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Articles for Month: September 2010

Negative Psychological Impact of Abortion Results from ‘Hard-Wiring’ in Women’s Brains: Scholars

Tuesday September 21, 2010 Negative Psychological Impact of Abortion Results from ‘Hard-Wiring’ in Women’s Brains: Scholars By Thaddeus M. Baklinski NEW YORK, September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Women are hard-wired for relationships—and a woman’s relationship to her baby is one of the most powerful of all, whether she realizes it or not. The hard-wiring of the brain may explain many women’s disturbing post-abortion feelings,” write Evelyn Birge Vitz and Paul C. Vitz in an article published in the September 20 issue of Public Discourse. Evelyn Vitz is Professor of French and Affiliated Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. […]
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Moral Truth “Accessible by Reason,” Should Guide Political Process: Pope Benedict to British Civil Leaders

Tuesday September 21, 2010 Moral Truth “Accessible by Reason,” Should Guide Political Process: Pope Benedict to British Civil Leaders By Hilary White ROME, September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Basing political and civil life on moral relativism and the shifting sands of popular opinion will lead ultimately to totalitarian ideologies and anti-human practices, Pope Benedict told a gathering of politicians, intellectuals, businessmen and ex-Prime Ministers on Friday. Standing on the spot in Westminster Hall where St. Thomas More was condemned to death by Henry VIII’s government, Pope Benedict took up his longstanding theme of warning against the “dictatorship of relativism.” He […]
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Live Action’s Rose to Youth: Engage in ‘Exciting’ Battle for Culture of Life

Friday September 17, 2010 Live Action’s Rose to Youth: Engage in ‘Exciting’ Battle for Culture of Life By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a speech hosted by Students for Life at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., Live Action President Lila Rose recounted the path that led to her becoming one the most influential pro-life activists in the country. She also expressed her vision that one day there would be an “army” of activists exposing Planned Parenthood and, on a broader scale, replacing the culture of death with a culture of life. Rose, […]
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Florida Appeals Court Rejects Homosexual Adoption Ban

Wednesday September 22, 2010 Florida Appeals Court Rejects Homosexual Adoption Ban By Peter J. Smith TALLAHASSEE, Florida, September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Florida Third District Court of Appeal has ruled that Florida’s 33-year-old law preventing homosexual couples from adopting violates the equal protection clause of the state constitution. The Appeals Court ruled 3 – 0 to uphold the decision of a Miami-Dade judge, who declared in 2008 there was “no rational basis” for the ban and allowed homosexual Martin Gill and his partner to adopt two half-brothers, now 10 and 6 years old, whom they had cared for since […]
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Rockford Police Chase Ultrasound Vehicle from Abortion Clinic

Wednesday September 22, 2010 Rockford Police Chase Ultrasound Vehicle from Abortion Clinic By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 6:45pm EST ROCKFORD, Illinois, September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Rockford pro-life community is up in arms after police chased away an ultrasound vehicle from the local abortion facility – even though pro-lifers say they worked for weeks with city police to ensure permission for the life-saving equipment to park near the incoming mothers seeking abortions. Rockford pro-life veteran Kevin Rilott posted a video of Rockford police telling pro-lifers that the city legal department might issue a warrant against them if the motor home, […]
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23rd Annual Life Chain to Take Place across North America on Sunday October 3, 2010

Wednesday September 22, 2010 23rd Annual Life Chain to Take Place across North America on Sunday October 3, 2010 By Thaddeus M. Baklinski September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The annual Life Chain, a pro-life prayer and witness event, will take place this year in cities and towns across the United States and Canada on the afternoon of Sunday, October 3, normally between 2 and 3 p.m. (Too see the Life Chain locations across North America and find the closest one, click here.) In Canada, Life Chain is held simultaneously in more than 200 locations, with well over 30,000 people taking […]
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Latin America Under Siege

Wednesday September 22, 2010 Latin America Under Siege Dear Friends of life and family, The “culture of death” — Pope John Paul II’s term for the international pro-abortion and anti-family movement, is now winning serious victories in Latin America. After decades of failure, the efforts of big international abortionist organizations and their well-financed proxies are increasingly converting ruling elites to their pro-death position. In recent months, Mexico City has approved abortion on demand, same sex “marriage” and adoption, sexual education programs that normalize perversion, and express divorce. The federal government has also begun to impose abortion on the states through […]
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LifeSiteNews Daily News for Monday September 13, 2010

Monday September 13, 2010 SHARE THIS PAGE: E-mail Print Fast, Pray, Love: Bishop Urges Pastors to Join 40 Days for Life Archbishop Nichols’s Comments on Gay Unions Endanger the Souls of My Children Catholic Marriages Plummet in Britain More Pope London Visit Newsbytes – The Tide is Turning Toronto Archbishop on Catholic School Trustees: ‘Should Be Faithful Catholics’ HALF A CENTURY AGO Pope: Church Must Reject All ‘Alternative Models of Family Life’ Manslaughter Case against Massachusetts Abortionist Begins Today Santorum: ‘Separation of Church and State’ Meant to Protect Church from Gov’t, Not Vice Versa Fast, Pray, Love: Bishop Urges Pastors […]
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Letters to the Editor

Re:“No-Fault Divorce a Greater threat to Marriage than Gay 'Marriage': Expert”  I am so very glad that an article like this was finally posted. While I agree that traditional marriage needs to be defended from the current push for homosexual and polygamist unions, it should be noted that the divorce rate between heterosexual couples was hovering between fifty and eighty percent well before these other issues were introduced. And where was the outcry against that? I am glad someone is pointing out that if we want to secure traditional marriage, we have to hold everyone accountable. We can't point fingers […]
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Despite Legal Threats, Mexican Cardinal Refuses to Retract Condemnation of Homosexuality

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Cardinal Archbishop of Mexico City is refusing to retract his statements condemning homosexual behavior, despite a complaint filed against him with the federal government's National Council to Prevent Discrimination (Contrapred). Multiple complaints before various government agencies were filed in August against Rivera, his spokesman Hugo Valdemar, and Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez by Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard and fellow members of the socialist Party of the Democratic Revolution in response to statements they made denouncing the homosexualist and abortionist policies of the Mexico City government […]
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