Pro-Life 101: “How Dare You Call me Pro-Abortion?! I’m Pro-Choice!”

Friday August 6, 2010 Pro-Life 101: “How Dare You Call me Pro-Abortion?! I’m Pro-Choice!” Commentary by Hilary White ROME, August 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Perhaps I am just obsessive, but something happened in Rome a year or so ago that has been bothering me and won’t leave me alone. In June last year, when the Vatican was gearing up for a state visit from the new president of the US, the editor-in-chief of the Vatican’s daily newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, made the extraordinary statement that Barack Obama’s long, flawless pro-abortion voting record, policies and personal opinions do not make him “a […]
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Episcopalians Sanctioned by Anglicans over Lesbian Bishop

Friday June 11, 2010 Episcopalians Sanctioned by Anglicans over Lesbian Bishop By Patrick B. Craine LONG BEACH, California, June 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Episcopalian Church has been sanctioned by the Anglican Communion following their ordination last month of an openly lesbian bishop. Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, secretary general of the Communion, wrote to the Episcopalians June 7 informing them that their memberships in the Communion’s ecumenical dialogues had been suspended. The Episcopalians ordained Mary D. Glasspool, who has lived with her same-sex partner since 1988, as a suffragan bishop for the Los Angeles diocese on May 15th. The ordination […]
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Supreme Court Shakily Upholds Mojave Cross Display 5-4

Wednesday April 28, 2010 Supreme Court Shakily Upholds Mojave Cross Display 5-4 WASHINGTON, D.C., April 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a 5-4 majority ruling filed today, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the continued display of a lone cross in California’s Mojave Desert memorializing veterans of World War I. In Salazar v. Buono, the ACLU filed suit to remove the 8-foot cross. Following the lower court ruling, the cross was covered with a cloth and now is boxed in with plywood so it looks like a blank sign. It remained that way pending this final decision. The […]
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D.C. Archdiocesan Blog: Let the Man Head the Household

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It's a concept largely discarded as an antiquated view of gender roles, even in most Christian circles: the notion that a husband leading the home is the best way to keep a family running smoothly. Yet Monsignor Charles Pope, a blogger for the Archdiocese of Washington, pointed out in a post earlier this month that rejecting this model is at the root of “one of the biggest problems today in marriage.” This Bible-based tradition, he says, is vital for couples hoping to dodge the destructive “power struggle” of the modern […]
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Not Talking: Planned Parenthood Tightlipped after Revoking PP Name from Affiliate

By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug. 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood (PP) Federation of America is not divulging the details behind its decision to revoke its trademark from a San Francisco area affiliate. The decision to distance itself from one of its own affiliates is a step that is rarely taken by PP: even those clinics caught violating the law by pro-life undercover reporter Lila Rose in recent years have retained full enjoyment of the PP name. Planned Parenthood of the Golden Gate (PPGG), which was implicated in the 2003 RU-486 death of Holly Patterson, operates eight […]
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Parents Must Unite to Scrap Ontario Equity Strategy, Says Pro-Family Group

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario government’s equity and inclusive education strategy is “a program of child indoctrination” that “represents a frontal assault on the moral & religious values of a majority of parents, and a trampling of their parental rights,” argues the political pro-life and pro-family group Campaign Life Coalition (CLC).  The group is calling for the strategy to be scrapped and is urging concerned individuals to join their campaign. Premier Dalton McGuinty is “getting ready to reprogram your children’s moral values,” says CLC national president Jim Hughes in a video message […]
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Chaos and Ideology Reign at UN Conference on Youth in Leon, Mexico

Friday August 27, 2010 Chaos and Ideology Reign at UN Conference on Youth in Leon, Mexico By Samantha Singson, Austin Ruse, Terrence McKeegan, J.D. LEÓN, MEXICO, August 27, 2010 (C-FAM https://www.c-fam.org/) – Early reports from participants at the World Youth Conference that commenced this week in León, Mexico are that the conference is the scene of ideological rigidity and yet almost total chaos. There seem to be four conferences going on at once, one for youth, one for governments, one for parliamentarians, and one called the Global Interactive Forum. A measure of the chaos at the governmental forum is that […]
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Ottawa Parish Group Promoting Gay Pride

Wednesday August 25, 2010 Ottawa Parish Group Promoting Gay Pride By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, August 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The young adult group at a Catholic parish in Ottawa is promoting the city’s homosexual Pride parade this weekend. The young adult faith community at St. Joseph’s Parish has advertised on their blog that the “Gay Catholics, Christians and Allies” group at the University of Ottawa is rallying supporters to march as a group at the Capital Pride march this Sunday, August 29. The ad notes that the group “wants gay persons to be welcomed by the official Christian […]
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Full Interview with Dr. Walter Schumm

Wednesday August 18, 2010 Full Interview with Dr. Walter Schumm August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Judge Walker built his decision overturning Proposition 8 on many “findings of fact,” which to a great extent came from experts supplied by the opponents of Proposition 8. But according Dr. Walter Schumm, professor of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas State University, many of these so-called facts are either false or doubtful. In the following interview with LifeSiteNews.com (LSN), Dr. Schumm explains that homosexual parents are more likely to raise homosexual children; that scholars are often biased in favor of research friendly to […]
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UN Campaigns for Homosexual Adoption in Mexico

Friday August 27, 2010 UN Campaigns for Homosexual Adoption in Mexico By Amanda Pawloski, co-authored by Dianelle Martinez NEW YORK, August 26, 2010 (C-FAM) – In the midst of a controversial judicial consideration of homosexual adoption earlier this month, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ran an ad campaign that appeared to support the effort to overturn Mexico City’s law against homosexual adoption. According the website of the Office of High Commission, an estimated 5 million people a day carried subway tickets with the message, “Embrace diversity; End discrimination.” The purpose of the campaign was […]
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Despite Bishop’s Objection, Seton Hall to Pursue Gay ‘Marriage’ Course

By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey, August 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Seton Hall University, a Catholic institution of higher education, has not backed down from plans to offer a course on gay “marriage” taught by a homosexual activist professor, it has been confirmed. News broke in April that political science professor W. King Mott, an openly practicing homosexual who was once demoted after calling the Catholic Church “prima facie homophobic,” was slated to teach an upper-level course entitled “The Politics of Gay Marriage” in the Fall 2010 semester. Archbishop John J. Myers immediately rebuked the plan as “out of sync” […]
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Doctors’ Religious Beliefs Affect End-of-Life Decisions: UK Survey

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LONDON, August 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The religious beliefs of doctors strongly influence the decisions they make when caring for terminally ill patients, according to research published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Dr. Clive Seale, a professor at the Centre for Health Sciences, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, conducted a postal survey of 3733 UK medical practitioners, 2923 of whom reported on the care of their last patient who died. Dr. Seale found that “doctors who described themselves as non-religious were more likely than others to report having given continuous deep […]
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Ontario Law Could See Gay Counselling for Youth Behind Parents’ Backs

Friday August 6, 2010 Ontario Law Could See Gay Counselling for Youth Behind Parents’ Backs By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, August 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario Ministry of Education is implementing a new “safe schools” policy that some fear could see students offered “sexual orientation” or “gender identity” counselling behind their parents’ back. Bill 157, the “Keeping Our Kids Safe at School” Act, which took effect February 1st, makes it mandatory for school staff to report incidents of inappropriate student behaviour, such as bullying, to principals. However, while the law also requires principals to report incidents to a […]
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Personhood Initiative Certified For Colorado Ballot

Monday March 29, 2010 Personhood Initiative Certified For Colorado Ballot DENVER, Colorado, March 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Colorado Personhood Amendment’s signatures have been certified, and the Personhood Amendment will be on the Colorado ballot in November, declared Personhood Colorado on Friday. Personhood Colorado sponsored the ballot initiative to amend the State Constitution recognizing the Personhood rights of all humans, from their biological beginning to their natural death. The amendment states: “the term ‘person’ shall apply to every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being.” On March 4, the Colorado Secretary of State disclosed […]
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‘Dr. Death’ Admits on CNN – Thomas Youk His Second, Not First Murder

Tuesday June 22, 2010 ‘Dr. Death’ Admits on CNN – Thomas Youk His Second, Not First Murder By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the infamous advocate of assisted suicide known as “Dr. Death” who helped kill 133 people, admitted to CNN television host Larry King that he murdered another woman before he killed Thomas Youk. It was the latter killing that landed Kevorkian in prison for eight years. On Friday, Kevorkian told Larry King on CNN’s Larry King Live that he directly killed Janet Adkins in June 1990, contradicting his previous story […]
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Former Board Member Blasts Nuns for Opposing USCCB, Supporting Health Bill

Monday April 26, 2010 Former Board Member Blasts Nuns for Opposing USCCB, Supporting Health Bill By James Tillman COLUMBIA, South Carolina, April 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A former board member of the Sisters of Charity Foundation has blasted Providence Hospital and the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine in South Carolina, for having endorsed the pro-abortion health care reform bill that was opposed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and by countless pro-life organizations. Instead of adopting the position of the USCCB that the bill lacked sufficient protections for conscience rights and the unborn, the religious order […]
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Television Program From the Past Eerily Appropriate to Today

Wednesday August 25, 2010 Television Program From the Past Eerily Appropriate to Today Commentary by Steve Jalsevac August 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews journalist Hilary White sent me an email noting links to the three-part YouTube video of a 1950s Twilight Zone television series segment called, The Obsolete Man. Hilary, who has been covering major international developments for some time, suggested the segment was well worth viewing again in light of today’s trends. I have to agree after going through it and considering the very extensive research I just undertook for the August 24 commentary, Militant Islam Versus the West […]
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Defy Spanish Abortion Law: Vatican Cardinal

Thursday August 5, 2010 Defy Spanish Abortion Law: Vatican Cardinal By Hilary White ROME, August 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of a major Vatican dicastery and the former archbishop of Toledo, has criticised lawmakers on both left and right who supported the new Spanish abortion law that allows virtual abortion-on-demand. Antonio Cardinal Cañizares Llovera, the head of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and Sacraments, referred to the “dictatorship of relativism” that has allowed this law to be put in place that he said will destroy democracy. “Whoever denies the right to life is against democracy and leads society […]
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Archbishop Chaput: “Systematic Discrimination Against Church Now Seems Inevitable”

Wednesday August 25, 2010 Archbishop Chaput: “Systematic Discrimination Against Church Now Seems Inevitable” SPISSKE, PODHRADIE, Slovakia, August 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – MUST READ Excerpts from Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput’s address to the 15th symposium for the Canon Law Association of Slovakia on Tuesday: Today’s secularizers have learned from the past. They are more adroit in their bigotry; more elegant in their public relations; more intelligent in their work to exclude the Church and individual believers from influencing the moral life of society. Over the next several decades, Christianity will become a faith that can speak in the public square less […]
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Study: Nigerian Doctors Unwilling to Commit Abortions

Friday August 6, 2010 Study: Nigerian Doctors Unwilling to Commit Abortions August 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study has found that only 13.4% of doctors in Nigeria would be willing to do abortions, if Nigerian abortion law were liberalized. Abortion is currently illegal in Nigeria except to save the life of the mother. Furthermore, doctors did not consider the liberalization of Nigerian abortion law to be a very effective strategy in reducing abortion-related maternal deaths. They instead viewed abstinence from pre-marital sex and contraceptive use as the most effective strategy for reducing abortion-related deaths. Physicians were equally divided, however, […]
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Supreme Court has Committed “Treason” Against Mexico: Cardinal

Tuesday August 24, 2010 Supreme Court has Committed “Treason” Against Mexico: Cardinal By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, August 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Guadalajara’s Cardinal Archbishop Juan Sandoval Íñiguez says that Mexico’s Supreme Court has committed “treason” against Mexico for approving the killing of the unborn, and homosexual “marriage” and adoption of children as “constitutional.” Writing in the diocesan newspaper El Semanario, Sandoval Íñiguez states that “there was already a most serious error in having validated, from that level of the judicial power that is the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, the supposed ‘marriage’ between […]
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Pro-Life Leaders Vow to Fight Iowa ‘Telemed’ Abortions

Tuesday August 24, 2010 Pro-Life Leaders Vow to Fight Iowa ‘Telemed’ Abortions By Kathleen Gilbert DES MOINES, Iowa, August 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A coalition of pro-life leaders on Friday delivered a letter to the Iowa Board of Medicine asking that it investigate a scheme allowing doctors to distribute the risky RU-486 abortion drug without being present to the patient, known as “telemed” abortions. The scheme, which Planned Parenthood of the Heartland has implemented since June 2008, allows doctors to prescribe the abortion pills via a remote-control system to women in remote areas who visit an office with an unlicensed […]
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English Bishops Must Reject Homosexualist Agenda or Lose Ground on Life Issues: John Smeaton

Tuesday August 24, 2010 English Bishops Must Reject Homosexualist Agenda or Lose Ground on Life Issues: John Smeaton By Hilary White LONDON, August 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – John Smeaton, the head of the UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and one of the most prominent pro-life advocates in the world, has called for the Catholic bishops of Britain to cut their ties with Catholic groups that promote homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle. But there is little hope of that, says one prominent Catholic campaigner, while the archdiocese of Westminster, Britain’s leading Catholic see, continues to host bi-monthly public […]
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Romanian Christian Leaders Promulgate Pro-Life, Pro-Family Timisoara Declaration

Tuesday August 24, 2010 Romanian Christian Leaders Promulgate Pro-Life, Pro-Family Timisoara Declaration By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BUCHAREST, August 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Alliance of Romania’s Families, a group headed by prominent Christian leaders and intellectuals of Romania’s Christian community, have launched a manifesto of Christian conscience. The effort is patterned on similar actions taken by U.S., UK, and Australian Christians which have resulted in the Manhattan Declaration, Westminster Declaration, and the Canberra Declaration. The Timisoara Declaration calls on the Romanian State and public officials to respect and take into account, in the drafting and implementing of laws and public […]
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Criminal Complaint Against Telemed Abortions Filed With Iowa Attorney General

Friday June 25, 2010 Criminal Complaint Against Telemed Abortions Filed With Iowa Attorney General DES MOINES, IA, June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Operation Rescue (OR) has filed a formal complaint with the Iowa Attorney General’s office asking for a criminal investigation of a remote-controlled push-button Internet abortion pill scheme operated by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland known as “telemed abortion.” Earlier this year OR investigators found that a dozen small Planned Parenthood offices in Iowa were administering the dangerous abortion drug, RU 486, without the patient having been personally examined by a physician. Instead, an abortionist briefly addresses abortion patients […]
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UK’s Hard-Drinking ‘Ladette’ Subculture 40 Per Cent More Likely to Abort

Tuesday August 24, 2010 UK’s Hard-Drinking ‘Ladette’ Subculture 40 Per Cent More Likely to Abort By Hilary White CHESTER, UK, August 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Heavily made-up young women in scanty clothing and high heels pouring off commuter trains into city centres for a night of binge drinking, and probable sex: such a scene is a common sight in any British city on any Saturday night. But now an extensive new study has shown that the so-called “ladette” subculture’s combination of socially accepted heavy weekend drinking and uninhibited sex has resulted in previously unthinkable levels of unplanned pregnancies and abortion. […]
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Militant Islam Versus the West

Tuesday August 24, 2010 Militant Islam Versus the West Commentary By Steve Jalsevac August 24, 2010, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Militant Islam’s rapidly growing influence within Western democratic nations has become a serious concern. Most Westerners have a very poor understanding of Islam as we already stated in one 2008 article. In another we reported on Bill Federer’s views on how multiculturism has fed Muslim radicalism in the West. Most Westerners do not realize Islam is not only a religious belief system, but also one that demands all-encompassing Islamic government and laws and, in some Islamic societies, harsh enforcement of the rules […]
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Pro-Abortion ‘Catholic’ Groups Oppose Mother Teresa Honor

Friday August 20, 2010 Pro-Abortion ‘Catholic’ Groups Oppose Mother Teresa Honor August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic League has for months been on a campaign to have the Empire State Building light its towers to honor the centenary of the late Mother Teresa on August 26. While the owners of the Building have done so for other anniversaries, including the 60th anniversary of the Chinese communist regime, they have refused to honor Mother Teresa by lighting its towers. Several pro-abortion groups which refer to themselves as Catholic have signed on to a statement affirming the decision by officials from […]
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Huge “Ethical” Embryonic-Like Stem Cell Discovery Not So Ethical After All – Fetal Cells Used

Tuesday January 8, 2008 Huge “Ethical” Embryonic-Like Stem Cell Discovery Not So Ethical After All – Fetal Cells Used TENNESSEE, January 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Children of God for Life reports that a recent stem cell breakthrough that turns adult skin cells to “embryonic” is not a pro-life solution as currently done. On November 21st and 22nd, Dr. Shinya Yamanaka and Dr James Thomson published back-to-back studies that were hailed as moral alternatives to embryonic stem cell research. Both studies involved introducing genes into adult stem cells through a lentivirus, which reprogrammed them to become “embryonic” or induced pluripotent stem […]
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‘Catholic’ Group Gearing up to Challenge Church Teaching on Homosexuality

Monday August 23, 2010 ‘Catholic’ Group Gearing up to Challenge Church Teaching on Homosexuality By James Tillman WASHINGTON, August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A cadre of homosexualist activists are preparing to launch a new group, Catholics for Equality, whose self-proclaimed mission is to lead lay Catholics away from the institutional Church’s teaching on sexuality and encourage support for homosexual “marriage.” The Catholic News Agency broke the news of the nascient group Sunday. Although Catholics for Equality will not officially launch until September 14th, and their website is still under construction, their goals are already quite clear. The group proclaims that […]
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Brampton Civic hospital imposes euthanasia by dehydration through pressure tactics

Friday August 20, 2010 Brampton Civic hospital imposes euthanasia by dehydration through pressure tactics Commentary by Alex Schadenberg, Chairman, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, I received a phone call and then an email from Bernard Stephenson M.D., M.Div., concerning Joshua (Kulendran Mayandi) the pastor of a small Christian church in Brampton. The letter outlines several significant problems and two huge concerns for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. First: Joshua (48), who is not otherwise dying, is being dehydrated to death (euthanasia by omission). This is not a case when hydration and nutrition need to be withdrawn because […]
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Obama Administration Sues West Palm Beach Pro-Life Leader

Monday August 23, 2010 Obama Administration Sues West Palm Beach Pro-Life Leader By Kathleen Gilbert Updated WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A local pro-life leader has claimed innocence after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder filed a lawsuit claiming that she violated federal law prohibiting individuals from blocking customers from entering abortion centers. Filed in U.S. District Court on Wednesday, the lawsuit claims that Mary Susan Pine, 58, and another protester violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The administration is seeking an injunction that would prevent Pine from entering any clinic driveway, and […]
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U.S. Court Halts Obama Admin Stem-Cell Research Guidelines

Monday August 23, 2010 U.S. Court Halts Obama Admin Stem-Cell Research Guidelines By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia has intervened to block regulations issued by the Obama administration expanding embryo-destructive research. Pro-life researchers and Nightlight Christian Adoptions, a group that encourages adoption of frozen embryonic children, filed the suit last year. Judge Royce Lamberth had ruled in June that the group has standing to sue over the guidelines that the National Institutes of Health developed for taxpayer-funded research that would involve the destruction of living human […]
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Stop the ‘Pornification’ of Britain or Face Long-Term Consequences: Feminist Authors

Monday August 23, 2010 Stop the ‘Pornification’ of Britain or Face Long-Term Consequences: Feminist Authors By Hilary White EDINBURGH, August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The “pornification” of society is promoting violence against women and will have a corrosive impact on British society for years to come, two feminist authors said last week. Kat Banyard, author of The Equality Illusion, told the Edinburgh International Book Festival that pornography use leads to “an increase of attitudes which support violence against women and aggressive behaviour.” “Huge numbers of young boys and men are sitting watching, and getting positive powerful experiences of watching women […]
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Canadian Paediatric Society Enabling Child Rape Says Pro-Life Leader

Tuesday August 24, 2010 Canadian Paediatric Society Enabling Child Rape Says Pro-Life Leader By Patrick B. Craine August 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) is urging doctors to counsel “preteens” and adolescents on the use of the abortifacient morning-after pill, while at the same time insisting that they keep the meeting completely confidential. Alissa Golob, head of Campaign Life Coalition Youth, has responded by calling the society’s approach “a recipe for enabling child rapists to continue sexually assaulting young girls behind their parents’ backs.” In a position statement released this month, the society advocates that health professionals […]
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U.S. Catholic Bishops Endorse Permanent Hyde Amendment

Monday August 23, 2010 U.S. Catholic Bishops Endorse Permanent Hyde Amendment By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Catholic Bishops are endorsing a bill proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives that would apply permanent Hyde amendment restrictions to abortion funding in federal programs. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, chair of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, urged Congress to support the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” (H.R. 5939), introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Rep. Dan Linkinski (D-Ill.) on July 30. “H.R. 5939 will write into permanent […]
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Priest Apologizes, Retracts Statements Favoring Contraception

Monday August 23, 2010 Priest Apologizes, Retracts Statements Favoring Contraception By Kathleen Gilbert NASHVILLE, Tennessee, August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Nashville priest who issued a video criticizing the Vatican’s stance against contraception and divorce, among other issues, has retracted his statements and apologized to parishioners and the pope. Rev. Joseph Breen, whose recent conflict with the Church hierarchy comes 17 years after he was first told not to publically criticize Magisterial teaching, also indicated in a letter to parishioners of St. Edward Church that he planned to retire as pastor at the end of the year, according to a […]
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Russian Opinion Moving toward Ban on Abortion

Monday August 23, 2010 Russian Opinion Moving toward Ban on Abortion By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MOSCOW, August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The number of Russians who support either a full or partial ban on abortion has doubled in the past twelve years, according to a recent poll. The independent, non-governmental polling and sociological research agency, Levada Analytical Center, reported that a recent survey of 1,600 Russians found 41 percent of those polled support introducing nationwide restrictions on abortion. The number of those in favor of a complete ban on abortions has grown from 8 percent in 1998 to 16 percent […]
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New Study: Marriage Reduces Stress-related Hormone Production

Monday August 23, 2010 New Study: Marriage Reduces Stress-related Hormone Production By Thaddeus M. Baklinski CHICAGO, August 23 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The evidence for the health benefits of marriage has received a new boost by a study which showed that levels of the stress hormone cortisol were lower in married individuals than in single and unpaired individuals. “These results suggest that single and unpaired individuals are more responsive to psychological stress than married individuals, a finding consistent with a growing body of evidence showing that marriage and social support can buffer against stress,” said Dario Maestripieri, Professor in Comparative Human […]
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Pro-Abort Law Group Rails against USCCB for Opposing the Pill

Friday August 20, 2010 Pro-Abort Law Group Rails against USCCB for Opposing the Pill By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Women’s Law Center has taken aim at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for saying that a Medicaid waiver offering free birth control to low-income women embodies “a very dismissive view of women.” In a Wall Street Journal article discussing Wisconsin’s implementation of the plan, Richard Doerflinger of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) said that the notion of extending only birth control to a wider swath of women otherwise ineligible for Medicaid […]
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Irish ‘Transgender Woman’ Can Request Refugee Status in Canada

Friday August 20, 2010 Irish ‘Transgender Woman’ Can Request Refugee Status in Canada By Thaddeus M. Baklinski CHESTER, Nova Scotia, August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadian immigration officials have given an Irish man, who had sex change therapy in an effort to make himself a woman, permission to apply for refugee status. The man claimed he would be subjected to hate and his life would be in danger if he was forced to return to Northern Ireland. Tanya (born Tim) Bloomfield, has 28 days to file a refugee claim after passing an eligibility interview and test on Thursday at the […]
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Abortion Clinic Anesthetist Accused of Infecting 12 Women with Hepatitis C

Monday April 12, 2010 Abortion Clinic Anesthetist Accused of Infecting 12 Women with Hepatitis C By James Tillman MELBOURNE, Australia, April 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — At least twelve women have been infected by Hepatitis C after being treated by the same anesthetist in a suburban Melbourne abortion facility. The Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria and the police are investigating to see whether the anesthetist deliberately infected the women. Dr. John Carnie, Victoria’s chief health officer, said that it was difficult to imagine how so many patients could be accidentally infected. “Needle stick injuries are one method of possible transmission,” he […]
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DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER VICTIM OF HOMOSEXUALIST CENSORSHIP

Monday May 15, 2000 DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER VICTIM OF HOMOSEXUALIST CENSORSHIP OTTAWA, May 15 (LSN.ca) – Last Wednesday the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) ruled against the immensely popular pro-family radio talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger, calling her “abusively discriminatory” and suggesting that her views “fertilize the ground” for “brutality.” In a remarkably extremist statement for an alleged defender of independent broadcasting, the CBSC ruled in favour of complaints about the Dr. Laura show submitted by homosexual activists. One such complaint came from Ian Crowe of Halifax, Nova Scotia, a member of the leading activist group Equality for Gays and […]
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Cardinal Ouellet and Ottawa Archbishop: “The Abortion Debate is on”

Wednesday May 26, 2010 Cardinal Ouellet and Ottawa Archbishop: “The Abortion Debate is on” By Patrick B. Craine To sign a petition in support of Cardinal Ouellet, click here. QUEBEC CITY, Quebec, May 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “The abortion debate is on and we must not be afraid of it,” declared Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada, in a press conference today, jointly hosted with Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa. The cardinal hosted the press conference following the overwhelming and hostile reaction from media and politicians to his comments at a pro-life conference in Quebec City […]
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Restraining Order on Louisiana Ultrasound Law Lifted

Friday August 20, 2010 Restraining Order on Louisiana Ultrasound Law Lifted By James Tillman BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Aug. 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Ralph Tyson dissolved a temporary restraining order that he had placed on the Louisiana “Ultrasound Before Abortion Act.” The order, which had been instituted at the request of lawyers with the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Rights, was dissolved after the involved parties signed a stipulation eliminating ambiguities in the Act. “As we expected, the baseless lawsuit promoted by the Louisiana abortion industry to temporarily stall our ‘Ultrasound Before Abortion Act’ has been cleared […]
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Mexico City Governor Seeks Punitive Action against Cardinal for ‘Homophobia’

Friday August 20, 2010 Mexico City Governor Seeks Punitive Action against Cardinal for ‘Homophobia’ By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mexico City Chief of Government Marcelo Ebrard and other members of his party have filed complaints against several representatives of the Catholic Church in Mexico for “homophobia” and “moral damage” following criticisms of the city’s new homosexual “marriage” and adoption laws. The complaints stem from comments made earlier this week by Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez, accusing Ebrard and international pro-abortion groups of “feeding” (i.e. bribing) nine Supreme Court justices who voted to […]
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Setting the Record Straight: The Toronto Star’s Sting on Crisis Pregnancy Centres

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, August 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Earlier this month the Toronto Star published an article about a sting operation purporting to expose the “deception” used by Toronto’s pregnancy resource centres – an account that has been dismissed as “inaccurate,”“misrepresentative,” and full of “twists” on the truth, according to its targets. After infiltrating eight centres claiming to be six weeks pregnant, Star reporter Joanna Smith wrote in an August 7th article that the centres use “misleading information” to scare women out of having abortions.  She claimed that they lure women in “without always readily disclosing their belief […]
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Archbishop Chaput: “Systematic Discrimination Against Church Now Seems Inevitable”

SPISSKE, PODHRADIE, Slovakia, August 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – MUST READ Excerpts from Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput's address to the 15th symposium for the Canon Law Association of Slovakia on Tuesday: Today's secularizers have learned from the past.  They are more adroit in their bigotry; more elegant in their public relations; more intelligent in their work to exclude the Church and individual believers from influencing the moral life of society. Over the next several decades, Christianity will become a faith that can speak in the public square less and less freely.  A society where faith is prevented from vigorous public expression […]
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Pro-Life Leader: Treating Unborn as Non-Persons Key to Planned Parenthood Agenda

Friday August 20, 2010 Pro-Life Leader: Treating Unborn as Non-Persons Key to Planned Parenthood Agenda By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – What do serial killers, slave-owners, eugenicists, and abortionists have in common? According to Michael Hitchborn of American Life League, all these groups can only carry out crimes against human beings by first de-personalizing or trivializing the humanity of their victims. In a new ALL report released on YouTube, Hitchborn makes his case beginning with the famous 1991 film “Silence of the Lambs,” where a crazed transsexual killer pursued by an FBI agent (Jodie Foster) […]
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99 Percent of Music Chart Hit Acts are “Soft Porn” Says Music Industry Giant

Friday August 20, 2010 99 Percent of Music Chart Hit Acts are “Soft Porn” Says Music Industry Giant By Hilary White LONDON, August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While religious leaders have been warning about the moral effects of the modern pop music scene for decades, now even some leaders of the industry are expressing their concern. Today record producer Mike Stock told British media that he believes children are being “sexualized” by popular culture. “The music industry has gone too far. It’s not about me being old fashioned. It’s about keeping values that are important in the modern world. These […]
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Philosopher: To Defeat Gay ‘Marriage’ Conservatives Must Defend Traditional Sexual Morals in General

Thursday August 19, 2010 Philosopher: To Defeat Gay ‘Marriage’ Conservatives Must Defend Traditional Sexual Morals in General By James Tillman August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Among advocates of homosexual “marriage,” one of the more popular statements from Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling overturning Proposition 8 is that the state is obligated to “treat its citizens equally, not to ‘mandate its own moral code.” In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com, however, writer and philosopher Dr. Edward Feser pointed out that Walker’s ruling is not neutral and, in fact, imposes its own moral code. He also called on conservatives to begin defending the whole […]
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Full Interview with Dr. Feser

Thursday August 19, 2010 Full Interview with Dr. Feser August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Among advocates of homosexual “marriage,” one of the more popular statements from Judge Walker’s ruling overturning Proposition 8 is that the state is obligated to “treat its citizens equally, not to ‘mandate its own moral code.” In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com, however, writer and philosopher Dr. Edward Feser points out that Walker’s ruling also imposes its own moral code–merely one contrary to Christian belief. He also calls on conservatives to begin defending the whole spectrum of traditional sexual morality in the public sphere. LSN: Judge Vaughn […]
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Obama Appoints another Homosexual Official

Friday August 20, 2010 Obama Appoints another Homosexual Official By James Tillman WASHINGTON, August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thursday, President Obama announced his intent to recess appoint four nominees to various administration posts; Richard Sorian, one of the appointees, is openly homosexual. Sorian, a former senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will be the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the HHS. He has previously served in the Clinton administration and worked on AIDS-related issues. President Obama nominated Sorian in October of 2009, but the Senate had not confirmed him before its recess this […]
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Virginia AG: State Can Force Abortion Clinics to Follow Same Standards as Hospitals

By Peter J. Smith RICHMOND, Virginia (LifeSiteNews.com) –Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli may be about to make abortion “safe, legal, and rare” – simply by making abortion clinics offer women the same standard of care required by other outpatient surgical facilities. Statistically speaking abortion is the number one surgical procedure that women undergo in the United States, and most abortions are performed in the first trimester. However in Virginia, as in many other places around the country, abortion facilities have often escaped the health and safety standards that are mandated for other medical facilities, such as hospitals, that engage in […]
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Romanian Christian Leaders Promulgate Pro-Life, Pro-Family Timisoara Declaration

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BUCHAREST, August 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Alliance of Romania’s Families, a group headed by prominent Christian leaders and intellectuals of Romania's Christian community, have launched a manifesto of Christian conscience. The effort is patterned on similar actions taken by U.S., UK, and Australian Christians which have resulted in the Manhattan Declaration, Westminster Declaration, and the Canberra Declaration. The Timisoara Declaration calls on the Romanian State and public officials to respect and take into account, in the drafting and implementing of laws and public policy, the fundamental values and Christian faith of the Romanian people. In […]
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English Bishops Must Reject Homosexualist Agenda or Lose Ground on Life Issues: John Smeaton

By Hilary White LONDON, August 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – John Smeaton, the head of the UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and one of the most prominent pro-life advocates in the world, has called for the Catholic bishops of Britain to cut their ties with Catholic groups that promote homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle. But there is little hope of that, says one prominent Catholic campaigner, while the archdiocese of Westminster, Britain’s leading Catholic see, continues to host bi-monthly public celebrations of homosexuality. “It’s high time,” Smeaton wrote, “the Catholic bishops of England and Wales defended the culture […]
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Quebec Bishop on Cardinal Ouellet: “Emotional” and Out of Touch with Quebec

Tuesday August 17, 2010 Quebec Bishop on Cardinal Ouellet: “Emotional” and Out of Touch with Quebec By Patrick B. Craine QUEBEC, August 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amidst the congratulations and best wishes imparted this week to Cardinal Marc Ouellet as he heads to his new post in Rome, the head of the Quebec Bishops’ Assembly has publicly criticized certain aspects of the Cardinal’s efforts to restore faith and morality in the once vibrantly-Catholic province. In an interview with the Canadian Press on Friday, only days before the Cardinal’s farewell Mass, Bishop Martin Veillette of Trois-Rivières called Ouellet “an emotional person, […]
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Obama Memorandum Encourages Hospital Visitation Rights for Gay Partners

Friday April 16, 2010 Obama Memorandum Encourages Hospital Visitation Rights for Gay Partners By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., April 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Obama has encouraged nearly all U.S. hopsitals to provide for visitation rights to gay and lesbian partners, in a memorandum to the Department of Health and Human Services published online Thursday. However, Peter Sprigg of Family Research Council today told LifeSiteNews.com that the memorandum, which does not actually create any new rights or benefits, is a “red herring” in the same-sex “marriage” debate, and that it is a “solution in search of a problem.” The Obama […]
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U.S. Catholic Bishops Endorse Permanent Hyde Amendment

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Catholic Bishops are endorsing a bill proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives that would apply permanent Hyde amendment restrictions to abortion funding in federal programs. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, chair of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, urged Congress to support the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” (H.R. 5939), introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Rep. Dan Linkinski (D-Ill.) on July 30. “H.R. 5939 will write into permanent law a policy on which there has been strong popular and […]
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U.S. Court Halts Obama Admin Stem-Cell Research Guidelines

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia has intervened to block regulations issued by the Obama administration expanding embryo-destructive research. Pro-life researchers and Nightlight Christian Adoptions, a group that encourages adoption of frozen embryonic children, filed the suit last year. Judge Royce Lamberth had ruled in June that the group has standing to sue over the guidelines that the National Institutes of Health developed for taxpayer-funded research that would involve the destruction of living human embryos. The newly-expanded research was made possible by an executive order signed by President […]
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Stop the ‘Pornification’ of Britain or Face Long-Term Consequences: Feminist Authors

By Hilary White EDINBURGH, August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The “pornification” of society is promoting violence against women and will have a corrosive impact on British society for years to come, two feminist authors said last week. Kat Banyard, author of The Equality Illusion, told the Edinburgh International Book Festival that pornography use leads to “an increase of attitudes which support violence against women and aggressive behaviour.” “Huge numbers of young boys and men are sitting watching, and getting positive powerful experiences of watching women being physically abused. “There is a massive problem – we are nowhere near tackling it,” […]
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El Paso Priest on Homosexuality: Genuine Love Seeks Eternal Salvation, not ‘Tolerance’

Thursday August 19, 2010 El Paso Priest on Homosexuality: Genuine Love Seeks Eternal Salvation, not ‘Tolerance’ By Kathleen Gilbert EL PASO, Texas, August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although his small stature and gentle voice don’t betray it, Rev. Michael Rodriguez’s strong words and fidelity to Catholic Church teaching against homosexuality have caused quite a stir. The local media began paying attention when Rodriguez, a parish priest at El Paso’s San Juan Bautista Catholic Church, issued several columns against the homosexualist agenda earlier this year in response to the city council’s decision to grant benefits to domestic partners of city employees. […]
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Ouellet: We Need Bishops With ‘Spiritual Discernment’ over ‘Political Calculation’

Thursday August 19, 2010 Ouellet: We Need Bishops With ‘Spiritual Discernment’ over ‘Political Calculation’ “We have suffered from this mentality of dissent” that is “still dominating the intelligentsia,” said Ouellet. By Patrick B. Craine QUEBEC, August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishops “need spiritual discernment and not just political calculation of the risk of the possibility of the message being received,” said Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the newly-appointed prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops, in an interview this week. “We have to dare to speak to the deep heart, where the Spirit of the Lord is touching people beyond what we […]
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Vast Majority of Peruvians Opposed to Homosexual Unions

Thursday August 19, 2010 Vast Majority of Peruvians Opposed to Homosexual Unions By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent LIMA, August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The vast majority of Peruvians are opposed to homosexual “marriage,” according to a new poll conducted by the Peruvian Company for Market and Public Opinion Studies (CPI). Seventy-one percent of respondents said that they were against the creation of homosexual “marriage,” while only 21 percent approved, and seven percent refused to answer. Polls in Argentina and Mexico, where measures establishing homosexual “marriage” have been passed at the national and local levels, also show strong majorities […]
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Coulter Dropped from Event for Appearance at Homosexualist Event

Thursday August 19, 2010 Coulter Dropped from Event for Appearance at Homosexualist Event By James Tillman August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Anne Coulter has been dropped from speaking at WorldNetDaily’s “Taking America Back National Conference” after it was announced that she would speak at “HomoCon,” a party hosted by the self-proclaimed “gay conservative” organization GOProud. Coulter, who is well known for her unrestrained tongue, responded in an email to the Daily Caller by saying that WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah was dropping her for the sake of “publicity alone.” “Attack [A]nn [C]oulter, get publicity,” the email stated. “[L]iberals figured that out […]
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Obama Administration Stonewalls Full Release of Major Abstinence Study

Thursday August 19, 2010 Obama Administration Stonewalls Full Release of Major Abstinence Study By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is withholding the full results of a government study that makes a strong case for promoting abstinence before marriage over sexual education promoting “safe sex.” While the executive summary and final results are available, behavioral scientists are not being allowed a look at all the data behind the study’s major findings. The HHS’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF) funded a national survey of 1,000 adolescents between the […]
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Obama Congratulates Kenya for Passing Obama-Backed Constitution

Friday August 6, 2010 Obama Congratulates Kenya for Passing Obama-Backed Constitution By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, August 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Thursday, President Obama praised Kenya for approving a controversial new constitution that liberalizes abortion laws and that partially implements Muslim Sharia law within Kenya’s borders. “This was a significant step forward for Kenya’s democracy,” President Obama stated, “and the peaceful nature of the election was a testament to the character of the Kenyan people.” The new constitution was approved by about 70% of voters. It permits abortion for the sake of the “health” of the mother – a […]
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Appeals Court: Utah Highway Memorial Crosses Suggest Discrimination against Non-Christians

Friday August 20, 2010 Appeals Court: Utah Highway Memorial Crosses Suggest Discrimination against Non-Christians By Kathleen Gilbert SALT LAKE CITY, August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of an atheist group that complained roadside crosses commemorating fallen state troopers amounted to state endorsement of the Christian religion. According to a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion issued Wednesday, the 14 crosses erected would appear to “a reasonable observer” as an endorsement of the Christian religion, and would lead to “fear” that the group that erected the crosses would discriminate against non-Christians, both in highway […]
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Motion Filed Demanding Illinois Supreme Court Rule on Parental Notice Law

Friday August 20, 2010 Motion Filed Demanding Illinois Supreme Court Rule on Parental Notice Law By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Exasperated with Illinois’ parental notice law going unenforced for 15 years since its initial passage, pro-life attorneys are demanding the state Supreme Court intervene once and for all, so that the law can go into effect. Attorneys for the Thomas More Society filed a motion with the Illinois Supreme Court Thursday morning requesting an immediate transfer of the legal case, which has embroiled the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act of 1995, from the Appellate […]
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Cardinal Ouellet Leaves Canada with a “Thank You” to Campaign Life Coalition

Friday August 20, 2010 Cardinal Ouellet Leaves Canada with a “Thank You” to Campaign Life Coalition By John-Henry Westen QUEBEC CITY, August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As he completes his hectic preparations for his departure for Rome next week, the new head of the powerful Vatican office which helps select bishops, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, took time to thank Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) and impart his blessing upon the organization and all pro-life activists in Canada. In May when the cardinal, who has served eight years as the archbishop of Quebec City and the primate of Canada, came under fire for […]
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CLC Announces Illustrious Lineup of Speakers for 2010 International Pro-life Conference

Friday August 20, 2010 CLC Announces Illustrious Lineup of Speakers for 2010 International Pro-life Conference By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – From October 28 to 30 Ottawa will witness a gathering of some of the titans of the global pro-life and pro-family movement at the annual International Pro-life Conference. The lineup of speakers will include John Smeaton (President of The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, UK), Bill Saunders (Senior Counsel, Americans United for Life), Dr. Jack Willke (President, International Right to Life Federation), Brad Mattes (winner of a 2010 Emmy Award for his pro-life […]
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Renegade Priest: Gravel Celebrates Gay Pride Mass, Bashes Cardinal Ouellet again

Thursday August 19, 2010 Renegade Priest: Gravel Celebrates Gay Pride Mass, Bashes Cardinal Ouellet again By Patrick B. Craine QUEBEC, August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The infamous dissident priest Fr. Raymond Gravel of the Joliette diocese has again published an article criticizing Cardinal Marc Ouellet’s efforts to bring Christian truth into the public square. At the same time it has been revealed that he was scheduled to celebrate a “Pride” Mass in Montreal this past Sunday, the Catholic feast of the Assumption. In an article published at L’action.com, the priest criticizes the homily that Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the former archbishop […]
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Anglican Catholic Primate: ‘Christianity is now the most persecuted of all the world’s religions’

Thursday August 19, 2010 Anglican Catholic Primate: ‘Christianity is now the most persecuted of all the world’s religions’ By Thaddeus M. Baklinski AUSTRALIA, August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop John Hepworth, Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) of the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia, celebrated the opening Mass of the Holy Spirit at the Synod of the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia at the end of July. In his homily, the archbishop said that “Christianity is now the most persecuted of all the world’s religions. In almost one third of the world’s nations it is in some way illegal […]
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More Than Hitler and Stalin Could Ever Do …

Thursday August 19, 2010 More Than Hitler and Stalin Could Ever Do … By Thaddeus M. Baklinski COOMERA, Australia, August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking at the National Synod held 27th – 30th July 2010, Archbishop John Hepworth, Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) of the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia addressed the subject of clergy sexual abuse, saying that abusing priests have done more to hurt the Church and destroy the priesthood than Hitler and Stalin were able to do. The Anglican Catholic Church in Australia is a daughter church of the Anglican Catholic Church in Canada, both […]
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Last Catholic Adoption Agency Can’t Exclude Gay Parents: Charity Commission

Thursday August 19, 2010 Last Catholic Adoption Agency Can’t Exclude Gay Parents: Charity Commission By Hilary White LEEDS, August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK’s Charity Commission has reiterated a previous ruling saying that Catholic Care, the last Catholic adoption agency in the country, may not change its constitutions to allow it to exclude homosexuals from adopting children. Catholic Care was the only one of the 11 Catholic adoption agencies that chose to fight the law put in by the Labour government forcing all service providers to comply with homosexuals’ demands. Since 2007 when the law came into effect, all […]
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D&P; Sending Haiti Earthquake Funds to Pro-Abort Group

Wednesday August 18, 2010 D&P; Sending Haiti Earthquake Funds to Pro-Abort Group By Patrick B. Craine HAITI, August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development & Peace (D&P) is using funds collected for Haiti’s post-earthquake emergency relief effort to give an extra boost to at least one of their pro-abortion partners in the country. The information surfaced in a report by the Catholic Register’s Michael Swan at the end of July, and was highlighted by John Pacheco at his SoCon or Bust blog. D&P programs officer Debra Bucher told Swan that D&P is using their current partnerships […]
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After 30 Years on Air, Dr. Laura to End Radio Show

Wednesday August 18, 2010 After 30 Years on Air, Dr. Laura to End Radio Show By Kathleen Gilbert BROOKLYN, New York, August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Laura Schlessinger, America’s top-rated female syndicated radio talk show host, relied on by countless listeners for sound relationship advice and moral guidance, has announced that she is ending her radio talk show and pursuing new venues after becoming fed up with what she says are attempts to silence her message. The announcement came during the pro-family radio star’s appearance on Larry King Live that aired Tuesday, and was prompted by a controversy that […]
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Cardinal Has Proof Mexican Justices Were Bribed for Gay ‘Marriage’ Vote: Archdiocese

Wednesday August 18, 2010 Cardinal Has Proof Mexican Justices Were Bribed for Gay ‘Marriage’ Vote: Archdiocese Threatens to reveal proofs if charges are brought by Mexico City governor By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman GUADALAJARA, August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Guadalajara yesterday told reporters that the Cardinal Archbishop of that city has proof to back up his contention that the justices of the Supreme Court were in some way “fed” by backers of homosexual “marriage” and adoption in order to gain their votes in favor of the policies. Responding to threats from Mexico City Governor Marcel […]
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Vatican Official: Only the Catholic University ‘that Conserves its Identity’ Will Survive

Tuesday August 17, 2010 Vatican Official: Only the Catholic University ‘that Conserves its Identity’ Will Survive By Kathleen Gilbert VATICAN CITY, August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Only the Catholic universities that strive to maintain the integrity of their faith life will endure to have a lasting benefit to society, said the prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education last week. Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski gave the remarks a few days before the 20th anniversary of the Apostolic Constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae, issued by Pope John Paul II, which urged Catholic universities to remain faithful to the Catholic faith as safeguarded […]
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Planned Parenthood Pulls Name from Troubled Golden Gate Affiliate

Tuesday August 10, 2010 Planned Parenthood Pulls Name from Troubled Golden Gate Affiliate By Kathleen Gilbert SAN FRANCISCO, August 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (PPGG), notorious for its involvement in the RU-486 death of Holly Anderson as well as the production of offensive television advertisements promoting contraception to teens, will lose its affiliation with the abortion giant for reasons that have not been made clear. Last week, the Bay Citizen reported that the Planned Parenthood Federation of America board had voted to revoke their trademark from the affiliate. Karen Ruffato, PPFA vice president of affiliate services, said […]
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British Social Services Pays for Prostitutes and Lap Dancing under Labour Gov’t Scheme

Wednesday August 18, 2010 British Social Services Pays for Prostitutes and Lap Dancing under Labour Gov’t Scheme By Hilary White LONDON, August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British social services system is coming under heavy criticism after it was revealed last week that a mentally disabled man is to be provided with the services of a prostitute at public expense. The Sunday Telegraph revealed that the trip is part of a national care program instituted by the former Labour government that also provides funding for lap dancing clubs, holidays abroad and subscriptions to internet dating services to people with disabilities. […]
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Gay-Friendly Target Bucks Demand to Placate Gay Activists with $150,000 Donation

Tuesday August 17, 2010 Gay-Friendly Target Bucks Demand to Placate Gay Activists with $150,000 Donation By Peter J. Smith MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite its reputation as a gay-friendly corporation, Target Corporation says they will not donate $150,000 to homosexualist advocacy causes in order to placate gay activists furious that the company gave $150,000 to a group supporting a pro-family candidate for governor of Minnesota. Three weeks ago, homosexual advocates discovered that Target Corp. donated the hefty sum to a pro-business group called MN Forward, which is supporting GOP candidate Tom Emmer’s bid for the governor’s race. […]
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Expert: Prop 8 Trial Based on False or Dubious Statements about Homosexuality

Wednesday August 18, 2010 Expert: Prop 8 Trial Based on False or Dubious Statements about Homosexuality By James Tillman August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Judge Vaughn Walker built his decision overturning Proposition 8 on many “findings of fact” that to a great extent came from experts supplied by the opponents of Proposition 8. But according Dr. Walter Schumm, professor of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas State University, many of these so-called facts are either false or doubtful. In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com (LSN), Dr. Schumm explained that, contrary to the findings of Judge Walker, homosexual parents are more […]
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Most Women Say Abortion ‘Too Easy’ to Obtain in U.S.: Rasmussen Poll

Tuesday August 17, 2010 Most Women Say Abortion ‘Too Easy’ to Obtain in U.S.: Rasmussen Poll Pro-life voters twice as likely as pro-choice to consider abortion important voting issue By Kathleen Gilbert ASBURY PARK, New Jersey, August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nearly half of U.S. voters say it’s too easy to obtain an abortion in America, while only a fraction say it is too difficult, according to a Rassmussen Reports survey released Monday. In addition, the pollster reported that twice as many pro-life voters as pro-abort voters surveyed said they considered abortion an important factor in casting their ballot. Only […]
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Polling Director: Polls Stating Americans Support Gay Marriage Untrustworthy

Tuesday August 17, 2010 Polling Director: Polls Stating Americans Support Gay Marriage Untrustworthy August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to Tom Jensen, director of the North-Carolina based Public Policy Polling (PPP), polls finding that a majority of Americans support homosexual “marriage” cannot be trusted because Americans are sometimes hesitant to state their position before a live interviewer who may judge them to be intolerant. Earlier this month a CNN poll found that 52% of Americans thought that homosexuals should have the constitutional right to marry; 46% said the Constitution should not give that right. Public Policy Polling’s latest survey however, […]
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ADF & Liberty Counsel at Odds over Prop. 8 Trial

Tuesday August 17, 2010 ADF & Liberty Counsel at Odds over Prop. 8 Trial By James Tillman August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the wake of Judge Vaughn Walker’s controversial decision finding Proposition 8 (California’s constitutional amendment protecting true marriage) unconstitutional, an internal spat has broken out between two different Christian legal societies about the manner in which the defense of Prop. 8 was handled. Both the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) and Liberty Counsel (LC) are dedicated to promoting religious freedom, the sanctity of human life, and family values. Thus, when California Attorney General Jerry Brown decided not to defend […]
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After Losing Major Role for Refusing Sex Scenes, Actor Neal McDonough Finds New Successes

Tuesday August 17, 2010 After Losing Major Role for Refusing Sex Scenes, Actor Neal McDonough Finds New Successes By Peter J. Smith HOLLYWOOD, California, August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Standing up for his religious and moral beliefs has paid off for Neal McDonough, Hollywood actor and family man, who was fired back in March from a television series for refusing to perform steamy sex scenes. Far from ending his career, the actor’s career is moving along with a role in a major Hollywood film and the lead in a new television series called “Vigilante Priest.” Although the dominant attitude in […]
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Federal Appeals Court Intervenes in Prop. 8, Halts California Gay ‘Marriages’

Monday August 16, 2010 Federal Appeals Court Intervenes in Prop. 8, Halts California Gay ‘Marriages’ By Peter J. Smith and Kathleen Gilbert Updated 9:13pm EST SAN FRANCISCO, August 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals intervened in the battle over Proposition 8 Monday afternoon, and gave an order preventing California officials from issuing marriage licenses to homosexual couples until they can hear the case. The stay from the three judge panel of the appeals court blocked Chief U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision overturning Proposition 8, the voter-approved state constitutional amendment defining marriage as between […]
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President Obama to Speak at Catholic Xavier U.

Monday August 16, 2010 President Obama to Speak at Catholic Xavier U. By Kathleen Gilbert NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, August 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Obama is slated to speak at Louisiana’s Xavier University, a Catholic institution of higher education, to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina August 29. Xavier President Dr. Norman Francis said the school was “pleased and grateful” at Obama’s decision to visit the campus. “Mr. Obama will get to see firsthand why we are so proud of the progress we have made here at Xavier during the five years since Katrina, not only restoring our campus […]
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Fallout Continues from ELCA’s Gay Clergy Decision as Lutheran Churches Leave

Monday August 16, 2010 Fallout Continues from ELCA’s Gay Clergy Decision as Lutheran Churches Leave By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, August 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The departure of several more congregations in central Illinois from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has once again highlighted how the denomination’s decision to approve active homosexual clergy has triggered a slow, steady bleeding of congregations. One year ago this month at its national convention, the ELCA voted “to open the ministry of the church to gay and lesbian pastors and other professional workers living in committed relationships.” The policy change was decided by […]
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Commentary: All Eyes on Anthony Kennedy and Prop. 8

Friday August 6, 2010 Commentary: All Eyes on Anthony Kennedy and Prop. 8 By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Should defenders of true marriage pin their hopes on the U.S. Supreme Court? Despite public displays of confidence from pro-family leaders that U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision to strike down the natural definition of “marriage” on Wednesday will be overturned at the Supreme Court level, there is good reason to feel unease. The fate of marriage in the United States will likely come down to the vote of U.S. Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, and more […]
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Mexican Cardinal Accuses Supreme Court Justices of Taking Bribes for Gay ‘Marriage’ Vote

Tuesday August 17, 2010 Mexican Cardinal Accuses Supreme Court Justices of Taking Bribes for Gay ‘Marriage’ Vote Asks reporters “would you like queer or lesbian couples” to adopt children? By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent AGUASCALIENTES, Mexico, August 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The cardinal archbishop of Guadalajara is accusing the justices of the Mexican Supreme Court of being “well fed” by international organizations and receiving “gifts” in exchange for their votes, following the Court’s recent decisions approving the constitutionality of homosexual “marriage,” and imposing it on all of the 31 states of Mexico. In a press conference held Sunday […]
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Poll: Voters Say No to Abortions on Military Bases, Repealing DADT

Monday August 16, 2010 Poll: Voters Say No to Abortions on Military Bases, Repealing DADT By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new survey commissioned by the Military Culture Coalition (MCC) indicates that American voters would prefer to keep in place the 1993 law banning homosexuals serving in the military. The poll also indicated that U.S. voters oppose allowing abortion on military bases. The MCC survey of 1000 likely voters nationwide found that 48 percent said they would prefer to keep the 1993 law, with 45 percent favoring repeal. A plurality (48 percent of voters) […]
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New Study Finds Thinking about God Reduces Anxiety For Believers

Monday August 9, 2010 New Study Finds Thinking about God Reduces Anxiety For Believers By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, August 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thinking about your faith in God may make you less upset about making mistakes, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. “Eighty-five percent of the world has some sort of religious beliefs,” said Michael Inzlicht, who co-wrote the study with Alexa Tullett, in a University of Toronto statement. “I think it behooves us as psychologists to study why people have these beliefs; exploring what functions, if […]
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Philippine AIDS Rate Has Doubled Coinciding with Increase of Condom Use

Friday February 3, 2006 Philippine AIDS Rate Has Doubled Coinciding with Increase of Condom Use by Hilary White MANILA, February 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Philippines Health Secretary reports that the number of HIV/AIDS cases has doubled in the last three years from about 6000 in 2002 to 11,168 and has called upon the leadership of the Catholic Church to “allow” the government to promote condoms. Health Secretary Francisco Duque told reporters that a share of the blame for the rise lies with the Catholic Church for its opposition to the use of condoms for HIV/AIDS prevention. “It’s a dilemma […]
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An Eerie Silence in the Marriage Fight

Monday August 16, 2010 An Eerie Silence in the Marriage Fight Commentary by Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) wrapped up its Summer for Marriage Tour in Washington, D.C. yesterday, the scene may not quite have been what true marriage supporters would hope to see. The speakers – which included NOM executive director Brian Brown, civil rights leader Walter Fauntroy, and D.C. marriage leader Bishop Harry Jackson – eloquently and forcefully put forth the case for marriage. But as the rally began at 2 p.m., no more than 50 supporters […]
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Free Condoms for Canada’s Prisoners Questioned

Tuesday August 10, 2010 Free Condoms for Canada’s Prisoners Questioned By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, August 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A leader in Canada’s pro-family movement is demanding answers from the Canadian government in light of a report that they have been spending tens of thousands of dollars per year to distribute free condoms in the country’s federal prisons. “Something is seriously wrong with the system if people who are incarcerated are involved in these sexual activities,” said Gwen Landolt, national vice president of REAL Women. “How is this permitted to go on?” The government spent approximately $120,000 on […]
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Appeals Court: Utah Highway Memorial Crosses Suggest Discrimination against Non-Christians

By Kathleen Gilbert SALT LAKE CITY, August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of an atheist group that complained roadside crosses commemorating fallen state troopers amounted to state endorsement of the Christian religion. According to a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion issued Wednesday, the 14 crosses erected would appear to “a reasonable observer” as an endorsement of the Christian religion, and would lead to “fear” that the group that erected the crosses would discriminate against non-Christians, both in highway patrols and the employment process. The case against the crosses was launched by the […]
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Pro-Life Leader: Treating Unborn as Non-Persons Key to Planned Parenthood Agenda

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – What do serial killers, slave-owners, eugenicists, and abortionists have in common? According to Michael Hitchborn of American Life League, all these groups can only carry out crimes against human beings by first de-personalizing or trivializing the humanity of their victims. In a new ALL report released on YouTube, Hitchborn makes his case beginning with the famous 1991 film “Silence of the Lambs,” where a crazed transsexual killer pursued by an FBI agent (Jodie Foster) continually refers to his latest female victim as “it.” In doing so, says Hitchborn, the […]
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CLC Announces Illustrious Lineup of Speakers for 2010 International Pro-life Conference

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – From October 28 to 30 Ottawa will witness a gathering of some of the titans of the global pro-life and pro-family movement at the annual International Pro-life Conference. The lineup of speakers will include John Smeaton (President of The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, UK), Bill Saunders (Senior Counsel, Americans United for Life), Dr. Jack Willke (President, International Right to Life Federation), Brad Mattes (winner of a 2010 Emmy Award for his pro-life TV show, “Facing Life Head-on”) and John-Henry Westen (Editor-in-Chief of LifeSiteNews.com). It will also feature […]
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Brampton Civic hospital imposes euthanasia by dehydration through pressure tactics

Commentary by Alex Schadenberg, Chairman, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition August 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday, I received a phone call and then an email from Bernard Stephenson M.D., M.Div., concerning Joshua (Kulendran Mayandi) the pastor of a small Christian church in Brampton. The letter outlines several significant problems and two huge concerns for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. First: Joshua (48), who is not otherwise dying, is being dehydrated to death (euthanasia by omission). This is not a case when hydration and nutrition need to be withdrawn because he is actually dying and nearing death, but rather the decision appears to have been made […]
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Letters to the Editor

Re: An Eerie Silence in the Marriage Fight We’re very grateful to LifeSiteNews for all you do, including your coverage of the NOM rally in Washington D.C. on August 15.  By our count, close to 300 people attended – we had 146 of those sign up as new activists for NOM – in a crowd that was majority African-American.  We understand and share Kathleen Gilbert’s concern that the majority of Americans may not even yet understand the seriousness of this movement for gay marriage.  However we consider this rally and the others we held an unqualified success. Our 23 city […]
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Taiwan Considers Cash for Births as Fertility Rate Dips to World’s Lowest

Thursday April 8, 2010 Taiwan Considers Cash for Births as Fertility Rate Dips to World’s Lowest By Hilary White Updated: 09/04/10 9:01am EST April 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government of Taiwan announced last week that it will consider paying couples cash bonuses to have more children, after it was revealed that the country has one of the lowest birth rates in the world. The government is considering a proposal that will offer couples the equivalent of U.S. $160 a month for all children under the age of three. The Interior Ministry said in a statement that there are fears […]
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Ten Year-Old Boy Receives New Trachea from his Own Stem Cells

Tuesday March 23, 2010 Ten Year-Old Boy Receives New Trachea from his Own Stem Cells By Hilary White LONDON, March 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A ten-year-old British boy has become the first child to be given a new windpipe, which will grow inside his body, created from his own stem cells. The breakthrough surgery was conducted at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London on Monday, and doctors hope that it represents the next step forward in transplantation technology. Stem cells taken from the boy’s bone marrow were injected into a fibrous collagen “scaffold” created from a donor trachea. […]
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‘Bayou State’ Scores another Pro-Life Win with Ultrasound Act

Wednesday June 16, 2010 ‘Bayou State’ Scores another Pro-Life Win with Ultrasound Act By Peter J. Smith BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The “Bayou State” is giving Oklahoma a run for its money as this year’s pro-life state: on Wednesday the Louisiana legislature passed another pro-life law requiring abortionists to give women an ultrasound before performing an abortion. The House of Representatives passed SB 528, the “Ultrasound Before Abortion Act,” by an overwhelming margin of 79-1. The law requires abortionists to perform an ultrasound on a pregnant mother at least 2 hours before she undergoes the abortion […]
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Contraceptive-Making Pharmaceutical Company Sued for Pressuring Employee to Abort Baby

Wednesday April 7, 2010 Contraceptive-Making Pharmaceutical Company Sued for Pressuring Employee to Abort Baby By Thaddeus M. Baklinski NEW YORK, April 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Swiss-based pharmaceutical company Novartis is the subject of a class action lawsuit in the U.S. due to begin today. The lawsuit claims that the company has sexist practices that discriminate against women in areas of pay, promotions, and pregnancy-related matters. Among the allegations is that at least one employee was pressured to abort her baby. The 17 plaintiffs, women who worked for the drug giant in the United States, claim they are representing 5,600 […]
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Reports Reveal $3M in Federal Funds Misappropriated by New Jersey Family Planning, Planned Parenthood

Tuesday August 17, 2010 Reports Reveal $3M in Federal Funds Misappropriated by New Jersey Family Planning, Planned Parenthood By Kathleen Gilbert TRENTON, New Jersey, August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Audits by the United States Inspector General have uncovered that family planning clinics, including Planned Parenthood, have improperly taken Medicaid reimbursement for family planning services. The audits were released by New Jersey Right to Life as pro-abortion state lawmakers lobby not only to restore $7.5 million in state family planning funds, but to acquire a federal waiver that would permanently secure the 90% Medicaid reimbursement rate for family planning clinics. Pro-life […]
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Mexican Supreme Court Approves Homosexual Adoption

Tuesday August 17, 2010 Mexican Supreme Court Approves Homosexual Adoption By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Mexican Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision on homosexual adoption yesterday evening, ruling in favor of permitting the practice. In a 9-2 vote along the same lines as its other recent decisions permitting homosexual “marriage” and extending it to all 31 Mexican state, the justices rejected arguments made by pro-family groups and the nation’s chief prosecutor that homosexual adoption would be harmful to the welfare of Mexican youth, which is protected under the Constitution as […]
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Cross-Canada Walk for Life Wraps Up on Parliament Hill

Tuesday August 17, 2010 Cross-Canada Walk for Life Wraps Up on Parliament Hill By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of young Canadians concluded their 5,000 km. cross-country walk for life this Saturday in Ottawa, where they were welcomed on Parliament Hill by dozens of Ottawa pro-life supporters, including Archbishop Terrence Prendergast. The group of six arrived at the Hill around noon, where they were awarded a certificate of accomplishment by Mrs. Audrey Lemieux, wife of pro-life Member of Parliament Pierre Lemieux. The group then processed to St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Catholic […]
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Filipino Archbishop: Proposed Divorce Bill ‘Will Destroy Society’

Tuesday August 17, 2010 Filipino Archbishop: Proposed Divorce Bill ‘Will Destroy Society’ By Thaddeus M. Baklinski PHILIPPINES, August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Antonio J. Ledesma of Cagyan de Oro City has strongly criticized a proposed bill that would legalize divorce in the Philippines and said that the move would destroy the moral fiber of Philippine society. “Legalizing something that is immoral will not make it right, but will instead make it worse,” said Archbishop Ledesma. “The sacrament of marriage is something that is meant for a life-long commitment, for the good of the children and the community. It is […]
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ACLU again Refuses to Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Review Ten Commandments Case

Monday August 16, 2010 ACLU again Refuses to Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Review Ten Commandments Case CINCINNATI, Ohio, August 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ACLU has allowed the time to expire without filing a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court requesting review of the Ten Commandments case in ACLU v. Grayson County, Kentucky. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, which upheld the Ten Commandments in the “Foundations of American Law and Government Display,” now stands. Since 2005, this is the fourth time the ACLU has lost a Ten Commandments case and refused to ask the Supreme Court to […]
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Kenya Lost its Innocence on August 4th 2010

Friday August 13, 2010 Kenya Lost its Innocence on August 4th 2010 Commentary by Martyn Drakard in East Africa NAIROBI, Kenya, August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – August is sometimes welcomed rather coolly in parts of Kenya, especially the capital, Nairobi. Besides being the coldest time of year, it’s the month of big events: an attempted coup in 1982; the US embassy bomb blast in 1998. But perhaps bleakest of all, at least in the minds of a substantial minority of Kenyans who truly love their country, has been the passing into law of the new constitution. Kenya, they feel, has […]
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Judgment Vindicates Calif. Student Punished for Pro-Life T-Shirt

Friday August 13, 2010 Judgment Vindicates Calif. Student Punished for Pro-Life T-Shirt Updated 2:31pm EST FRESNO, California, August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — In a victory for pro-life speech in public school, a federal court entered a judgment Thursday against a California elementary school and three school officials for violating the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights of a 6th grade student who wore a T-shirt opposing abortion. Los Angeles attorney William J. Becker, Jr., of The Becker Law Firm, assisted by the Thomas More Law Center, filed suit after school officials barred Tiffany Amador from wearing her pro-life T-shirt at […]
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El Paso Priest on Homosexuality: Genuine Love Seeks Eternal Salvation, not ‘Tolerance’

By Kathleen Gilbert EL PASO, Texas, August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although his small stature and gentle voice don't betray it, Rev. Michael Rodriguez's strong words and fidelity to Catholic Church teaching against homosexuality have caused quite a stir. The local media began paying attention when Rodriguez, a parish priest at El Paso's San Juan Bautista Catholic Church, issued several columns against the homosexualist agenda earlier this year in response to the city council's decision to grant benefits to domestic partners of city employees. In a column issued earlier this month entitled “Every Catholic Must Oppose Certain Things,” Rodriguez laid out […]
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Pro-Life Groups Agree Nebraska AG Right to Back Down on Abortion Screenings Law

By Peter J. Smith OMAHA, Nebraska, August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Associated Press reports that Nebraska’s attorney general will not challenge a federal judge’s order preventing an abortion health screening law from going into effect, and state pro-life organizations are agreeing that may be the best course of action. Spokeswoman Shannon Kingery told the AP that a U.S. District Judge’s ruling against the law means it “will ultimately be found unconstitutional.” With little chance of winning the case, Attorney General Jon Bruning did not want to risk having “Nebraska taxpayers to foot the bill for Planned Parenthood's legal fee.” […]
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Renegade Priest: Gravel Celebrates Gay Pride Mass, Bashes Cardinal Ouellet again

By Patrick B. Craine QUEBEC, August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The infamous dissident priest Fr. Raymond Gravel of the Joliette diocese has again published an article criticizing Cardinal Marc Ouellet’s efforts to bring Christian truth into the public square. At the same time it has been revealed that he was scheduled to celebrate a “Pride” Mass in Montreal this past Sunday, the Catholic feast of the Assumption. In an article published at L’action.com, the priest criticizes the homily that Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the former archbishop of Quebec, gave at his farewell Mass in Ste. Anne de Beaupre on Sunday.   “The […]
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Philosopher: To Defeat Gay ‘Marriage’ Conservatives Must Defend Traditional Sexual Morals in General

By James Tillman August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Among advocates of homosexual “marriage,” one of the more popular statements from Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling overturning Proposition 8 is that the state is obligated to “treat its citizens equally, not to 'mandate its own moral code.”  In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com, however, writer and philosopher Dr. Edward Feser pointed out that Walker's ruling is not neutral and, in fact, imposes its own moral code. He also called on conservatives to begin defending the whole spectrum of traditional sexual morality in the public sphere. “If Christians and conservatives are not prepared to […]
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Anglican Catholic Primate: ‘Christianity is now the most persecuted of all the world’s religions’

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski AUSTRALIA, August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop John Hepworth, Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) of the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia, celebrated the opening Mass of the Holy Spirit at the Synod of the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia at the end of July. In his homily, the archbishop said that “Christianity is now the most persecuted of all the world’s religions. In almost one third of the world’s nations it is in some way illegal to be Christian.” Archbishop Hepworth noted that secular humanism has coalesced the enemies of the Christian morality on […]
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Only a Return to Christian Values Will Save Secularist Post-Soviet Estonia: Local Pro-Life Leader

By Hilary White TALLINN, Estonia, August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Like many of the Soviet satellite states that found independence after the collapse of Soviet communism, Estonia is suffering from a deeply “confused” social and moral state, with its shift from a “communist form of open materialism to the capitalist form of subtle materialism.” Estonia is a micro-experiment in Europe’s extreme secularization, and is reaping the demographic consequences, a young Estonian pro-life advocate and teacher told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) in an extensive interview. Estonia’s economic prosperity has led to its social fabric being eaten away by rampant divorce, abortion and suicide; […]
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Motor Neurone Disease Group Donates GBP800,000 for Human/Animal Hybrid Clone Research

Monday May 24, 2010 Motor Neurone Disease Group Donates £800,000 for Human/Animal Hybrid Clone Research By Hilary White NORTHAMPTON, May 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK’s Motor Neurone Disease Association has announced it will donate £800,000 (US $1,200,000) to fund human/animal “hybrid embryo” cloning research by the same Edinburgh University team that created “Dolly” the cloned sheep. The 3-year project, led by the team at the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University and headed by Dr. Ian Wilmut, hopes to develop human brain cells that carry the hereditary form of Motor Neurone Disease (MND) called TDP-43. The experiments […]
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Claims of “Thousands” Travelling to Britain for Abortion Bogus, Statistics Show

Monday August 16, 2010 Claims of “Thousands” Travelling to Britain for Abortion Bogus, Statistics Show By Hilary White LONDON, August 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Statistics from the UK’s Department of Health disprove claims made by a Polish abortion lobby group that 10,000 Polish women are coming to Britain to abort their children annually. A researcher for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) says the claims are nothing more than propaganda in a campaign to loosen abortion restrictions in Poland. In March, the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning came under heavy criticism in Britain when it […]
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Urban Oufitters Pulls Planned Parenthood Condoms

Friday August 13, 2010 Urban Oufitters Pulls Planned Parenthood Condoms PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One day after parents were asked to contact Urban Outfitters and object to its sale of Planned Parenthood condoms, the youth-oriented retailer has ceased its online sale of condoms. The product page explained that the web-exclusive condoms are “no longer available,” a message the American Life League reports was confirmed by an Urban Outfitters representative. Condoms have a typical-use failure rate as high as 36 percent among teens, and Planned Parenthood’s condoms scored at the very bottom in a 2005 Consumer Reports trial […]
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Canada: Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal over Withholding Abortion-Funding Taxes

Thursday January 14, 2010 Canada: Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal over Withholding Abortion-Funding Taxes By Patrick B. Craine January 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an application of appeal from a Prince Edward Island pro-life man who was convicted for not filing tax returns. David Little, 65, has refused to file tax returns since 1999 because a portion of the tax money is used to fund abortions. He has contended that the Income Tax Act violates his freedom of conscience and religion by requiring him to fund a morally evil act. The former New Brunswick (NB) […]
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Prop. 8 Attorneys File Appeal to Defend California’s Marriage Law

Thursday August 5, 2010 Prop. 8 Attorneys File Appeal to Defend California’s Marriage Law By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, August 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family attorneys representing California’s constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex “marriage” filed an appeal on Thursday with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, asking the federal court to overturn a federal judge’s ruling invalidating the ban. The Perry v. Schwarzenegger case will likely go before a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court. Any decision by the Court is expected to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Attorneys with ProtectMarriage, the official sponsors of Proposition 8, […]
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Expert: Prop 8 Trial Based on False or Dubious Statements about Homosexuality

By James Tillman August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Judge Vaughn Walker built his decision overturning Proposition 8 on many “findings of fact” that to a great extent came from experts supplied by the opponents of Proposition 8.  But according Dr. Walter Schumm, professor of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas State University, many of these so-called facts are either false or doubtful. In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com (LSN), Dr. Schumm explained that, contrary to the findings of Judge Walker, homosexual parents are more likely to raise homosexual children; that scholars are often biased in favor of research friendly to […]
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GOP Rep. Charles Djou Fails to Get Right to Life Backing in Hawaii

By Peter J. Smith HONOLULU, Hawaii, August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – GOP Rep. Charles Djou, who won Hawaii’s special election in May, will not be getting the endorsement of Hawaii Right to Life in his bid for two more years in Congress. The Associated Press reports that while the state pro-life group said Djou shared many of their pro-life goals, the deal breaker was Djou’s support for embryonic stem-cell research. For that reason, they said they could not endorse his candidacy. Janet Grace, Hawaii Right to Life executive director, told the AP that they also took issue with Djou’s statements […]
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Second Pro-Life Freedom Ride Announced for Tennessee

STATEN ISLAND, New York, August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—Priests for Life has announced that the second pro-life Freedom Ride will occur in Tennessee on October 15 and 16. For those who are unable to attend the ride in person, the group has set up a host of activities to help everyone take part in the fight to end abortion and bring about a culture of life. The pro-life Freedom Rides are patterned after the Freedom Rides engaged in by civil-rights activists, who rode buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961.  They were often arrested and brutally attacked by opponents […]
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Pro-Life ‘Dream Cruise Tour’ Commemorates Slain Jim Pouillon

By Peter J. Smith LANSING, Michigan, August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life advocates in Michigan are dedicating this year’s “Dream Cruise Tour” to slain pro-life activist Jim Pouillon, an elderly man gunned down almost one year ago while protesting abortion in his hometown of Owosso. Pouillon was fondly remembered by pro-life advocates for his tireless witness to the sanctity of life, even as his health was failing and he needed an oxygen tank to help him breathe. In Owosso, he gained the moniker “the abortion sign guy” for his peaceable protest of abortion, often with signs depicting aborted babies. On […]
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D&P Sending Haiti Earthquake Funds to Pro-Abort Group

By Patrick B. Craine HAITI, August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development & Peace (D&P) is using funds collected for Haiti’s post-earthquake emergency relief effort to give an extra boost to at least one of their pro-abortion partners in the country. The information surfaced in a report by the Catholic Register’s Michael Swan at the end of July, and was highlighted by John Pacheco at his SoCon or Bust blog. D&P programs officer Debra Bucher told Swan that D&P is using their current partnerships in Haiti to take a long-term approach in rebuilding the country.  “Our specialty is […]
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British Social Services Pays for Prostitutes and Lap Dancing under Labour Gov’t Scheme

By Hilary White LONDON, August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British social services system is coming under heavy criticism after it was revealed last week that a mentally disabled man is to be provided with the services of a prostitute at public expense. The Sunday Telegraph revealed that the trip is part of a national care program instituted by the former Labour government that also provides funding for lap dancing clubs, holidays abroad and subscriptions to internet dating services to people with disabilities. The unnamed man’s social worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, defended the decision, saying that “refusing […]
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German Court Orders Government to Give Homosexuals Equal Inheritance Rights

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BERLIN, August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The German Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that the country's inheritance tax law discriminates against registered homosexual partners and has ordered the government to produce new legislation to rectify the “unconstitutional” disadvantage by December 31. “While married couples were put in the most advantageous tax group I and regardless of the amount inherited had to pay between seven and 30 percent tax, life partners, as 'other beneficiaries' in tax group III, had to pay between 17 and 50 percent tax,” the ruling stated. The judges said that although heterosexual […]
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Monsignor/Vatican Consultor Warns African Bishops against Dangerous Gender Ideology

By Hilary White August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Gender ideology is the “most worrying sign of the current ideas about man,” Monsignor Tony Anatrella, a psychoanalyst, told an audience of African bishops in Ghana late last month. Speaking on the pope’s most recent encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate,” the French priest and consultor to the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, said that a new anthropology, a new way of viewing the nature of human beings, has grown in the last fifty years that is deeply antithetical to traditional Christian thought and jurisprudence. “The anthropological heresies that we are having to […]
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Reagan-era Pro-Life Leader Anne Higgins, 70, Dies

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life leaders in the nation's capital today mourned the loss of Anne Higgins, a well-loved leader in the pro-life movement known for her work defending the life of the unborn as a member of the staffs of three U.S. presidents. Higgins, 70, succumbed to a decades-long battle with cancer August 12. Her funeral was held at her parish, St. Stephen Martyr Roman Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., where Pat Buchanan delivered the main eulogy reflecting on her behind-the-scenes pro-life work as head of correspondence for Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, […]
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Majority of US Hispanics Oppose Abortion and Gay ‘Marriage’: Poll

Friday August 13, 2010 Majority of US Hispanics Oppose Abortion and Gay ‘Marriage’: Poll By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman UNITED STATES, August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A majority of American Hispanics oppose abortion and gay “marriage,” according to a new poll carried out jointly by the Spanish-language television network Univision and the Associated Press. The poll also found that English-speaking Hispanics were more likely to have liberal social views than their Spanish-only counterparts. Overall, 39 percent of Hispanics said abortion should be mostly legal, while polls of the general population indicate that approximately 46-54% of Americans think abortion should be legal. […]
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Pro-Condom Bishop Corrected by Southern African Bishops’ Conference

Friday August 13, 2010 Pro-Condom Bishop Corrected by Southern African Bishops’ Conference By Patrick B. Craine SOUTH AFRICA, August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After the release of a talk given by a disgruntled South African bishop that criticized the Vatican and various Church teachings, the local conference of bishops has issued a public correction. Their response was published Thursday by the National Catholic Reporter (NCR). Bishop Kevin Dowling of Rustenburg, who is famous for his promotion of condoms in the AIDS crisis, told NCR on July 8 that his June 1 talk in Cape Town was intended as an “open […]
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Singapore Launches ‘Dating Campaign’ To Counter Low Birth Rate

Friday August 13, 2010 Singapore Launches ‘Dating Campaign’ To Counter Low Birth Rate By Thaddeus M. Baklilnski SINGAPORE, August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government of Singapore announced that it has asked for tenders from communications agencies to produce a television commercial to “promote dating and come up with a ‘unique dating concept’ to get singles to interact” in a bid to deal with the city-state’s low birth and marriage rates. The Singapore Straits Times reports that the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) issued the tender “to engage a communications agency to conceptualize, plan and implement a […]
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Irish Planned Parenthood Affiliate Receives as Much as 55 Per Cent of Funding From Taxpayer

Wednesday August 11, 2010 Irish Planned Parenthood Affiliate Receives as Much as 55 Per Cent of Funding From Taxpayer By Hilary White Edited 6:58pm EST DUBLIN, August 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Documents published by the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA), an abortionist organisation affiliated with International Planned Parenthood, show that the group may receive as much as 55 per cent of its funding from the Irish taxpayer, in a country with an officially pro-life constitution. Financial statements show that €1.5 million ($US 1.93 million) was given to the group by the Irish government and “other grants.” The pro-life group Youth […]
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New Global Study Shows Maternal Mortality Significantly Lower Than Previously Thought

Thursday April 15, 2010 New Global Study Shows Maternal Mortality Significantly Lower Than Previously Thought By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. and Austin Ruse April 15, 2010 (C-FAM) – A new study out this week by the leading British medical journal shows maternal mortality rates have been significantly overestimated by United Nations (UN) agencies. The Lancet reports that maternal deaths worldwide in 2008 totalled 342,900, rather than the 500,000+ used by the World Bank, World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in recent years. The study finds both that the numbers from WHO and UNICEF were faulty due to […]
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University of North Carolina to Force Students to Pay for Abortion-Providing Insurance

Tuesday August 10, 2010 University of North Carolina to Force Students to Pay for Abortion-Providing Insurance By James Tillman CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, August 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This coming school year, students at the University of North Carolina who do not have or cannot afford their own private health insurance will be required to buy into a state-selected health insurance plan that funds abortions. “The fact that North Carolina students are going to be forced to pay for elective abortions is appalling,” said Kristan Hawkins, Executive Director of Students for Life of America, which discovered the abortion mandate. “Students […]
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Federal Judge Blocks Enforcement of Louisiana Ultrasound Law

Friday August 13, 2010 Federal Judge Blocks Enforcement of Louisiana Ultrasound Law By Peter J. Smith BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A U.S. District judge has blocked Louisiana’s “Ultrasound before Abortion Act” from going into effect until a legal challenge to the law’s constitutionality can be resolved in his court. Chief U.S. District Judge Ralph E. Tyson for the Middle District of Louisiana issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday until a hearing in Baton Rouge on August 24. The law was scheduled to take effect on Sunday. The law requires abortionists to perform an ultrasound on a […]
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General Synod Gives Anglican Trads in England No Option on Female Bishops

Tuesday July 13, 2010 General Synod Gives Anglican Trads in England No Option on Female Bishops By Peter J. Smith YORK, England, July 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite the best efforts of the leading shepherds of the Church of England (CoE), hard-line liberals at this weekend’s General Synod in York refused to compromise on the issue of women bishops – a decision that may prove to be the straw that breaks the back of the CoE. Desperate to avoid a schism that would rend the CoE asunder and send further shock waves through the Anglican Communion, Archbishop Rowan Williams of […]
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D.C. Admits Planned Parenthood ‘Private Property’ Sign was False

Friday August 13, 2010 D.C. Admits Planned Parenthood ‘Private Property’ Sign was False By James Tillman WASHINGTON, August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Washington city officials have admitted that the sidewalk outside of a Planned Parenthood abortuary is in fact public property, not private property as Planned Parenthood had claimed. The city has therefore retreated from its threat to arrest as a trespasser anyone who prays on the sidewalk. “Now that Planned Parenthood’s lie has been exposed, it is time for the City to demand that the signs that falsely claim the public land as private property be removed,” said Operation […]
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Gay Marriage and the End of Christian Civilization

Friday August 13, 2010 Gay Marriage and the End of Christian Civilization Commentary by Father Thomas Euteneur President, Human Life International FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, August 13, 2010 (HLI.org) – Back in the 90s when Fr. Paul Marx, founder of HLI, was asked his opinion about the efforts to legalize “same-sex unions” he commented in his usual forthright fashion, “When they do that,” he said, “it’s the end.” He meant “the end” of the Christian civilization whose values used to form the basis of American common life. Fr. Marx, in a prophetic sense, saw rightly that a society cannot survive the […]
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Federal Judge Lifts Stay on Prop. 8 Decision, Green Light to Same-Sex ‘Marriage’

Thursday August 12, 2010 Federal Judge Lifts Stay on Prop. 8 Decision, Green Light to Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ By Peter J. Smith Updated 5:09pm EST SAN FRANCISCO, August 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge says he will lift the stay he imposed on his ruling striking down Proposition 8, California’s constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco issued his decision Thursday, just five minutes past his self-imposed deadline of 12 P.M. PST, rejecting arguments by attorneys defending Prop.8 that the stay should remain in place […]
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Cardinal Newman Society Commemorates 20th Anniversary of Ex Corde Ecclesiae

Thursday August 12, 2010 Cardinal Newman Society Commemorates 20th Anniversary of Ex Corde Ecclesiae MANASSAS, Virginia, August 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the Solemnity of the Assumption, August 15, 2010, The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS) will commemorate the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s apostolic constitution on Catholic higher education, Ex corde Ecclesiae. CNS has written an extensive Timeline and Background of Ex corde Ecclesiae to mark the anniversary and shed light on the importance of this historic Church constitution. “The requirements of Ex corde Ecclesiae are of continuing importance for Catholic colleges and universities in 2010,” said CNS […]
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Russian Would Fire Abortion-Compliant Employees, Seeks ‘Orthodox Transfiguration of Russia’

Friday August 13, 2010 Russian Would Fire Abortion-Compliant Employees, Seeks ‘Orthodox Transfiguration of Russia’ By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MOSCOW, August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of a large dairy company near Moscow has informed his 6000 workers that company policy will require all employees to closely follow the teachings and precepts of the Russian Orthodox Church. Vasily Boiko-Veliki, director of Russkoe Moloko (Russian Milk), told Ekho Moskvy radio that the company was established to promote the Orthodox revival of Russia, and the rules were meant “to prevent future sins by employees.” “We have about 6,000 employees, most of whom […]
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First Rush, then Coulter, and Now Glenn Beck … What’s Happening?

Friday August 13, 2010 First Rush, then Coulter, and Now Glenn Beck … What’s Happening? Commentary by John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, August 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Appearing on The O’Reilly Factor yesterday, famed conservative Fox News host Glenn Beck may have shocked many Americans by noting that he was not very concerned about homosexual ‘marriage.’ * * See the complete 6 minute interview. O’Reilly asked Beck, “Do you believe that gay marriage is a threat to the country in any way?” Beck replied, “No, I don’t,” adding sarcastically, “Will the gays come and get us?” After being pressed again on […]
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Gay-Friendly Target Bucks Demand to Placate Gay Activists with $150,000 Donation

By Peter J. Smith MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite its reputation as a gay-friendly corporation, Target Corporation says they will not donate $150,000 to homosexualist advocacy causes in order to placate gay activists furious that the company gave $150,000 to a group supporting a pro-family candidate for governor of Minnesota. Three weeks ago, homosexual advocates discovered that Target Corp. donated the hefty sum to a pro-business group called MN Forward, which is supporting GOP candidate Tom Emmer’s bid for the governor’s race. Homosexualists raised the hue-and-cry against Target when they discovered that Emmer believes in maintaining the […]
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After Losing Major Role for Refusing Sex Scenes, Actor Neal McDonough Finds New Successes

By Peter J. Smith HOLLYWOOD, California, August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Standing up for his religious and moral beliefs has paid off for Neal McDonough, Hollywood actor and family man, who was fired back in March from a television series for refusing to perform steamy sex scenes. Far from ending his career, the actor’s career is moving along with a role in a major Hollywood film and the lead in a new television series called “Vigilante Priest.” Although the dominant attitude in Hollywood regarding sex scenes is that “everybody’s doing it,” Nikki Fink of Deadline.com reported that McDonough lost his role […]
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Reports Reveal $3M in Federal Funds Misappropriated by New Jersey Family Planning, Planned Parenthoo

By Kathleen Gilbert TRENTON, New Jersey, August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Audits by the United States Inspector General have uncovered that family planning clinics, including Planned Parenthood, have improperly taken Medicaid reimbursement for family planning services. The audits were released by New Jersey Right to Life as pro-abortion state lawmakers lobby not only to restore $7.5 million in state family planning funds, but to acquire a federal waiver that would permanently secure the 90% Medicaid reimbursement rate for family planning clinics. Pro-life Governor Chris Christie has withdrawn a waiver application, and last month vetoed an attempt to restore the state […]
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Letters to the Editor

Note: Letters cannot be published unless complete name and address are sent.Re: Pro-Life 101: “How Dare You Call me Pro-Abortion?! I'm Pro-Choice!” Hilary White, Loved your article and learned a lot. From now on when I hear : “I am pro choice”, I will respond: pro choice to Kill?  And so be it! Even if it is from inside the Vatican walls! Good for you! Thanks! Ivette Fabregas Puerto Rico P.S. love the work you all do at Lifesitenews. Thanks a million!! ___________________________________________________________________ Re: Prominent Lutheran Pastor: Yes, I Struggle with Same-Sex AttractionI would like to thank you for this great […]
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Vatican Official: Only the Catholic University ‘that Conserves its Identity’ Will Survive

By Kathleen Gilbert VATICAN CITY, August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Only the Catholic universities that strive to maintain the integrity of their faith life will endure to have a lasting benefit to society, said the prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education last week. Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski gave the remarks a few days before the 20th anniversary of the Apostolic Constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae, issued by Pope John Paul II, which urged Catholic universities to remain faithful to the Catholic faith as safeguarded by the Magisterium of the Church. “Only the Catholic university that conserves its identity as was […]
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Prop. 8 Judge: Pope Hurt Homosexuals

Monday August 9, 2010 Prop. 8 Judge: Pope Hurt Homosexuals By James Tillman SAN FRANCISCO, California, August 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — In the 136-page ruling overturning California’s ban on “gay marriage,” Judge Vaughn Walker cites a document signed by then-Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, to show that “religious beliefs that gay and lesbian relationships are sinful” can “harm gays and lesbians.” William May, chairman of Catholics for the Common Good (CCG), told LifeSiteNews (LSN) that it was shocking for a federal court to rule that “Catholic teaching and [that] that of other religions are harmful to anyone.” He also […]
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Filipino Archbishop: Abortion Entails Automatic Excommunication

Monday August 9, 2010 Filipino Archbishop: Abortion Entails Automatic Excommunication By Patrick B. Craine MANILA, Philippines, August 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A prelate in the Philippines is warning Catholics that they face automatic excommunication if they in any way participate in an abortion. Archbishop Oscar Cruz, archbishop emeritus of Lingayen-Dagupan and a canon lawyer, told CBCPNews last week that this penalty applies to any who are “actively involved” in bringing about the abortion. “That is called active participation … from the woman concerned, the husband who helped her, the abortionist, or the nurses,” he said to the bishops’ official news […]
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Catholic University Turns Down Obama Appearance Over Timing Issues

Thursday August 12, 2010 Catholic University Turns Down Obama Appearance Over Timing Issues By Kathleen Gilbert AUSTIN, Texas, August 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – St. Edward’s University, a Catholic institution of higher education that shares its founder with the University of Notre Dame, has rejected a request by President Obama to give a speech at the school. University spokeswoman Mischelle Diaz stated that “St. Edward’s University is honored to have been considered a potential venue for President Obama’s recent visit to Austin,” but “Regretfully, it was not a good time for us to consider this.” “With the short notice provided – […]
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Child Conceived ‘Gave Purpose to the Pain’ of Rape

Wednesday August 11, 2010 Child Conceived ‘Gave Purpose to the Pain’ of Rape Commentary by Lizzy Brew, pro-personhood advocate and mother of six AUSTRALIA, August 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As a virgin of not quite fifteen years of age in 1975, my life changed forever when I was raped after entering the vehicle of a man from whom I had innocently accepted a lift home. After he was finished with me, I started on my journey in the darkness of that three-kilometer walk, alone with my trauma. I had trusted him and he had shattered that trust, much as I […]
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Louisiana Lawmakers Clamp Down on Law-Breaking Abortionists

Monday June 14, 2010 Louisiana Lawmakers Clamp Down on Law-Breaking Abortionists By Peter J. Smith BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Louisiana State House has given final approval to a bill that would empower the state’s health secretary to hold abortionists accountable by shutting down the operations of all abortion clinics run by the same owner, when any one of those clinics has violated state law. The Louisiana Senate voted 33 – 0 to approve H.B. 1370, a measure sponsored by Rep. Fred Mills Jr., D-St. Martinville, which will prevent abortionists from carrying on with business as […]
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Forty College Students Walk over 10,000 Miles in Crossroads Pro-Life Walks Across U.S.

Friday August 13, 2010 Forty College Students Walk over 10,000 Miles in Crossroads Pro-Life Walks Across U.S. WASHINGTON, D.C., August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This Saturday, August 14, over 40 young people walking across the country with the group Crossroads will meet in Washington, D.C. to mark the conclusion of their 3 simultaneous pro-life treks across America. Crossroads has sponsored these pro-life walks across America every summer since 1995. Passing through 36 states and thousands of towns and cities, they have witnessed the reality that the overwhelming majority of Americans identify themselves as pro-life. “The mainstream media may tell you […]
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ACLU again Refuses to Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Review Ten Commandments Case

CINCINNATI, Ohio, August 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ACLU has allowed the time to expire without filing a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court requesting review of the Ten Commandments case in ACLU v. Grayson County, Kentucky. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, which upheld the Ten Commandments in the “Foundations of American Law and Government Display,” now stands. Since 2005, this is the fourth time the ACLU has lost a Ten Commandments case and refused to ask the Supreme Court to review the matter. Located on the second floor of the Grayson County, Kentucky, courthouse, the “Foundations of […]
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Claims of “Thousands” Travelling to Britain for Abortion Bogus, Statistics Show

By Hilary White LONDON, August 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Statistics from the UK’s Department of Health disprove claims made by a Polish abortion lobby group that 10,000 Polish women are coming to Britain to abort their children annually. A researcher for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) says the claims are nothing more than propaganda in a campaign to loosen abortion restrictions in Poland. In March, the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning came under heavy criticism in Britain when it ran an ad campaign in Poland encouraging women to seek abortions in the UK. The […]
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Commentary on August 16 News

Kathleen Gilbert provides some insight into why the battle to defend natural marriage is being lost – mainly because of a lack of will and strong leadership and subequent inability to discern truth. Cowardice is a large factor. This is a tough issue and in this age of entertainment, comfort and political correctness, leadership would rather avoid difficult issues such as the harm of homosexuality. They would much rather safely and uselessly talk about “the beauty of marriage”, than what this whole thing is about – attempted forced acceptance of homosexuality, the obliteration of natural marriage and a radical restructuring of society. And, […]
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Canadian Gvmt Lets Off Pro-Lifer for Refusing to File Abortion-Funding Taxes

Friday August 13, 2010 Canadian Gvmt Lets Off Pro-Lifer for Refusing to File Abortion-Funding Taxes By Patrick B. Craine FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s attorney general has opted not to prosecute pro-life activist David Little for his failure to file income tax returns, reports the Daily Gleaner. Little, 66, has not filed tax returns since 2000 because taxes are used to fund abortions. He believes that to file would mean colluding with a corrupt tax system. He was jailed for 66 days in April after being convicted for not filing from 2000-2002. He had been scheduled […]
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Pro-Lifers Continue Pushing as UNC Gives Ground on Mandatory Abortion Coverage

Thursday August 12, 2010 Pro-Lifers Continue Pushing as UNC Gives Ground on Mandatory Abortion Coverage By James Tillman WASHINGTON, D.C., August 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In response to Students for Life of America’s (STFLA) efforts, the University of North Carolina has told the group that they have provided students an ability to “opt-out” of the mandatory abortion-covering health care. Nevertheless, STFLA’s Executive Director Kristan Hawkins said that “this is not a victory,” as there was no proof that students opting-out in their own plans will not still foot the bill for other students’ abortion coverage. Earlier this week STFLA uncovered […]
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Dutch Arrest Woman for Committing Infanticide without Doctor Approval

Thursday August 12, 2010 Dutch Arrest Woman for Committing Infanticide without Doctor Approval By Peter J. Smith NIJ BEETS, Netherlands, August 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A woman has been arrested for killing her four newborn children and packing their remains away in suitcases in the Netherlands – a country where infanticide is legal as long a doctor administers the dose. According to Radio Netherlands Worldwide, the unnamed 25-year-old woman was a well-known and liked dentist’s assistant in the rural town of Nij Beets, in the Dutch province of Friesland. She managed to keep the infanticides secret for years until her […]
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Cardinal Pell Says Green Party Like Watermelons: Green Outside, Red Inside

Wednesday August 11, 2010 Cardinal Pell Says Green Party Like Watermelons: Green Outside, Red Inside By Kathleen Gilbert SYDNEY, August 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A row has erupted after Cardinal George Pell of the Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia criticized the Green Party, which supports abortion, euthanasia, and same-sex “marriage,” as “sweet camouflaged poison” that represents an “anti-Christian” point of view. The archdiocese stood strongly by the comments after Green leader Robert Brown implied that Pell lied about the party’s position, and claimed to be more in touch with Catholic and Christian sentiment than the Cardinal. When asked by young adults […]
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Bishop Olmsted: ‘Love Authentically’ by Acknowledging Disorder of Homosexuality

Wednesday August 11, 2010 Bishop Olmsted: ‘Love Authentically’ by Acknowledging Disorder of Homosexuality By Kathleen Gilbert PHOENIX, Arizona, August 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The federal appeals court decision to overturn California’s constitutional ban on recognizing same-sex “marriage” represents a threat to “cultural sanity” fueled by a line of thinking that is “absurd and only nominally rational,” wrote Phoenix bishop Thomas Olmsted this week. Olmsted said in a Tuesday column for the Catholic Sun that the decision to overturn the voter-approved constitutional language “cannot be passed over in silence,” and criticized an opinion piece in The Arizona Republic that stated: “If […]
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Major Rome Pro-Life Conference Brings out Vatican Heavy Hitters

Wednesday August 11, 2010 Major Rome Pro-Life Conference Brings out Vatican Heavy Hitters By Hilary White ROME, August 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Human Life International has lined up a list of major Vatican figures for its pro-life conference in Rome this year. From October 5th to 10th, some of the most significant figures in the global pro-life and pro-family movement are scheduled to meet in Rome for the 5th World Prayer Congress for Life with the theme “The Light Shines in the Darkness”. Organisers say that the congress “responds concretely” to the attacks on life and family “by offering the […]
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Patricia Neal, Hollywood Actress and Pro-Life Advocate, Dies at 84

Tuesday August 10, 2010 Patricia Neal, Hollywood Actress and Pro-Life Advocate, Dies at 84 By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Patricia Neal, an actress whose long career began during the “Golden Age of Hollywood,” passed away Sunday in her home at the age of 84. But for the pro-life community, Neal is remembered as a strong advocate who turned grief from her own abortion into positive pro-life example for others. According to the Associated Press, a family friend said that Neal finally succumbed to her battle with lung cancer at her home on Martha’s Vineyard. […]
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Sears Ignores Calls to Stop Selling Porn

Tuesday August 10, 2010 Sears Ignores Calls to Stop Selling Porn By Patrick B. Craine CHICAGO, Illinois, August 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Retail giant Sears, which was exposed last week for marketing pornographic posters through their website, could be facing a boycott if they continue their refusal to remove the products. “Sears is playing with fire. Sears is the place that American families are used to going, … and I just cannot imagine that the vast majority of their customer base wants to shop at a place that’s marketing pornography,” said Bryan Fischer, director of issues analysis at the American […]
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Jennifer Aniston: Who Needs Men when We Have Artificial Insemination?

Wednesday August 11, 2010 Jennifer Aniston: Who Needs Men when We Have Artificial Insemination? By Peter J. Smith HOLLYWOOD, California, August 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It’s a feminist adage that “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”, but Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston is taking that message a step further, saying that women don’t need to “fiddle” with men in order to have and raise a child, thanks to artificial insemination. Aniston, 41, is the star of an upcoming Miramax film “Switch,” in which Aniston’s character decides she is tired of waiting for a man to come […]
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Newly Identified Corporate Supporters of Planned Parenthood Named

Wednesday August 11, 2010 Newly Identified Corporate Supporters of Planned Parenthood Named FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, August 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Life Decisions International (LDI) has released a revised edition of The Boycott List identifying corporations that support of Planned Parenthood, the world’s primary abortion-advocacy group. “As a direct result of the commitment, action and prayers of pro-family people, at least 256 corporations have stopped funding Planned Parenthood,” said Kenneth C. Garvey, LDI’s Director of Communications. It is estimated that the boycott has cost Planned Parenthood more than $40 million since the Corporate Funding Project (CFP) began nearly 18 years ago. […]
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Coulter to Keynote for Homosexualist GOPride

Wednesday August 11, 2010 Coulter to Keynote for Homosexualist GOPride By James Tillman WASHINGTON, D.C., August 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — GOProud, which bills itself as the “only national organization representing gay conservatives,” has announced that well-known conservative author Ann Coulter is headlining their first annual “Homocon.” The announcement shocked both advocates of traditional family values and homosexualist advocates of “gay rights,” who have previously attacked Coulter for her supposedly homophobic language and beliefs. Christopher Barron, Chairman of the Board of GOProud, said he could think of no “conservative more fun to headline our inaugural party then the self-professed ‘right-wing Judy […]
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Portuguese Court Approves Constitutionality of Homosexual ‘Marriage’

Friday April 9, 2010 Portuguese Court Approves Constitutionality of Homosexual ‘Marriage’ By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman LISBON, April 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Constitutional Court of Portugal has approved new homosexual “marriage” legislation that was passed in February by the nation’s parliament. The court ruled that the Constitution, which protects the institution of marriage as a “fundamental element of society,” does not “prohibit the evolution of the institution” in the court’s words, and that opening it to “persons of the same sex does not impede the recognition and the protection of the family.” The bill was submitted to the Constitutional Court […]
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Forty College Students Walk over 10,000 Miles in Crossroads Pro-Life Walks Across U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This Saturday, August 14, over 40 young people walking across the country with the group Crossroads will meet in Washington, D.C. to mark the conclusion of their 3 simultaneous pro-life treks across America.  Crossroads has sponsored these pro-life walks across America every summer since 1995. Passing through 36 states and thousands of towns and cities, they have witnessed the reality that the overwhelming majority of Americans identify themselves as pro-life. “The mainstream media may tell you different, but we can say with authority and through actual experience at the grass-roots level, that America […]
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D.C. Admits Planned Parenthood ‘Private Property’ Sign was False

By James Tillman WASHINGTON, August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—Washington city officials have admitted that the sidewalk outside of a Planned Parenthood abortuary is in fact public property, not private property as Planned Parenthood had claimed.  The city has therefore retreated from its threat to arrest as a trespasser anyone who prays on the sidewalk. “Now that Planned Parenthood’s lie has been exposed, it is time for the City to demand that the signs that falsely claim the public land as private property be removed,” said Operation Rescue’s President Troy Newman. Pro-lifers have prayed and counseled for years on the sidewalk in […]
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Chicago Bursts Planned Parenthood’s Bubble, Drops Charges Against 2nd Wrongly Accused Pro-Lifer

By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The City of Chicago has yet again dropped charges of “disorderly conduct” against another pro-life advocate accused by Planned Parenthood staffers of violating the city’s controversial “Bubble Zone” ordinance.  David Avignone, an MBA student at Loyola University Chicago, was arrested on July 8 while standing outside Planned Parenthood’s Near North Side clinic just five days after police arrested Joe Holland, a Northwestern University graduate student, while he prayed his rosary at the same place. Like Holland, Avignone was accused of violating a city ordinance passed in 2009 that prohibits individuals […]
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Canadian Gvmt Lets Off Pro-Lifer for Refusing to File Abortion-Funding Taxes

By Patrick B. Craine FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s attorney general has opted not to prosecute pro-life activist David Little for his failure to file income tax returns, reports the Daily Gleaner. Little, 66, has not filed tax returns since 2000 because taxes are used to fund abortions.  He believes that to file would mean colluding with a corrupt tax system. He was jailed for 66 days in April after being convicted for not filing from 2000-2002.  He had been scheduled to appear in court Tuesday on new charges. “I don't want to cooperate with an […]
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Russian Would Fire Abortion-Compliant Employees, Seeks ‘Orthodox Transfiguration of Russia’

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MOSCOW, August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of a large dairy company near Moscow has informed his 6000 workers that company policy will require all employees to closely follow the teachings and precepts of the Russian Orthodox Church. Vasily Boiko-Veliki, director of Russkoe Moloko (Russian Milk), told Ekho Moskvy radio that the company was established to promote the Orthodox revival of Russia, and the rules were meant “to prevent future sins by employees.” “We have about 6,000 employees, most of whom are Orthodox, and I expect them to be faithful and to repent,” Boiko-Veliki said. […]
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Federal Judge Lifts Stay on Prop. 8 Decision, Green Light to Same-Sex ‘Marriage’

By Peter J. Smith Updated 5:09pm EST SAN FRANCISCO, August 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge says he will lift the stay he imposed on his ruling striking down Proposition 8, California’s constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco issued his decision Thursday, just five minutes past his self-imposed deadline of 12 P.M. PST, rejecting arguments by attorneys defending Prop.8 that the stay should remain in place until a final decision was issued in the appeals process. The judge’s order will allow same-sex couples […]
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Wisc. Catholic Diocese Will Fire Employees Using State-Mandated Birth Control Services

By Peter J. Smith MADISON, Wisconsin, August 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Diocese of Madison says they will abide by Wisconsin law requiring them to offer insurance coverage for artificial birth control – but they are making absolutely clear that they will fire any employee who willfully uses it in defiance of Catholic teaching against contraception. According to the Wisconsin State Journal, the diocese, which is headed by Bishop Robert Morlino, made the decision after discovering that the financial costs to become self-insured were too high. A new state provision that went into effect January 1 requires health insurance […]
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Pro-Lifers Continue Pushing as UNC Gives Ground on Mandatory Abortion Coverage

By James Tillman WASHINGTON, D.C., August 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In response to Students for Life of America's (STFLA) efforts, the University of North Carolina has told the group that they have provided students an ability to ”opt-out” of the mandatory abortion-covering health care. Nevertheless, STFLA's Executive Director Kristan Hawkins said that “this is not a victory,” as there was no proof that students opting-out in their own plans will not still foot the bill for other students' abortion coverage. Earlier this week STFLA uncovered the fact that, unless students could afford their own private health insurance, the university-mandated health insurance included coverage for […]
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Quebec Anti-Euthanasia Group Launches New English Language Website

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski QUEBEC, August 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vivre dans la Dignité (Living with Dignity), a new grassroots group network formed to urge Quebecers to stop euthanasia and assisted suicide from being smuggled into the public health care system under the guise of medical treatment, has announced that their English language website is now online. The group officially launched its campaign in June, 2010, and has already garnered strong support for their manifesto telling the provincial government it must direct its efforts and resources to offering Quebecers the best possible end of life care, including ready access to […]
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Barack Obama’s Image in Kenya Tarnished by US Influence in Abortion Battle

By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. NEW YORK, August 12, 2010 (C-FAM) – Barack Obama’s sterling image among Kenyans has dimmed in the wake of a $23M U.S. campaign to promote a draft constitution that included abortion rights. The U.S. promoted the new constitution as a way to stop gross presidential power and corruption. Opponents say that same power and corruption were used to convince many Kenyans, falsely, that the document was pro-life. The constitution passed with 67% in favor on August 4th. “In a word, we were against a most formidable government machinery that took total control of the message and […]
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Organ of Organization of American States Manipulated to Promote Abortion in Latin America

By Seana Cranston, J.D. NEW YORK, August 12, 2010 (C-FAM)  -  A recently-released document, revives concerns that the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is becoming yet another venue for the promotion of abortion, under the guise of “reproductive health,” and “family planning.” The release of “Access to Maternal Health Services from a Human Rights Perspective” coincides with the “new international human right” to maternal health recently asserted by abortion activists at the UN-backed Women Deliver 2 conference  which took place in Washington DC in June of this year. The new report cites the American Convention on Human Rights for […]
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Argentinean Evangelicals Protest Against Homosexual ‘Marriage’

Tuesday June 1, 2010 Argentinean Evangelicals Protest Against Homosexual ‘Marriage’ By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, June 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Evangelical protestants in Argentina are joining their voices to the nation’s Catholics in opposition to proposed legislation to institute homosexual “marriage” in the South American country. With the slogan, “For marriage with a father and a mother,” two Evangelical groups have united with the goal of collecting 50,000 signatures against the legislation, which has already passed the Chamber of Deuputies (the lower legislative house) and is now under consideration by the nation’s senate. The two groups, […]
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Poland Hosts Thousands for Homosexualist EuroPride March

Tuesday July 20, 2010 Poland Hosts Thousands for Homosexualist EuroPride March By Patrick B. Craine WARSAW, Poland, July 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Thousands of homosexuals marched through the streets of the Polish capital Sunday for the annual EuroPride Parade, amidst strong opposition from the overwhelmingly pro-family populace. The crowd of marchers is being estimated at between 8,000 to 10,000, with participants from throughout Europe, North America, and beyond. The event was significantly smaller than previous years, when crowds have been estimated at tens of thousands and even more. Some reports in the media estimed that over a million attended EuroPride […]
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Coulter to Keynote for Homosexualist GOProud

By James Tillman WASHINGTON, D.C., August 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—GOProud, which bills itself as the “only national organization representing gay conservatives,” has announced that well-known conservative author Ann Coulter is headlining their first annual “Homocon.” The announcement shocked both advocates of traditional family values and homosexualist advocates of “gay rights,” who have previously attacked Coulter for her supposedly homophobic language and beliefs. Christopher Barron, Chairman of the Board of GOProud, said he could think of no “conservative more fun to headline our inaugural party then the self-professed ‘right-wing Judy Garland’—Ann Coulter.” Judy Garland is an icon among homosexuals. “The gay left […]
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Bishop Olmsted: ‘Love Authentically’ by Acknowledging Disorder of Homosexuality

By Kathleen Gilbert PHOENIX, Arizona, August 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The federal appeals court decision to overturn California's constitutional ban on recognizing same-sex “marriage” represents a threat to “cultural sanity” fueled by a line of thinking that is “absurd and only nominally rational,” wrote Phoenix bishop Thomas Olmsted this week. Olmsted said in a Tuesday column for the Catholic Sun that the decision to overturn the voter-approved constitutional language “cannot be passed over in silence,” and criticized an opinion piece in The Arizona Republic that stated: “If this generation of Americans doesn’t move forward, the next one will. Young people […]
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American Bar Association Adopts Resolution Affirming Same-Sex ‘Marriage’

By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, California, August 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Bar Association adopted a resolution supporting the legalization of same-sex “marriage” across the United States at the conclusion of its annual national convention in San Francisco on Tuesday. According to the Associated Press, only one member voiced dissent against the resolution, which “urges state, territorial, and tribal governments to eliminate all of their legal barriers to civil marriage between two persons of the same sex who are otherwise eligible to marry.” The resolution was sponsored by the state bar associations of New York, Washington, Vermont, Massachusetts, […]
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US Cardinal on JPII’s Theology of the Body: ‘The Curriculum of the Culture of Life’

By Patrick B. Craine PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, August 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Venerable Pope John Paul II’s catecheses on the theology of the body form “the curriculum of the Culture of Life” and represent “a step-by-step, Spirit-laden presentation that resonates with the hunger so many people feel every day,” said Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia, in a homily at the first National Theology of the Body Congress. Cardinal Rigali told the Congress that, in his theology of the body, the Pope was “laying out … God’s plan for humanity,”  Pope John Paul, he said, “told us that there is only one […]
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Pro-Life Group Urges Boycott of Urban Outfitters Condom Sales

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - American Life League’s Stop Planned Parenthood project (STOPP) is mobilizing parents to counter Urban Outfitters Inc., the youth-oriented retailer selling Planned Parenthood’s “Proper Attire” condoms on its web site. While condoms have an overall typical-use failure rate of 15 percent – with some studies reporting a failure rate as high as 36 percent for typical teen use – Planned Parenthood condoms scored at the very bottom in a February 2005 Consumer Reports study on condom effectiveness. “By hawking Planned Parenthood’s condoms, Urban Outfitters has become part of the problem, not the solution,” said Rita Diller, STOPP’s […]
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Irish Planned Parenthood Affiliate Receives as Much as 55 Per Cent of Funding From Taxpayer

By Hilary White Edited 6:58pm EST  DUBLIN, August 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Documents published by the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA), an abortionist organisation affiliated with International Planned Parenthood, show that the group may receive as much as 55 per cent of its funding from the Irish taxpayer, in a country with an officially pro-life constitution. Financial statements show that €1.5 million ( 1.93 million) was given to the group by the Irish government and “other grants.”  The pro-life group Youth Defence called it “simply unacceptable” that Irish taxpayers are directly supporting the abortion industry by funding IFPA. Íde Nic Mhathúna commented, […]
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Stalemate after Nebraska Health Board Rejects Conscience Compromise for Christian Psychologists

Monday July 5, 2010 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 […]
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University of North Carolina to Force Students to Pay for Abortion-Providing Insurance

By James Tillman CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, August 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This coming school year, students at the University of North Carolina who do not have or cannot afford their own private health insurance will be required to buy into a state-selected health insurance plan that funds abortions. “The fact that North Carolina students are going to be forced to pay for elective abortions is appalling,” said Kristan Hawkins, Executive Director of Students for Life of America, which discovered the abortion mandate. “Students should not be put in a situation like this in order to attend an educational institution.” […]
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Pro-Lifers Appeal to Gov. Christie to Intervene on Behalf of ‘Choose Life’ Plates

By James Tillman TRENTON, New Jersey, August 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—The Children First Foundation (CFF) has appealed to pro-life Governor Chris Christie to intervene to get the “Choose Life” license plate approved by the state of New Jersey. “We are asking Gov. Christie to ask his new [Motor Vehicle Commission] chief administrator, Ray Martinez, to approve our plate without further delay,” said CFF President Elizabeth Rex. The Children's CFF first submitted an application for a “Choose Life” license plate in January of 2003.  The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) initially approved the plate, but later reversed its decision on the grounds […]
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Fredericton Caves: Allows First Gay Parade and Declares Aug. 8-15 Pride Week

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski FREDERICTON, NB, August 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In 1995, Fredericton Mayor Brad Woodside refused to proclaim “Pride Week” until forced to do so in 1998 by the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission. At the time, Woodside argued that his faith and his right to freedom of speech exempted him from having to proclaim Pride Week, and that “sex had no place in the council chambers.” This Sunday, however, Fredericton held its first gay parade, with Mayor Woodside raising the rainbow flag on Friday outside city hall and telling the 50 or so people gathered to watch […]
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Gibbons Trial, Pickets Outside, Packed Courtroom

TORONTO, August 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life heroine Linda Gibbons appeared before Madam Justice Mara Beth Greene today, but no ruling was issued as was expected.  The College Park courtroom was packed with pro-life supporters, with many more outside staging a Show the Truth demonstration witnessing with large signs the reality of abortion. Numerous police officers attended the court proceedings.  According to one eye-witness, “One female police officer took great pains to restrict Linda's view of the participants.” Gibbons was reserved, silent, and particularly attentive throughout the hearing. Charles Lewis, National Post reporter who last week wrote a front-page extensive news report published in the […]
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Indonesia Government Renews Promise to Crack Down on Porn

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski JAKARTA, Indonesia, August 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the eve of the beginning of Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting and purification in which faithful Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and sexual activities from dawn until dusk, Indonesian Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring renewed a promise to have all porn websites blocked in the country. The measure is part of the government’s overall effort to implement the country’s strict anti-pornography laws The Indonesian 2008 Anti-Pornography Law, which was upheld recently by the country’s Constitutional Court, declares, in part, “that the state should protect its […]
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Teacher Kicked out of Tory Party for Christian Views on Homosexuality Issued ‘Warning’ by School

By Hilary White   PAISLEY, Scotland, August 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A teacher who was kicked out of David Cameron’s Conservative party for his unwillingness to go along with the homosexualist agenda will not be sacked for his views, a disciplinary committee has decided. The Renfrewshire Council, which runs the Rashielea Primary School, had suspended Philip Lardner over his remarks but decided to issue only a written warning, a decision Lardner says he will appeal.  Lardner told the Christian Institute, “If I don’t challenge this, other teachers will never be able to voice personal opinions in the future.”  A primary teacher […]
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Readers Responding to LSN Real Estate for Life Program

The new LSN Real Estate for Life program that was launched on June 2nd has generated 25 enquiries, 6 listings and even one possible house donation. Enquiries came from Nova Scotia, Alberta, Georgia and Connecticut.  We hope other readers will consider joining into this program. By doing so, you can significantly help LifeSiteNews without costing you anything. As for which countries qualify, this initiative applies to wherever English is widely spoken. You can use the service to either buy or sell your property while at the same time helping LifeSiteNews. It might sound too good to be true, but we […]
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Case Dropped against Vatican Alleging Liability in American Sex Abuse

By Kathleen Gilbert LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, August 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A lawsuit aiming to subpoena Pope Benedict XVI in connection with the American clerical sex abuse scandal has been dropped by plaintiffs. The plaintiffs acknowledged that they face “insurmountable hurdles” in pursuing the case after the court acknowledged that the Vatican would be immune from most of the lawsuit due to its status as a sovereign nation. The U.S. Supreme Court then refused to reconsider that ruling. The case, filed in 2004, was the first in the U.S. to come to the Vatican regarding alleged abuse. Two other lawsuits, one […]
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Memos Show Kagan’s Hand in Clinton-Era Abortion, Assisted Suicide Policy Decisions

Monday June 7, 2010 Memos Show Kagan’s Hand in Clinton-Era Abortion, Assisted Suicide Policy Decisions By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A number of memos have come to the fore with information about the views of President Barack Obama’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, on abortion and assisted suicide. The memos show that Kagan opined against a federal ban on assisted suicide, and demonstrated political savvy in keeping the Clinton administration from endangering already liberal abortion laws by antagonizing a Republican-led Congress. When the Clinton Administration was faced by Oregon’s decision to […]
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Int’l Couples Flock to U.S. for Gender-Selective In-Vitro Fertilization

By Kathleen Gilbert LOS ANGELES, California, August 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Couples from countries that ban sex-selective in-vitro fertilization (IVF) have found a haven in clinics in the United States, where the practice is far less regulated. In an article for Scotland's Daily Record newspaper, Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg of The Fertility Institute said that five couples have travelled from Scotland to undergo the sex-selection procedure at his clinics in New York and Los Angeles, which have been described as the worldwide leaders in gender selection. The article notes that couples who “suffer from gender disappointment ” often remortgage their homes […]
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Schwarzenegger: Let Gays Marry Immediately

By James Tillman SACRAMENTO, California, August 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is urging Judge Vaughn Walker to discontinue the stay that the judge placed on the enforcement of his own ruling against Proposition 8, and to thereby let homosexuals marry. Judge Walker issued his explosive decision against traditional marriage last week; however, he decided to enjoin enforcement of his order and not to allow gay “marriages” to commence immediately in the state, pending the inevitable appeal of his ruling by defenders of true marriage. “The Administration believes the public interest is best served by permitting the Court’s judgment […]
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Australian Senate Candidate under Fire after Calling Gay ‘Marriage’ Child Abuse

By Kathleen Gilbert BRISBANE, Queensland, August 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-family candidate for an Australian senate is standing by statements in which she called gay “marriage” a form of child abuse, after being deluged with vitriol from homosexualists and derogatory media coverage. Wendy Francis, who is campaigning for a senate seat in Queensland, stated on her Twitter account Sunday: “Gay marriage = kids with no mothers or no fathers, parent-less generation; uncontrollable depression & suicide. Is that the Aust[ralia] we want?” Francis also wrote: “Children in homosexual relationships are subject to emotional abuse. Legitimising gay marriage is like legalising […]
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Abortion Included in Marie Stopes Job Perks along with Discount Gym Membership

By Hilary White LONDON, August 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A week after the Advertising Standards Authority issued a statement refusing to credit complaints about Marie Stopes TV abortion advertisements, the country’s largest abortionist group is at the center of a controversy again. The Daily Mail has revealed that Marie Stopes employees are being offered free abortions as a regular part of the organization’s employee benefits package.  Marie Stopes International (MSI) employs 430 people in nine centers around Britain, with the bulk of its funding coming from the British taxpayer, to the order of £30 million annually. A Marie Stopes employee […]
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Warsaw March For Life Draws Over 6000

Friday June 4, 2010 Warsaw March For Life Draws Over 6000 By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WARSAW, June 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More than 6,000 people marched in Warsaw on May 30 in the fifth annual March in Defense of Life and Family, very symbolically held on Mothers Day. This year’s march was held under the motto “A Family-Friendly State” and attracted families from across Poland and countries around the world including Belarus, Ukraine, Brazil, the United States, Germany, Portugal and France. Special guests were representatives of the Association for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP), along with several […]
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UPDATE: Federal Judge Rules Proposition 8 Unconstitutional

Wednesday August 4, 2010 UPDATE: Federal Judge Rules Proposition 8 Unconstitutional By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug. 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge has ruled that California’s constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman is unconstitutional, because it excludes same-sex unions. Chief Judge Vaughn Walker, who presides over the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, declared Proposition 8 had no “rational basis” in a 138-page ruling on the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case released Wednesday afternoon. Walker struck down the amendment, which states “Only marriage between a man and […]
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Pro-Life Television Show Wins Emmy Award

Tuesday August 3, 2010 Pro-Life Television Show Wins Emmy Award August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Producers and staff members with the weekly pro-life television show Facing Life Head-On are celebrating after the show was awarded a regional Emmy in the category of Interview and Discussion. “I believe this is a first for the pro-life movement—receiving an accolade at this level by the media industry, much less the Academy,” said Brad Mattes, host and executive producer of the show. The show, which is a project of the Life Issues Institute, won the award on the strength of an episode in which […]
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Ten States and 12 NGOs Sign on to Support Italy in Crucifix Case

Friday June 4, 2010 Ten States and 12 NGOs Sign on to Support Italy in Crucifix Case By Hilary White STRASBOURG, June 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ten countries have signed on to support Italy in the now-infamous Crucifix case being brought before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). In March, the court agreed to hear an appeal of its ruling that Italy must ban crucifixes from public school classrooms. Armenia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Lithuania, Malta, Monaco, San Marino, Romania, and the Russian Federation, all members of the Council of Europe, have been accepted as “amicus […]
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Pro-Abortion Activist Licks Pro-Lifer’s Camera

Wednesday August 4, 2010 Pro-Abortion Activist Licks Pro-Lifer’s Camera By James Tillman ROCKFORD, Illinois, August 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-abortion activist threatened pro-lifers outside of the Northern Illinois Women’s Center (NIWC) before licking the camera lens of a pro-lifer videotaping his aggressive behavior. He then explained his actions to a police officer by blaming pro-lifers for waking him up with their noise, although most of the noise on the scene was being caused by abortion supporters. On July 30, James Harnden first advanced towards Bill Landerholm, who was using stilts to allow him to look over the fence around […]
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Chicago Drops Charges against Arrested Pro-Lifer

Wednesday August 4, 2010 Chicago Drops Charges against Arrested Pro-Lifer By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, August 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The City of Chicago will not be pursuing charges against a pro-life advocate accused of violating the city’s “bubble-zone” ordinance by praying in front of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. Pro-life student Joseph Holland, a Northwestern University graduate student, was accused of violating a city ordinance passed in 2009 that prohibits individuals in the 50 foot radius of an abortion clinic from approaching within eight feet of its clients, without consent, “for the purpose of passing a leaflet or handbill […]
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New Poll Confirms Most Canadians Do Not Know Canada Has No Abortion Law

Wednesday August 4, 2010 New Poll Confirms Most Canadians Do Not Know Canada Has No Abortion Law By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, August 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Angus Reid public opinion poll published on August 3 confirms the findings of a poll conducted early this year that most Canadians are woefully unaware of the country’s status quo on abortion. The online survey of a representative national sample of 1,022 Canadian adults, conducted from July 7 to July 8, found that 21 percent of respondents knew that Canada has no restrictions on abortion whatsoever. In comparison, the poll conducted in […]
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Opinion: The APA’s Biased Paper on Same-Sex Attraction and Therapy

Wednesday August 4, 2010 Opinion: The APA’s Biased Paper on Same-Sex Attraction and Therapy Dale O’Leary August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The debate over therapy for same-sex attraction (SSA) and gender identity disorder (GID) has been going on for years. Recently, the APA put out a paper designed to resolve the issue. However, the introduction of the APA’s Task Force Report on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation defines the parameters for the discussion in such a way that the defenders of therapy for SSA and GID are positioned in the worst possible light. The issue is essentially decided in […]
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Pro-Life Speaker Melanie Pritchard’s “Miraculous” Recovery

Wednesday August 4, 2010 Pro-Life Speaker Melanie Pritchard’s “Miraculous” Recovery By Mark Henry PHOENIX, AZ, August 4, 2010 (Catholic Online) – It all started out 7:00 a.m. Wednesday morning when Melanie Pritchard texted my wife Tina telling her that she was going into labor and “asking for prayers.” After Tina and I returned from morning Mass, Melanie’s friend Meghan called Tina in tears telling us that Melanie’s heart stopped during delivery and she desperately needed our prayers. During the frantic drive to the hospital, my wife was distraught. She loved Melanie like a younger sister. In Melanie’s eyes, her greatest […]
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Anne Rice Quits Christianity over Bishops’ Opposition to Gay ‘Marriage’; Son a Gay Activist

Tuesday August 3, 2010 Anne Rice Quits Christianity over Bishops’ Opposition to Gay ‘Marriage’; Son a Gay Activist By John-Henry Westen LOS ANGELES, CA, August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Famed novelist Anne Rice has revealed the reasons behind her Facebook announcement last week that she is leaving Christianity. The abrupt announcement came just over a decade after Rice returned to her childhood Catholic faith, a conversion that she chronicled in her 2008 spiritual memoir entitled “Called Out of Darkness.” In a recent NPR interview Rice, whose son is homosexual and a gay activist, said that her reason for leaving was […]
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Linda Gibbons Hits Cover of National Post

Tuesday August 3, 2010 Linda Gibbons Hits Cover of National Post By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life prisoner of conscience Linda Gibbons hit the front page of the National Post on Saturday, in what has been called the largest piece on the pro-life heroine yet from Canada’s national media. Religion reporter Charles Lewis, who interviewed the pro-life activist at the Vanier Centre for Women, one hour west of Toronto, explained that Gibbons “believes she has a Charter and God-given right to counsel against abortion, to stand in front of an abortion clinic and offer […]
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From Quebec to Guadalupe: Pro-Life Woman on a 5,000 Km. North American Walk for Life

Tuesday August 3, 2010 From Quebec to Guadalupe: Pro-Life Woman on a 5,000 Km. North American Walk for Life By Patrick B. Craine August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – French Catholic journalist Anne-Marie Michel is making a 5,000 km. walk for life across North America, a pilgrimage that will bring her, after many gruelling months alone on the road, to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. “I deeply believe that offering this pilgrimage to God can help ladies who suffer so much before and after an abortion,” she explained. “I also want to give my little contribution, […]
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Senate Committee again Votes to Permanently Repeal Mexico City Policy

Monday August 2, 2010 Senate Committee again Votes to Permanently Repeal Mexico City Policy By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A year after the same maneuver ended in defeat, a Senate committee has again approved an amendment to the foreign appropriations bill that would codify President Obama’s repeal of the Mexico City Policy. The measure would make international non-governmental organizations that perform or promote abortion permanently eligible for U.S. foreign funds. Since its institution by president Ronald Reagan in 1984, the policy, dubbed the “Global Gag Rule” by pro-abortion groups, has undergone repeal and reinstatement by […]
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Chicago’s ‘Bubble Zone’ Lands Praying Pro-Lifer in Court

Thursday July 29, 2010 Chicago’s ‘Bubble Zone’ Lands Praying Pro-Lifer in Court By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, July 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life protestor, arrested while praying his rosary in front of a Chicago Planned Parenthood, is pleading “not guilty” to charges that he violated Chicago’s “bubble zone” ordinance which protects abortion clinics. Joseph Holland, a Northwestern University graduate student, was arrested by police on a charge of disorderly conduct on July 3. Staff at Planned Parenthood Near North’s abortion clinic called police, alleging that Holland was violating a city ordinance passed late 2009, which prohibits individuals in the […]
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‘The Homosexual Tendency is a Defect’ Chilean Cardinal Warns Flock

Wednesday July 28, 2010 ‘The Homosexual Tendency is a Defect’ Chilean Cardinal Warns Flock By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent VALPARAISO, July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Jorge Medina, Archbishop Emeritus of Valparaiso, has incurred the wrath of Chilean homosexuals for restating clearly the Catholic Church’s teaching that homosexual tendencies constitute a disorder. In response to the legalization of gay “marriage” in Argentina, Medina commented that “the homosexual tendency is a defect, as when a person is lacking an eye or a foot.” He also stated that if homosexual “marriage” were to be raised as an issue in Chile, […]
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Mainstream Media Recognizes Adult Stem Cell Research Far Ahead Of Embryonic

Tuesday August 3, 2010 Mainstream Media Recognizes Adult Stem Cell Research Far Ahead Of Embryonic By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WASHINGTON, DC, August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following an announcement on Friday by U.S. biotech firm Geron Corp. that it received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to carry out clinical trials using stem cells derived from human embryos, the mainstream media has been awash in stories that acknowledge the success of adult stem cell treatments, and the absence of any positive results from embryonic stem cell research. AP reported the fact that adult stem cells have the ability not […]
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Over 200 Military Physicians Petition for No Abortion on Military Bases

Tuesday August 3, 2010 Over 200 Military Physicians Petition for No Abortion on Military Bases WASHINGTON, DC, August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Over 200 active and retired military physicians have signed a letter organized by the 16,000-member Christian Medical Association (CMA), in which they ask Senators to vote against the FY 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, unless an amendment permitting abortions to be performed on military bases is stripped from the bill. “In addition to facilitating further destruction of unborn life, the provision will place military physicians with life-honoring convictions in the unenviable position of either disobeying orders, abandoning their […]
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Pro-lifers to Challenge Prayer Ban on Walkway in Front of Planned Parenthood

Tuesday August 3, 2010 Pro-lifers to Challenge Prayer Ban on Walkway in Front of Planned Parenthood By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A number of pro-life activists have announced that they will pray on the public walkway in front of the Washington, D.C. Planned Parenthood (PP) on Saturday, August 14 as part of an event called “A Time to Stand” – even if doing so means arrest and going to jail. Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition, said about the event: “We are going to embrace free speech, the First Amendment and religious […]
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Spain’s People’s Party Sues Government to Stop New Pro-Abortion Law

Thursday June 3, 2010 Spain’s People’s Party Sues Government to Stop New Pro-Abortion Law By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MADRID, June 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Spanish People’s Party (PP), one of the country’s two principle political parties, is suing the government to prevent the implementation of the new abortion law, passed by the ruling Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party, which legalizes abortion on demand during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, and allows minors to obtain abortions without their parents’ permission. “Free abortion during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, up to three and a half months of gestation, seems to […]
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Planned Parenthood Leads Push for Abortion at UN High-Level MDG Review

Thursday June 17, 2010 Planned Parenthood Leads Push for Abortion at UN High-Level MDG Review By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, NY, June 17, 2010 (C-FAM) – The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) launched a new campaign this week called “A Promise is A Promise,” demanding that states implement policies and programs to achieve the controversial Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target 5b on “universal access to reproductive health by 2015.” According to IPPF, “universal access to reproductive health refers to a full package of services including comprehensive sexuality education, access to contraception, maternity care, emergency obstetric care, and safe abortion services […]
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Late-term Abortionists Dump Kansas Licenses, Will Avoid Discipline

Albuquerque, NM, August 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two Albuquerque late-term abortionists who worked for George Tiller’s Women’s Health Care Services (WHCS) in Wichita, Kansas, before it permanently closed last year have dumped their Kansas medical licenses. Troy Newman, the president of Operation Rescue, has speculated that the move was deliberately made in order to place the pair outside the disciplinary jurisdiction of the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (KSBHA). Tiller and his employees have come under intense scrutiny from the KSBHA for engaging in practices of questionable legality. The first of the two Tiller abortionists, Shelley Sella, cancelled her Kansas […]
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Forced Abortion Charges against Church of Scientology Dismissed

By James Tillman LOS ANGELES, California, Aug. 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Los Angeles District Court judge has dismissed charges filed against the Church of Scientology by former member Claire Headley, reports the St. Petersburg Times. Headley alleged that the organization forced her to have two abortions while she and her husband Marc were employed in Scientology's “Sea Org.” Sea Org members are the elite of the Church of Scientology; they sign pledges representing a billion-year commitment and may work 80-100 hour weeks for very little pay.  There are about 6,000 Sea Org members worldwide; notably, members are not permitted […]
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Call For Pro-Life Films by Canadian Christian Film Festival

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski SUDBURY, Ontario, August 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Organizers of the third annual REAL LIFE Film Festival du cinéma C'EST LA VIE (RLFF) have announced that the submission period for the 2011 Festival is now open. The RLFF, to be held in April 2011 in Sudbury, is a vibrant, bilingual Christian cinematographic experience. A multi-day event, the RLFF presents Christian and Family feature films, documentaries and shorts from Canada and around the world. The theme for the 2011 RLFF is LIFE and HOPE. “LIFE and HOPE speak universally to the human spirit,” said Lina Madore, the Festival […]
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REAL Women of Canada Reports on Award to LifeSiteNews

By Real Women of Canada Editor's Note: This article was originally published in the July/August edition of the national pro-life, pro-family women's organization's Reality Magazine August 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) REAL Women was very pleased to honour LifeSiteNews (LifeSiteNews.com) with its REAL Women annual award in 2010. The award was presented at REAL Women’s annual conference in North Bay in April, 2010 to John-Henry Westen, editor and co-founder of LifeSiteNews on behalf of our organization. LifeSite plays a unique role in the culture wars, both in Canada and internationally. LifeSiteNews is courageous and forthright in its investigative work and reports. No matter […]
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Funding Cuts to Former Canadian Government’s Feminist Network

Commentary by Real Women of Canada OTTAWA, Ontario, August 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canadians may not realize the extent to which successive Liberal governments have developed a vast network of left-wing government dependent organizations to promote liberal causes. When their funding is cut, these special interest groups discover that average Canadians don’t even know they exist and couldn’t care less that their funding has been eliminated. However, these left leaning groups are shocked when their feelings of entitlement are bruised by the Conservative government’s funding cuts. They proclaim that if the money doesn't keep flowing their way, democracy is undermined, […]
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Commentary on August 7 News

While many people have been on holidays and the lazy days of summer have been passing, there have been numerous, hugely important news stories to report. As always, the enemies of life and family do not go to sleep during the summer. LifeSiteNews has therefore been hopping. I must say that our staff has been awesome trying to keep up to all these historical developments – many of them gravely concerning - while we have been short staffed for various reasons and the on-going heat wave has been energy draining. The quality of LSN reports by our writers under these circumstances has impressed […]
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‘Never Give up Hope’: Former ‘Locked-In’ Patients

By Hilary White August 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When Kerry Pink, an interior designer, was 35 in 1997 she fell ill with an undiagnosed neurological illness and suffered what is called “locked-in syndrome,” that is, she could not move or communicate. For 18 months, she said, “I lay paralysed in hospital, locked into a motionless body, conscious of the conversations around me but unable to respond”. In a long testimony in Britain’s Daily Mail, Pink said there were times when she could hear and understand conversations being held around her and others when she would sink into a “deep coma,” […]
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‘From the Front Lines’ with Show The Truth

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski ONTARIO, Canada, August 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –”It was exhausting, exhilarating, and inspiring.” So says Kathie Hogan, a member of Show the Truth from Perry Sound, Ontario, about the three days she recently spent on the road with the pro-life group in the south-central part of the province. During those three days she and other pro-lifers braved the wind, rain and sun to stand and show the truth of abortion using graphic signs. “The graphic signs of aborted babies are a silent testimony to the 110,000 babies killed through abortion each year,” said Hogan in reflections about […]
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Pro-family Leaders Aghast at Gay Judge’s Decision to Overturn Prop. 8

By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, August 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family leaders have reacted with outrage at Wednesday's ruling by a homosexual federal judge to overturn California's constitutional amendment banning same-sex “marriage” by alleging that there is no “rational basis” to limit marriage to one man and one woman. Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court for Northern District of California struck down Proposition 8 in a lengthy 138-page judicial activist ruling, saying that an anti-homosexual animus was the only reason for Californians enacting the amendment by referendum in 2008. The amendment states “Only marriage between a […]
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Expert: U.S. AG’s New Strategy to Stop Sexual Abuse of Children is Flawed

By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, August 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the “first ever National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction.”  The strategy is meant to provide a comprehensive threat assessment of the dangers children face, including child pornography, online stalking, and child sex tourism, and to outline how to fight them. Robert Peters, President of Morality in Media (MIM), nevertheless pointed out that Holder's plan ignores an important fact: the proliferation of hardcore pornography leads to the sexual exploitation of children in a variety of ways.  Holder's plan, he believes, thus ignores […]
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Nashville Priest May Face Canonical Discipline Over Heretical Video

By Patrick B. Craine NASHVILLE, Tennessee, August 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A priest of the Nashville diocese may be facing canonical discipline after putting out a video on the front of his parish website this week denouncing the Pope and various Church teachings such as those against divorce, contraception, women's ordination, and the married priesthood. The video, titled 'The State of our Church', is staged as an interview of the priest, Fr. Joseph Patrick Breen, by one of his parishioners at St. Edward's Catholic Church.  It appears to be an attempt at reaching out to fallen-away Catholics.  The video was picked […]
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Homosexual Activists Plan August Lobbying Blitz to Repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WASHINGTON, DC, August 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to press releases from two homosexualist lobby groups, activists will begin a campaign this month, directed at senators from 10 states, to persuade them to vote for repealing the law that bans openly homosexual people from serving in the military. Lobbyists from the homosexual “rights” groups Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) are set to descend upon the offices of senators from Arkansas, Indiana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Virginia as part of their “Countdown 2010” campaign. “As […]
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Canada’s CRTC Should Not Approve More Pornography

Commentary By Lou Iacobelli TORONTO, August 5, 2010 (catholicinsight.com) – It began with the big lie told to Canadians by the Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau who said that the state had no business in the nation’s bedrooms. His government, however, went on to implement the worst laws that have changed the family, sexuality, marriage and the very meaning of the human person. Trudeau’s deception continues today. On April 1, 2010, the CRTC licensed a pay-TV pornography channel, called Vanessa, to Montreal-based Sex-Shop Television. It requires the programming to include a minimum of 20 percent Canadian content. This means that […]
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“Pluralism” Being Used as Excuse to Push Radical Secularism in Europe

By Hilary White ROME, August 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The infamous Crucifix Case at the European Court of Human Rights is said to be an example of the increasing use of the doctrine of “pluralism” to suppress public expressions of religious belief in Europe.  Gregor Puppinck, the head of the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), a civil rights watchdog group, told the Italian Catholic magazine Il Consulente RE last week that case is only one example of the problem.  Puppinck and the ECLJ have also been watching the attempts by the radically secularist Spanish government to attack the […]
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African Union Submits to Foreign Pressure for Abortion as Cure for Maternal Deaths

By Samantha Singson KAMPALA, Uganda, August 5, 2010 (C-FAM) – The African Union (AU) finished its annual summit last week with governments agreeing to make maternal and child mortality a continent-wide priority. The summit ended with Member States extending the controversial, non-binding Maputo Plan of Action (PoA) for an additional five years and expanding new initiative called the Campaign on Accelerated Reduction on Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA). Pressure was placed on the AU from UN agencies and foreign non-governmental organizations (NGO). While United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) executive director Thoraya Obaid, called on delegates to focus on non-controversial interventions […]
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UK Announces Imperialistic Plan to Push Radical Sex Agenda on Developing Nations

By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D., Terrence McKeegan, J.D. NEW YORK, August 5, 2010 (C-FAM) – Last week the United Kingdom (UK) announced a new maternal health initiative with an “unprecedented focus on family planning” for the developing world. The plan includes the promotion of abortion and sexual “rights” for children. The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) chief, Andrew Mitchell, presented the plan called “Choice for Women – Wanted Pregnancies, Safe Births” at a public consultation forum hosted by DFID and attended by development experts, health professionals, and the general public. Mitchell said, “The UK Government is to put family planning […]
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Kagan Sought to Twist another Medical Statement on Partial-Birth Abortion: AUL

Wednesday July 14, 2010 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 […]
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Complaint Filed to Disbar Kagan for Falsifying Partial-Birth Abortion Testimony

Friday July 30, 2010 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 […]
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Why Rush Limbaugh is Wrong to Support Homosexual Civil Unions

Friday July 30, 2010 Why Rush Limbaugh is Wrong to Support Homosexual Civil Unions Editorial by John-Henry Westen July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking on his radio show yesterday, famed conservative talk show personality Rush Limbaugh said that he supports same-sex civil unions. Reacting to critics of musician Elton John, who performed at Limbaugh’s recent wedding, Limbaugh stated: “Elton John is on the same page as I am, as is Obama on gay marriage. He’s for civil unions, but he’s not for marriage.” Limbaugh’s stance is common among conservatives, but is nonetheless misguided and will inevitably lead to the redefinition […]
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California Abortionist Accused of Homicide in Patient Death

Friday July 30, 2010 California Abortionist Accused of Homicide in Patient Death SAN DIEGO, July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Medical Board of California amended a complaint on Wednesday against troubled abortionist Andrew Rutland to include the charge of homicide in the death of Ying Chen. The action came after the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office reclassified Chen’s death as a homicide in June. A revocation hearing before the Medical Board is scheduled for February, 2011. Rutland had committed a second trimester abortion on Ying Chen at a dirty, unlicensed acupuncture clinic in San Gabriel, California, during which he administered […]
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Breaking: Senate Readies Tuesday Cloture Vote on DISCLOSE Act

Monday July 26, 2010 Breaking: Senate Readies Tuesday Cloture Vote on DISCLOSE Act By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Democrat-controlled Senate will have its first vote Tuesday on a campaign finance disclosure bill bilaterally condemned as a critical blow to grassroots political voices, and one that could prove especially disabling to the pro-life movement. The Democrat-controlled Senate began debate Monday on the “Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act” (S.3628), and is expected to attempt its first cloture vote on Tuesday. The House passed its version of the bill […]
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Pro-lifers to Challenge Prayer Ban on Walkway in Front of Planned Parenthood

By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A number of pro-life activists have announced that they will pray on the public walkway in front of the Washington, D.C. Planned Parenthood (PP) on Saturday, August 14 as part of an event called “A Time to Stand” – even if doing so means arrest and going to jail. Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition, said about the event: “We are going to embrace free speech, the First Amendment and religious liberty … We will not be bullied or intimidated into silence.   “It is tragic that peaceful […]
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Priest Says it is “a Most Grievous Sin” to Fail to Oppose the Homosexual Agenda

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski EL PASO, Texas, August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Texas priest, writing as a guest columnist in the El Paso Times, has unequivocally come down on the side of the “precious and infallible teachings of Holy Mother Church” that affirms the dignity of human life at all stages and upholds the true meaning of marriage. Fr. Michael Rodríguez, parish priest at San Juan Bautista Catholic Church, told readers that “a Catholic would be guilty of a most grievous sin of omission if he/she neglected to actively oppose the homosexual agenda.” “I sincerely hope and pray,” Fr. […]
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FDA Gives Green Light to First Embryonic Stem Cell Trials in Humans

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is giving the green light for California researchers to test the effectiveness of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) on human patients, according to the New York Times. The trial will be the first in the U.S. to involve hESCs being injected into human test patients. The hESCs were developed by Geron Corporation and the University of California, Irvine. Proponents of hESC research claim that embryonic cells can turn into any cell of the body; critics, however, point out that such research involves […]
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Kenyans Head to Polls to Vote on Pro-Abort Constitution Tomorrow

By Peter J. Smith NAIROBI, Kenya, August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kenyans head to the polls Wednesday to vote in a referendum that will determine the East African nation’s future: whether it will accept a constitution that will open the door to expanding legal abortion, or reject it and draft a new constitution that conforms more to the nation’s pro-life values. Despite an aggressive grassroots campaign by an ecumenical grand alliance of the nation’s Christian churches, polls show that Kenyans will likely vote to approve the draft constitution on Wednesday. Bloomberg news reports that a poll released by TNS Research […]
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Was Alleged Wikileaks Source a Homosexual with Axe to Grind against U.S. Military?

By James Tillman August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—SPC Bradley Manning, who has been arrested and detained in connection with the leak of thousands of classified documents recently released on WikiLeaks, is a homosexual activist who has spoken out against the U.S. military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. The connection has led Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins to speculate that there may be a connection between Manning’s activism, and his decision to leak the documents. “In May, when U.S. authorities arrested Army Private Bradley Manning for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks.org, there were whispers that he was politically motivated,” stated […]
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Anne Rice Quits Christianity over Bishops’ Opposition to Gay ‘Marriage’; Son a Gay Activist

By John-Henry Westen LOS ANGELES, CA, August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Famed novelist Anne Rice has revealed the reasons behind her Facebook announcement last week that she is leaving Christianity. The abrupt announcement came just over a decade after Rice returned to her childhood Catholic faith, a conversion that she chronicled in her 2008 spiritual memoir entitled “Called Out of Darkness.” In a recent NPR interview Rice, whose son is homosexual and a gay activist, said that her reason for leaving was the Church’s social teachings, which she said she has struggled with since her reversion to practice. When asked to specify, […]
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From Quebec to Guadalupe: Pro-Life Woman on a 5,000 Km. North American Walk for Life

By Patrick B. Craine August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – French Catholic journalist Anne-Marie Michel is making a 5,000 km. walk for life across North America, a pilgrimage that will bring her, after many gruelling months alone on the road, to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. “I deeply believe that offering this pilgrimage to God can help ladies who suffer so much before and after an abortion,” she explained.  “I also want to give my little contribution, through this way for respect of life, for building the ‘civilisation of love’ and the ‘culture of life’ John-Paul […]
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HHS: Make Obamacare Sex Ed Programs Gay-Inclusive

By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a funding announcement encouraging the Personal Responsibility and Education Program (PREP) to “consider the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth” and to be inclusive of such participants. The PREP program, which was established by the new federal health care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), provides federal funding to state programs ostensibly designed to delay sexual activity, increase condom and contraceptive use, and reduce pregnancy. The program is explicitly prohibited from giving funds to […]
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“No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” Introduced

Friday July 30, 2010 “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” Introduced By James Tillman WASHINGTON, DC, July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Rep. Dan Linkinski (D-IL) filed the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” which would permanently prohibit taxpayer funding of abortion in every federal program and establish as permanent many of the pro-life policies currently relying on regular congressional re-approval. “The health care bill made it clear that the current way we prevent taxpayer funding of abortion through annual riders is dangerously fragile,” Lipinski said. “To guarantee that taxpayers are never forced to pay […]
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Students React Cautiously to UIUC Statement on Dr. Howell

Friday July 30, 2010 Students React Cautiously to UIUC Statement on Dr. Howell By Kathleen Gilbert CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While students of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have hailed the school’s decision to reinstate professor Kenneth Howell, many have also received the news with caution, saying that the decision leaves some questions unanswered. News broke earlier this month that Dr. Kenneth Howell would no longer be allowed to teach at UIUC after a student complained about Howell’s instruction to students in his Catholicism course. The student claimed that an email from Howell explaining how homosexuality […]
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Opinion: New Lesbian Parenting Study Makes Claims Unsupported by the Evidence

Friday July 30, 2010 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 […]
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CBS President Apologizes for Not Having Enough Homosexual Propaganda

Friday July 30, 2010 CBS President Apologizes for Not Having Enough Homosexual Propaganda By James Tillman July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — CBS President Nina Tassler has apologized for the network’s low rating on the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s (GLAAD) recent “Network Responsibility Index,” which ranked broadcast and cable networks by the percentage of “LGBT-inclusive” hours in their original prime time programming. “We’re very disappointed in our track record so far,” said Tassler at the Television Critics Association fall previews. “We’ll try to do better.” CBS received the worst rating of the five broadcast networks evaluated, with 7% of […]
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Development & Peace Apology to CLC Published in Catholic Register

Friday July 30, 2010 Development & Peace Apology to CLC Published in Catholic Register By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The newly released edition of Canada’s Catholic Register includes the letter of apology to Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) by the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development & Peace (D&P), the official development arm of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. D&P issued the letter in response to a threat of legal action by CLC after D&P made a number of slanderous statements about the national pro-life organization in a 10-page Question and Answer document. The letter, signed by […]
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Abortion Leaders Complain: HHS Abortion Ban ‘Not What We Expected’

Friday July 30, 2010 Abortion Leaders Complain: HHS Abortion Ban ‘Not What We Expected’ By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the White House continues to claim that a ban on abortion funding was always understood to apply to the whole federal health care law, abortion leaders, who once hailed the health care bill as a “huge victory,” are still expressing shock at the Obama administration’s last-minute ban of elective abortion funding in federally-funded high risk insurance pools. The thoughts of various abortion lobby leaders were collected in a Politico piece Friday detailing the pro-abortion confusion […]
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Ban Bullfighting but Kill Babies?: Spain’s New Moral Values Criticized by Pro-Life Leader

Friday July 30, 2010 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 […]
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John Smeaton Talks to LSN’s Hilary White about the Role of the Catholic Church in the Pro-Life Fight

Friday July 30, 2010 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 […]
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Babies Saved from Abortion Pay Visit to U.S. Congressmen

Thursday July 29, 2010 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 […]
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Judge Orders Arizona to Help Pay Homosexual Partners’ Insurance

Thursday July 29, 2010 Judge Orders Arizona to Help Pay Homosexual Partners’ Insurance By James Tillman PHOENIX, Arizona, July 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge has blocked the enforcement of an Arizona law preventing health insurance benefits for the dependents of state employees from being offered to homosexual partners in domestic partnerships. He also denied a motion by state Attorney Charles Grube to dismiss the case Collins v. Brewer and ordered that the case proceed. Arizona currently provides subsidized health care to the dependents of eligible state employees, including spouses or domestic partners. However, domestic partners may either be […]
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Latin American Economic Summit Promotes Abortion, Condemns “Lesbophobia”

Thursday July 29, 2010 Latin American Economic Summit Promotes Abortion, Condemns “Lesbophobia” By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. and Amanda Pawloski NEW YORK, July 29 (C-FAM) – A recent gathering of Latin America’s top economic commission issued a document praising secularism, condemning “lesbophobia,” calling for redistributive social systems, and liberally promoting sexual and reproductive rights. Delegates from more than 30 Latin American and Caribbean countries attended the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean’s (ECLAC) Eleventh Session of the Regional Conference on Women in Brazil. The purpose of the conference was to address gender equality and women’s empowerment in economic terms. […]
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World Population Report: ‘Aging Populations; Fewer Workers; Decline of Developed Countries’

Thursday July 29, 2010 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 […]
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Opinion: Chicago-Style Politics in Kenya

Thursday July 29, 2010 Opinion: Chicago-Style Politics in Kenya By Joseph Meaney Editor’s Note: Joseph Meaney is director of international coordination for Human Life International, the world’s largest pro-life organization with affiliates and associates in over 100 countries worldwide. July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The people of Kenya will vote on August 4, 2010 on a new constitution that includes sweeping provisions allowing abortion. A pro-abortion and unelected international “Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review” added several significant lines to article 26 of the proposed constitution in the final drafting process. It begins well with: “Every person has the right […]
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Archbishop Urges All to Oppose Opening of New Planned Parenthood

Wednesday July 28, 2010 Archbishop Urges All to Oppose Opening of New Planned Parenthood By James Tillman OMAHA, Nebraska, July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Archbishop George Joseph Lucas of Omaha has released a statement asking “Catholics and all women and men of good will … to oppose the opening” of a new Planned Parenthood facility in Omaha both by prayer and by petitioning their elected officials. It would be the first Omaha Planned Parenthood to provide abortion. Planned Parenthood of the Heartland (PPH) has announced plans to open an abortuary at 3105 N. 93rd Street in Omaha, the archbishop explained, […]
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Hawaiian Gay Couples File Lawsuit Demanding Marriage in All but Name

Thursday July 29, 2010 Hawaiian Gay Couples File Lawsuit Demanding Marriage in All but Name By James Tillman HONOLULU, Hawaii, July 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Six homosexual couples are filing a lawsuit in Hawaii today asking for the same benefits and responsibilities as marriage, but without the title of “marriage” or even of “civil union.” The suit had been threatened by the ACLU and by the homosexualist legal organization Lambda Legal after Gov. Linda Lingle vetoed HB 444 on July 6, which would have granted same-sex couples many of the same rights as marriage. At the time she said that […]
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Pro-Life Congressman Tells U.N. Abortion Will Harm, Not Help, Millennium Goals

Wednesday July 28, 2010 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 […]
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UN Committee Attacks Motherhood, Demands New “Rights” for Women

Thursday July 29, 2010 UN Committee Attacks Motherhood, Demands New “Rights” for Women By Terrence McKeegan, J.D. NEW YORK, July 29 (C-FAM) – A United Nations (UN) treaty committee notorious for its promotion of abortion and ideological positions not supported by UN treaties, concludes its session this week. During the session the committee launched attacks on motherhood and traditional gender roles, while calling for an ever-expanded array of new sexual and reproductive “rights.” However, the session was especially notable for the statement by the Russian Federation, which reported that decreasing abortion rates were helping to decrease the overall maternal mortality […]
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‘Eggsploitation’ Documentary Reveals Secrets of Infertility Industry

Wednesday July 28, 2010 ‘Eggsploitation’ Documentary Reveals Secrets of Infertility Industry WASHINGTON, July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — A new documentary, “Eggsploitation,” just released by The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network (CBCN) reveals shocking information about the infertility industry. The documentary exposes what the makers of the film label the “deceptive advertising, large monetary incentives and appeals to altruism” that are used by the infertility industry to entice college women to engage in human egg donation, a practice that the CBCN claims exploits them and puts them at “considerable” health risk. While the documentary is available now, its official debut […]
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Pro-Life Educator/Speaker Melanie Pritchard in Critical Condition

Thursday July 29, 2010 Pro-Life Educator/Speaker Melanie Pritchard in Critical Condition By Chris Faddis, publisher of www.livinggracefully.net/ July 29, 2010 (LivingGracefully.net) – Melanie Pritchard, Catholic speaker, Pro-Life Educator, Chastity speaker, and a true woman of God is in critical condition after giving birth to her second child. During labor there were complications and Melanie was rushed into an emergency C-section. During the C-section Melanie’s heart stopped beating. The baby was born and is doing great. But Melanie’s condition is very serious. She has now had surgery on her heart and while she is stable on machines, is not recovering well. […]
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‘In God We Trust’ Again Upheld by Federal Appeals Court

Wednesday July 28, 2010 ‘In God We Trust’ Again Upheld by Federal Appeals Court WASHINGTON, D.C., July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a 3-0 decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Washington, DC, ruled that the National Motto, “In God We Trust,” is constitutional and does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Quoting the 1970 decision in Aronow v. United States, the Court wrote: “It is quite obvious that the national motto and slogan on coinage and currency ‘In God We Trust’ has nothing whatsoever to do with the establishment […]
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Woman Jailed for Abortion Counseling in Toronto Acquitted, Set Free

Wednesday July 28, 2010 Woman Jailed for Abortion Counseling in Toronto Acquitted, Set Free By John Jalsevac July 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mary Wagner, the young woman who was jailed earlier this year for entering an abortion clinic and counseling women and abortion workers, has been acquitted of all charges and freed from jail. Mary Wagner’s mother, Jane Wagner, told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that she received a call from Mary this morning saying that she had been acquitted, but was unable to provide specific details about the judge’s decision. Attempts to contact Mary have been unsuccessful. At a hearing earlier this […]
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Protest to be Held at Catholic Hospital that Employs Planned Parenthood Abortionist

Wednesday July 28, 2010 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. […]
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Doctors in India Worried Over Abuse of ‘Morning-After’ Pill

Thursday July 29, 2010 Doctors in India Worried Over Abuse of ‘Morning-After’ Pill By Thaddeus M. Baklinski NEW DELHI, July 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Health-care workers and government officials in India are concerned over the routine and indiscriminate use of emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs), commonly called the “morning-after” pill. The pills, which have a heavy dose of the same hormones found in regular oral contraceptive pills, are freely available over the counter in India. Producers of the two most popular brands in India, called “I-pill” and “Unwanted 72,” have been promoting the pills as a “primary contraceptive” method rather than […]
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Spain Abortion Law “Senseless” Says New Head of Pontifical Academy for Life

Thursday July 29, 2010 Spain Abortion Law “Senseless” Says New Head of Pontifical Academy for Life By Hilary White ROME, July 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his second interview this month, Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, the recently appointed president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life, criticized Spain’s Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, for pushing through the country’s new abortion legislation. Msgr. Carrasco, who was a physician before his priestly career, told the Milan-based Catholic paper Il Consulente RE that the legislation is “senseless,” a word that in the original Italian connotes stupidity. Carrasco praised those who have […]
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Another Pro-Life Voice at the UN as ADF Gains Consultative Status

Thursday July 29, 2010 Another Pro-Life Voice at the UN as ADF Gains Consultative Status SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, July 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — This week the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), one of the United States’ most influential public interest Christian legal alliances, announced that it has officially been granted special consultative status at the United Nations. This status will allow ADF attorneys to attend and intervene at treaty and convention drafting meetings and help craft language that affirms religious freedom, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family. “No person – anywhere – should be punished simply for holding to Christian […]
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Christopher West Takes Sabbatical to Reflect on Approach

Monday April 12, 2010 Christopher West Takes Sabbatical to Reflect on Approach By Patrick B. Craine EXTON, Pennsylvania, April 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Renowned Catholic writer and speaker Christopher West has taken a six-month sabbatical to consider his approach in presenting the Church’s teaching on sexuality. Seeking “personal and professional renewal,” West will cease teaching and has cancelled his speaking engagements for the period. The announcement came from the Theology of the Body Institute, where West serves as a research fellow and faculty member, and indicates that the decision was mutual between West and the Institute’s board of directors. The […]
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DISCLOSE Act Fails in Senate

Tuesday July 27, 2010 DISCLOSE Act Fails in Senate By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democrat leaders in the U.S. Senate failed Tuesday afternoon to overcome a Republican filibuster on a campaign finance disclosure bill that critics say threatens the ability of grassroots political organizations, and the pro-life movement, to communicate effectively with voters during election cycles. Democrats in the Senate could not muster all 60 “yes” votes they needed to break the GOP’s filibuster on the “Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act” (S.3628). The Senate voted 57 – […]
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