down, Allows Pro-Life Demonstration at 11th Hour CHICAGO, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the eve of seeking emergency injunctive relief in federal court, attorneys from the Thomas More Society Thursday secured an agreement from the city of West Chicago to allow a pro-life protest to proceed there Friday morning. West Chicago officials had notified the Thomas More Society early Thursday that the Pro-Life Action League’s “Face the Truth Tour” protest, which involves people holding abortion signage at busy intersections in various municipalities, would not be permitted to take place Friday morning in […]
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U.S. Embassy Denies Funding Campaign for Pro-Abort Kenya Constitution

Monday July 12, 2010 U.S. Embassy Denies Funding Campaign for Pro-Abort Kenya Constitution By Kathleen Gilbert NAIROBI, July 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the launch of a probe into whether the federal government is illegally supporting a new pro-abortion constitution for Kenya, Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi have denied that America is funding a campaign favoring the document, saying only that the U.S. supports “the constitutional review process.” In a statement released today, the U.S. embassy emphasized that “The US Government is supporting the constitutional review process as the centrepiece of the broad reform agenda agreed to following […]
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NBC Promotes Gay ‘Marriage’ with Invites to Homosexuals to Wedding Contest

Monday July 12, 2010 NBC Promotes Gay ‘Marriage’ with Invites to Homosexuals to Wedding Contest By James Tillman NEW YORK, New York, July 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – NBC’s The Today Show has decided to allow same-sex “couples” to apply to its “Modern Wedding Contest” after the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) met with officials from NBC on Thursday. Winners of the “Modern Wedding Contest” receive a wedding telecast live on The Today Show. Details of the wedding, honeymoon, and reception are chosen by viewers. The wedding takes place in New York State, where homosexual “marriage” is not legal. […]
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Missouri Passes Law Restricting Sexually-Oriented Entertainment

Tuesday July 6, 2010 Missouri Passes Law Restricting Sexually-Oriented Entertainment By James Tillman JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Missouri Governor Jay Nixon signed long-fought-for legislation on Friday that will restrict strip clubs and other sexually-oriented businesses. The law is the result of a lengthy battle waged by state senator Matt Bartle, who has worked to secure the bill against the inevitable judicial challenge that it violates the U.S. Constitution. The Missouri Catholic Conference, which has supported the bill, praised its passage. “Some legislators were trying to essentially shove the bill into the darkness and prevent a vote […]
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Why is Hillary pushing gay rights upon Africa?

Friday July 9, 2010 Why is Hillary pushing gay rights upon Africa? by Martyn Drakard July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – If the average Kenyan knew that their favourite son, Barack Obama, had declared June the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender Pride Month, they would simply not believe it. Nor would they believe that in his proclamation for Fathers’ Day, he’d said that nurturing families comes in many forms, including being raised by two “fathers” – even if neither of them is the true father. To top it all, Hillary Clinton recently told “LGBT members of the State Department family” that gay rights are human […]
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Bishops Blast Court Decision against DOMA

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has slammed Massachusetts Judge Joseph Tauro's decision that a section of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional. In one of his two July 8 rulings, Justice Tauro said that because “irrational prejudice plainly never constitutes a legitimate government interest,” section 3 of DOMA is unconstitutional.  “To claim that defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman is somehow irrational, prejudiced, or even bigoted, is a great disservice not only to truth but to the good of our nation,” responded Archbishop […]
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Kagan Sought to Twist another Medical Statement on Partial-Birth Abortion: AUL

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In addition to altering testimony on partial-birth abortion by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, documents suggest U.S. Supreme Court candidate Elena Kagan acted similarly with a policy statement by the American Medical Association, Americans United for Life (AUL) has reported. LifeSiteNews.com reported June 30 that memos from Kagan's service in the Clinton administration reveal that she authored language that twisted ACOG's original statement, which declared that the group “could identify no circumstances under which this procedure … would be the only option to save the life or preserve the health […]
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180 Congressmen Urge No Abortion on Military Bases

By James Tillman WASHINGTON, D.C., July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican Congressman Todd Akin and Democratic Congressman Gene Taylor have sent a letter signed by 180 members of Congress to House and Senate leadership urging them to eliminate language from the FY2011 Defense Authorization bill that would permit abortions on military bases. “DoD medical facilities should remain focused on providing the best possible care for our military service members and their families, not providing abortion on demand,” said Akin and Taylor. The Blagojevich-appointed Democratic Senator Roland Burris offered an amendment to the FY2011 National Defense Authorization Act on May 27 […]
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U.S. State Department Funds Groups Lobbying “Yes” Vote on Pro-Abortion Kenya Constitution

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New evidence belies claims that the U.S. government is maintaining strict neutrality on Kenya’s proposed pro-abortion constitution, and indicates instead that the government is waging a proxy campaign in Kenya to get voters to approve the document. The U.S. Embassy in Nairobi has been vigorously denying complicity in getting out the “yes” vote, going as far as accusing its critics of “lying” and making “categorically false” claims. However, several U.S. Congressmen have uncovered information definitively revealing that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are actively campaigning for a […]
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U.S. Appeals Court Rules FCC Ban on “Fleeting” Obscenity “Chills” Free Speech

By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A U.S. Appeals Court has reversed a policy by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that held broadcasters liable for failing to bleep out “fleeting expletives,” saying the ban was  “unconstitutionally vague” and creates a “chilling effect” on free speech. A three judge panel for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 3-0 in favor of broadcasters against the FCC, which had instated the policy in 2006 as part of a crackdown on obscenity on the airwaves. The policy was in part motivated by singer Janet Jackson's infamous “wardrobe malfunction” during […]
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Civil Partnership Passes Irish Senate: Will Create “Social Chaos” Says Catholic Union Chair

By Hilary White DUBLIN, July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Civil Partnership Bill, which was passed by the Irish Upper House yesterday, will create ripples of change throughout Irish society and end in “social chaos,” a UK barrister warned last week. Under the proposed law, as in the UK, registered civil partnerships are effectively equivalent to marriage. Separations must be litigated in divorce courts, and the partners are treated as married by banks, government departments and officials and by the tax and benefits systems. Jamie Bogle, a barrister of the Middle Temple in London and chairman of the Catholic Union of […]
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Argentineans Take to the Streets While Senate Debates Gay ‘Marriage’ and Adoption

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tens of thousands of Argentineans took to the streets in protest yesterday as the nation's Senate entered into its final debate over a bill to create homosexual “marriage.” The bill was passed in May by the Chamber of Deputies, the nation's lower legislative house. Prior to taking a vote on the same-sex “marriage” bill, the Senate will vote on a bill to reject the Chamber of Deputies bill, a proposal that, at last count, was supported by a majority of senators. But if it fails, the bill […]
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Global Pro-Life Movement Must Adopt Comprehensive Cultural Approach: A Conversation with Professor J

By Hilary White GARDONE RIVIERA, Italy, July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The global pro-life movement must take a holistic approach to the society it is attempting to change, or it risks failure by compartmentalizing the issues into discrete and isolated topics, a professor of history told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) last weekend. For Catholics, he said, this means adopting the complete and comprehensive tradition of the Church, without editing for political reasons. (read the complete interview here) Dr. John C. Rao, who holds a doctorate in history from Oxford University and is associate professor of history at St. John’s University in New […]
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Global Pro-Life Movement Needs Big Cultural Picture to Succeed: Complete Interview

Roman Forum Conference Gardone Riviera, July 9, 2010 GARDONE RIVIERA, Italy, July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com attended the annual Roman Forum conference in Gardone Riviera in the north of Italy this week and sat down with Professor John Rao, author and lecturer in history, and the Forum’s organiser. LSN: I guess I’m mostly interested in the history of the Roman Forum first. JR: It was founded by Professor Deitrich Von Hildebrand in 1968. And the immediate cause for the foundation was the desire to defend Humanae Vitae and the Christian conception of life, and bringing new human beings to […]
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CHA Lauds Obama Pick of Socialized-Medicine Admirer as Medicare Head

Friday July 9, 2010 CHA Lauds Obama Pick of Socialized-Medicine Admirer as Medicare Head By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Health Association (CHA) has applauded President Obama’s recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick, an ardent admirer of the U.K.’s socialized medicine and of health care rationing, to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). CHA president Sr. Carol Keehan called Berwick “well qualified to implement provisions of the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” “We agree that the administration needs Dr. Berwick in place now as CMS chief in order […]
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Victoria, B.C. Pro-Life Billboard Vandalized

Friday July 9, 2010 Victoria, B.C. Pro-Life Billboard Vandalized By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VICTORIA, B.C., July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life billboard on the Pat Bay Highway, sponsored by Victoria Right to Life, has been defaced by vandals, the Victoria Right to Life Society revealed today. The sign on the east side of the highway, just south of Newton Cross Road, shows a young woman holding a baby with the message: “Love them both. Choose Life.” However, the word “Life” had been painted out, and the words “right to” have been inserted before “choose.” “This is a criminal act […]
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Archbishop Burke Appointed to Congregation for Divine Worship: Has Pro-Life Significance

Friday July 9, 2010 Archbishop Burke Appointed to Congregation for Divine Worship: Has Pro-Life Significance By Patrick B. Craine VATICAN, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI has named Archbishop Raymond Burke as a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. The appointment of Archbishop Burke, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura (the Vatican’s highest court), is significant due to the fact that it is this congregation that oversees the distribution of Holy Communion; Archbishop Burke is perhaps the most vocal figure in the Vatican on the need to deny […]
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60% at Royal Society of Medicine Debate Oppose Assisted Suicide in Britain

Friday July 9, 2010 60% at Royal Society of Medicine Debate Oppose Assisted Suicide in Britain By James Tillman LONDON, United Kingdom, June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a sign that opposition to legalizing assisted suicide may remain relatively strong in Britain, 60% of those in attendance at a public debate sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) voted to oppose any relaxation of British law forbidding assisted suicide. The debate came at the end of a long RSM-sponsored day of speeches both for and against the legalization of assisted suicide in the United Kingdom. Professor David Jones, Director […]
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Anglican Conservatives Foil Attempt to Appoint Gay Bishop in England

Friday July 9, 2010 Anglican Conservatives Foil Attempt to Appoint Gay Bishop in England By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BRITAIN, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An attempt to name an openly homosexual priest as Anglican Bishop of Southwark in England has been foiled by conservatives following the premature revelation of his candidacy, according to reports in the British media. Dr. Jeffrey John, who lives in a civil union with a man, while claiming to live a chaste life, was rejected after a leak to the media that he was under consideration, provoking a strongly negative response from more conservative Anglicans. It […]
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LifeSiteNews Daily News for Thursday July 8, 2010

Thursday July 8, 2010 SHARE THIS PAGE: E-mail Print US Joins Britain, Netherlands, UN to Support ‘Gay Pride’ in Peru Mexico’s Falling Birth Rate Threatens Future: Psychologist Development & Peace Apologizes to Pro-Life Group after Legal Threat Former Lesbian: I Craved Emotional Balance of Hetero Relationship Stay Away from Abortion Clinics?: “No Way” Says Jailed Pro-Lifer to Release Condition Archbishop Carlson: Abortion Supporters are Excommunicated, Should not Receive Communion Sweden Tightens Legal Noose on Homeschooling German Court Approves Genetic Screening in IVF New Canadian Governor General Spearheaded Pro-Gay Adoption/IVF Report Buffett Billions Padding “Charitable” Abortion Advocacy Vatican to UN: to […]
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Brazilian Soccer Star Accused of Ordering Lover’s Murder for Refusing Abortion

Friday July 9, 2010 Brazilian Soccer Star Accused of Ordering Lover’s Murder for Refusing Abortion By Thaddeus M. Baklinski RIO DE JANEIRO, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bruno Fernandes de Souza, goalkeeper, captain and idol of fans of Rio de Janeiro’s Flamengo soccer club, has been arrested for suspicion of arranging the murder of his one-time mistress Eliza Samudio. Samudio, who was described by the newspaper O Globo as “a student, model and pornographic film actress,” was seeking to prove that de Souza was the father of her now 4-month-old son who she called Bruninho (Little Bruno). Samudio had been […]
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BMA: Therapy to Treat Unwanted Same-Sex Attraction Should be Banned

Friday July 9, 2010 BMA: Therapy to Treat Unwanted Same-Sex Attraction Should be Banned By James Tillman BRIGHTON, United Kingdom, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British Medical Association (BMA) has passed a motion asserting that therapy meant to treat unwanted same-sex attraction is harmful, calling on the Royal College of Psychiatrists and other professional bodies to repudiate such treatments and forbid them in their codes of practice. More than two-thirds of the doctors who voted supported the motion. They also said that alleged cases of conversion therapy funded by Britain’s National Health Service should be investigated Junior doctor Tom […]
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Pastor Relieved of Legislature Prayer Duties for Using Jesus’ Name

Friday July 9, 2010 Pastor Relieved of Legislature Prayer Duties for Using Jesus’ Name By James Tillman RALEIGH, NC, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A North Carolina pastor was relieved of his duties as honorary chaplain with the state House of Representatives for closing a prayer with Jesus’ name. “I was made to feel like a second class North Carolinian when I was told that my services would no longer be needed if I could not offer the opening prayer in the manner prescribed by the House of Representatives, rather than in the manner my Biblical faith requires,” said Pastor […]
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Abortion Images Visit the Calgary Stampede

Friday July 9, 2010 Abortion Images Visit the Calgary Stampede By Thaddeus M. Baklinski CALGARY, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Visitors to this year’s Calgary Stampede, “The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth” according to calgarystampede.com, will be seeing something other than the world’s largest rodeo, concerts, wagon racing, parades and barbecues. Starting today and for each day of the Stampede, young staffers from the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR) will be holding graphic signs of aborted babies and engaging visitors on the subject of abortion. “While people descend on the city to celebrate the greatest outdoor show on earth, […]
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U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Vatican’s Immunity Not What it Seems, Says Legal Expert

By Patrick B. Craine WASHINGTON, July 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision over whether the Holy See can be named as a defendant in a sex abuse case is not what most media have reported, says a noted legal expert on religious discrimination. “Unlike just about everyone else who seems to have commented on the subject I decided to find the facts first and comment afterwards and the actual legal facts are quite different from what is being reported,” wrote UK lawyer and author Neil Addison on his blog. Addison is the founder of the Thomas […]
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Alabama Court Agrees to Protect Survivors’ Free Speech

Friday July 9, 2010 Alabama Court Agrees to Protect Survivors’ Free Speech BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal district court in Alabama approved a consent order today ensuring that police in Birmingham, Alabama, will not interfere with the first-amendment rights of the pro-life youth group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust. The city agreed to the order after the Survivors, represented by the Life Legal Defense Foundation, sued for injunctive relief and damages. The suit, filed in early June, arose from an incident in February 2009, when nine members of the Survivors, based in Riverside, California, were arrested […]
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Abortion Clinic Owner Responds with Chainsaw as Radio Blares: ‘God Bless Pro-Lifers!’

By Kathleen Gilbert ROCKFORD, Illinois, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Staff at the Rockford abortion mill, which has been blaring the radio through its speakers to drown out pro-life counselors for several weeks, got an unpleasant surprise Friday morning when a local D.J. found out what his show was being used for. LifeSiteNews.com has reported numerous times on the bizarre Rockford abortuary, which has taken to taunting pro-life witnesses with signage and other paraphernalia mocking Christianity and Jesus Christ, and even directing personal insults at local pro-lifers. (See coverage here) The facility’s latest form of harassment, blasting a radio talk […]
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U. of Illinois Fires Catholic Prof for Explaining Church Teaching on Homosexuality

By Kathleen Gilbert URBANA, Illinois, July 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic professor has been fired from the University of Illinois for sending an email to students in a course on Catholic doctrine, explaining how homosexual activity is contrary to the natural moral law. Kenneth Howell of Champaign, IL, also lost his job with the diocese of Peoria at the Newman center on campus, where he had been employed for 12 years, after university officials confronted Howell about the email. Howell had taught “Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought” at the university's Department of Religion since 2001. In an […]
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U.S. Embassy Denies Funding Campaign for Pro-Abort Kenya Constitution

By Kathleen Gilbert NAIROBI, July 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the launch of a probe into whether the federal government is illegally supporting a new pro-abortion constitution for Kenya, Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi have denied that America is funding a campaign favoring the document, saying only that the U.S. supports “the constitutional review process.” In a statement released today, the U.S. embassy emphasized that “The US Government is supporting the constitutional review process as the centrepiece of the broad reform agenda agreed to following the post-election crisis,” as reported by Kenya's Daily Nation. “The referendum is in […]
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Homosexual “Marriage” Bill Advances in Argentina

Monday May 10, 2010 Homosexual “Marriage” Bill Advances in Argentina By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Argentinean Chamber of Deputies, the nation’s lower legislative house, has approved a bill to legalize homosexual ‘marriage’ in the Latin American country, the second most populous Spanish-speaking nation in South America.’ The bill, which passed last week with a vote of 125-109, will now pass to the nation’s Senate. The attempt to legalize gay “marriage” follows several incidents in Argentina in which homosexual couples have been permitted to register a “marriage,” despite explicit language in […]
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Stupak: ObamaCare Debacle ‘Changed My Relationship with the Pro-life Movement’

Monday May 10, 2010 Stupak: ObamaCare Debacle ‘Changed My Relationship with the Pro-life Movement’ By James Tillman WASHINGTON, D.C., May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), the once-hero of the pro-life movement who vowed opposition to the pro-abortion health care reform bill only to vote for it in the end, has described in a Newsweek column how Obama’s 11th-hour promise of an “ironclad” executive order against abortion funding ruptured his relationship with the U.S. Catholic Bishops as partners in protecting the rights of the unborn. In the column, he repeats his previous assertion that health care reform […]
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Study: 65% of Sub-Fertile Women Achieve Pregnancy with Natural Method

Friday July 9, 2010 Study: 65% of Sub-Fertile Women Achieve Pregnancy with Natural Method July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A five-year study by the Ovulation Method Research and Reference Centre of Australia Ltd. found that sub-fertile women achieved a known pregnancy rate of 65% using the Billings Ovulation Method. Developed by Drs. John and Evelyn Billings, the Billings Ovulation Method, a completely natural method of fertility regulation, has been validated by eminent international scientists and verified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a five-nation trial. It is used by millions of women around the world to either achieve or […]
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Federal Judge Rules Fed Gay ‘Marriage’ Ban Unconstitutional

Friday July 9, 2010 Federal Judge Rules Fed Gay ‘Marriage’ Ban Unconstitutional By Kathleen Gilbert Updated: 07/09/10, 15:09 BOSTON, MA, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge in Boston has ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which enshrines in law the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, is unconstitutional. Judge Joseph Tauro claimed in a ruling Thursday that DOMA violates the right of homosexual couples to equal protection under the U.S. Constitution. “This court has determined that it is clearly within the authority of the Commonwealth to recognize same-sex marriages among its […]
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New Canadian Governor General Spearheaded Pro-Gay Adoption/IVF Report

Thursday July 8, 2010 New Canadian Governor General Spearheaded Pro-Gay Adoption/IVF Report By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s new Governor General, whose appointment was officially announced Thursday, has been an advocate for homosexual adoption and the destruction of unborn life through government-funded in vitro fertilization (IVF). David Johnston, 69, a career academic who has been president of the University of Waterloo since 1999, is set to be sworn in on October 1st. In a speech Thursday, Johnston said that he and his wife Sharon “have always believed that service, whether it is to family, […]
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Mexico’s Falling Birth Rate Threatens Future: Psychologist

Thursday July 8, 2010 Mexico’s Falling Birth Rate Threatens Future: Psychologist By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mexico’s falling birth rate is a threat to its future, according to María Alejandra Tallabs, an educational psychologist at Mexico’s Panamerican University. “Mexico, I say, is approaching the reality of European countries like Spain, France, Italy, and England, where in their enthusiasm for reducing the demographic increase, they adopt public policies that put their own descendants at risk as a people,” said Tallabs in a statement sent to the press conjointly with the organizations Codigo […]
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Notre Dame Honored GE Despite Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Notre Dame Honored GE Despite Embryonic Stem Cell Research SOUTH BEND, Indiana, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Notre Dame has ignored a request to rescind the University’s May 2010 honoring of General Electric (GE) for “values-based decision making,” despite the company’s involvement with embryonic stem cell research. In a letter dated June 1 to Notre Dame President Fr. John Jenkins, C.S.C., Cardinal Newman Society President Patrick J. Reilly wrote, “Given Notre Dame’s Catholic identity, especially considering its ‘Statement Supporting the Choice for Life’ issued a month ago, it is contradictory and potentially scandalous […]
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U.K. Labour Bid for Mandatory Sex Ed for Academies Tanks

Friday July 9, 2010 U.K. Labour Bid for Mandatory Sex Ed for Academies Tanks By Kathleen Gilbert LONDON, U.K., July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Members of the U.K.’s Labour Party have failed in an effort to force British academies to teach explicit sex education to children and teenagers as part of a broader curriculum, the U.K. Press Association reported Wednesday. Academies are a special type of school that, while receiving state funding, maintain a level of independence from government control. According to The Guardian’s Rebecca Smithers, academies have been compared to U.S. charter schools. The amendment to introduce compulsory sex […]
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US Joins Britain, Netherlands, UN to Support ‘Gay Pride’ in Peru

Thursday July 8, 2010 US Joins Britain, Netherlands, UN to Support ‘Gay Pride’ in Peru By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent LIMA, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The embassies of the United States, Britain, and the Netherlands have joined the United Nations to issue a declaration in favor of “gay rights” in Peru. “On the occasion of the celebrations of this year of Gay Pride in Peru, we express our support and solidarity with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities in Peru,” the signatories declare. “Transgender” is a reference to those who claim that their “true” sex is different […]
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Homosexualist Quebec Priest Set to Train Catechists at Cathedral

Tuesday July 6, 2010 Homosexualist Quebec Priest Set to Train Catechists at Cathedral By Patrick B. Craine JOLIETTE, Quebec, July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Diocese of Joliette in the southwest of Quebec has announced that they will be hosting catechetical formation in the Cathedral next month, under the tutelage of the controversial and famously-dissident former Member of Parliament Fr. Raymond Gravel. The training session is being held over two days, August 28 and September 25, and is meant for catechetical leaders, teachers, and parents. Fr. Gravel will be joined by Fr. Rémi Bourdon in leading the sessions. The announcement […]
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Buffett Billions Padding “Charitable” Abortion Advocacy

Thursday July 8, 2010 Buffett Billions Padding “Charitable” Abortion Advocacy By Peter J. Smith OMAHA, Nebraska, July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For the last number of years American billionaire Warren Buffett, 79, has gradually been giving away his estimated $47 billion fortune – and much of it is going to support the work of abortion activists worldwide. The Bloomberg news agency reports that Buffett’s annual gift this year to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – which supports population control efforts around the globe – was figured at $1.6 billion in Class B stock of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett’s Omaha-based company. […]
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German Court Approves Genetic Screening in IVF

Thursday July 8, 2010 German Court Approves Genetic Screening in IVF By Patrick B. Craine BERLIN, Germany, July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The German Supreme Court has allowed genetic screening of unborn children before they are implanted during in vitro fertilization. The decision is being hailed by some as a “landmark” decision for the country, and by others as a sign that “genocide” against the disabled is advancing in Germany. In a Tuesday ruling, the court sided with a Berlin gynecologist who between 2005 and 2006 screened embryos for three different couples where one partner carried a risk of hereditary […]
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Archbishop Carlson: Abortion Supporters are Excommunicated, Should not Receive Communion

Thursday July 8, 2010 Archbishop Carlson: Abortion Supporters are Excommunicated, Should not Receive Communion By James Tillman ST. LOUIS, Missouri, July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a new column, Archbishop Robert Carlson takes to task those who argue that abortion is simply a political issue, pointing out that it is also a serious moral issue. He also makes clear that one cannot be a good Catholic and be “pro-choice.” “People who are casual about the sin of abortion and who choose to view it as a political issue rather than the serious moral issue that it is are guilty of […]
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Former Lesbian: I Craved Emotional Balance of Hetero Relationship

Thursday July 8, 2010 Former Lesbian: I Craved Emotional Balance of Hetero Relationship By Kathleen Gilbert UNITED KINGDOM, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – British comedienne and former lesbian Jackie Clune has published an account of how, exhausted by the emotional dysfunction of her lesbian relationships, she discovered in her subsequent relationship with her husband a freedom to “[walk] alongside each other rather than spending life locked in face-to-face intimacy or combat.” “Looking at my four children racing around the garden with their father, it seems almost impossible to believe that only a few years ago I never imagined having a […]
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Ontario’s Highest Court: Ob/Gyns Owe Care to Unborn Child

Tuesday June 22, 2010 Ontario’s Highest Court: Ob/Gyns Owe Care to Unborn Child By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, June 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ontario’s highest court has confirmed that obstetricians are charged with caring for the unborn child as well as his or her mother. In a Thursday ruling the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the judgment of the Ontario Superior Court in a preliminary hearing to a malpractice suit filed against Guelph General Hospital by the Liebig family. In an unanimous decision, the five-judge panel denied the appeal based on the “very long and well-established” legal precedent that […]
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Stay Away from Abortion Clinics?: “No Way” Says Jailed Pro-Lifer to Release Condition

Thursday July 8, 2010 Stay Away from Abortion Clinics?: “No Way” Says Jailed Pro-Lifer to Release Condition By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mary Wagner, the B.C. pro-lifer incarcerated at Vanier women’s jail since her March 30th arrest, has refused a court demand to stay away from the abortuary where she offered sidewalk counseling, as a condition of her release. Wagner’s friend and supporter John Bulsza told LifeSiteNews (LSN) that presiding Judge Clemens said, during a hearing on July 7 at the College Park courthouse, that Mary had served enough time in jail, but then imposed […]
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Thousands Rally for Life in Belfast

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Thousands Rally for Life in Belfast By Hilary White BELFAST, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thousands rallying for life in Belfast on Saturday were warned that the most immediate threat to the country’s pro-life ethos is legislation that would allow the use of living embryonic human beings for experimentation. The legislation is expected to be announced by Health Minister Mary Harney in the fall. In what was described as a “jubilant atmosphere” with balloons, flags, banners and music, four thousand marched through the city centre that had been blocked to traffic by police. Participants report that, […]
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Prestigious Israeli University Sacks Professor for Same-Sex Parenting Comments

Tuesday July 6, 2010 Prestigious Israeli University Sacks Professor for Same-Sex Parenting Comments By Peter J. Smith BEERSHEBA, Israel, July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Officials at the prestigious Ben Gurion University in Israel say that they believe in academic freedom, but apparently draw the line when a professor comments negatively on homosexuality. Professor Yeruham Leavitt found this out the hard way, after he affirmed a student’s concern that homosexual parenting would deprive a child of a “normal” family upbringing during his lecture’s question-answer session for pharmacological students. According to Israeli news sources, the university fired Prof. Yeruham Leavitt, because three […]
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Study: TV and Video Game Exposure Leads to Attention Problems in Children

Tuesday July 6, 2010 Study: TV and Video Game Exposure Leads to Attention Problems in Children By Thaddeus M. Baklinski AMES, Iowa, July 6, 2010 (LifeSIteNews.com) – Researchers at Iowa State University have found that watching television and playing video games are both associated with increased subsequent attention problems in childhood, and that these problems may persist into late adolescence and early adulthood. The research was published on July 5 in the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Television viewing has long been associated with greater subsequent attention problems in children. The researchers recognized that few studies have examined […]
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Virginia Memorial for Unborn Vandalized

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Virginia Memorial for Unborn Vandalized By James Tillman FRANKLIN, Virginia, June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Vandals have broken and uprooted dozens of the 275 crosses set up by Rock Church in Franklin, Virginia to symbolize the victims of abortion. Rock Church has been putting the crosses up since April. Each cross stands for 10 babies killed by abortion. A sign by the crosses explains that in Hampton Roads, where Rock Church is located, 175 babies die of abortion every week. Seventeen crosses are added each week to represent those babies. “My hope would be that it’s […]
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Bobby Jindal Signs Landmark Abortion Reforms into Louisiana Law

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Bobby Jindal Signs Landmark Abortion Reforms into Louisiana Law By Peter J. Smith BATON ROUGE, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Gov. Bobby Jindal signed three landmark abortion bills on Tuesday that significantly tighten the state’s regulations on abortionists and their practices, and opt out the state from the national health care reform’s abortion mandates. Jindal signed two bills that were introduced and shepherded through the legislature by the Louisiana Right to Life Federation (LARTL). The Ultrasound before Abortion Act (SB 528) adds strict ultrasound requirements to the state’s informed consent laws. The law requires abortionists to […]
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Homosexual Priest Stole $1.3 Million for Male Escorts, Etc.

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Homosexual Priest Stole $1.3 Million for Male Escorts, Etc. By Patrick B. Craine WATERBURY, Connecticut, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A homosexual Connecticut Roman Catholic priest allegedly stole over a million dollars from his parish to pay for various extravagances and illicit activities, including male escorts, report the Waterbury police. Fr. Kevin Gray, 64, former pastor of Sacred Heart parish in Waterbury, has been charged with first-degree larceny after taking $1.3 million out of parish funds to pay for escorts, hotels, meals out, and clothes. He carried credit cards for two men on his account – […]
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30+ Major Pro-Life Leaders Joining Forces for Landmark ‘Ending Abortion’ Web Event July 10

Wednesday July 7, 2010 30+ Major Pro-Life Leaders Joining Forces for Landmark ‘Ending Abortion’ Web Event July 10 July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Leaders representing more than 30 national and regional pro-life organizations will be part of an unprecedented 10-hour webcast conference this Saturday to help local pro-lifers make a greater impact defending the unborn in their community and beyond. The conference will take place July 10, from 10am to 8pm EDT. David Bereit, national director of 40 Days for Life, is co-hosting and coordinating the event. “Over the last two years,” he said, “we’ve surveyed more than 28,000 people […]
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Dutch Doctor Reveals Euthanasia Laws Passed through Covert Planning Phase

Thursday July 8, 2010 Dutch Doctor Reveals Euthanasia Laws Passed through Covert Planning Phase Commentary by Alex Schadenberg, Chairman, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A letter written by Aycke Smook, a retired physician from Bergen Am Zee in the Netherlands, was published on the euthanasia lobby listserve to commemorate the death of Adelbert Josephus Jitta, a retired Dutch Prosecutor who had worked to change the euthanasia laws in the Netherlands. The letter explains how Jitta and Smook worked together to change the Dutch laws by establishing euthanasia protocols in the hospital, by undermining the Dutch euthanasia law […]
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UN Creates What May Become a Billion Dollar Agency for Radical Feminism

Thursday July 8, 2010 UN Creates What May Become a Billion Dollar Agency for Radical Feminism By Samantha Singson and Amanda Pawloski NEW YORK, July 8 (C-FAM) – Last Friday the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) voted to consolidate four separate UN bodies dedicated to women’s issues into one new gender equality entity called “UN Women.” The resolution capped a victory for radical feminists who lobbied for years for the new entity, which is the latest effort in an overall push to bring women’s issues even more onto the UN agenda. After four years of sometimes harsh negotiations, […]
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Vatican to UN: to Truly Empower Women, Honor Motherhood

Thursday July 8, 2010 Vatican to UN: to Truly Empower Women, Honor Motherhood By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Honoring motherhood as women’s unique service to others in the heart of the home is essential to the true empowerment of women, Archbishop Celestino Migliore told a United Nations meeting on gender equality and women’s empowerment this week. Representing the Holy See, Migliore said that the Vatican “notes with concern that … various forms of discrimination, exploitation and oppression of women and girls persist.” He said that “the empowerment of women presupposes universal human dignity and, thus, […]
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Poland’s New President Opposed by Pro-Life Leaders

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Poland’s New President Opposed by Pro-Life Leaders By Patrick B. Craine WARSAW, Poland, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life leaders in Poland are dismayed over the outcome of the country’s presidential election on Sunday. The Polish people elected liberal Bronislaw Komorowski to fill the spot left open after the late president Lech Kaczynski perished April 10th in a mysterious plane crash on Russian soil. Komorowski, 58, defeated Jaroslaw Kaczynski, 61, the late president’s identical twin, garnering 53% of the vote to Kaczynski’s 47%. Pro-life candidate Marek Jurek got only 1% of the vote and did not […]
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Breaking: Wisconsin Facility Abandons Late-term Abortion Plan under Pro-Life Fire

Wednesday May 5, 2010 Breaking: Wisconsin Facility Abandons Late-term Abortion Plan under Pro-Life Fire By Kathleen Gilbert MADISON, Wisconsin, May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-Life Wisconsin (PLW), through the Alliance Defense Fund, announced Wednesday that they have received official confirmation from the Wisconsin Attorney General’s office that the Madison Surgery Center (MSC) has abandoned its plans to perform late-term abortions. “We give credit first and foremost to God for this pro-life victory,” said Peggy Hamill, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin, in a statement Wednesday. “Pro-life grassroots activism works. We have held countless prayer vigils, attended by thousands; aired hundreds of […]
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Hawaii Bids Farewell to Same-Sex Unions as Governor Vetoes Bill

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Hawaii Bids Farewell to Same-Sex Unions as Governor Vetoes Bill By Peter J. Smith HONOLULU, Hawaii, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After months of wrangling and listening to both sides of the marriage debate, Republican Gov. Laura Lingle has vetoed legislation that would have established same-sex civil unions and made them equivalent to marriage in Hawaii. Lingle announced her decision Tuesday, the last day of a 45 working day period she was given to weigh a veto on HB 444, a bill which was suddenly revived and passed on the last day of Hawaii’s legislative session […]
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Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Hopes to Outlast Obama

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Hopes to Outlast Obama By James Tillman July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States of America has told friends that he will not retire until Barack Obama is no longer president, according to the New York Daily News. The Reagan-appointed justice turns 74 this month, and has spent 22 years on the Supreme Court He is considered the swing vote in many cases, and thus one of the most powerful justices. He wrote the majority opinion in 2007’s Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld […]
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New San Fran Bishop: Sanctions against Pro-Abort Pols Makes Church Too ‘Republican’

Tuesday July 6, 2010 New San Fran Bishop: Sanctions against Pro-Abort Pols Makes Church Too ‘Republican’ By Kathleen Gilbert SAN FRANCISCO, July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The newly-appointed auxiliary bishop of San Francisco has in the past criticized Catholic Church policy disallowing politicians who promote abortion from receiving Holy Communion, saying that such a move makes the Church appear too “partisan,” “Republican” and “coercive.” Msgr. Robert McElroy made the statements in a 2005 column for America magazine, in which he criticized Newark Archbishop John Myers for maintaining the policy against public figures who promote the murder of unborn children. Canon […]
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Obama Bypasses Senate to Install Controversial “Rationing Czar” at Medicare Center

By Peter J. Smith   WASHINGTON, D.C., July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Performing an “end-run” around the Senate confirmation process, President Barack Obama has installed Dr. Donald Berwick, an enthusiast for medical rationing and an unabashed admirer of the United Kingdom’s socialized health care system, as head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services via a recess appointment. The move means Berwick may take charge of the Center for the next year, without first having to go through Senate approval. This will allow him to have an influence on the CMS’s $800 billion budget and the myriad regulations that […]
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Pro-Abort Quebec Priest to Concerned Catholic: ‘Keep Your Nonsense to Yourself!’

By Patrick B. Craine JOLIETTE, Quebec, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –“I do not accept being judged by idiots of your temper,” wrote the infamously pro-abortion and homosexualist Fr. Raymond Gravel this week in response to a concerned fellow Catholic. “Keep your nonsense to yourself!” the priest added. The LifeSiteNews (LSN) reader, described by friends as a mild-mannered professor, had sent an e-mail to Fr. Gravel’s bishop, Gilles Lussier of Joliette, after a report Tuesday that the priest is scheduled to train catechists and others at the Cathedral in the coming months. The diocese apparently forwarded the e-mail to Fr. Gravel. “If you […]
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Victoria, B.C. Pro-Life Billboard Vandalized

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VICTORIA, B.C., July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life billboard on the Pat Bay Highway, sponsored by Victoria Right to Life, has been defaced by vandals, the Victoria Right to Life Society revealed today. The sign on the east side of the highway, just south of Newton Cross Road, shows a young woman holding a baby with the message: “Love them both. Choose Life.” However, the word “Life” had been painted out, and the words “right to” have been inserted before “choose.” “This is a criminal act that belies the use of the name ‘pro-choice’ by […]
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Homosexual ‘Marriage’ is a Machination of the Devil, Argentinean Cardinal Warns

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Argentina's number one Catholic prelate, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, is calling upon the priests of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires to bring their flocks to an upcoming protest against homosexual “marriage,” which is currently under consideration by the nation's senate. “Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God,” writes Bergoglio in a letter sent to the monasteries of Buenos Aires, where he is archbishop. “We are not talking about a mere bill, but […]
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Brazilian Soccer Star Accused of Ordering Lover’s Murder for Refusing Abortion

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski RIO DE JANEIRO, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bruno Fernandes de Souza, goalkeeper, captain and idol of fans of Rio de Janeiro's Flamengo soccer club, has been arrested for suspicion of arranging the murder of his one-time mistress Eliza Samudio. Samudio, who was described by the newspaper O Globo as “a student, model and pornographic film actress,” was seeking to prove that de Souza was the father of her now 4-month-old son who she called Bruninho (Little Bruno). Samudio had been seeking a court order for DNA testing to prove de Souza's paternity of the child, […]
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Archbishop Burke Appointed to Congregation for Divine Worship: Has Pro-Life Significance

By Patrick B. Craine VATICAN, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI has named Archbishop Raymond Burke as a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. The appointment of Archbishop Burke, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura (the Vatican’s highest court), is significant due to the fact that it is this congregation that oversees the distribution of Holy Communion; Archbishop Burke is perhaps the most vocal figure in the Vatican on the need to deny Communion to obstinately pro-abortion politicians. The Code of Canon Law, in canon 915, states that […]
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U.K. Labour Bid for Mandatory Sex Ed for Academies Tanks

By Kathleen Gilbert LONDON, U.K., July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Members of the U.K.'s Labour Party have failed in an effort to force British academies to teach explicit sex education to children and teenagers as part of a broader curriculum, the U.K. Press Association reported Wednesday. Academies are a special type of school that, while receiving state funding, maintain a level of independence from government control. According to The Guardian’s Rebecca Smithers, academies have been compared to U.S. charter schools. The amendment to introduce compulsory sex ed within the “personal, social and health education” (PSHE) curriculum in academies, put forward […]
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Study: Divorce Spreads Through Social Networks

Tuesday June 29, 2010 Study: Divorce Spreads Through Social Networks By Thaddeus M. Baklinski SANTA BARBARA, CA, June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study published by the Social Science Research Network has found that likelihood of divorce is influenced by the social network in which a person is involved. James H. Fowler and Rose McDermott of the Department of Political Science at the University of California, and Nicholas A. Christakis of Harvard University, utilized a longitudinal data set from the well-known Framingham-Heart Study to explore how social networks influence divorce. “Divorce is the dissolution of a social tie, but it […]
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ACLU Demands Feds Investigate Catholic Hospitals Refusing “Life-saving” Abortions

Tuesday July 6, 2010 ACLU Demands Feds Investigate Catholic Hospitals Refusing “Life-saving” Abortions By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Rights for me, but not for thee” seems to be the theme of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) latest duel with the U.S. Catholic Church. In an effort to get the federal government to mandate abortion as an emergency medical service in certain situations, the group has sent a letter to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services demanding it investigate Catholic hospitals for “potential violations” of U.S. law by failing to provide what the […]
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Belgian Bishops Ignored Parents on Grossly Sexually Explicit Catholic ‘Catechism’

Tuesday July 6, 2010 Belgian Bishops Ignored Parents on Grossly Sexually Explicit Catholic ‘Catechism’ By Hilary White BRUSSELS, July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A possible cover-up by the Belgian Catholic hierarchy of a vast scandal of sex abuse of minors by priests and bishops is likely to be less shocking to a group of parents who spent years trying, with no success, to have a graphic, sexually explicit “catechism” textbook withdrawn from Catholic schools. On June 24, the very day police were raiding the offices of the Archdiocese of Brussels and the home of Cardinal Godfreed Danneels, an article appeared […]
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USA Presbyterians Get Ready to Vote on Gay ‘Marriage’

Tuesday July 6, 2010 USA Presbyterians Get Ready to Vote on Gay ‘Marriage’ MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Presbyterians gathering this week in Minneapolis will face a potentially momentous decision: whether to preserve the teaching that marriage exists only between a man and a woman, or change the definition of marriage to a relationship between any “two people.” The 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), which began Saturday and concludes July 10, will take up a series of items, among them proposed constitutional amendments to change the definition of marriage in the PCUSA Book of Order. […]
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Euthanasia Bill Resurrected in Tasmanian Parliament

Tuesday July 6, 2010 Euthanasia Bill Resurrected in Tasmanian Parliament By James Tillman HOBART, Australia, July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Adrian Doyle of Hobart, Tasmania, has sharply criticized a “Dying with Dignity” bill that euthanasia proponents are once more attempting to push through the Tasmanian legislature – this time with taxpayer money. “As a society, we must be respectful of the sacred nature of human life and having this mistaken sense of compassion isn’t certainly respectful of human dignity,” he told the Catholic Weekly. Greens leader Nick McKim’s “Dying with Dignity Bill” has been defeated both this year and […]
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Expert Says Demise of Big Tobacco Provides Roadmap to Victory over Porn

Monday July 5, 2010 Expert Says Demise of Big Tobacco Provides Roadmap to Victory over Porn By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – How does America, considered the porn capital of the world, get rid of the scourge of pornography? Simple, one expert in the field tells LifeSiteNews.com (LSN): make pornography as socially unacceptable as smoking cigarettes, and pave the way for laws and litigation to finish off the billion-dollar smut empire. LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) spoke with Dr. Mary Anne Layden, an expert in treating those addicted to pornography, after a congressional briefing in the Capitol Visitor’s […]
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Rhode Island Gov. Vetoes Transgender Hate Crimes Bill

Monday July 5, 2010 Rhode Island Gov. Vetoes Transgender Hate Crimes Bill By Peter J. Smith PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican Gov. Don Carcieri vetoed a “hate crimes” bill last Wednesday that would have included transgenders as a protected class under Rhode Island state law. “I vetoed this legislation in the past and I do so again,” Carcieri declared. In a veto message, Carcieri said that Rhode Island already has hate crimes legislation on the books that empowers the state police to intervene in crimes related to bias. However, he added that the terms “gender identity […]
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Unanimously to Uphold Gay ‘Marriage’ Ban

Monday July 5, 2010 Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Unanimously to Uphold Gay ‘Marriage’ Ban MADISON, Wisconsin, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously refused on Wednesday to tear down a voter-approved constitutional amendment that affirms marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and prohibits the state from manufacturing other legal relationships that masquerade as marriage. Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed a friend-of-the-court brief last year on behalf of the Wisconsin Family Council in defense of the amendment, which a lower court upheld as constitutional. “Voters adopted the marriage amendment in Wisconsin for […]
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Planned Parenthood Defrauded Taxpayers of Millions Claims Reinstated Lawsuit

Monday July 5, 2010 Planned Parenthood Defrauded Taxpayers of Millions Claims Reinstated Lawsuit By James Tillman SAN FRANCISCO, CA, June 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is reinstating Gonzalez v. Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles, a case alleging that Planned Parenthood defrauded taxpayers of tens of millions of dollars by overbilling government programs for birth-control pills and similar items. Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), whose attorneys are handling the case, said that although “this case is by no means over, winning this appeal means we […]
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Canadian Bishops Release Letter on Human Trafficking at Vancouver Olympics

Friday January 29, 2010 Canadian Bishops Release Letter on Human Trafficking at Vancouver Olympics By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, January 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pastoral letter on human trafficking within the context of preparations for the 2010 Olympic Games to be held in Vancouver has been issued by the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. The pastoral letter begins with a reference to Senator Mobina Jaffer’s statement of November 14, 2007 on the potential for the sexual exploitation of women and children at the Vancouver Olympics. Senator Jaffer, quoting from a report […]
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Cardinal Danneels Questioned Today in Connection with Abuse Cover-ups

Tuesday July 6, 2010 Cardinal Danneels Questioned Today in Connection with Abuse Cover-ups By Hilary White BRUSSELS, July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The former cardinal archbishop of Brussels is being questioned in court hearings today on his suspected involvement in cover-ups of clerical sex abuse that occurred during his 30 years as head of the Belgian Catholic Church. Godfried Cardinal Danneels is taking the stand this morning in hearings that prosecutors are expecting “not to be short.” Additionally, local news reports that authorities were surprised to find concealed in Danneels’s home confidential court documents related to the infamous case of […]
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Obama Admin Touts Pregnancy Funds as Abortion ‘Common Ground’ Promised at Notre Dame

Monday July 5, 2010 Obama Admin Touts Pregnancy Funds as Abortion ‘Common Ground’ Promised at Notre Dame $25 million to support pregnant and parenting teens, billions to promote and pay for abortions By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Obama Administration has claimed that a new Health and Human Services fund helping pregnant teens delivers on President Obama’s promise to seek “common ground” on abortion in his “seminal” speech on the issue at the University of Notre Dame. CNN reported Friday that, in an email to nonprofit organizations from Obama announcing the initiative to nonprofit groups, […]
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Women ‘Must Be Prepared to Kill’ Unborn Children to Protect Autonomy: Times Writer

Tuesday July 6, 2010 Women ‘Must Be Prepared to Kill’ Unborn Children to Protect Autonomy: Times Writer By Kathleen Gilbert LONDON, U.K., July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After contemplating the immense mysteries of human life and sacrificial love in comparison to a woman’s “right to fertility control,” a writer for the Times of London concludes that attempts by pro-aborts to dismiss the life of an unborn child are a “convenient lie” hiding the fact that, “Yes, abortion is killing.” “But,” she concludes, “it’s the lesser evil.” Columnist Antonia Senior in a June 30 column (available by subscription only) says that, […]
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Bill Forcing Compliance with Gay Ceremonies Passes Irish Lower House

Monday July 5, 2010 Bill Forcing Compliance with Gay Ceremonies Passes Irish Lower House By Hilary White DUBLIN, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On July 1st, Ireland’s Civil Partnership Bill completed its passage through the Dail (Lower House) without a vote. Under the bill, civil registrars could face a fine of €2,000 (U.S. $2500) and up to six months in prison for conscientiously refusing to carry out a ceremony for a homosexual couple. Similar penalties are outlined for anyone refusing for reasons of conscience to rent meeting facilities for homosexual partnership ceremonies. The bill would create a near-equivalent situation to […]
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Phoenix Bishop: Failure to Correct Pro-Abort Pols ‘Emboldens’ to Greater Evil

Monday July 5, 2010 Phoenix Bishop: Failure to Correct Pro-Abort Pols ‘Emboldens’ to Greater Evil By Kathleen Gilbert PHOENIX, Arizona, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Those who refuse to take Catholic pro-abort politicians to task for their words and actions not only fail the standards of fraternal charity, but embolden such individuals to commit even greater acts of evil against human life and dignity, according to Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix. The remarks appeared in a short exposition of the nature of scandal in a column for the Catholic Sun of Phoenix last month. In the article Olmsted, one of […]
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Jimmy Kimmel Light Crew Burns Pro-Life Teen, Producers Apologize

Monday July 5, 2010 Jimmy Kimmel Light Crew Burns Pro-Life Teen, Producers Apologize By Kathleen Gilbert LOS ANGELES, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A light crew working for ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel drew the fury of pro-lifers in Los Angeles after the crew burned a pro-life teenage protester with a stage light. After protests were staged demanding an apology, the producers of the comedy show apologized and said they would not hire the same light crew again, according to reports. The conflict began on June 25 when the light crew encountered members of the Survivors of the […]
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Archbishop Carlson: Abortion Supporters are Not Good Catholics, Should not Receive Communion

By James Tillman ST. LOUIS, Missouri, July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a new column, Archbishop Robert Carlson takes to task those who argue that abortion is simply a political issue, pointing out that it is also a serious moral issue. He also makes clear that one cannot be a good Catholic and be “pro-choice.” “People who are casual about the sin of abortion and who choose to view it as a political issue rather than the serious moral issue that it is are guilty of violating the Fifth Commandment,” he writes. Human life is sacred, according to the archbishop, because “from its […]
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Stay Away from Abortion Clinics?: “No Way” Says Jailed Pro-Lifer to Release Condition

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mary Wagner, the B.C. pro-lifer incarcerated at Vanier women’s jail since her March 30th arrest, has refused a court demand to stay away from the abortuary where she offered sidewalk counseling, as a condition of her release. Wagner's friend and supporter John Bulsza told LifeSiteNews (LSN) that presiding Judge Clemens said, during a hearing on July 7 at the College Park courthouse, that Mary had served enough time in jail, but then imposed three conditions on her release. The first condition was bail of $500, the second was to be on […]
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Pro-Abort Catholic: Women Should Feel ‘Guilty’ if They Don’t Abort Inconvenient Child

Wednesday June 30, 2010 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 […]
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Planned Parenthood: 4th of July Speeches OK, Abortions on Military Bases Better

Monday July 5, 2010 Planned Parenthood: 4th of July Speeches OK, Abortions on Military Bases Better By John Jalsevac NEW YORK, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As hundreds of millions of Americans celebrated freedom and the founding of their country on Sunday, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards had something else on her mind – abortion. On July 4, Richards sent out an action alert, in which she urged congress to “stand up for women in uniform,” by allowing health clinics on military bases to perform abortions. The issue of abortion on military bases has been a hot-button topic in the […]
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30+ Major Pro-Life Leaders Joining Forces for Landmark ‘Ending Abortion’ Web Event July 10

July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Leaders representing more than 30 national and regional pro-life organizations will be part of an unprecedented 10-hour webcast conference this Saturday to help local pro-lifers make a greater impact defending the unborn in their community and beyond. The conference will take place July 10, from 10am to 8pm EDT. David Bereit, national director of 40 Days for Life, is co-hosting and coordinating the event. “Over the last two years,” he said, “we've surveyed more than 28,000 people who participated in 40 Days for Life campaigns, asking them how unified pro-life efforts can expand and have even greater […]
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Homosexual Priest Stole $1.3 Million for Male Escorts, Etc.

By Patrick B. Craine WATERBURY, Connecticut, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A homosexual Connecticut Roman Catholic priest allegedly stole over a million dollars from his parish to pay for various extravagances and illicit activities, including male escorts, report the Waterbury police. Fr. Kevin Gray, 64, former pastor of Sacred Heart parish in Waterbury, has been charged with first-degree larceny after taking $1.3 million out of parish funds to pay for escorts, hotels, meals out, and clothes. He carried credit cards for two men on his account – one whom he met at a strip club, the other from an escort service.  He […]
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Philippine Legislators Attempting to Resurrect Controversial Reproductive Health Bill

By James Tillman MANILLA, Philippines, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At least two representatives in the Philippine legislature have re-filed a controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill.  The bill would bring about government-sponsored promotion of contraception and sex education. “If they will continue to push for this Reproductive Health Bill, the Church will definitely make known its stand and oppose it,” Caloocan Bishop Deogracias Iniguez said in response. The bill has been introduced several times in previous congresses.  Only in the last did it get past committee and reach plenary deliberation; but it never came to a vote. Rep. Edcel Lagman, who […]
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CALIFORNIA PAYING WOMEN TO BE STERILIZED

Friday July 30, 1999 CALIFORNIA PAYING WOMEN TO BE STERILIZED CHICAGO, July 30 (LSN) – California is home to a new controversial sterilization program which is using billboard advertising to encourage drug-addicted women to get their tubes tied or to use long-term birth control. The program – CRACK (Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity) – offers a $200 incentive. Critics call the program “short-sighted, racist and a source of drug money for users,” reported the Associated Press last week. The founder of the program, however, appears to be motivated by a desire to reduce the number of children damaged by addicted […]
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New San Fran Bishop: Sanctions against Pro-Abort Pols Makes Church Too ‘Republican’

By Kathleen Gilbert SAN FRANCISCO, July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The newly-appointed auxiliary bishop of San Francisco has in the past criticized Catholic Church policy disallowing politicians who promote abortion from receiving Holy Communion, saying that such a move makes the Church appear too “partisan,” “Republican” and “coercive.” Msgr. Robert McElroy made the statements in a 2005 column for America magazine, in which he criticized Newark Archbishop John Myers for maintaining the policy against public figures who promote the murder of unborn children. Canon 915 of the Church's Code of Canon Law states that “those who have been excommunicated … and […]
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ACLU Demands Feds Investigate Catholic Hospitals Refusing “Life-saving” Abortions

By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –“Rights for me, but not for thee” seems to be the theme of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) latest duel with the U.S. Catholic Church. In an effort to get the federal government to mandate abortion as an emergency medical service in certain situations, the group has sent a letter to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services demanding it investigate Catholic hospitals for “potential violations” of U.S. law by failing to provide what the organization asserts are “life-saving” abortions. “The government must ensure that the well-being of the […]
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Belgian Bishops Ignored Parents on Grossly Sexually Explicit Catholic ‘Catechism’

By Hilary White BRUSSELS, July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A possible cover-up by the Belgian Catholic hierarchy of a vast scandal of sex abuse of minors by priests and bishops is likely to be less shocking to a group of parents who spent years trying, with no success, to have a graphic, sexually explicit “catechism” textbook withdrawn from Catholic schools. On June 24, the very day police were raiding the offices of the Archdiocese of Brussels and the home of Cardinal Godfreed Danneels, an article appeared in the Brussels Journal detailing the cardinal’s opposition to efforts to stop the catechism that […]
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Prestigious Israeli University Sacks Professor for Same-Sex Parenting Comments

By Peter J. Smith BEERSHEBA, Israel, July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Officials at the prestigious Ben Gurion University in Israel say that they believe in academic freedom, but apparently draw the line when a professor comments negatively on homosexuality. Professor Yeruham Leavitt found this out the hard way, after he affirmed a student’s concern that homosexual parenting would deprive a child of a “normal” family upbringing during his lecture’s question-answer session for pharmacological students. According to Israeli news sources, the university fired Prof. Yeruham Leavitt, because three students – at least one of them homosexual – were outraged that Leavitt would share […]
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Women ‘Must Be Prepared to Kill’ Unborn Children to Protect Autonomy: Times Writer

By Kathleen Gilbert LONDON, U.K., July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After contemplating the immense mysteries of human life and sacrificial love in comparison to a woman's “right to fertility control,” a writer for the Times of London concludes that attempts by pro-aborts to dismiss the life of an unborn child are a “convenient lie” hiding the fact that, “Yes, abortion is killing.” “But,” she concludes, “it's the lesser evil.” Columnist Antonia Senior in a June 30 column (available by subscription only) says that, despite the fact that the abortion debate hinges upon whether the unborn child is a unique life or […]
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G8 Abortion Push Weakened as Study Finds Newborn Mortality at All-Time Low

Wednesday May 26, 2010 G8 Abortion Push Weakened as Study Finds Newborn Mortality at All-Time Low May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new report released yesterday demonstrates that worldwide mortality for children under age 5 has dropped at a rate faster than expected and shows that child mortality is falling in every region of the world – a 35% reduction since 1990. The same prestigious institute that reported a significant drop in maternal mortality last month, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, today reported great progress in saving the lives of young children […]
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Pontifical Academy Member Upset at ‘Misrepresentation’ by U.S. Bishops’ News Service

Friday February 19, 2010 Pontifical Academy Member Upset at ‘Misrepresentation’ by U.S. Bishops’ News Service By Hilary White ROME, February 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A senior member of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) has told LifeSiteNews.com that she will be asking Catholic News Service (CNS), the official news agency of the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Conference, for a correction of their coverage of last week’s meeting of the Academy in Rome. After the crucial meeting, several senior members of the Academy issued a statement calling for the resignation of its president, Archbishop Rino Fisichella. But readers of CNS coverage, […]
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Latest Adult Stem Cell Advance Gives Sight to the Blind

Tuesday June 29, 2010 Latest Adult Stem Cell Advance Gives Sight to the Blind By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – For individuals blinded by chemical burns, the ever advancing field of adult stem-cell research has provided yet another astonishing cure – giving them sight through their own stem cells. Italian researchers have reported developing a very successful therapy to cure those who were either blinded, or whose vision was severely impaired by chemical burns to their corneas. Such burns can come about through handling everything from toxic cleaning substances at home to heavy-duty chemicals at […]
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Planned Parenthood Defrauded Taxpayers of Millions Claims Reinstated Lawsuit

By James Tillman SAN FRANCISCO, CA, June 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is reinstating Gonzalez v. Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles, a case alleging that Planned Parenthood defrauded taxpayers of tens of millions of dollars by overbilling government programs for birth-control pills and similar items. Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), whose attorneys are handling the case, said that although “this case is by no means over, winning this appeal means we have gotten the federal claim over the threshold hurdles and can now get down to […]
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Planned Parenthood: 4th of July Speeches OK, Abortions on Military Bases Better

By John Jalsevac NEW YORK, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –  As hundreds of millions of Americans celebrated freedom and the founding of their country on Sunday, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards had something else on her mind – abortion. On July 4, Richards sent out an action alert, in which she urged congress to “stand up for women in uniform,” by allowing health clinics on military bases to perform abortions. The issue of abortion on military bases has been a hot-button topic in the last month, after a U.S. Senate Committee in late May greenlighted an amendment to the FY 2011 […]
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Stalemate after Nebraska Health Board Rejects Conscience Compromise for Christian Psychologists

By James Tillman Updated 9:34am EST 7.6.10 LINCOLN, Nebraska, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—Defying the recommendations of Nebraska's top public health authority, the Nebraska Mental Health Practice Board has approved rules that could force Christian psychologists to refer clients with same-sex attraction seeking relationship therapy to professionals that support homosexuality. However, the chief medical officer has said she would not approve the new rules until a compromise is reached. While still allowing psychologists to decline to offer services, the board followed the state Board of Psychology in rejecting a rules change that would allow psychologists not to refer clients to counseling encouraging immoral behavior. […]
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Opinion: Canada, Taxpayers and Religious Liberty

By Charles Lewis July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Monday, the National Post's editorial board contended that Montreal’s Loyola High School should not have the right to opt out of a Quebec government-sponsored ethics and religion program — despite a court ruling allowing it to do so — because it receives public funds. The argument seems fair on the surface: The assumption is that as a religious school, Loyola is somehow outside the public sphere and therefore should be grateful for whatever public support it gets. But what the editorial fails to recognize is that public money does not mean secular […]
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Harper Credited for Keeping Abortion Out of G8 Maternal Health Plan

By Patrick B. Craine HUNTSVILLE, Ontario, July 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the G8 meetings in Muskoka on June 25-26, Prime Minister Stephen Harper seems to have held true to his commitment to not fund abortion as part of his “signature initiative” on maternal and child health. But at the same time he endorsed a plan that includes funds for “family planning.” Under the leadership of Prime Minister Harper, the G8 countries announced June 26 that they would be launching the Muskoka Initiative to “accelerate progress” towards improving maternal health and reducing child mortality (MDGs 5 and 4). The plan aims to […]
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Kagan Proves ‘The Artful Dodger’ on Abortion, Same Sex ‘Marriage’

Wednesday June 30, 2010 Kagan Proves ‘The Artful Dodger’ on Abortion, Same Sex ‘Marriage’ Commentary by Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Elena Kagan’s confirmation testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday could probably be summed up in her own words written 15 years ago about such hearings: a “vapid and hollow charade” replete with “repetition of platitudes” and “personal anecdotes.” The hearings, as Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Penn.) noted, have been largely devoid of “substantive discussion.” Kagan routinely gave so many non-committal and unrevealing answers to direct questions about her judicial philosophy that she could very […]
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Christian Views on Homosexuality Deemed “Hate Speech” by European Rights Agency

Wednesday June 30, 2010 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 […]
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Mr. President, With all the Crises, Where’s the Call to Prayer?

Monday June 28, 2010 Mr. President, With all the Crises, Where’s the Call to Prayer? Editorial by John-Henry Westen June 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It would seem that with the devastating, still unresolved Gulf oil spill crisis, the real possibility of Western military defeat in Afghanistan, the powderkeg situation in the Middle East, and the World economic crisis, the President of the United States would urge Americans to special prayer for the protection of America and for peace and stability in the world. So far, unlike many of his predecessors, and especially unlike his immediate predecessor, President Obama has not […]
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House Minority Leader Promises to Co-Sponsor Bill Codifying Hyde

Tuesday June 29, 2010 House Minority Leader Promises to Co-Sponsor Bill Codifying Hyde By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner pledged Tuesday to the 40th annual National Right to Life Convention (NRLC) that he would sign on to legislation, soon to be introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), that would make the Hyde amendment barring taxpayer funding for abortion permanent law. “It’s clear from the health care debate that the American people don’t want their tax dollars paying for abortion, and a bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives agrees,” said […]
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Quebec Bishops Welcome Court Ruling Upholding Religious Ed

Tuesday June 29, 2010 Quebec Bishops Welcome Court Ruling Upholding Religious Ed By Patrick B. Craine QUEBEC, June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Quebec Bishops Assembly has applauded the province’s Superior Court’s June 18 ruling upholding the right of a Catholic private school to teach religion and morality within a Catholic context. In a Monday letter, Bishop Martin Veillette of Trois-Rivières praised Justice Gerard Dugré’s decision to allow Loyola High School, a Catholic boys’ school in the Jesuit tradition, to offer Quebec’s highly controversial and rigorously secular ethics and religious culture program from a faith perspective. “This ruling sheds new […]
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BC Hospitals Refuse to Release Abortion Data

Friday April 30, 2010 BC Hospitals Refuse to Release Abortion Data By Patrick B. Craine VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two BC hospitals have refused to divulge information about abortions conducted at their facilities, following a freedom of information request from a major pro-life group. “If abortion statistics are going to be hidden in British Columbia, they will be hidden everywhere,” said John Hof, head of Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) BC, which requested abortion information from Vancouver General Hospital and Kelowna General Hospital over a year ago. “What better way to win an argument – ‘Oh, how […]
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Analysis: False Gospel of ‘Equity’ Lures Ontario Catholic School Boards

Tuesday June 29, 2010 Analysis: False Gospel of ‘Equity’ Lures Ontario Catholic School Boards TORONTO, Ontario, June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Many parents are raising serious concerns about what they see as the ready willingness of far too many Catholic School Boards across Ontario to get into bed with the heavy-handed, often dangerous ideologies of the Ministry of Education’s “Equity and Inclusivity” initiatives. One of the first major waves of these initiatives was seen in the Ministry of Education’s recent attempt to introduce a controversial new “Health and Physical Education” curriculum into grades K-8, by September 2010. This curriculum was […]
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Tick, Tock: More U.S. Women Running Out Biological Clock for Childbearing

Tuesday June 29, 2010 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 […]
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Equity Training for Ontario Catholic Boards: Homosexuality ‘Normal’, ‘Natural’

Tuesday June 29, 2010 Equity Training for Ontario Catholic Boards: Homosexuality ‘Normal’, ‘Natural’ By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The majority of Ontario’s Catholic education establishment has backed the Ontario Ministry of Education’s equity and inclusive education strategy, even where it mandates “equity” based on sexual orientation, on the basis that the Catholic Church has always emphasized equity and inclusivity. But as the Catholic boards prepare to implement their new “equity” policies this fall, it would appear that they are not only being trained to welcome homosexual people, but also to endorse homosexual behavior. As […]
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U.K. Methodist Church to Clarify Abortion Stance

Wednesday June 30, 2010 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 […]
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Some Conservatives Slam, others Downplay SCOTUS Ruling against Christian Group

Tuesday June 29, 2010 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, […]
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From Pornographer to Family Media: A Web Developer’s Conversion

Tuesday June 29, 2010 From Pornographer to Family Media: A Web Developer’s Conversion By Patrick B. Craine June 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The former owner of a multi-million dollar pornography business is now sharing his testimony about how he left the industry and found faith in Christ, and how he is now using his skills to advance God’s glory through Christian, family-friendly media. Jeff Myers, whose porn sites had hosted millions of images and thousands of hours of video, shared his story on The 700 Club, a live program for the Christian Broadcasting Network. “My life was a disaster. I […]
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Report Debunking Fetal Pain Shows ‘Stunning Lack of Scholarship’: NRLC

Tuesday June 29, 2010 Report Debunking Fetal Pain Shows ‘Stunning Lack of Scholarship’: NRLC By Patrick B. Craine LONDON, U.K., June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A newly-released report from the London-based Royal College Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) purporting to show that unborn children do not feel pain before 24 weeks has made international headlines in the last few days. But according to pro-life leaders, the study ignores key evidence and is little more than an attempt by abortion advocates to deceive the public. The issue of fetal pain received significant exposure earlier this year in the U.S. after a landmark […]
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Rwandan Genocide Rape Victims Grateful for Children Conceived in Rape

Wednesday June 30, 2010 Rwandan Genocide Rape Victims Grateful for Children Conceived in Rape By Thaddeus M. Baklinski KIGALI, Rwanda, June 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The tribal genocide of 1994 in Rwanda resulted in more than 800,000 Rwandan deaths and countless women suffering rape at the hands of the Hutu militia who were ordered to kill off the country’s minority Tutsi tribe. Now, 16 years later, the children of the raped women are facing the reality of how they were conceived. They and their mothers are looking for acceptance in a society that is still healing from the horrors of […]
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Belgian Church Raids Compared to Babylonian Chastisement

Tuesday June 29, 2010 Belgian Church Raids Compared to Babylonian Chastisement By Hilary White BRUSSELS, June 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A police raid, the detaining of bishops and the confiscation of files on priestly sexual abuse can be seen as a form of chastisement for decades of open dissent from Catholic teaching by Church authorities in Belgium, a prominent pro-life leader has said. Brussels police raided the offices of the Brussels Archdiocese on Thursday, searched the cathedral and seized computers and files from the residences of both the current archbishop of Brussels and Cardinal Godfreed Daneels who retired as the […]
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Major Canadian Businesses Supporting Raunchy Toronto Gay Pride Parade

Tuesday June 29, 2010 Major Canadian Businesses Supporting Raunchy Toronto Gay Pride Parade By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews has compiled a list of the corporate sponsors who are supporting Toronto’s sordid annual homosexual “pride” parade (see below). Most of the sponsors are private companies, but some, such as OLG (Ontario Lottery and Gaming) are government-run organizations. REAL Women of Canada’s National President, Cecilia Forsyth, released a letter following last year’s Toronto homosexual exhibition saying, “The Gay Pride Parade is well known for its full nudity, open engagement in public sexual acts and its deliberate […]
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Woman Kills Wrongly-Implanted Embryos with Morning-After Pill

Tuesday June 29, 2010 Woman Kills Wrongly-Implanted Embryos with Morning-After Pill By Peter J. Smith HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a disastrous chain of events, a set of “wanted” embryos quickly became “unwanted” after an artificially impregnated women was informed by her fertility clinic that they had accidentally implanted the embryos of another woman by the same name. The woman’s solution was to take the morning-after pill (which, ironically, pro-abortion forces insist is simply a form of contraception and cannot cause an abortion) and abort the nascent life within her. The Associated Press reports that the Center […]
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Elderly Baptist Sues D.C. Church for Performing Gay Commitment Ceremony

Monday June 28, 2010 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. […]
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Nude Beach Bishop OK with Gay Relationships

Monday June 28, 2010 Nude Beach Bishop OK with Gay Relationships By Hilary White June 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Portuguese Catholic bishop has told media that he is “OK” with homosexual relationships and complained that the Church is a “little inflexible” in “cultural matters” like contraception and homosexuality. In an interview with Ionline, a Portuguese language news site, Januário Torgal Ferreira, bishop for the Armed Forces of Portugal, said, “I do not agree with the notion of [same-sex] marriage. I do agree with and accept a man who lives with a man, and a woman who lives with a […]
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GOPers Flag Kagan’s Abortion, Gay Advocacy in Confirmation Opening Remarks

Monday June 28, 2010 GOPers Flag Kagan’s Abortion, Gay Advocacy in Confirmation Opening Remarks By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., June 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some Republican senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee indicated their opposition to Supreme Court hopeful Elena Kagan’s pro-abortion and homosexualist agenda, as well as her activist leanings, amid opening remarks at the first in a series of Senate confirmation hearings today. The committee began with a series of opening statements Monday. Questioning of the nominee will begin Tuesday. Democratic senators lauded Kagan’s credentials as a legal scholar, while Republicans expressed concern over her apparent penchant for […]
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Creative Math: Abortion Activists and Maternal Health

Friday June 25, 2010 Creative Math: Abortion Activists and Maternal Health By Andrea Mrozek, Manager of Research and Communications, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada June 25, 2010 (IMFC) – Is abortion a necessary part of the maternal health initiative? Would funding abortion in the developing world really save 70,000 mothers’ lives annually? These are questions the media are not asking as the number has been repeated in news reports across the country and internationally. The 70,000 figure is used to show that excluding abortion from a maternal health package means ideology is trumping sound medical care at the expense […]
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Wisconsin Court Tells Lesbian: Legal Adoption, Not ‘Nurturing,’ Gives Parental Rights

Friday June 25, 2010 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 […]
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On Pill Anniversary, Pro-Life Action League Encourages Confident Opposition to Contraception

Wednesday June 23, 2010 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 […]
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules Gay, Diversity Rights Override Religious Freedom

Monday June 28, 2010 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 […]
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Vancouver Archbishop on Pro-Life Activism: “The Time is Now”

Monday June 28, 2010 Vancouver Archbishop on Pro-Life Activism: “The Time is Now” By Patrick B. Craine VANCOUVER, B.C., June 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop J. Michael Miller of Vancouver has called on every member of the faithful in his diocese to take an active role in the pro-life movement. “We can make a difference; the time is now, and the tide is turning,” he wrote in a pastoral message for Pro-Life Sunday on June 20. “No issue is more important for our society and country. It calls each of us to be part of the solution to the tragedy […]
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Oregon Planned Parenthood Offers RU-486 Abortion in ‘Privacy of Their Home’

Thursday February 25, 2010 Oregon Planned Parenthood Offers RU-486 Abortion in ‘Privacy of Their Home’ By Peter J. Smith ASHLAND, Oregon, February 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Starting in March, Planned Parenthood of Southwest Oregon plans to offer RU-486 prescriptions to women seeking abortion at its clinics in Ashland and Eugene, telling them they can have chemically induced abortions surrounded by the comforts of home. According to Oregon’s Mail Tribune, Cynthia Pappas, the local Planned Parenthood executive director, indicated that the decision was partially due to the limited availability of abortion thanks to local abortionists nearing retirement age. “The reason people […]
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NOTORIOUS EARTH CHARTER OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED

Friday June 30, 2000 NOTORIOUS EARTH CHARTER OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED THE HAGUE, Netherlands, June 30 (LSN.ca) – Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands officially launched the Earth Charter yesterday in The Hague. The document heralded by population control gurus Mikhail Gorbachev, Maurice Strong and Stephen Rockefeller is described as an “unprecedented ethical and moral framework to guide the conduct and behavior of people and nations to each other and the Earth.” Besides being riddled with new age philosophies and mantras centering on earth worship, the document attacks pro-life and pro-family values. Using typical UN language for abortion (i.e. reproductive health) the Charter […]
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DEPOPULATIONIST MAURICE STRONG GETS UPGRADED ORDER OF CANADA

Thursday January 13, 2000 DEPOPULATIONIST MAURICE STRONG GETS UPGRADED ORDER OF CANADA OTTAWA, Jan 13 (LSN.ca) – Maurice Strong, arguably one of the most influential Canadians on the international scene pushing for population control and a ‘new world order’, this week received the highest degree in the Order of Canada, that of a “Companion”. Governor General Adrienne Clarkson made the appointment Tuesday. As advisor to both the UN Secretary General and the president of the World Bank, Strong asserts his influence pushing for radical environmentalism which has population control as its mainstay. Strong was one of the original organizers of […]
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