Smeaton to International Conference: Pro-Lifers Must Challenge Vatican to Appoint Pro-Life Bishops

Friday October 29, 2010 Smeaton to International Conference: Pro-Lifers Must Challenge Vatican to Appoint Pro-Life Bishops By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life advocates should call on the Vatican to appoint bishops who will teach and defend the Church’s teaching on the transmission of human life, pro-life veteran John Smeaton, national director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), told the International Pro-Life Conference in Ottawa on Friday. The “failure of Catholic bishops” to teach on life issues is “directly responsible for great confusion and, consequently, for the failure of the overwhelming […]
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Women Convicted of Infanticide Released following Pressure from Mexican Pro-Abort Groups

Friday September 3, 2010 Women Convicted of Infanticide Released following Pressure from Mexican Pro-Abort Groups By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent GUANAJUATO, Mexico, September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Seven women convicted of infanticide have been released by the governor of the state of Guanajuato and a state judge following a massive campaign by pro-abortion groups, who have turned their cases into a cause célèbre in the national media. Governor Juan Manuel Oliva has also announced a legislative initiative to reduce the criminal penalty for infanticide from 25 to 35 years in prison, to three to eight years. The decision […]
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Aborted Babies Found in Michigan Dumpster

Wednesday October 27, 2010 Aborted Babies Found in Michigan Dumpster By Peter J. Smith LANSING, Michigan, October 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tighter legislation on the abortion industry is in the works after a local pro-life group revealed evidence of two abortion clinics having disposed aborted fetal remains with other bio-hazardous waste and medical documents in a dumpster. According to Citizens for a Pro-Life Society (CPLS), the Michigan Attorney General and Saginaw County sheriffs concluded last Friday their 7-month investigation of two Womans Choice abortion clinics in Delta Township and Saginaw. Back in February, local pro-life advocate Chris Veneklase confirmed suspicions […]
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Swiss Parish Condom Campaign Not Church Sponsored

Friday October 29, 2010 Swiss Parish Condom Campaign Not Church Sponsored By Hilary White LUCERNE, Switzerland, October 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Some Roman Catholic parishes in the central Swiss city of Lucerne caused an uproar by participating in a state-sponsored campaign in which condoms, bearing the slogan “protect thy neighbor as thyself,” were handed out to teenagers. When the group organizing the campaign issued a media release, headlines around the world carried the claim that the Catholic Church in Switzerland is distributing condoms as part of World Mission Sunday events. The packages of condoms were printed with the slogan, “Forgetting […]
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Pope Calls Upon Brazilian Bishops to Speak out against Abortion as Election Approaches

Thursday October 28, 2010 Pope Calls Upon Brazilian Bishops to Speak out against Abortion as Election Approaches By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent VATICAN CITY, October 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI is telling Brazil’s Catholic bishops to speak out against ideologies that justify abortion, only days before a hotly contested presidential election in which the frontrunner has been accused of supporting the decriminalization of abortion. In a speech delivered to a group of Brazilian prelates present in Rome for a regularly-scheduled visit, Benedict stated that “in defending life we should not fear opposition and unpopularity, refusing any […]
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Open Letter to Polish Parliamentarians on NaProTechnology

Tuesday September 29, 2009 Open Letter to Polish Parliamentarians on NaProTechnology As infertility treatment professionals participating in the international conference “NaProTechnology – Lublin 2009”, we would like to announce the launch of a revolutional womens’ reproductive health science known as NaProTechnology in Poland. This science allows for an in-depth evaluation and effective treatment of the causes of infertility. It gives couples the chance to conceive a child through natural sexual relations and to bear a healthy child to term and give birth to it. For that purpose, this science applies the latest achievements of many branches of medicine, including surgery, […]
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Alaska Senate Candidate Joe Miller Endorses Federal Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Ban

Wednesday October 27, 2010 Alaska Senate Candidate Joe Miller Endorses Federal Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Ban By Peter J. Smith FAIRBANKS, Alaska, October 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Alaska GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller stated recently that he would support a U.S. constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, although he would prefer the matter left to the states. Miller, a pro-life candidate running neck-and-neck with incumbent and write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski for U.S. Senator, told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that he would support a constitutional amendment, if that were seen as the solution to the challenge of […]
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Children Raised by Homosexual Parents More Likely to Identify as Gay: Study

Monday October 25, 2010 Children Raised by Homosexual Parents More Likely to Identify as Gay: Study By Kathleen Gilbert MANHATTAN, Kansas, October 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study due out next month has found that children raised by homosexual parents are far more likely to identify as homosexual themselves. Walter Schumm, a family studies professor at Kansas State University, told AOL News that he questioned the conviction – ironclad in both popular culture and the academic world – that parents could not influence their children’s sexual orientation, while being able to influence so many other aspects of their lives. “I […]
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Homosexual Civil Unions Bill Looms for Illinois Lame-Duck Session

Monday October 25, 2010 Homosexual Civil Unions Bill Looms for Illinois Lame-Duck Session By Kathleen Gilbert SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, October 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family leaders in Illinois are preparing for a battle to preserve traditional marriage in the state as supporters of a homosexual civil unions bill eye a post-election lame duck session as a golden opportunity to push the measure through. Governor Pat Quinn has said that he expects the bill to be through by Christmas, expressing confidence earlier this month that “the votes are there” to get the bill through the House. Rick Garcia, founder of Equality Illinois, […]
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Major Pro-Life Leaders “Elated” at Archbishop Burke Elevation to Cardinal

Monday October 25, 2010 Major Pro-Life Leaders “Elated” at Archbishop Burke Elevation to Cardinal By Patrick B. Craine ROME, October 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leaders of some of the world’s largest and most active pro-life organizations say they are “thrilled” and “elated” at Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement that he will elevate pro-life champion Archbishop Raymond Burke to the College of Cardinals. (To join the pro-life leaders in personally congratulating Archbishop Burke, click here) “We are thrilled that such an outspoken champion of life and Catholic orthodoxy has been chosen to be elevated to Cardinal,” said Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro, interim […]
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Mich. Woman Advertises for “Christian Roommate”: Gets Hit with Civil Rights Complaint

Wednesday October 27, 2010 Mich. Woman Advertises for “Christian Roommate”: Gets Hit with Civil Rights Complaint GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., October 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — When a 31-year-old single woman in Grand Rapids placed an ad for a Christian roommate on her church bulletin board, she had no idea it would result in a civil rights complaint accusing her of illegal housing discrimination. The Fair Housing Center of West Michigan, a private group, has said that the statement specifically asking for a Christian roommate “expresses an illegal preference for a Christian roommate, thus excluding people of other faiths.” The Alliance Defense […]
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Finland Court Fines Pastor for Refusing to Work with Female Minister

Tuesday October 26, 2010 Finland Court Fines Pastor for Refusing to Work with Female Minister By Hilary White October 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Finnish Supreme Court has levied a €320 fine against a Christian pastor for his refusal to work with a female minister, calling it a case of “gender discrimination.” Ari Norro is a minister of the Lutheran Evangelical Association of Finland and a member of the Lutheran Evangelical Association in Finland (LEAF), an association within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland that does not accept the ordination of women. In the spring of 2007, he was serving […]
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PORNOGRAPHY AWARENESS WEEK

Wednesday October 22, 1997 PORNOGRAPHY AWARENESS WEEK American Family Association TUPELO, MS – October 26-November 2, 1997 marks the dates for PornographyAwareness Week (PAW) in America. PAW was started 15 years ago to raise the awareness of the prevalence of pornography throughout our nation and to encourage citizens to work toward eliminating its devastating effects on our communities. American Family Association (AFA) initiated Pornography Awareness Weekbecause of the negative impact pornography has on American families.“Pornography victimizes women and children and is a vicious downward spiral of addiction for the men involved. Pornography erodes a man’s relationshipwith God, his wife, his […]
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SHEEP CLONER WARNS OF HUMAN MANIPULATION

Monday October 20, 1997 SHEEP CLONER WARNS OF HUMAN MANIPULATION JASPER, Alta., Oct 20 (LSN) – Ian Wilmut, the Scottish scientist who was responsible for the cloning of an adult sheep, warned against the creation of “designer babies”. Speaking at a conference of science teachers in Alberta on the weekend, the researcher urged his listners to “remember there are people who are already thinking of this.” The Human Genome Project, an international project to map all human genes, could urge the use of this new knowledge to manipulate the human race. “To let us rip with this present technology… is […]
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Court Allows San Fran City Resolution Condemning Catholicism as ‘Insulting,’ ‘Hateful’

Tuesday October 26, 2010 Court Allows San Fran City Resolution Condemning Catholicism as ‘Insulting,’ ‘Hateful’ By Kathleen Gilbert SAN FRANCISCO, October 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has shakily allowed to stand a resolution by the city government of San Francisco that lambasted the Vatican as “meddl[ing]” and “insult[ing]” for reaffirming its teaching against homosexual adoption, and which urged Church officials to disobey the Magisterium. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 2006 had issued a statement clarifying that Catholic Church agencies, in line with the Church’s moral teaching on sexuality, should not […]
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Pro-Lifers Worldwide Thank Pope for November 27 Vigil for Life

By John-Henry Westen VATICAN, October 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life activists worldwide are pledging to promote Pope Benedict XVI’s initiative to have all Catholic churches in the world to join him in celebrating a vigil for all nascent human life on November 27th, 2010. Moreover, a campaign to thank the Pope for the initiative is being promoted in seven languages. A new website has been launched“yes-for-benedict.net,” where pro-life people can send a message to the pope in their own language. The message states: “We express our sincere gratitude to you, Holy Father, for your leadership in this gravely needed initiative, […]
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Chinese Woman Kidnapped by Govt Officials for Supporting Imprisoned Nobel Winner

Wednesday October 27, 2010 Chinese Woman Kidnapped by Govt Officials for Supporting Imprisoned Nobel Winner By Kathleen Gilbert CHONGQING, China, October 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Chinese woman who tweeted that she would demonstrate her support for imprisoned human rights advocate and Nobel peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo was kidnapped by Chinese officials in the middle of the night, according to online friends. Freelance designer Mou Yanxi has reportedly returned home, but her mobile phone and computer have been confiscated after she stated on Twitter that she planned to carry a banner with the words “Congratulations, Uncle Xiaobo!” The tweet, […]
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Day 34 of 40 Days for Life: 445 saved … One Week Left!

Monday October 25, 2010 Day 34 of 40 Days for Life: 445 saved … One Week Left! Commentary by Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life October 25th, 2010 (40DaysforLife.com) – How many more lives will be saved this fall? This is the last week of the campaign and a wild week for me — I go to Southern California before closing this fall’s campaign at the site of one of the largest abortion facilities in the world — the Planned Parenthood in Houston, Texas. The number of babies God has saved in response to your prayers during this 40 Days […]
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Pro-Life Independent Tom Tancredo Surges to Virtual Tie in Colorado Gov. Race

Monday October 25, 2010 Pro-Life Independent Tom Tancredo Surges to Virtual Tie in Colorado Gov. Race By Peter J. Smith DENVER, Colorado, October 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The race for Colorado’s governorship now shows a virtual tie between former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, a pro-life 3rd party candidate, and pro-abortion Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, a Democrat. Tancredo, a staunch pro-life, pro-family advocate known for his anti-illegal-immigration views, has surged into a dead heat with Hickenlooper, now that GOP candidate Dan Maes campaign has collapsed amid allegations of campaign finance abuse and flip-flopping on the issues. Running on the American Constitution […]
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Court Rules that Mississippi’s Personhood Initiative Will be on 2011 Ballot

Tuesday October 26, 2010 Court Rules that Mississippi’s Personhood Initiative Will be on 2011 Ballot JACKSON, MS, October 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today Judge Malcolm Harrison ruled in state circuit court that Personhood Mississippi can be on the state’s ballot in the November 2011 election. This lawsuit was filed by the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Reproductive Rights, who were seeking to keep Initiative 26 off the ballot, in spite of the fact that it received more than the required number of signatures. Personhood Mississippi is an organization working to prevent abortions by amending the state Constitution to […]
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Fewer People Mean Less Government Cost: Planned Parenthood President

Tuesday October 26, 2010 Fewer People Mean Less Government Cost: Planned Parenthood President By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., October 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of Planned Parenthood has argued that the new federal health care reform ought to consider funding all contraception with taxpayer dollars because preventing new children leads to less government expense. In an appearance on the Bill Press radio show, PP president Cecile Richards said that, although the costs of the federal health care bill already promise to skyrocket out of control, federal officials ought to consider covering birth control a priority because of the “cost […]
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Obama Appoints Record Number of Open Homosexuals

Wednesday October 27, 2010 Obama Appoints Record Number of Open Homosexuals By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., October 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Barack Obama has appointed more openly homosexual individuals to government posts than any previous president, according to sources cited by the Associated Press. Gay lobbyists estimate that Obama has granted top appointments to more than 150 open homosexuals in the two years he has served at the White House – topping the approximately 140 favored by President Bill Clinton in all eight years of his presidency. A spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign called the pattern “a simple […]
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Colombian Archbishop Condemns Sterilization Law for Promoting “Mutilation of the Body”

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BOGOTA, October 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The general secretary of the Colombian Catholic Episcopal Conference is condemning the country’s new sterilization law, which requires the government to provide vasectomies and tubal ligations to the public free of charge. “The Church does not agree with bodily mutilation because both vasectomy and tubal ligation are mutilations of the body and the body has to be respected,” said Archbishop Juan Vicenta Córdoba in an interview with the Associated Press following passage of the law. Córdoba added that many people receive sterilizations because “they don’t want to […]
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Smeaton to International Conference: Pro-Lifers Must Challenge Vatican to Appoint Pro-Life Bishops

By Patrick B. Craine   OTTAWA, Ontario, October 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life advocates should call on the Vatican to appoint bishops who will teach and defend the Church's teaching on the transmission of human life, pro-life veteran John Smeaton, national director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), told the International Pro-Life Conference in Ottawa on Friday.  The “failure of Catholic bishops” to teach on life issues is “directly responsible for great confusion and, consequently, for the failure of the overwhelming majority of Catholics, both clerical and lay, to provide truly effective resistance to the greatest […]
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14-Year-Old Lia Mills at Pro-Life Conference: “I have learned to embrace conflict”

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Friday sessions at the International Pro-Life Conference in Ottawa, Canada featured a host of powerful and hard-hitting talks from some of the shining lights and rising stars in the US, Canadian and international pro-life movements.  Fourteen-year-old Lia Mills, who became a YouTube sensation after her school speech on abortion got over half a million views, shared how she endured in giving the speech for her school's speaking contest despite her teacher's opposition and a judge who refused to listen.  Lia described the anger she faced after her pro-life […]
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Ceremony Marks 10th Anniversary of Landmark U.S. Anti-Human Trafficking Law

By Peter J. Smith TRENTON, New Jersey, October 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A landmark U.S. law against human trafficking and sexual exploitation marked its tenth anniversary on Thursday, but lawmakers and individuals said that despite progress, more needs to be done to help victims, many of whom are women and girls. On the steps of New Jersey’s State House, New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, members of the New Jersey Statewide Human Trafficking Task Force, spoke alongside women with their own experience in the modern human slave trade about the gains made since the enactment of the […]
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New Video Offers Run-Down of Abortion in Obamacare

Tuesday October 26, 2010 New Video Offers Run-Down of Abortion in Obamacare By Kathleen Gilbert FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, October 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new video by the Population Research Institute is giving pro-lifers a helpful resource in breaking down the many dangers of the new federal health care reform law. (To see the video on Youtube, click here) PRI president Steven Mosher explains how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act continues to pose a major threat to the unborn in America, despite claims by the president and other Democrats that an Executive Order Obama signed addressed pro-life leaders’ […]
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China Admits Massive Gender Imbalance from One Child Policy

Monday January 11, 2010 China Admits Massive Gender Imbalance from One Child Policy By Hilary White January 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Chinese state media has admitted that the country’s One Child policy has resulted in a potentially disastrous demographic crisis. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences reports that the policy that mandates abortion for many pregnancies, combined with sex-selection and a cultural preference for boys, has created a gender imbalance that will result in 24 million men who cannot find wives by 2020. The Academy study said that for every 100 girls born in China, 119 boys are born. […]
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Woman Seeks Identity of Anonymous Sperm-Donor Father

Tuesday October 26, 2010 Woman Seeks Identity of Anonymous Sperm-Donor Father By Patrick B. Craine VANCOUVER, British Columbia, October 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a case showing the painful consequences faced by children conceived through artificial reproduction, a British Columbia woman is petitioning the courts to find out the identity of her father, an anonymous sperm donor. “It’s really about having larger society recognizing that we have rights and needs,” said Olivia Pratten, 28, in an interview with the Globe and Mail. “Because for as long as this practice has been going on, the child has been the last person […]
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Polish Bishops Condemn Proposed Legislation to Legalize IVF

Wednesday October 20, 2010 Polish Bishops Condemn Proposed Legislation to Legalize IVF By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WARSAW, October 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A letter from the Conference of the Polish Episcopate delivered on October 18 to Poland’s president Bronislaw Komorowski, and to the country’s prime minister and other leaders in parliament, has condemned proposed legislation seeking to legalize in vitro fertilization. “Since Parliament is again deliberating the matter of the legal regulation of IVF methods, we must raise our voice to ensure that the serious moral arguments and respect for the position of those who regard the right of the […]
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Shut Out: Fathers of Unborn Children have No Legal Say Whether their Children Live or Die

Commentary by Hilary White ROME, October 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – What is the first thing that pops into the minds of ordinary people when they hear the word “abortion”? If you have been lucky, or blessed, enough to have seen through the common rhetoric of our death-cult culture, you may answer something like, “…kills an unborn child.” But, sadly and despite our continuing efforts, the world at large has not yet made that connection. No, what most people think spontaneously when they hear the word is “women’s rights.” The issue of “rights” in abortion rhetoric is the first and last […]
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UK Pro-Life Leader Tells International Conference: “We Will See the Culture of Life Take Root”

OTTAWA, Ontario, October 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “The most important achievement of the pro-life movement in Canada, in Europe, and in the world, is that we exist,” said John Smeaton, director of the U.K.'s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, in Ottawa Thursday as the International Pro-Life Conference kicked off. “The fact that the pro-life movement exists is far more important than any successes we may have enjoyed at the national or international level,” he said. “What's most important is that our pro-life movement is well-established and it's growing,” he continued.  “What's most important is that we're passing on […]
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Pope Calls Upon Brazilian Bishops to Speak out against Abortion as Election Approaches

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent VATICAN CITY, October 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI is telling Brazil's Catholic bishops to speak out against ideologies that justify abortion, only days before a hotly contested presidential election in which the frontrunner has been accused of supporting the decriminalization of abortion.  In a speech delivered to a group of Brazilian prelates present in Rome for a regularly-scheduled visit, Benedict stated that “in defending life we should not fear opposition and unpopularity, refusing any compromise and ambiguity that conforms us to the mentality of this world.”  Calling abortion “an intrinsically evil […]
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Appeals Court to Hear Case of Employees Allegedly Fired for Being “Too Religious”

ATLANTA, Georgia, October 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta is set to hear oral arguments Thursday whether a case involving two employees of the Hallmark Corporation who were allegedly fired for being “too religious” should go to  trial. According to the public interest firm Liberty Counsel, Daniel and Sharon Dixon were fired by The Hallmark Companies from managing an apartment complex and evicted from their apartment because they displayed, in the rental office, stained glass artwork with flowers and the phrase “Consider the lilies… Matthew 6:28.” Federal civil rights legislation Title VII and Title […]
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U.S. Senate Race Roundup: Washington’s Dino Rossi Fights Back, California’s Carly Hits Trail after I

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., October 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At least three U.S. Senate races involving pro-life advocates could tip the scales this election for Republicans in their quest to regain control of the Senate with 51 seats. LifeSiteNews.com takes a look at three toss-up states, Washington, California, and West Virginia, as pro-life advocates race to make their case to voters with just five days remaining before election day.Washington: Pro-life Republican Dino Rossi has once again fought his way from behind into a statistical tie with pro-abortion incumbent Patty Murray in Washington’s U.S. Senate race. The race is […]
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No Appeal of Gay Adoption Ruling, Says Florida AG

Monday October 25, 2010 No Appeal of Gay Adoption Ruling, Says Florida AG By Peter J. Smith MIAMI, Florida, October 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The attorney general of Florida announced Friday that he will not appeal to the state supreme court to defend the state’s three-decade ban on homosexual adoptions. AG Bill McCollum made the announcement Friday, saying that his office and the Department of Children and Families had come to the conclusion that they shouldn’t seek an appeal of the case. In late September, Florida’s Third District Court of Appeals ruled 3 – 0 to uphold the 2008 ruling […]
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Provincial Court to Rule on Freedom of Speech Case at U of Calgary

Monday October 25, 2010 Provincial Court to Rule on Freedom of Speech Case at U of Calgary By Thaddeus M. Baklinski CALGARY, October 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Provincial court Judge John Bascom said he will rule early next year whether University of Calgary security officials had the authority to charge Bill Whatcott with trespassing for handing out flyers on campus criticizing homosexuality. Judge Bascom heard arguments on Friday from Crown prosecutor Kristyn Stevens and from defense lawyer Dale Fedorchuk. Fedorchuk told the court that Whatcott was arrested by campus security on July 25, 2008 as a result of a complaint […]
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Last Minute CLC Candidate Ratings for Ontario Mayor & City Councillors!

Monday October 25, 2010 Last Minute CLC Candidate Ratings for Ontario Mayor & City Councillors! TORONTO, Canada, October 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campaign Life Coalition has posted a last minute resource for voters in Ontario’s municipal elections. Special web pages are now available for CLC’s candidate ratings for Ontario Mayors and City Councillors. The announcement by the national pro-life organization explained that this election cycle, it did not target every city in Ontario, due to limited resources, but “we focused instead on the cities which are known to fund Planned Parenthood with taxpayer dollars”. CLC’s announcement included the following Ontario […]
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International Pro-Life Conference Schedule Now Online

Monday October 25, 2010 International Pro-Life Conference Schedule Now Online OTTAWA, Canada, October 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Because of many enquiries, LifeSiteNews is posting a link to the schedule for this weekend’s International pro-life Conference in Ottawa, Ontario. The schedule can be viewed here. | Send Letter to Editor
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Quebec Relativism Course Going to Supreme Court

Friday October 22, 2010 Quebec Relativism Course Going to Supreme Court By Patrick B. Craine QUEBEC, October 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court of Canada, in a case with implications for parental rights across the country, has agreed to examine whether Quebec parents should be allowed to exempt their children from the province’s mandatory course in moral and religious relativism. Sylvain Lamontagne, president of the Coalition pour la liberte en education (CLE), praised the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case, saying the ethics and religious culture (ERC) course “undermines the fundamental rights of freedom of conscience and religion, […]
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LifeSiteNews Special Report – Pro-Abortion Environmental Activist and Renegade Bishops Headline Catholic Program

Friday October 8, 2004 Pro-Abortion Environmental Activist and Renegade Bishops Headline Catholic Program Event at Ontario Pembroke diocese Grey Sisters convent PEMBROKE, Ontario, October 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Tickets are on sale now for the October 16 offering of “The Cosmic Culture of the Canoe”, offered as one of many new age programs running at the Marguerite Centre in Pembroke Ontario this year. The Centre, run by the Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Conception and housed in their Motherhouse, features the Executive Director of the pro-abortion Sierra Club of Canada Elizabeth May as well as renegade Catholic Bishops Thomas Gumbleton […]
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NewsBytes for Aug. 24 – Obama and Islam

Tuesday August 24, 2010 NewsBytes for Aug. 24 – Obama and Islam Compiled by Steve Jalsevac See introductory article Militant Islam Versus the West * Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. Obama’s Milky Way By George Neumayr – The Spectator.org His presidency largely exists for the benefit of one religion, the only religion he appears to consider blameless and holy – Islam, and not even its moderate variant. Under Obama, America undercuts moderate Muslims while pandering to violent […]
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Chinese Woman Kidnapped by Govt Officials for Supporting Imprisoned Nobel Winner

By Kathleen Gilbert CHONGQING, China, October 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Chinese woman who tweeted that she would demonstrate her support for imprisoned human rights advocate and Nobel peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo was kidnapped by Chinese officials in the middle of the night, according to online friends. Freelance designer Mou Yanxi has reportedly returned home, but her mobile phone and computer have been confiscated after she stated on Twitter that she planned to carry a banner with the words “Congratulations, Uncle Xiaobo!” The tweet, according to a Chinese blogger cited by the UK's Guardian newspaper, led to officials taking […]
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Human Life Itself has No Value: Britain’s Leading Bioethicist and Assisted Suicide Campaigner

By Hilary White LONDON, October 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Unlike gold and platinum, life does not have value in itself, a member of the House of Lords and a campaigner for assisted suicide said in a televised debate last week. Medical professionals need to change their attitude towards assisted suicide, to take into account the wishes of patients who request to die, said Baroness Mary Warnock, known in Britain as the “philosopher queen” of bioethics. “There is no moral justification why the opinions of judges, lawyers and doctors should override those of the patient [who has expressed a wish to […]
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Mich. Woman Advertises for “Christian Roommate”: Gets Hit with Civil Rights Complaint

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., October 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — When a 31-year-old single woman in Grand Rapids placed an ad for a Christian roommate on her church bulletin board, she had no idea it would result in a civil rights complaint accusing her of illegal housing discrimination. The Fair Housing Center of West Michigan, a private group, has said that the statement specifically asking for a Christian roommate “expresses an illegal preference for a Christian roommate, thus excluding people of other faiths.” The Alliance Defense Fund has taken up the case of the woman, and sent a letter last week to […]
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NewsBytes for Aug. 24 – Ground Zero Mosque

Tuesday August 24, 2010 NewsBytes for Aug. 24 – Ground Zero Mosque Compiled by Steve Jalsevac See introductory article Militant Islam Versus the West * Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. Archbishop Dolan Calls for Dialogue Over “Ground Zero Mosque” The New York archbishop is underlining the need for civil, respectful dialogue as controversy heats up over plans for building an Islamic center near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “I know it’s a controversial topic,” said […]
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1st Black Female Harvard Med Grad and Leading Pro-Life Activist Passes Away

Tuesday October 19, 2010 1st Black Female Harvard Med Grad and Leading Pro-Life Activist Passes Away By Peter J. Smith BOSTON, October 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Mildred Jefferson, a civil rights pioneer who aggressively dedicated her life and talents to defending the rights of unborn children, died Friday at the age of 84 at home. Anne Fox, President of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, broke the news of Jefferson’s passing to the media. While no cause of death has been specified, Fox said that Jefferson’s health had been declining for the past few weeks. Jefferson is an important figure for […]
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Head of Vatican’s Highest Court: Ministers Have “Obligation to Deny” Communion to Pro-Abortion Politicians

Tuesday August 19, 2008 Head of Vatican’s Highest Court: Ministers Have “Obligation to Deny” Communion to Pro-Abortion Politicians By John-Henry Westen ROME, August 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of the highest court in the Vatican has given an interview with a Roman magazine in which he notes that when dealing with pro-abortion Catholic politicians, “the minister of the Eucharist has the obligation to deny It (Communion) to him.” Last month, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Archbishop Raymond Burke, formerly the Archbishop of St. Louis, as the Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, which is the highest judicial […]
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President Obama Endorses LGBT Youth ‘Spirit Day’

Friday October 22, 2010 President Obama Endorses LGBT Youth ‘Spirit Day’ By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., October 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Barack Obama has issued a message exhorting young people who consider themselves homosexual to “be true to” themselves and recognize their sexual tendencies as “a source of pride, and a source of strength.” Obama issued the remarks in the wake of a nationwide “Spirit Day” in which celebrities, media, and schools across the nation wore purple to express solidarity with homosexual youths who have committed suicide. “Like all of you, I was shocked and saddened by the deaths […]
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Condom Ads Pushing Young People into “Risk-Taking” Sexual Activity: SPUC

Friday October 22, 2010 Condom Ads Pushing Young People into “Risk-Taking” Sexual Activity: SPUC By Hilary White LONDON, October 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Condom use and their promotion in TV ads only helps to promote risk-taking behavior in young people, behavior that contributes to the spread of sexually transmitted disease and teenage pregnancies, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has said in a new campaign. The condom ads on UK television, which were approved by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in March this year to be shown during children’s peak viewing hours, are “priming” children to […]
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“Married” Lesbian Couple from U.S., Australia Denied Refugee Status in Canada

Thursday October 21, 2010 “Married” Lesbian Couple from U.S., Australia Denied Refugee Status in Canada By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, October 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two women, one from the U.S. and the other from Australia, who were “married” in Canada four years ago are trying to gain refugee status in the country by claiming that they would face persecution in their countries of origin. The couple, whose names are withheld, are appealing after their claim was denied in July by the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board. They came to Canada in September 2007 and filed for refugee status the […]
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NY Catholic Bishops: Right to Life Outweighs other Concerns in Voting

Monday October 18, 2010 NY Catholic Bishops: Right to Life Outweighs other Concerns in Voting By Peter J. Smith NEW YORK, October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New York’s Catholic Bishops are telling the state’s Catholics this year that the right to life must be their first concern when they step into the voting booth in November, not party loyalty or other issues where good people may differ in opinion or judgment. The pastoral letter “Our Cherished Right, Our Solemn Duty,” signed by New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan and seven other New York state bishops, says Catholics must be “cautious” when […]
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USCCB Releases Key Document Pledging Renewal of Scandal-Ridden Anti-Poverty Arm

By Patrick B. Craine WASHINGTON, D.C., October 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fourteen months after the scandal broke at the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) over their funding of groups that promote abortion, same-sex “marriage,” and contraception, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has released a detailed review of their domestic anti-poverty organization that is intended to spark renewal. Bishop Roger Morin of Biloxi, Mississippi, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the CCHD, says the report neither accepts “business as usual” nor abandons CCHD’s focus on serving the poor. The 15-page review document, released Tuesday, “reaffirms CCHD’s Catholic foundations and […]
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Court Allows San Fran City Resolution Condemning Catholicism as ‘Insulting,’ ‘Hateful’

By Kathleen Gilbert SAN FRANCISCO, October 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has shakily allowed to stand a resolution by the city government of San Francisco that lambasted the Vatican as “meddl[ing]” and “insult[ing]” for reaffirming its teaching against homosexual adoption, and which urged Church officials to disobey the Magisterium. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 2006 had issued a statement clarifying that Catholic Church agencies, in line with the Church's moral teaching on sexuality, should not hand over children to homosexual couples seeking to adopt. The statement was prompted by Catholic […]
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Abortion Anesthetist Allegedly Infected over 40 Women with Hep C

Wednesday June 2, 2010 Abortion Anesthetist Allegedly Infected over 40 Women with Hep C By James Tillman MELBOURNE, Australia, June 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — At least 44 women have now been infected by Hepatitis C after attending Croydon Day Surgery, Victoria’s only late-term abortion clinic, in north-eastern Melbourne. Half of these cases can be definitively traced to the same strain infecting Dr. James Latham Peters, an anesthetist at the clinic. Dr. Peters is under investigation by the Victoria Police and the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria; some say he may have deliberately infected the women. “The more cases that we […]
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Purple Homosexualist ‘Spirit Day’ Saturates U.S. Schools, Media, Stock Exchange

Friday October 22, 2010 Purple Homosexualist ‘Spirit Day’ Saturates U.S. Schools, Media, Stock Exchange By Kathleen Gilbert October 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Internet-born movement to encourage solidarity with teen victims of gay bullying has spurred several celebrities, schools, and media to officially promote the pro-homosexual campaign by wearing purple this past Wednesday. A young woman named Brittany McMillan, who spread the idea on her Tumblr account, and was championed by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), reportedly began the movement, which is intended to memorialize homosexual youths who have killed themselves. Several media outlets endorsed the movement, […]
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The Card to Protect You from “Presumed Consent” Organ Harvesting

Friday October 22, 2010 The Card to Protect You from “Presumed Consent” Organ Harvesting By Patrick B. Craine October 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the push for organ harvesting gets increasingly aggressive, and more and more cases of abuse by transplant teams surface, one pro-life leader has developed a card to ensure doctors respect one’s wish to live a natural lifespan. “The card documents that they want to live as long as God gives them,” said Dr. Paul Byrne of the Life Guardian Foundation, who is a pioneer in the field of neonatology and a leading opponent of the notion […]
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Pro-Life, Pro-family Leaders Congratulate Pro-Life Hero Archbishop Burke

Thursday October 21, 2010 Pro-Life, Pro-family Leaders Congratulate Pro-Life Hero Archbishop Burke By Patrick B. Craine Note: To send a personal note of congratulations to Archbishop Burke, visit CongratulateBurke.com ROME, October 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic, pro-life, and pro-family groups are praising Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to elevate pro-life hero Archbishop Raymond L. Burke to the status of Cardinal. “Cardinal-designate Burke is one of the Church’s greatest defenders of faith, and one of the pro-life movement’s greatest allies,” said Jim Hughes, vice-president of International Right to Life. Burke, 62, who serves as prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (the Vatican’s highest […]
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Facebook Teams Up with Gay Activist Orgs to Stop ‘Hateful’ Comments

Thursday October 21, 2010 Facebook Teams Up with Gay Activist Orgs to Stop ‘Hateful’ Comments By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., October 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The social networking site Facebook has teamed up with a who’s who list of homosexual advocacy groups to set up a Network of Support for homosexuals, part of an effort to remove “hateful” speech and bullying from the social network site. But pro-family groups are expressing serious concern about the arrangement, as some of the homosexualist organizations call not only for the removal of legitimately hateful or violent speech, but also censorship of statements […]
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Kinsey Victim Speaks Out: My Father Was Paid to Rape Me

Thursday October 21, 2010 Kinsey Victim Speaks Out: My Father Was Paid to Rape Me By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., October 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Decades after her ordeal, a woman who says her father was paid by Alfred Kinsey, the “father of the sexual revolution,” to rape her at the tender age of seven as part of his experiments on human sexual behavior, is speaking out. Going by the pseudonym Esther White, the woman spoke to Wold Net Daily in hopes that her testimony will help convince legislators to defund the Kinsey Institute in Indiana, which has perpetuated Kinsey’s […]
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Pro-Life Independent Tom Tancredo Surges to Virtual Tie in Colorado Gov. Race

By Peter J. Smith DENVER, Colorado, October 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The race for Colorado’s governorship now shows a virtual tie between former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, a pro-life 3rd party candidate, and pro-abortion Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, a Democrat. Tancredo, a staunch pro-life, pro-family advocate known for his anti-illegal-immigration views, has surged into a dead heat with Hickenlooper, now that GOP candidate Dan Maes campaign has collapsed amid allegations of campaign finance abuse and flip-flopping on the issues. Running on the American Constitution Party (ACP) ticket, Tancredo now picks up 43 percent of the vote, according to a poll of 1067 […]
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L’Osservatore Romano and the Irrelevance of “Relevance”

Wednesday October 20, 2010 L’Osservatore Romano and the Irrelevance of “Relevance” Commentary by Hilary White ROME, October 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When I discovered the internet hullabalooo over that silly article, the latest in a string of silliness from L’Osservatore Romano, telling the world that Homer Simpson is a “real” Catholic, I just sighed. It was just one more little bit of cringeworthy sophomoric nonsense from a paper that seems to be struggling with a humiliating mid-life crisis. The Daily Telegraph in England broke the “story” to the Anglosphere, and pretty much called it: Once a staid and sober paper […]
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Archbishop Nienstedt Defends Diocese’s Aggressive Pro-Marriage Campaign

Wednesday October 20, 2010 Archbishop Nienstedt Defends Diocese’s Aggressive Pro-Marriage Campaign By Kathleen Gilbert ST. PAUL, Minnesota, October 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Archbishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis has exhorted Catholics to stick close to Church teaching as the archdiocese catches flak for its aggressive campaign to reaffirm the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage. The archdiocese sent out over 400,000 DVDs to area Catholics last month explaining the Catholic Church’s position and rationale on same-sex “marriage” – a move decried by some Catholics as too “political.” Media have been covering instances where the DVDs have been met with outrage or […]
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Heavyweight Philosophers Clash at Abortion Conference

Friday October 22, 2010 Heavyweight Philosophers Clash at Abortion Conference By Terrence McKeegan, J.D. PRINCETON, October 22, 2010 (C-FAM) – A baby’s cry, piercing the air from the back of an Ivy League academic hall, offered a disquieting counterpoint to a startling argument for abortion rights. “An infant has no moral status because he is not self-aware,” said Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics. Singer argued this point at an historic conference he co-organized at Princeton University last weekend, seeking new dialogue on the heated issue of abortion. Remarkably, for a conference examining abortion, there was virtually no discussion about […]
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Congratulations to One of the World’s Greatest Pro-Life Champions

Friday October 22, 2010 Congratulations to One of the World’s Greatest Pro-Life Champions Dear LifeSiteNews.com reader: Will you join us in congratulating one of the greatest champions of the pro-life cause? The news came in this week that Archbishop Raymond Burke will be among the 24 men made a Cardinal next month in Rome by Pope Benedict XVI! Cardinals are the closest advisors to the Pope and elect new popes out of their numbers. Faithful Catholics and other pro-life and pro-family individuals around the world have joyfully greeted the news of this great honor. Join your voice with theirs and […]
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Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules State Abortion Law Unconstitutional

Friday March 5, 2010 Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules State Abortion Law Unconstitutional By Peter J. Smith OKLAHOMA CITY, February 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Oklahoma Supreme Court has declared that an Oklahoma law regulating abortion practice and requiring ultrasounds for women seeking abortion violated the state constitution’s single-subject rule, saying it contained multiple subjects for legislation. The high court struck down SB 1878, upholding the August 2009 decision of Oklahoma County Judge Vicki Robertson, who ruled the multiple legislative mandates in the law required separate bills to pass constitutional muster. “We are growing weary of admonishing the Legislature for so […]
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Homosexual ‘Marriage’ Advocates Seek to Destroy Matrimony and Society Itself: Cardinal Archbishop of Mexico City

Tuesday August 10, 2010 Homosexual ‘Marriage’ Advocates Seek to Destroy Matrimony and Society Itself: Cardinal Archbishop of Mexico City ‘Church cannot cease to call evil, evil,’ prelate says By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, August 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the face of the “aberrant” Supreme Court decision declaring constitutional the “immoral legal reform that permits unions between people of the same sex,” the Church “cannot cease to call evil, evil,” declared Mexico City’s Cardinal Archbishop Norberto Rivera during Sunday mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral.. What proponents of the law “abusively” call “marriages” are in reality nothing […]
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Judge Denies Request for Stay on Ruling against Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Wednesday October 20, 2010 Judge Denies Request for Stay on Ruling against Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell By Peter J. Smith UPDATE 7:30pm EST: A federal appeals court Wednesday evening stayed the ruling, permitting the U.S. government temporarily to continue banning open homosexuality in the military, according to Reuters. RIVERSIDE, California, October 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the Obama Justice Department’s request for a stay on her court order against the nation’s ban on homosexuals serving in the military. Now the government is asking the appeals court in California to step in. Justice Department attorneys had […]
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DADT Legal Seesaw: Now Judge Reinstates Ban on Open Homosexuals in Military

Thursday October 21, 2010 DADT Legal Seesaw: Now Judge Reinstates Ban on Open Homosexuals in Military By Peter J. Smith SAN FRANCISCO, California, October 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The legal seesaw over the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” continues, now that a federal appeals has stayed a judge’s order and reinstated the congressional ban on homosexual service in the military. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday night granted the request of Justice Department attorneys to suspend the worldwide order of U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips, which made illegal for the U.S. to enforce the “Don’t […]
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Pro-Abort Org Inciting Physicians to Commit Criminal Acts in N. Ireland: Pro-life Advocates

Thursday October 21, 2010 Pro-Abort Org Inciting Physicians to Commit Criminal Acts in N. Ireland: Pro-life Advocates By Hilary White NEWCASTLE, N. Ireland, October 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of Europe’s busiest abortion agencies, the Family Planning Association (FPA), sponsored a conference in Newcastle, Northern Ireland, earlier this month, that the pro-life campaign group Precious Life said was “absolutely outrageous” and illegal because it incited physicians to commit criminal acts. In Northern Ireland abortion remains a criminal act, except in cases where there is an immediate threat to the life of the mother. The conference called for the abolition of […]
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Let Family Members of Suicides Kill Themselves Too Says Euthanasia Org Prez

Thursday October 21, 2010 Let Family Members of Suicides Kill Themselves Too Says Euthanasia Org Prez By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman October 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leader of Switzerland’s leading assisted suicide organization says that he wants family members of patients who commit suicide to have the right to kill themselves also. Ludwig Minelli, president of the pro-suicide organization “Dignitas,” told a Swiss newspaper in a recent interview that “a change in the law is required to give dementia sufferers and their families more opportunities.” “The partner should be allowed to have a prescription for these drugs even when they […]
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Students from Ontario School ‘Inspired’ to Participate in Ottawa 40 Days for Life

Wednesday October 20, 2010 Students from Ontario School ‘Inspired’ to Participate in Ottawa 40 Days for Life By John Jalsevac PETERBOROUGH, Ontario, October 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Everything that our school and community does is pro-life,” says Adam Parker, the principal of Wayside Academy, a private Catholic school in Peterborough, Ontario. For years already the school has participated en masse in the annual March for Life in Ottawa, and school families regularly join a weekly pro-life vigil in front of the local hospital, where abortions are committed. But this fall the school has added participation in the 40 Days for […]
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“The Most Important School Board Election”: CLC Rates Candidates for Ontario School Trustee

Wednesday October 20, 2010 “The Most Important School Board Election”: CLC Rates Candidates for Ontario School Trustee By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campaign Life Coalition, the political arm of Canada’s pro-life movement, has published their ratings of candidates running for school trustee in Monday’s Ontario municipal election, which the group has said “may be the most important school board election Ontario has ever faced.” (For Catholic candidates click here. For public candidates click here.) CLC said that Premier Dalton McGuinty and the Ministry of Education “have embarked on a strategy of child indoctrination,” and […]
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Pro-Abort Group Pushes “Blob” Media Images that Hide the Humanity of the Unborn

Wednesday October 20, 2010 Pro-Abort Group Pushes “Blob” Media Images that Hide the Humanity of the Unborn By Patrick B. Craine VANCOUVER, British Columbia, October 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC) has recommended a set of photos to the media for abortion-related stories that, according to one pro-life leader, shows the “foolish” lengths to which the abortion lobby will go to hide the humanity of the unborn. At the same time, the pro-abortion group has admitted that the number of abortions reported by Statistics Canada is lower than the true figure, saying “many” abortion facilities […]
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DC Congressional Candidate Blankets Capital with Graphic Abortion Campaign Ads

Wednesday October 20, 2010 DC Congressional Candidate Blankets Capital with Graphic Abortion Campaign Ads By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., October 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life Congressional candidate in the nation’s capital has taken advantage of campaign advertisement law to show graphic abortion pictures on four local stations during daytime television. Missy Smith is airing advertisements in which she declares her opposition to the abortion holocaust while showing several images of the bodies of abortion victims. “I killed two of my babies by abortion. I was told it’s not a baby; they lied to me, they exploited me. Then I […]
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Court: No Immunity for Officers Who Arrested Pro-Life Advocates

Tuesday October 19, 2010 Court: No Immunity for Officers Who Arrested Pro-Life Advocates RICHMOND, Virginia, October 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Monday upheld a district court decision that denied the request of several Maryland state police officers to be immune from a lawsuit filed by attorneys representing pro-life advocates. The officers had handcuffed and arrested the 18 pro-life advocates for sharing a peaceful pro-life message along a public street in August 2008. Among those arrested were three young women who were later shackled, strip-searched, and detained overnight. “Pro-life advocates shouldn’t be handcuffed […]
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Houston Pro-Lifers Unite for Massive March to Planned Parenthood Megacenter

Tuesday October 19, 2010 Houston Pro-Lifers Unite for Massive March to Planned Parenthood Megacenter HOUSTON, Oct. 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nearly a dozen Houston-area pro-life organizations have come together to plan and promote a march against the city’s new Planned Parenthood megacenter on October 23, part of a larger event called “Unite for Life – Houston” that will feature movie star and pro-life advocate Eduardo Verastegui. The event, which is free, will kick off at the Catholic Charismatic Center with a morning full of inspiring messages from leading pro-life advocates, including Verástegui, and will culminate with the prayerful march to […]
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Evangelical and Catholic Immigration Proponents Push Back against Same-Sex Benefits

Tuesday October 19, 2010 Evangelical and Catholic Immigration Proponents Push Back against Same-Sex Benefits WASHINGTON, October 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Christian supporters of immigration reform are criticizing a bill proposed by Democrat senators that would pave the way for the homosexual partners of illegal immigrants to receive benefits on a par with married spouses. Democratic Senators Robert Menendez and Patrick Leahy introduced S.3932, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, on September 29, which focuses on creating a “pathway” to U.S. citizenship for foreigners who have illegally entered or remained in the United States. But the bill also includes a “Uniting American […]
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Ottawa Pro-Aborts Trying to Get 40 Days for Life Permit Revoked

Tuesday October 19, 2010 Ottawa Pro-Aborts Trying to Get 40 Days for Life Permit Revoked By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After failing to rally an ongoing protest against the Ottawa 40 Days for Life, a group of pro-abortion activists are petitioning the city to revoke the vigil’s permit. The Ottawa 40 Days campaign, nearing the end of its fourth run, maintains a vigil 12-hours a day on Bank St., across the street from the Morgentaler abortion facility. From the beginning, the Pro-Choice Coalition of Ottawa has attempted to mount a protest on the other […]
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National Right to Life Releases Online Voter Guide for 2010 Midterm Elections

Tuesday October 12, 2010 National Right to Life Releases Online Voter Guide for 2010 Midterm Elections By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Right to Life Committee has released a new online voter guide for pro-life advocates looking for a brief rundown of candidates for the U.S. congressional mid-term elections. Entitled “Compare. Decide. Vote.”, the guide posted on the NRLC website StopTheAbortionAgenda.com features brief comparisons (in downloadable PDFs) that outline key differences between a number of candidates on legal abortion and the right to life. The guide covers Senate and House elections in 26 […]
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Nebraska Fetal Pain Law Goes Into Effect – Other States May Follow Suit

Monday October 18, 2010 Nebraska Fetal Pain Law Goes Into Effect – Other States May Follow Suit By Peter J. Smith OMAHA, Nebraska, October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A landmark law banning abortion after 20 weeks gestation, on the basis that an unborn child feels pain at that age, went into effect in Nebraska on Friday. Pro-life advocates have expressed confidence that other states will follow Nebraska’s lead in upcoming legislative sessions. “This is a historic and celebratory moment for those who work to protect mothers and unborn children,” said Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council. “This is […]
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Australian Court: Couple “Not Guilty” of Illegally Using RU-486

Monday October 18, 2010 Australian Court: Couple “Not Guilty” of Illegally Using RU-486 By Hilary White CAIRNS, Australia, October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A court in Queensland Australia found last week that a young Far North Queensland couple is not guilty of having unlawfully procured an abortion using the drug regimen RU-486. The decision is being used by lobby groups to push for the abolition of all remaining legal restrictions on abortion in Queensland. When Tegan Leach, 21 and Sergie Brennan, 22, were charged in February of last year with attempting to procure a miscarriage and unlawfully supplying drugs to […]
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Study: Too Much Screen Time Linked to Psychological Difficulties, even for Physically Active Kids

Tuesday October 19, 2010 Study: Too Much Screen Time Linked to Psychological Difficulties, even for Physically Active Kids By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BRISTOL, UK, October 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study conducted at the University of Bristol has found that too much TV and computer screen time is bad for children, regardless of how much physical activity they get. Previous research has shown that too much screen time has an adverse effect on children’s mental well-being, but whether the lack of physical exercise and long periods of sitting still significantly contributed to this was not clear. Dr. Angie Page, […]
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Silence to Rock Thousands of Campuses Tuesday as Students Protest Abortion

Monday October 18, 2010 Silence to Rock Thousands of Campuses Tuesday as Students Protest Abortion October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Tuesday morning, students from thousands of schools around the world will keep silence and refuse to speak as a protest against the silencing of countless innocent children by abortion. Leaders of the Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity, a project of Stand True – Christ Centered Pro-Life, say hundreds of thousands of students will lose their voice in solidarity with their brothers and sisters who will never have a voice. Last year Stand True heard from participants that over 80 […]
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Colorado Senate Candidate Vilified for Calling Homosexuality a Lifestyle Choice

Monday October 18, 2010 Colorado Senate Candidate Vilified for Calling Homosexuality a Lifestyle Choice By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Tea Party-backed GOP candidate for Colorado’s U.S. Senate seat came under fire after stating that homosexuality, while possibly influenced by genetic factors from birth, is essentially a lifestyle choice. Ken Buck sparked the reaction after telling the host of NBC’s Meet the Press during a debate with his opponent Sunday that the genetic effect upon homosexuality could be compared to that of alcoholism. “Do you believe that being gay is a choice?” asked host David […]
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More Americans Lose Faith that Obama is Christian

Thursday August 19, 2010 More Americans Lose Faith that Obama is Christian By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite White House assurances and Barack Obama’s personal insistence that he is a practicing Christian, according to a recent poll more Americans are growing skeptical that the U.S. president actually practices the faith he claims. A survey by the Pew Research Center found that nearly one in five Americans (18 percent) believe Obama to be a Muslim, and only one in three (34 percent) believe the president’s claim that he is a Christian – a number that peaked […]
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New Orleans Archbishop Responds to Obama Speech at Xavier University

Thursday August 19, 2010 New Orleans Archbishop Responds to Obama Speech at Xavier University By Kathleen Gilbert NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The archbishop of New Orleans has responded to the decision of Xavier University, a Catholic institution in his diocese, to host President Obama for a speech commemorating the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on August 29. Archdiocesan spokeswoman Sarah Comiskey told LifeSiteNews.com that she spoke directly with Archbishop Gregory Aymond regarding the affair, and that the prelate stated he had not been consulted nor invited to the campus event. At the time of the Obama […]
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Cliff ‘Watchman’ Saves Hundreds from Suicide with Kindness and a Smile

Monday October 18, 2010 Cliff ‘Watchman’ Saves Hundreds from Suicide with Kindness and a Smile By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman SYDNEY, Australia, October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – They call retired salesman Don Ritchie “the watchman.” Each day, as he sits in his favorite chair at his cliffside home, he looks up and scans the precipice that takes the lives of approximately 50 suicide jumpers each year, trying to discern the intentions of visitors. When somebody seems to be lingering too long at the cliff, he walks out to talk to him. “You can’t just sit there and watch them,” Ritchie told […]
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Author Michael O’Brien to LSN Staff: Intelligence, Money not Enough to Win Pro-Life War

Monday October 18, 2010 Author Michael O’Brien to LSN Staff: Intelligence, Money not Enough to Win Pro-Life War By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life battle will only be won if we embrace Christ’s Cross, become “the poor and despised of the world,” and “listen … to the promptings of the Holy Spirit,” said acclaimed author and artist Michael O’Brien at LifeSiteNews’ inaugural all-staff planning event in Barry’s Bay, Ontario in August. O’Brien will be a featured speaker at next week’s International Pro-Life Conference in Ottawa. He will address the theme ‘Overcoming Evil and […]
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Planned Parenthood Admits Defeat: No Abortion as a Human Right in UN Summit Document

Monday October 18, 2010 Planned Parenthood Admits Defeat: No Abortion as a Human Right in UN Summit Document By Hilary White ROME, October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life and pro-family advocates have scored two major political victories in the same month in two different international organizations. Following the defeat of the McCafferty Report – which attempted to abolish the rights of European doctors to refuse to commit abortions – at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, pro-life advocates are now declaring a victory over the International Planned Parenthood Federation at the UN. Carmen Barroso, regional director of International […]
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Purple Homosexualist ‘Spirit Day’ Saturates U.S. Schools, Media, Stock Exchange

By Kathleen Gilbert October 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Internet-born movement to encourage solidarity with teen victims of gay bullying has spurred several celebrities, schools, and media to officially promote the pro-homosexual campaign by wearing purple this past Wednesday. A young woman named Brittany McMillan, who spread the idea on her Tumblr account, and was championed by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), reportedly began the movement, which is intended to memorialize homosexual youths who have killed themselves. Several media outlets endorsed the movement, including CNBC, the Today Show, E!, HGTV, Philadelphia Magazine, Ms. Magazine, The View, and […]
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Catholics Urge Ontario Bishops to Reconsider Approval of Gay-Neutral Education Policy

Tuesday October 19, 2010 Catholics Urge Ontario Bishops to Reconsider Approval of Gay-Neutral Education Policy By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, October 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario Catholic bishops have now publicly endorsed the implementation of the Ministry of Education’s controversial equity and inclusive education strategy in the province’s Catholic schools. In an October 4th statement, the bishops explain that they have endorsed a Catholic version of the equity policy. “The Bishops believe that the proposed template will help ensure that our schools will remain faithful to Catholic teaching as they move forward with the Ministry’s directive,” it reads. […]
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Msgr. Philip Reilly’s Vision of 9/11’s Connection to Abortion

Monday October 18, 2010 Msgr. Philip Reilly’s Vision of 9/11’s Connection to Abortion By John-Henry Westen ROME, October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Msgr. Philip Reilly, the founder of Helpers of God’s Precious Infants, delivered a fascinating address to attendees of the Human Life International World Prayer Congress last week. Reilly, who has devoted most of his 50-year-long priestly ministry to the pro-life cause, recounted his experiences of the horrific September 11, 2001 terrorist attack from the perspective of a native New Yorker. “On the morning of 9/11 I was praying and counseling outside of a large abortion clinic in Brooklyn,” […]
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Setback: Ohio Election Board Rules against Pro-Life SBA List

Friday October 15, 2010 Setback: Ohio Election Board Rules against Pro-Life SBA List By Peter J. Smith COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A major U.S. pro-life group received a serious setback Wednesday after the Ohio Elections Commission ruled that there was “probable cause” to believe that ads accusing a pro-life Democrat of voting for taxpayer-funded abortion in the new health care law were intentionally misleading. The Commission voted 2–1 to advance the case brought by U.S. Rep. Steven Driehaus (pronounced Dree-house) against the Susan B. Anthony List to the full panel. It is expected that all seven members […]
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A Champion For Maternal Health

Friday October 8, 2010 A Champion For Maternal Health By Amanda Pawloski NEW YORK, October 8, 2010 (C-FAM) – One night in Nigeria, a sick pregnant woman stumbled into a clinic on the verge of death. A young English doctor on his first medical trip to Africa rushed to help her. Robert Walley started an IV while another doctor grabbed a stethoscope to listen for the baby’s heartbeat. The woman died just as Walley was setting up the IV. He was holding her hand. Without any equipment to perform an emergency C-section, both doctors watched for five frustrating minutes until […]
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Re: Cliff 'Watchman' Saves Hundreds from Suicide with Kindness and a Smile I would like to comment on the “Cliff Watchman” story that you wrote so beautifully about humanness -  that we can save the lives of people who are hurting often times just by showing them we care.  I work with families after someone has ended their life, as well as with those who are at risk for suicide.  We can prevent 95% of suicides if we know what to do with someone who may be at risk. Your story just sent a powerful message that there are people who […]
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Commentary on October 21 News – Congratulations to Archbishop Burke!

The inclusion of Archbishop Raymond Burke among the 24 Catholic bishops named to enter the College of Cardinals in a Vatican consistory on November 20, is cause for celebration in the pro-life and pro-family movements. This man understands the gravity of the Culture of Death and speaks and acts on that understanding like very few other religious leaders in the world.     For LifeSiteNews and others who have been the brunt of harsh, defamatory attacks from some clergy and Catholic Church bureaucrats for simply reporting the truth about disturbing situations needing correction, Archbishop Burke has been a champion. We note especially the […]
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Pro-Abort Org Inciting Physicians to Commit Criminal Acts in N. Ireland: Pro-life Advocates

By Hilary White NEWCASTLE, N. Ireland, October 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of Europe’s busiest abortion agencies, the Family Planning Association (FPA), sponsored a conference in Newcastle, Northern Ireland, earlier this month, that the pro-life campaign group Precious Life said was “absolutely outrageous” and illegal because it incited physicians to commit criminal acts. In Northern Ireland abortion remains a criminal act, except in cases where there is an immediate threat to the life of the mother. The conference called for the abolition of Ireland’s legal protections for unborn children. Calling the law in Northern Ireland “restrictive,” Dr. Audrey Simpson from the […]
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“Married” Lesbian Couple from U.S., Australia Denied Refugee Status in Canada

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, October 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two women, one from the U.S. and the other from Australia, who were “married” in Canada four years ago are trying to gain refugee status in the country by claiming that they would face persecution in their countries of origin. The couple, whose names are withheld, are appealing after their claim was denied in July by the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board.  They came to Canada in September 2007 and filed for refugee status the same month, after being “married” in Toronto in 2006. At the June hearing, the women claimed that […]
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Interamerican Court Ignores Deaths of Unborn Children in Discrimination Ruling

Friday October 15, 2010 Interamerican Court Ignores Deaths of Unborn Children in Discrimination Ruling October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a recently-announced decision, the Interamerican Court of Human Rights has refused to recognize the deaths of unborn children of indigenous people in Paraguay who were victimized by discriminatory government policies. In the case of the Xákmok Kásek Indigenous Community vs. Paraguay, the Court found that Paraguay was responsible for the deaths of various indigenous listed by the plaintiffs, but omitted any decision on two unborn children who were listed in the complaint. The Court instead responded that “the Court notes […]
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Students from Ontario School ‘Inspired’ to Participate in Ottawa 40 Days for Life

By John Jalsevac PETERBOROUGH, Ontario, October 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –“Everything that our school and community does is pro-life,” says Adam Parker, the principal of Wayside Academy, a private Catholic school in Peterborough, Ontario. For years already the school has participated en masse in the annual March for Life in Ottawa, and school families regularly join a weekly pro-life vigil in front of the local hospital, where abortions are committed. But this fall the school has added participation in the 40 Days for Life Campaign to its pro-life repertoire – and students, administrators and teachers alike are agreed that this year’s […]
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“The Most Important School Board Election”: CLC Rates Candidates for Ontario School Trustee

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Campaign Life Coalition, the political arm of Canada’s pro-life movement, has published their ratings of candidates running for school trustee in Monday’s Ontario municipal election, which the group has said “may be the most important school board election Ontario has ever faced.” (For Catholic candidates click here.  For public candidates click here.) CLC said that Premier Dalton McGuinty and the Ministry of Education “have embarked on a strategy of child indoctrination,” and the schools are “becoming instruments” of that indoctrination. The organization points out that the Ontario government recently tried […]
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Pro-Abort Group Pushes “Blob” Media Images that Hide the Humanity of the Unborn

By Patrick B. Craine VANCOUVER, British Columbia, October 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC) has recommended a set of photos to the media for abortion-related stories that, according to one pro-life leader, shows the “foolish” lengths to which the abortion lobby will go to hide the humanity of the unborn. At the same time, the pro-abortion group has admitted that the number of abortions reported by Statistics Canada is lower than the true figure, saying “many” abortion facilities do not report the abortions they commit. As reported by the blog Big Blue Wave, the ARCC […]
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DC Congressional Candidate Blankets Capital with Graphic Abortion Campaign Ads

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., October 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life Congressional candidate  in the nation's capital has taken advantage of campaign advertisement law to show graphic abortion pictures on four local stations during daytime television. Missy Smith is airing advertisements in which she declares her opposition to the abortion holocaust while showing several images of the bodies of abortion victims. “I killed two of my babies by abortion. I was told it's not a baby; they lied to me, they exploited me. Then I learned the truth, and I suffered for years,” says Smith in an ad that […]
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Taking Girlfriend to Abortion Clinic at Gunpoint Gets Man Attempted Murder Charge

By Peter J. Smith   COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Ohio man faces a charge of attempted murder for forcing his girlfriend at gunpoint to drive to a local abortion clinic and abort their unborn child. On October 6, police said Yolanda Burgess, 26, had changed her mind about her scheduled abortion before boyfriend Dominic Holt-Reid took out a .45 caliber handgun and said she had no choice. Police say Holt-Reid then forced Burgess to drive to an abortion clinic on the East Side. Employees at the abortion clinic called the police after Burgess passed them a note […]
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Court Reaffirms: City Can’t Force Firefighters to Attend Gay Pride Parade

Monday October 18, 2010 Court Reaffirms: City Can’t Force Firefighters to Attend Gay Pride Parade By Kathleen Gilbert SAN DIEGO, California, October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A California appellate court has quickly upheld a jury decision last year that forbade San Diego from forcing firefighters to participate in a gay pride parade. The case involved four San Diego firefighters who had been forced to drive a firetruck in the city’s celebration of homosexuality, where the men were subjected to catcalls and obscene gestures, and surrounded by simulated sex acts and other explicit imagery. In the days leading up to the […]
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Day 27 of 40 Days for Life: 317 Babies Saved…So Far

Monday October 18, 2010 Day 27 of 40 Days for Life: 317 Babies Saved…So Far Commentary by Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life October 18, 2010 (40DaysforLife.com) – Yes, that’s right. As of this writing, there have been … 317 babies — that we know of, that God has saved from abortion in answer to your prayers during this 40 Days for Life campaign! There’s a story behind each of those lives … so here are just a few. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA If you’ve followed these reports, you may remember reading about Erin, the “wrong number” woman from Indianapolis. To quickly […]
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Pro-Life Victory: KS Supreme Court Allows Planned Parenthood Criminal Case to go Forward

Friday October 15, 2010 Pro-Life Victory: KS Supreme Court Allows Planned Parenthood Criminal Case to go Forward TOPEKA, Kansas, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Kansas Supreme Court ruled today that the mammoth 107-count criminal case against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri may move forward and remanded the case back down to the Johnson County District Attorney’s Office for prosecution. “This is a huge victory for the cause of life,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, whose group has worked for years to bring Planned Parenthood to justice. “Now it is up to the Johnson County District Attorney to […]
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Terrorism, Drugs and Attacks on Marriage, Chastity “False Divinities that Must be Unmasked”: Pope Benedict

Thursday October 14, 2010 Terrorism, Drugs and Attacks on Marriage, Chastity “False Divinities that Must be Unmasked”: Pope Benedict By Hilary White ROME, October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In unscripted remarks in his opening day address to the Synod of Bishops of the Middle East on Monday, Pope Benedict XVI denounced “forms of life touted by the public opinion today for which values like marriage count for nothing” as “false divinities that must be unmasked” and thrown down. Pope Benedict linked the destruction of marriage with religiously-motivated terrorism and drugs. “Today, marriage does not count and chastity is no longer […]
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Detroit Abp Vigneron Warns against ‘Progressive’ Catholic Group

Wednesday October 13, 2010 Detroit Abp Vigneron Warns against ‘Progressive’ Catholic Group By Kathleen Gilbert DETROIT, Michigan, October 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Archbishop Allen Vigneron of Detroit has warned Catholics in his flock about a planned meeting by an umbrella organization of dissident Catholic groups, including groups that promote the normalization of homosexuality, women’s ordination, and other liberal issues. The American Catholic Council (ACC) has planned a national gathering in Detroit during June 11-12, 2011, the weekend of Pentecost, when the archdiocese traditionally carries out priestly ordinations. ACC has been joined by several dissident Catholic groups, including the homosexualist groups […]
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Study: Too Much Screen Time Linked to Psychological Difficulties, even for Physically Active Kids

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BRISTOL, UK, October 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study conducted at the University of Bristol has found that too much TV and computer screen time is bad for children, regardless of how much physical activity they get. Previous research has shown that too much screen time has an adverse effect on children's mental well-being, but whether the lack of physical exercise and long periods of sitting still significantly contributed to this was not clear. Dr. Angie Page, from the Centre for Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences at the University of Bristol in England, and colleagues, […]
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Mexican State Governor Asks for Divine Help in Face of Pro-Abortion Initiative

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent AGUASCALIENTES, Mexico, October 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The governor of the Mexican state of Aguascalientes says that he is trusting in God to deliver his state from the legalization of abortion. In a recent interview regarding proposed legislation to legalize abortion, Governor Luis Armando Reynoso told the newspaper La Jornada that “I am definitely respectful of everyone, but in my role as executive, of executive power and responsible for the same, I call for respect for life.” Noting that the power to decide such matters is not his alone, Armando Reynoso added that […]
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Catholics Urge Ontario Bishops to Reconsider Approval of Gay-Neutral Education Policy

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, October 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario Catholic bishops have now publicly endorsed the implementation of the Ministry of Education’s controversial equity and inclusive education strategy in the province’s Catholic schools. In an October 4th statement, the bishops explain that they have endorsed a Catholic version of the equity policy.  “The Bishops believe that the proposed template will help ensure that our schools will remain faithful to Catholic teaching as they move forward with the Ministry’s directive,” it reads. The statement, meant to deal with concerns over the treatment of homosexuality in the Ministry’s […]
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Evangelical and Catholic Immigration Proponents Push Back against Same-Sex Benefits

WASHINGTON, October 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Christian supporters of immigration reform are criticizing a bill proposed by Democrat senators that would pave the way for the homosexual partners of illegal immigrants to receive benefits on a par with married spouses.     Democratic Senators Robert Menendez and Patrick Leahy introduced S.3932, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, on September 29, which focuses on creating a “pathway” to U.S. citizenship for foreigners who have illegally entered or remained in the United States. But the bill also includes a “Uniting American Families Act” (UAFA) allowing unmarried “permanent partners” of U.S. citizens, including same-sex partners, […]
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Susan Boyle: Docs Told Mum to Abort Me

Friday October 15, 2010 Susan Boyle: Docs Told Mum to Abort Me By Peter J. Smith EDINBURGH, United Kingdom, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – International singing phenomenon Susan Boyle has revealed in a new autobiography that doctors had told her mother to abort her, because they thought the pregnancy was risky. Boyle soared to stardom in April 2009 after appearing on the UK television program, Britain’s Got Talent, when the plain-looking Scotswoman shocked audiences with a powerful rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” from the musical version of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. But the 49-year-old native of Blackburn, a village […]
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Former Brazilian Soldiers Say they Were Forced to Have Sex with Homosexual Superior

Friday October 15, 2010 Former Brazilian Soldiers Say they Were Forced to Have Sex with Homosexual Superior By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MARABÁ, Brazil, October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of former Brazilian soldiers say that a lieutenant colonel sexually harassed and forced recruits to engage in sex acts with him in order to continue their military careers, according to the Brazilian television network R7. However, despite photographic and video evidence, formal complaints by six soldiers, and numerous witnesses interviewed by R7, the Brazilian military denies that evidence implicating the colonel exists. Following the initial complaints in […]
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Arrested Carleton Pro-Life Students to Host Controversial Talk on Campus

Friday October 15, 2010 Arrested Carleton Pro-Life Students to Host Controversial Talk on Campus By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the arrest of five pro-life students last week at Carleton University, the Carleton pro-life club is inviting the public to a talk on campus this Monday where they will explain the message behind their “censored” display. “We’re inviting anyone who’s heard about the controversy over our arrest and who wants to know why we are so willing to speak up for the unborn, to hear the presentation,” said Ruth Lobo, president of Carleton Lifelife […]
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Doctors Treat First Patient with Embryo-Derived Stem Cells

Thursday October 14, 2010 Doctors Treat First Patient with Embryo-Derived Stem Cells By Kathleen Gilbert ATLANTA, Georgia, October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A California-based corporation has announced it has enrolled the first patient to undergo therapy using embryo-derived stem cells, after overcoming federal officials’ concerns over the dangers of injecting humans with the potentially cancer-causing cells. The embryo-derived cells, known as oligodendrocyte progenitor cells or GRNOPC1, are being injected into the patient primarily to “assess the safety and tolerability of GRNOPC1” in patients with severe spinal cord injury, not to cure them. The patient is being treated at Atlanta’s Shepherd […]
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Philippine Bishop Says Excommunication for President Benigno Aquino ‘a Possibility’

Thursday October 14, 2010 Philippine Bishop Says Excommunication for President Benigno Aquino ‘a Possibility’ By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MANILA, October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Nereo Odchimar, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, said there is “a possibility” that the Catholic Church could excommunicate President Benigno Aquino if he continues in his intent to distribute contraceptives to couples who request them. “That is a possibility, but I don’t see right now that it is a proximate possibility,” the bishop said late last month in response to a question. Speaking in an interview on the Church-run Radio Veritas, […]
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Britain Needs Graphic Images of Abortion to Spark Debate: Christian Legal Centre Head

Thursday October 14, 2010 Britain Needs Graphic Images of Abortion to Spark Debate: Christian Legal Centre Head By Hilary White LONDON, October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Britain is “a society where there is a massive denial about the true nature of abortion” that needs to see graphic images of abortion to shake complacency and spark a meaningful public debate, Andrea Williams of the Christian Legal Centre told the BBC last week. Williams’s comments came as part of a debate on Radio 4 with Ann Furedi, the head of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), Britain’s busiest abortionist organization, in the […]
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Day 27 of 40 Days for Life: 317 Babies Saved…So Far

Commentary by Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life October 18, 2010 (40DaysforLife.com) – Yes, that’s right. As of this writing, there have been … 317 babies — that we know of, that God has saved from abortion in answer to your prayers during this 40 Days for Life campaign! There’s a story behind each of those lives … so here are just a few. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA If you’ve followed these reports, you may remember reading about Erin, the “wrong number” woman from Indianapolis. To quickly recap, Erin had scheduled an abortion last spring. She called to confirm her appointment — […]
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Planned Parenthood Admits Defeat: No Abortion as a Human Right in UN Summit Document

By Hilary White ROME, October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life and pro-family advocates have scored two major political victories in the same month in two different international organizations. Following the defeat of the McCafferty Report – which attempted to abolish the rights of European doctors to refuse to commit abortions – at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, pro-life advocates are now declaring a victory over the International Planned Parenthood Federation at the UN. Carmen Barroso, regional director of International Planned Parenthood Federation for the Western Hemisphere Region, recently complained to pro-abortion lobbyists that a UN Summit Outcome […]
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Author Michael O’Brien to LSN Staff: Intelligence, Money not Enough to Win Pro-Life War

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life battle will only be won if we embrace Christ’s Cross, become “the poor and despised of the world,” and “listen … to the promptings of the Holy Spirit,” said acclaimed author and artist Michael O’Brien at LifeSiteNews’ inaugural all-staff planning event in Barry’s Bay, Ontario in August.  O’Brien will be a featured speaker at next week’s International Pro-Life Conference in Ottawa. He will address the theme ‘Overcoming Evil and Impossible Odds with Faith’ during lunch on Saturday in a special ticketed event. (To register for the conference, […]
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Colorado Senate Candidate Vilified for Calling Homosexuality a Lifestyle Choice

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Tea Party-backed GOP candidate for Colorado's U.S. Senate seat came under fire after stating that homosexuality, while possibly influenced by genetic factors from birth, is essentially a lifestyle choice. Ken Buck sparked the reaction after telling the host of NBC's Meet the Press during a debate with his opponent Sunday that the genetic effect upon homosexuality could be compared to that of alcoholism. “Do you believe that being gay is a choice?” asked host David Gregory. “I do,” Buck answered. “You don't think it's something that's determined at birth?” […]
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Judge Rules ObamaCare Lawsuit May Proceed

Friday October 15, 2010 Judge Rules ObamaCare Lawsuit May Proceed By Peter J. Smith PENSACOLA, Florida, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge in Florida has ruled that the lawsuit led by 20 U.S. states against the new national health care reform may proceed to trial, over the objections of the federal government. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson for the Northern District of Florida rejected the U.S. Justice Department’s request to throw out the case, stating that “plaintiffs have at least stated a plausible claim that the line has been crossed” between what Congress can and cannot do under […]
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Spiritual Combat Necessary to Combat Abortion Mentality in Nigeria: Nigerian Priest-Activist

Friday October 15, 2010 Spiritual Combat Necessary to Combat Abortion Mentality in Nigeria: Nigerian Priest-Activist IPPF “Rampaging” through Nigeria promoting sexual immorality By Hilary White ROME, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Nigerian priest, military officer and pro-life activist has described the war against abortion in Nigeria and elsewhere as a “spiritual combat” and said that he hopes to bring the methods and spirituality of the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants to Africa. Fr. JC Akpan was forced to address a gathering of the world’s leading pro-life leaders near Rome indirectly last week after being refused an entry visa by […]
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Psychotherapist: Porn Addiction Prevalent, Curable

Friday October 15, 2010 Psychotherapist: Porn Addiction Prevalent, Curable STEUBENVILLE, OH, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — “Pornography is a silent epidemic in America,” said Dr. Peter Kleponis, a Catholic psychotherapist who spoke on the dangers of pornography before a full house at Franciscan University of Steubenville on Thursday, September 30. Kleponis gave a richly informative talk that covered everything from the scope of the porn problem to the virtues men need to engage in healthy relationships and move past pornography. “The damage to men from pornography use and masturbation is extensive,” said Kleponis, who specializes in marriage and family therapy, […]
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Russian Orthodox Patriarch Condemns Gay Propaganda in Spain’s Schools

Friday October 15, 2010 Russian Orthodox Patriarch Condemns Gay Propaganda in Spain’s Schools By Hilary White ROME, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has condemned a move by the Spanish government to insert what he called homosexual “propaganda” into school textbooks. Patriarch Kirill said the Orthodox Church “would never fail to call a sin a sin.” “I consider it very important to take into account the second article of the Protocol 1 of the European convention on human rights that stipulates that ‘the state shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching in […]
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Expert: Religious Freedom Eroding in Britain in the Wake of Equalities Laws and Terrorist Threat

Monday October 4, 2010 Expert: Religious Freedom Eroding in Britain in the Wake of Equalities Laws and Terrorist Threat By Hilary White DUBLIN, October 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New “equality” legislation combined with the Northern Irish “Troubles” and Islamic terrorist bombings in New York and London have created an atmosphere in Britain in which religion in general is held in suspicion, said an expert on religious discrimination law late last month in Dublin. British barrister Neil Addison told the Iona Institute’s conference on religious freedom that in Britain and elsewhere, the attitude is taking hold that religion must not in […]
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Archbishop Chaput Urges Christian Renewal in Response to Growing Persecution in US

Monday September 20, 2010 Archbishop Chaput Urges Christian Renewal in Response to Growing Persecution in US By Patrick Craine DENVER, Colorado, September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Faced with growing persecution from an increasingly secular culture, Catholics must work for a true Christian renewal of America by embracing and living the teachings of the Catholic Church, said Archbishop Charles Chaput in a Friday column for First Things. In the piece, entitled ‘Catholics and the Next America’, Archbishop Chaput reemphasizes his belief that Catholics, indeed all Christians, are poised to face growing persecution in the coming years. America’s public discourse, while traditionally […]
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California School District Sued over Threat to Terminate Principal for Endorsing Prayer Breakfast

Thursday October 14, 2010 California School District Sued over Threat to Terminate Principal for Endorsing Prayer Breakfast SANTA BARBARA, California, October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An elementary school principal is filing a lawsuit against the Goleta Union School District after it threatened to end his contract for appearing in a short video promoting the 52nd Annual Community Prayer Breakfast to honor teachers. Foothill School Principal Craig Richter, an evangelical Christian, was disciplined by his district after a district board member saw the promo video on YouTube and reported it to the board, according to the complaint. The school district said […]
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New Jersey Yanks Abortionist’s License

Thursday October 14, 2010 New Jersey Yanks Abortionist’s License By Kathleen Gilbert TRENTON, New Jersey, October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New Jersey’s Board of Medical Examiners has suspended the license of abortionist Stephen Brigham after concluding that he had seriously endangered patients by illegally ferrying them mid-abortion into Maryland to evade New Jersey law. Brigham, 54, was found to be “a clear and imminent danger to the public health and safety” following a hearing on Wednesday night that lasted nearly nine hours. The board found not only that the abortionist began abortion procedures in New Jersey and lead a caravan […]
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Dem Candidate Charges SBA List with Criminally Misleading Ads: NRLC Responds

Wednesday October 13, 2010 Dem Candidate Charges SBA List with Criminally Misleading Ads: NRLC Responds By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., October 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Right to Life Committee is stepping up to the plate to defend a national pro-life political action committee that has been charged by a pro-life Democrat with criminally misleading voters about his vote in favor of the national health care law sought by President Barack Obama. U.S. Rep. Steve Driehaus, the incumbent Democrat in Ohio’s 1st District, filed a criminal complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission against the Susan B. Anthony List […]
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Obama Justice Department Appeals DOMA Rulings

Wednesday October 13, 2010 Obama Justice Department Appeals DOMA Rulings By Peter J. Smith BOSTON, October 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Obama Justice Department on Tuesday filed a terse notice to a federal appeals court in Boston that it is appealing a U.S. district judge’s ruling striking down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. The appeal notice submitted by Assistant Attorney General Tony West does not mention any reasons for the United States’ defense of the 1996 federal statute, which defines marriage as a union of a man and a woman under federal law. It also protects states from having […]
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Close Friend of Pope JPII Explains Pope’s Thoughts on Shame and Nakedness

Tuesday October 12, 2010 Close Friend of Pope JPII Explains Pope’s Thoughts on Shame and Nakedness By John-Henry Westen ROME, October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Wanda Poltawska, a life-long close friend of Pope John Paul II has made a significant contribution to the debate over the interpretation of the late pope’s Theology of the Body (ToB). In an address given at the Human Life International World Prayer Congress for Life in Rome last week, Dr. Poltawska, a psychiatrist and Member of the Pontifical Council for the Family, said that JPII taught that shame is a virtue, and that love […]
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Monsignor/Vatican Consultor Warns African Bishops against Dangerous Gender Ideology

Wednesday August 18, 2010 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 […]
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World’s First Global Atheistic Civilization Headed for Disaster: Former Czech President

Wednesday October 13, 2010 World’s First Global Atheistic Civilization Headed for Disaster: Former Czech President By Hilary White ROME, October 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The world’s first global and deliberately atheistic civilization is heading for disaster, the first president of the modern Czech Republic told an audience this week. Vaclav Havel, one of the most respected political and literary figures in recent European history, said that the West “has lost its connection with the infinite and with eternity,” with the result that “endless consumer collectivism is giving birth to a new type of loneliness.” The West’s disconnection from eternity, he […]
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New Jersey AG Slams Abortionist’s “Ludicrous” Attempt to Evade Charges

Wednesday October 13, 2010 New Jersey AG Slams Abortionist’s “Ludicrous” Attempt to Evade Charges By Kathleen Gilbert VOORHEES, New Jersey, October 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New Jersey’s attorney general has called an abortionist’s claim to innocence “ludicrous” after he was caught running an inter-state abortion scheme that attempted to evade New Jersey law, where he is disallowed from performing late-term abortions. Stephen Chase Brigham’s business, which involved ferrying New Jersey patients to Maryland midway through an abortion to complete the procedure there, was exposed in August after one of Brigham’s accomplices lacerated a woman’s internal organs during an abortion so […]
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Abortion as a “Human Right” a Corruption of International HR Agreements: John Smeaton

Tuesday October 12, 2010 Abortion as a “Human Right” a Corruption of International HR Agreements: John Smeaton By Hilary White ROME, October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The push in recent years to establish abortion as an international “human right” flies in the face of international human rights law that springs from the natural law and the world’s response to the Nazi atrocities, John Smeaton, head of the UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, told an international conference last week. International agreements dating back to 1948, in the aftermath of the Nuremberg trials, repeatedly insist on the right to […]
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LifeSiteNews Announces New Service in Spanish

Wednesday October 13, 2010 LifeSiteNews Announces New Service in Spanish October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com (LSN), one of the world’s largest international human life and family news agencies, officially announced its new service in Spanish today, following over two months of preparation and testing. LSN’s Spanish service is called the Human Life and Family News Agency (Agencia de Noticias de Vida Humana y Familia), and will function under the acronym “Notifam”. The website can be found here. The Notifam service makes up to three new LSN articles available in Spanish each day, and publishes opinion articles in a special […]
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2010 International Pro-Life Conference in Ottawa, Oct. 28-30: Register Now

Wednesday October 13, 2010 2010 International Pro-Life Conference in Ottawa, Oct. 28-30: Register Now By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The upcoming international pro-life conference, set to take place in Ottawa at the end of this month, is “one you won’t want to miss,” says Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition, who emphasized the impressive line-up of international speakers. (To register, click here.) “Anytime you can hold a conference in the nation’s capital and bring international speakers to it, it offers the opportunity for all the local pro-lifers to be inspired and to […]
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BC Court Allows Challenge against Prostitution Laws

Wednesday October 13, 2010 BC Court Allows Challenge against Prostitution Laws By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VANCOUVER, October 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The BC Court of Appeal ruled on October 12 that a Vancouver based pro-prostitution lobby group will be allowed to challenge Canada’s prostitution laws in court. Madam Justice Mary E. Saunders overturned a December, 2008 ruling by the BC Supreme Court and told representatives from the Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence (SWUAV) lobby group that she was granting them legal standing to challenge the Criminal Code, despite the group not being actively involved in prostitution themselves. The […]
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NY Gov. Candidate Paladino Blasts Gay Propaganda in Schools

Tuesday October 12, 2010 NY Gov. Candidate Paladino Blasts Gay Propaganda in Schools By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino stirred up controversy this week after vowing to protect schoolchildren from homosexualist propaganda in schools, and affirming that homosexuality is not “an equally valid or successful option.” Paladino gave the remarks in an address to Orthodox Jewish leaders on Sunday. “We must stop pandering the pornographers and the perverts who seek to target our children and destroy their lives. I didn’t march in the gay pride parade this year, my […]
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De-population and De-Christianization Leading to Cultural Islamic Jihad: Catholic Apologist

Tuesday October 12, 2010 De-population and De-Christianization Leading to Cultural Islamic Jihad: Catholic Apologist By Hilary White ROME, October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The de-Christianization of Europe, the “removal of Christian principles and institutions from the daily life of a country,” has created a religious and social vacuum that is being filled by Islam, a prominent U.S. Catholic speaker said on Thursday. Raymond de Souza, the Program Director for Portuguese-speaking countries for Human Life International told an audience of the world’s pro-life and pro-family leaders that “Europe … is being culturally Islamized.” “The world in general, and the West in […]
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Underdog GOP Pro-Lifer Dino Rossi now Polling Ahead in Washington Senate Race

Monday October 11, 2010 Underdog GOP Pro-Lifer Dino Rossi now Polling Ahead in Washington Senate Race By Peter J. Smith OLYMPIA, Washington, October 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life GOP candidate Dino Rossi is starting to take a lead in the polls over four-term incumbent and pro-abortion U.S. Senator Patty Murray, placing Rossi in a good position to make history as Washington State’s first elected pro-life U.S. Senator. Rasmussen Reports show that Rossi has edged ahead of Murray in the U.S. Senate race, and now leads 49 percent to 46 percent among 750 likely voters. The race is still considered a […]
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‘I Wanted Him to Go’: Michael Caine Says he Convinced Doctor to Kill Father

Tuesday October 12, 2010 ‘I Wanted Him to Go’: Michael Caine Says he Convinced Doctor to Kill Father By Kathleen Gilbert October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – British actor Michael Caine has revealed that he asked a doctor to kill his cancer-stricken father because “I was in such anguish over the pain he was in” and “I wanted him to go.” In 1955 Caine’s father, a fish market porter named Maurice Micklewhite, was dying of liver cancer at the age of 56. Caine, now 77, said in a Classic FM radio interview broadcast Sunday that the doctor at first recoiled, but […]
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Interamerican Court Ignores Deaths of Unborn Children in Discrimination Ruling

October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a recently-announced decision, the Interamerican Court of Human Rights has refused to recognize the deaths of unborn children of indigenous people in Paraguay who were victimized by discriminatory government policies. In the case of the Xákmok Kásek Indigenous Community vs. Paraguay, the Court found that Paraguay was responsible for the deaths of various indigenous listed by the plaintiffs, but omitted any decision on two unborn children who were listed in the complaint. The Court instead responded that “the Court notes that the representatives and the Commission have not presented arguments in relation to the […]
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Vatican Archbishop Burke: Public Repentance is Required for Pro-Abort Politicians

By John-Henry Westen ROME, October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking at the Human Life International World Prayer Congress Saturday, Archbishop Raymond Burke received sustained applause when he noted that Catholic politicians who support abortion are required to repent publicly.  Speaking to pro-life leaders from 45 nations, the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (the highest Vatican court) also noted that those who recognize the scandal caused by such public, dissident Catholics assist the Church in repairing a serious breach, but are nevertheless often ridiculed for it. (Read the complete talk – in PDF format - here) Achibishop Burke stressed that “both bishops […]
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Former Brazilian Soldiers Say they Were Forced to Have Sex with Homosexual Superior

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MARABÁ, Brazil, October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of former Brazilian soldiers say that a lieutenant colonel sexually harassed and forced recruits to engage in sex acts with him in order to continue their military careers, according to the Brazilian television network R7. However, despite photographic and video evidence, formal complaints by six soldiers, and numerous witnesses interviewed by R7, the Brazilian military denies that evidence implicating the colonel exists. Following the initial complaints in 2009, Alberto Almeida was promoted from the rank of major to lieutenant colonel and put in charge […]
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Brazilian Presidential Frontrunner Signs Pledge Not to Decriminalize Abortion

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BRASILIA, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Besieged over the her past support for abortion and homosexuality, and slipping in the polls, Brazilian presidential frontrunner Dilma Rousseff has signed a public statement claiming to be “personally against abortion,” and pledging not to “take the initiative to propose alterations of points that have to do with abortion legislation and other topics concerning the family and the free expression of any religion in the country.” The statement comes after Rousseff unexpectedly lost the first round of voting in the presidential election, a defeat widely attributed to […]
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Priest-Brother of Arrested Carleton Student: ‘I Can’t Be a Moderate Pro-Lifer Any Longer’

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The arrests of five pro-life students at Carleton University last week should inspire pro-lifers to step up and engage in the pro-life battle, said Fr. Simon Lobo, brother of arrested Carleton Lifeline President Ruth Lobo, in a powerful homily in Ottawa on Sunday. “Yes – yes I am the brother of Ruth Lobo,” said the priest, a member of the Companions of the Cross community.  “I’ve never been more proud to admit that, actually, than I am now.” The students – four from Carleton and one from Queen’s University […]
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Trial Extended In Vancouver ‘Bubble Zone’ Case

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VANCOUVER, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The trial of Don Spratt and Cecilia (Sissy) von Dehn, charged with breeching the Access to Abortion Services Act in June 2009, is set to continue March 16th 2011, after presiding judge Jeanne E. Watchuck found the four days set aside in BC Provincial Court, Oct 4-7 2010, proved to be insufficient to hear all the testimony. The BC Access to Abortion Services Act forbids any counseling against abortion to be given within 50 metres of an abortion mill, however, Spratt and von Dehn were not counseling against abortion in […]
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Pro-Life Victory: KS Supreme Court Allows Planned Parenthood Criminal Case to go Forward

TOPEKA, Kansas, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Kansas Supreme Court ruled today that the mammoth 107-count criminal case against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri may move forward and remanded the case back down to the Johnson County District Attorney's Office for prosecution. “This is a huge victory for the cause of life,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, whose group has worked for years to bring Planned Parenthood to justice. “Now it is up to the Johnson County District Attorney to do the right thing and prosecute Planned Parenthood to the fullest in the interest of justice and […]
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Canadian MP Decries ‘Censorship’ at Carleton U over Pro-Life Arrests

Tuesday October 12, 2010 Canadian MP Decries ‘Censorship’ at Carleton U over Pro-Life Arrests By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canadian Member of Parliament has decried what he termed the “censorship” at Ottawa’s Carleton University, following the arrest last week of five pro-life students who were attempting to erect a pro-life display. “Free speech is a foundational principle for Canada’s free and democratic society. Academic freedom, a key aspect of freedom of speech, has long been protected and promoted in Canadian universities,” said Maurice Vellacott, MP for Saskatoon-Wanuskewin. The students – four from Carleton […]
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Alberta Government Sued by Eugenics Program Victim

Tuesday October 12, 2010 Alberta Government Sued by Eugenics Program Victim By Thaddeus M. Baklinski EDMONTON, October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Alberta woman has filed a lawsuit against the Alberta government claiming she was sterilized as a teenager in 1961 without her knowledge or permission. Darlene Gabler, 64, says she was wrongfully certified as mentally deficient at 15 and irreversibly sterilized under the Sexual Sterilization Act by the Alberta Eugenics Board, a government-run eugenics program which operated from 1928 to 1972, sterilizing over 2,800 teenagers who were deemed “mentally defective.” In 1972, the year the Sexual Sterilization Act was […]
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SHOCK: Pro-Abort Health Care Author John Dingell Trails in Democrat Stronghold

Tuesday October 12, 2010 SHOCK: Pro-Abort Health Care Author John Dingell Trails in Democrat Stronghold By Peter J. Smith DEARBORN, Michigan, October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democrat Congressman John Dingell is the longest current serving member in the U.S. Congress, but a shocking poll shows that the author of the House version of health care reform is trailing a pro-life GOP opponent for the first time in his almost 55-year-long legislative career. Dingell represents the 15th Michigan District, a Democrat stronghold based in Dearborn and Detroit suburbs, where working class Democrats have always returned Dingell to office since 1955 – […]
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40 Days for Life Announces Milestone: 3,000 Babies Saved

Tuesday October 12, 2010 40 Days for Life Announces Milestone: 3,000 Babies Saved By John Jalsevac October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday the 40 Days for Life campaign announced a significant milestone for the burgeoning pro-life initiative – its 3,000th baby saved from abortion since the first 40 Days campaign in the fall of 2007. “To God be the glory for reaching this major milestone!” wrote Shawn Carney of 40 Days in yesterday’s update. “That’s a LOT of children and mothers spared from abortion. And that’s a lot of GREAT stories.” Carney shared one such story from an abortion facility […]
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Driehaus, Dahlkemper Lash Out at Pro-Life Counter Campaigns

Monday October 11, 2010 Driehaus, Dahlkemper Lash Out at Pro-Life Counter Campaigns By Kathleen Gilbert October 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two of the House Democrats who voted for the health reform bill are fighting back against political ads that accuse them of voting for taxpayer funding of abortion, one even filing a criminal lawsuit claiming that the Executive Order signed by President Obama fixed the abortion funding problem in the bill. Rep. Steve Driehaus of Ohio filed a criminal complaint last Tuesday against the Susan B. Anthony (SBA) List for purchasing billboards that read: “Shame on Steve Driehaus! Driehaus voted […]
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Pro-Life Democrat Joe Manchin Calls for ObamaCare Fix or Repeal

Monday October 11, 2010 Pro-Life Democrat Joe Manchin Calls for ObamaCare Fix or Repeal By Peter J. Smith CHARLESTON, West Virginia, October 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a significant public break with the national Democratic Party, pro-life Democrat Gov. Joe Manchin III said that while he supports reforming the health care system, he would like to see the new national health care law either fixed, or failing that, repealed. Manchin is trailing behind pro-life Republican John Raese in West Virginia’s U.S. Senate race. He is trying to distance himself from the policies of President Barack Obama and national Democrats, especially […]
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Christian College Teaches Dorm ‘Sex Etiquette’ During Freshmen Orientation

Friday October 8, 2010 Christian College Teaches Dorm ‘Sex Etiquette’ During Freshmen Orientation By Kathleen Gilbert ST. PETER, Minnesota, October 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Evangelical Lutheran liberal arts college in Minnesota has raised eyebrows after videos were published exposing the school’s sexually-explicit freshman orientation, which includes lessons on dorm “sex etiquette” and some of the finer points of sexual perversion. Portions of freshman orientation presentations this fall at Gustavus Adolphus College, which is associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), were caught on video and posted by Gustavus student Phil Cleary on the Gustavus.campusreform.org website. The videos […]
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Government of Mexico City is Acting like a ‘Dictatorship’: Archdiocese of Guadalajara

Wednesday October 6, 2010 Government of Mexico City is Acting like a ‘Dictatorship’: Archdiocese of Guadalajara By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent GUADALAJARA, Mexico, October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of Guadalajara has said that the government of Mexico City is behaving like a “dictatorship” by filing a complaint with the nation’s Secretariat of Governance in response to the archbishop’s opposition to the city’s abortionist and homosexualist policies. In a communiqué addressing the legal complaint filed by the city, the archdiocese stated that, “We are waiting the terms in which Governance will present the issue, to give a […]
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Agreeing to Disagree is Not an Option when Lives are at Stake

Commentary by Fr. Frank Pavone, Priests for Life October 14th, 2010 (PriestsforLife.org) – It is dismaying to hear some pro-life politicians calling for a “truce” on social issues like abortion – possible White House contenders Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour among them. Their suggestion is that it’s more important to do whatever is necessary to get elected than to worry about issues that appear to be intractable. This tactic is akin to the pro-life and pro-abortion movements agreeing to disagree, an option often considered a reasonable one. It does not require that either side change its […]
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Pro-Abort Frontrunner for Brazilian Presidency Fights Rising Tide of Pro-Life Sentiment

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BRASILIA, October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dilma Rousseff, the current frontrunner in Brazil's presidential elections, was regarded as a shoe-in by political pundits only two weeks ago.  As the handpicked successor of the most popular president in the world, Luiz Lula da Silva, Rousseff's victory was all but written in stone. However, following her surprise upset in the first round of voting on October 3, Rousseff now finds herself locked in an increasingly difficult battle against a rising tide of pro-life and pro-family sentiment in the country, which sees Rousseff and her Labor […]
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Terrorism, Drugs and Attacks on Marriage, Chastity “False Divinities that Must be Unmasked”: Pope Be

By Hilary White ROME, October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In unscripted remarks in his opening day address to the Synod of Bishops of the Middle East on Monday, Pope Benedict XVI denounced “forms of life touted by the public opinion today for which values like marriage count for nothing” as “false divinities that must be unmasked” and thrown down. Pope Benedict linked the destruction of marriage with religiously-motivated terrorism and drugs. “Today, marriage does not count and chastity is no longer a virtue,” he said. “The power of terrorist ideologies that carry out violence in the name of god, anonymous […]
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Britain Needs Graphic Images of Abortion to Spark Debate: Christian Legal Centre Head

By Hilary White LONDON, October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Britain is “a society where there is a massive denial about the true nature of abortion” that needs to see graphic images of abortion to shake complacency and spark a meaningful public debate, Andrea Williams of the Christian Legal Centre told the BBC last week. Williams’s comments came as part of a debate on Radio 4 with Ann Furedi, the head of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), Britain’s busiest abortionist organization, in the wake of the arrest of two pro-life advocates who were arrested for using graphic signs outside a […]
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Philippine Bishop Says Excommunication for President Benigno Aquino ‘a Possibility’

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MANILA, October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Nereo Odchimar, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, said there is “a possibility” that the Catholic Church could excommunicate President Benigno Aquino if he continues in his intent to distribute contraceptives to couples who request them. “That is a possibility, but I don’t see right now that it is a proximate possibility,” the bishop said late last month in response to a question. Speaking in an interview on the Church-run Radio Veritas, Bishop Odchimar noted that the bishops are hoping for dialogue with President Aquino before […]
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Toronto Star Report on Adding Strippers to National Job Bank “Utterly False”: Canadian Government

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Toronto Star report Wednesday claiming the Canadian government is set to add strippers and escorts to its national job bank is “completely and utterly false,” says a spokesman for the government. The Star cited an October 1st ‘draft memo’ from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada that said occupations such as exotic dancer, nude dancer, striptease dancer, and escort, among others, would “be acceptable for posting on Job Bank.” The piece, written by Star reporter Richard J. Brennan, suggested the “surprise” memo was a change in Conservative policy, […]
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California School District Sued over Threat to Terminate Principal for Endorsing Prayer Breakfast

SANTA BARBARA, California, October 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)– An elementary school principal is filing a lawsuit against the Goleta Union School District after it threatened to end his contract for appearing in a short video promoting the 52nd Annual Community Prayer Breakfast to honor teachers. Foothill School Principal Craig Richter, an evangelical Christian, was disciplined by his district after a district board member saw the promo video on YouTube and reported it to the board, according to the complaint. The school district said that Richter’s 30-second speech in the video violated the line of separation between church and state. “Personally endorsing […]
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Canadian Gvmt Inserts Gay References in Immigrant Study Guide

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian government is set to insert references to Canada’s recognition of homosexual “marriage” and “rights” into a revision of its study guide for immigrants applying for Canadian citizenship, reports Postmedia. The current version of “Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship,” released last November, makes no mention of homosexual “rights.”  It does, however, include a photo of Olympic gold medallist Mark Tewksbury that identified him as a homosexual activist.  The new study guide replaced the 1995 version developed by the Liberals. Rick Dykstra, parliamentary secretary for Immigration […]
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World’s First Global Atheistic Civilization Headed for Disaster: Former Czech President

By Hilary White ROME, October 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The world’s first global and deliberately atheistic civilization is heading for disaster, the first president of the modern Czech Republic told an audience this week. Vaclav Havel, one of the most respected political and literary figures in recent European history, said that the West “has lost its connection with the infinite and with eternity,” with the result that “endless consumer collectivism is giving birth to a new type of loneliness.” The West’s disconnection from eternity, he said, “is why it always gives priority to short-time profit over long-term profit. It is […]
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Palin: Nov. Election a Battle between “Culture of Life” and “Culture of Death”

Wednesday October 6, 2010 Palin: Nov. Election a Battle between “Culture of Life” and “Culture of Death” By Kathleen Gilbert HOUSTON, Texas, October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has insisted that abortion will be an “essential” issue in upcoming midterm elections, especially for those incumbents who backed the abortion-laden federal health care reform. Palin told members of the pro-life group Heroic Media in Texas Tuesday that the upcoming battle for congressional seats would prove a clash between the “culture of life” and the “culture of death,” as Americans angry over the health care push take to […]
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De-population and De-Christianization Leading to Cultural Islamic Jihad: Catholic Apologist

By Hilary White ROME, October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The de-Christianization of Europe, the “removal of Christian principles and institutions from the daily life of a country,” has created a religious and social vacuum that is being filled by Islam, a prominent U.S. Catholic speaker said on Thursday. Raymond de Souza, the Program Director for Portuguese-speaking countries for Human Life International told an audience of the world’s pro-life and pro-family leaders that “Europe … is being culturally Islamized.” “The world in general, and the West in particular, is undergoing a tragic process of de-Christianization. Christian principles, values and institutions have […]
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Abortion as a “Human Right” a Corruption of International HR Agreements: John Smeaton

By Hilary White ROME, October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The push in recent years to establish abortion as an international “human right” flies in the face of international human rights law that springs from the natural law and the world’s response to the Nazi atrocities, John Smeaton, head of the UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, told an international conference last week. International agreements dating back to 1948, in the aftermath of the Nuremberg trials, repeatedly insist on the right to life of the unborn child, and specifically protect all human life from conception, he said. Speaking Thursday […]
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Planned Parenthood Pushes for Universal Birth Control as Coalition Fights Abortifacient Ella ‘Contra

By Kathleen Gilbert October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As abortion giant Planned Parenthood pushes to force health insurers to cover all birth control, a coalition of pro-life leaders is sounding the alarm about ella, a drug the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved as an emergency contraceptive despite its ability to kill newly-conceived children. EllaOne, approved unanimously by an FDA advisory panel June 17, is advertised as effective “contraception” up to five days, or 120 hours after intercourse. However, pro-life leaders and experts have castigated the FDA for approving the drug as a contraceptive despite the fact that its […]
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SHOCK: Pro-Abort Health Care Author John Dingell Trails in Democrat Stronghold

By Peter J. Smith DEARBORN, Michigan, October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Democrat Congressman John Dingell is the longest current serving member in the U.S. Congress, but a shocking poll shows that the author of the House version of health care reform is trailing a pro-life GOP opponent for the first time in his almost 55-year-long legislative career. Dingell represents the 15th Michigan District, a Democrat stronghold based in Dearborn and Detroit suburbs, where working class Democrats have always returned Dingell to office since 1955 – when he won a special election to fill his deceased father’s seat – with hefty […]
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National Right to Life Releases Online Voter Guide for 2010 Midterm Elections

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Right to Life Committee has released a new online voter guide for pro-life advocates looking for a brief rundown of candidates for the U.S. congressional mid-term elections. Entitled “Compare. Decide. Vote.”, the guide posted on the NRLC website StopTheAbortionAgenda.com features brief comparisons (in downloadable PDFs) that outline key differences between a number of candidates on legal abortion and the right to life. The guide covers Senate and House elections in 26 U.S. states. The NRLC guide is available here.
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Judge Orders Military to Stop Enforcement of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

By Peter J. Smith RIVERSIDE, California, October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge in California has ordered the United States military immediately to discontinue all enforcement of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which forbids open homosexuals from serving in its ranks. U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips in Riverside ordered the military “immediately to suspend and discontinue any investigation, or discharge, separation, or other proceeding, that may have been commenced under the ‘Don't Ask, Don't Tell’ Act.” Phillips’ permanent injunction applies to acts pending under DADT and 10 U.S.C. § 654, the 1993 law banning homosexuals from service […]
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Canadian Bishops’ Agency Goes to Court to Conceal Info on Groups they Fund

Monday October 4, 2010 Canadian Bishops’ Agency Goes to Court to Conceal Info on Groups they Fund Editorial by John-Henry Westen MONTREAL, October 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews (LSN) has learned that the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P) has applied to the federal court to block an access to information request from LifeSiteNews. In April, after D&P refused numerous requests for information from LSN, we paid the required $300 government fee and made the formal application. The request was simply for the names of each D&P partner group and how much in funding each was given this […]
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Pastors Gear Up to Challenge Tax-Exempt Regulations on Pulpit Freedom Sunday

Friday September 24, 2010 Pastors Gear Up to Challenge Tax-Exempt Regulations on Pulpit Freedom Sunday LEAWOOD, Kansas, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — One hundred pastors nationwide will be participating in the Alliance Defense Fund’s third annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday on September 26, braving potential challenges to their tax-exempt status by educating their congregations about the candidates in this upcoming election in the light of their Christian faith. The pastors say they are exercising their constitutional right to free religious expression, despite a problematic Internal Revenue Service rule often invoked by activist groups looking to silence churches. Pulpit Freedom Sunday is […]
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The practice of abortion in our country and city holds hidden dangers

Friday September 24, 2010 The practice of abortion in our country and city holds hidden dangers By Bishop Thomas Doran An old story has it that a priest/professor once mounted his pulpit to preach on suicide and he began: “Suicide is not only a mortal sin, but is very dangerous.” One could say with some justification the same thing about procured abortion; it is a mortal sin and is very dangerous. At least practicing Catholics know that it is sinful and many other Christians do as well. In our devolving and decaying morally relativistic society, there are many people who […]
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Pro-Life, Pro-Family Challenger in Dead Heat for Minnesota Governor Race

Friday October 8, 2010 Pro-Life, Pro-Family Challenger in Dead Heat for Minnesota Governor Race By Peter J. Smith ST. PAUL, Minnesota, October 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Republican pro-life, pro-family candidate for governor has now pulled into a statistical dead heat with his two pro-abortion, pro-homosexual challengers, with less than a month left before the November general election. GOP’s Tom Emmer has pulled within two percentage points of pro-abortion Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party candidate Mark Dayton, according to Rasmussen Reports. In a survey of 750 likely voters, the polling firm places Emmer at 38 percent, while Dayton leads with 40 percent of […]
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U.S. Rep Seeks to Defend DOMA, Criticizes “Faint-Hearted” Obama Admin Efforts

Friday October 8, 2010 U.S. Rep Seeks to Defend DOMA, Criticizes “Faint-Hearted” Obama Admin Efforts WASHINGTON, D.C., October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ranking Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee has petitioned to intervene as defendant in two cases brought against the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), amid speculation that Obama administration Department of Justice officials would fail adequately to defend the pro-marriage law. U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) has argued that Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is not doing enough to defend DOMA, and therefore asked a federal court Tuesday for permission to intervene. Smith is being […]
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Carleton University Rep.: Pro-Life Students Arrested for Trespassing because of Content

Thursday October 7, 2010 Carleton University Rep.: Pro-Life Students Arrested for Trespassing because of Content By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While Carleton University said earlier this week that it had five pro-life students arrested mainly because they had set up a display in an area on campus that the university claimed was “not normally permitted” for displays, a university representative today told LifeSiteNews.com that the real issue was “the nature of the content.” The students – four from Carleton and one from Queen’s University – were arrested around 9:00 a.m. Monday as they were […]
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Democrats Hope Pro-Life Candidate Will be GOP Spoiler in Illinois Pro-Abort Senate Battle

Thursday October 7, 2010 Democrats Hope Pro-Life Candidate Will be GOP Spoiler in Illinois Pro-Abort Senate Battle By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In Illinois voters are faced with two pro-abortion politicians slugging it out for the lead in the senate special election race. However one third party candidate is pro-life, and Democrats are hoping that his candidacy could end up having a spoiler effect on the GOP’s chances to cobble together a majority in the U.S. Senate. GOP’s Mark Kirk, who is presently serving in the U.S. House, and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias are about evenly […]
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Eminem Bans Profanity at Home: “If you’re the parent, be a parent”

Friday October 8, 2010 Eminem Bans Profanity at Home: “If you’re the parent, be a parent” By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., October 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Marshall Mathers, the popular rap music star known as “Eminem,” told CBS that despite what his lyrics may indicate about him, he has no tolerance for profanity at home. “Profanity around my house? No,” Eminem told reporter Anderson Cooper, who profiled the rapper for CBS’s upcoming “60 Minutes” program. Cooper’s exclusive interview with Eminem is scheduled for this Sunday, October 10 at 7 p.m. Eastern and Pacific. Eminem’s music features lyrics that notoriously […]
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BC Government Sues Contraceptive Patch Manufacturer

Thursday October 7, 2010 BC Government Sues Contraceptive Patch Manufacturer By Thaddeus M. Baklinski VANCOUVER, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British Columbia government has filed a lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson Inc., claiming the maker of the “Ortho Evra” contraception patch “aggressively marketed the contraceptive without disclosing the safety hazards associated with Evra.” The lawsuit claims that women using the patch “did not receive any warnings about the increased risk of developing blood clots, pulmonary emboli, strokes, heart attacks or deep vein thrombosis associated with Evra.” The BC government is seeking to recover past and future health […]
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Underdog GOP Pro-Lifer Dino Rossi now Polling Ahead in Washington Senate Race

By Peter J. Smith OLYMPIA, Washington, October 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life GOP candidate Dino Rossi is starting to take a lead in the polls over four-term incumbent and pro-abortion U.S. Senator Patty Murray, placing Rossi in a good position to make history as Washington State’s first elected pro-life U.S. Senator. Rasmussen Reports show that Rossi has edged ahead of Murray in the U.S. Senate race, and now leads 49 percent to 46 percent among 750 likely voters. The race is still considered a toss-up, as the numbers fall within the +/- 4 percent margin of error. The poll shows […]
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Addressing Homosexuality with “Love in Truth”

Thursday October 7, 2010 Addressing Homosexuality with “Love in Truth” By Hilary White ROME, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – What is the best way to present Christian teachings on homosexuality in the face of an increasingly hostile secular culture? How can Christians answer the accusations leveled against their beliefs? John-Henry Westen, LifeSiteNews.com’s editor-in-chief, told an audience of the world’s pro-life and pro-family leaders at a conference in Italy this week that the only way is “caritas in veritate;” to speak the truth in love. (Read the complete speech here) It is an act of love, he said, for parents to […]
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BC PREMIER DEMANDS PHARMACISTS DISPENSE ‘EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION’

Monday October 16, 2000 BC PREMIER DEMANDS PHARMACISTS DISPENSE ‘EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION’ VANCOUVER, Oct 16 (LSN.ca) – Premier Ujjal Dosanjh threatened “government action” Friday to ensure pharmacists will dispense abortifacient morning- after pills without a doctors prescription. The Vancouver Sun quotes the premier as saying, “I want to make sure we have the morning-after pill available to women in British Columbia, readily available and I want the doctors and the pharmacists to work together to end the jurisdictional squabble. I just want them to speed it up. I hope no government intervention is required because that is not my first preference.” […]
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OPRAH WINFREY SUPPORT FOR ABORTION AND HOMOSEXUALITY

Friday August 11, 2000 OPRAH WINFREY SUPPORT FOR ABORTION AND HOMOSEXUALITY HOLLYWOOD, Aug 11 (LSN.ca) – Questions about the life and family values of TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey have surfaced after reports emerged that she has participated in both a pro-abortion conference and made a cameo appearance in a pro-homosexual television episode. In mid-February, Winfrey was the keynote speaker at a luncheon held by a group whose priority this year is to ensure that minors, without parental consent, maintain their access to contraceptives and abortion. Human Life International issued a press release objecting to Winfrey’s presence saying it […]
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BC LAUNCHING “MASSIVE” “EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION” PILOT PROGRAM

Tuesday August 1, 2000 BC LAUNCHING “MASSIVE” “EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION” PILOT PROGRAM VANCOUVER, Aug 1 (LSN.ca) – The British Columbia government seems to have resolved legal problems associated with doling out abortifacient morning-after pills to women without a prescription from a doctor. Michelle Stewart, a spokeswoman for the BC Ministry of Health told the Toronto Star that “BC is launching a separate, massive pilot program in September involving emergency contraceptives . . . the program will distribute the pills through pharmacies and will not require women to obtain a prescription first.” For related news see: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/july/00070604.html | Send Letter to Editor
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B.C. PHARMACISTS NOW “PRESCRIBING” MORNING AFTER PILLS

Friday December 1, 2000 B.C. PHARMACISTS NOW “PRESCRIBING” MORNING AFTER PILLS VANCOUVER, Dec 1 (LSN.ca) – As of December 1st, B.C. women of all ages will be obtaining their emergency contraception directly from pharmacists. For the first time in history, a politician, Premier Ujjal Dosanjh changed the pharmacy bylaws so pharmacists can now “prescribe” a product directly to patients without their having to see a physician. Some B.C. pharmacists are petitioning the government to reverse this risky project. “It is not only pro-life pharmacists who are protesting,” says Vancouver pharmacist Cristina Alarcon, who represents B.C. Pharmacists for Conscience. “Our protest […]
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Abortion is not a Right, but a Crime, Say Mexican Women’s Groups

Thursday October 7, 2010 Abortion is not a Right, but a Crime, Say Mexican Women’s Groups By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A coalition of Mexican women’s organizations and other NGOs issued a communiqué Tuesday denouncing the promotion of abortion as a “right,” a claim made with increasing frequency in the nation’s media. According to Mexico’s El Universal newspaper, the organizations decry the use of maternal mortality statistics as a “pretext” to pressure officials to legalize abortion, pointing out that the World Health Organization attributes only 13 percent of such cases to […]
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Schwarzenegger Vetoes Gay-Sponsored “Trojan Horse” Measure on Marriage

Thursday October 7, 2010 Schwarzenegger Vetoes Gay-Sponsored “Trojan Horse” Measure on Marriage By Peter J. Smith SACRAMENTO, California, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger earned muted praise from pro-family advocates last week after he vetoed a measure that one pro-family group described as a “Trojan horse” that could have helped homosexuals overturn Prop. 8 in 2012. SB 906, authored by the openly homosexual Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and supported by many homosexual groups, would have changed the Family Code to refer to “civil marriage” instead of just “marriage.” The bill also stated that no authorized religious […]
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Police: Ohio Man Forced Girlfriend into AbortionFacility at Gunpoint

Thursday October 7, 2010 Police: Ohio Man Forced Girlfriend into AbortionFacility at Gunpoint By Kathleen Gilbert COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Ohio man has been charged with kidnapping after police say he tried to force his girlfriend into having her unborn child killed through abortion after she had resisted undergoing the procedure. Columbus police say that Dominic L. Holt-Reid drove his girlfriend, Yolanda Burgess, to Founder’s Women’s Health Center Wednesday morning while holding her at gunpoint. Holt-Reid allegedly became angry with Burgess after she refused to go through with the procedure scheduled for 9 a.m. that morning. […]
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Family is Under ‘Permanent Attack’ by United Nations, Says Cardinal

Thursday October 7, 2010 Family is Under ‘Permanent Attack’ by United Nations, Says Cardinal By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent GUADALAJARA, Mexico, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Cardinal Archbishop of Guadalajara, Mexico, Juan Sandoval Iñiguez, gave a speech Sunday in which he lashed out at the United Nations and other international organizations that he says are running a campaign to destroy the family. “The family is being permanently attacked,” said the cardinal at a meeting of the international Catholic relief organization, Caritas. “And the organizations that are in charge of rearranging the family are powerful organizations, beginning with […]
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Vatican Cardinal: Artificial Procreation a “Shameful Form of Commerce”

Tuesday October 5, 2010 Vatican Cardinal: Artificial Procreation a “Shameful Form of Commerce” By John-Henry Westen in Rome ROME, October 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With evident joy, Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, the president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, on Tuesday celebrated the opening Mass for the Human Life International World Prayer Congress for Life in Rome. The cardinal noted the dire situation of the world with regard to the culture for life: “Today, the hardness of heart that grieves the Lord and the Church, has widely spread around the world: abortion and euthanasia have become socially respectable choices, and […]
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Between the Boy and the Bridge – A Haunting Question

Tuesday October 5, 2010 Between the Boy and the Bridge — A Haunting Question Commentary by Albert Mohler, President, Southern Baptist Seminary Tuesday, October 5, 2010 (AlbertMohler.com) – By all accounts Tyler Clementi was an 18-year-old young man who was excited to be a freshman in college, gifted as a violinist, and looking forward to the future. All that changed last week when he walked out onto the massive George Washington Bridge that connects New York with New Jersey and jumped 200 feet to his death. The last few days of Tyler Clementi’s life were a cauldron of confusions. Over […]
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Brazilian Presidential Frontrunner Loses First Round Vote – Abortion the Key Issue

Tuesday October 5, 2010 Brazilian Presidential Frontrunner Loses First Round Vote – Abortion the Key Issue By Julio Severo and Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BRASÍLIA, Brazil, October 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The abortion issue was the principle reason that Brazilian frontrunner Dilma Rousseff failed to win a majority in Sunday’s presidential elections, according to the Brazllian press. Polls in the weeks leading up to the election had consistently given Rousseff, who represents the ruling Labor Party, a victory of 59-51%. However, Rousseff managed to win only 47% of the vote after her lead dropped among Evangelical voters, following the distribution of […]
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James O’Keefe Has a Lot of Questions to Answer

Wednesday October 6, 2010 James O’Keefe Has a Lot of Questions to Answer Commentary by John Jalsevac October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – James O’Keefe has finally released a statement on the website of his organization Project Veritas, distancing himself from a bizarre and highly objectionable plan to prank (or “punk”) CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau. O’Keefe, you will remember, shot to fame last year when he released undercover video footage apparently showing staff members of ACORN giving advice on how to traffic underage prostitutes and to set up brothels. That video led to the firing of multiple ACORN employees, seriously undermined […]
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SBA List Targets Murkowski as Alaska Campaign Turns into Toss-Up

Friday October 8, 2010 SBA List Targets Murkowski as Alaska Campaign Turns into Toss-Up By Peter J. Smith FAIRBANKS, Alaska, October 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Susan B. Anthony List has launched an aggressive radio ad campaign against Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska GOP incumbent with a mixed record on abortion, whose write-in bid is now giving pro-life Republican nominee Joe Miller a serious challenge. A September 28 poll by CNN/Time has vindicated Murkowski’s words that Miller, a Fairbanks attorney supported by former Gov. Sarah Palin and Tea Party activists, should beware of measuring the drapes before the November 2 […]
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U.S. Judge Delivers Setback to ObamaCare Foes

Thursday October 7, 2010 U.S. Judge Delivers Setback to ObamaCare Foes By Peter J. Smith DETROIT, Michigan, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge in Detroit has delivered a setback to opponents of the national health care reform law passed in March, ruling that the individual insurance mandate and other aspects are constitutional. U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh ruled Thursday that Congress has the authority to mandate that individuals carry health insurance by 2014 in the Affordable Care Act. Steeh said the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution allows Congress to not only regulate economic activity, but also […]
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New Iowa PAC Fuels Speculation of Santorum White House Bid

Thursday October 7, 2010 New Iowa PAC Fuels Speculation of Santorum White House Bid By Peter J. Smith DES MOINES, Iowa, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rick Santorum is fueling even more speculation that he is laying the groundwork for a possible 2012 US presidential bid in Iowa. Santorum, a leading pro-life figure and former US Senator from Pennsylvania, announced he is setting up new political action committee in Iowa to support Iowa conservative candidates. “My federal PAC, America’s Foundation, has already assisted some candidates in the Hawkeye State, but I am eager to do more, and the Iowa Keystone […]
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U.S. Gov Infected Hundreds of Guatemalans with STDs in 1940s: Obama Admin Apologizes

Thursday October 7, 2010 U.S. Gov Infected Hundreds of Guatemalans with STDs in 1940s: Obama Admin Apologizes By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. government has issued a formal apology after it was discovered recently that the American government had infected hundreds of unwitting Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea as part of a medical experiment between 1946-1948. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius condemned as “appalling” an unpublished study describing the U.S. Public Health Service’s trials on Guatemalans decades ago as they sought to test penicillin’s effectiveness […]
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Nevada: GOP’s Pro-Life Angle Builds Lead, while Harry Reid Crumbles in Polls

Thursday October 7, 2010 Nevada: GOP’s Pro-Life Angle Builds Lead, while Harry Reid Crumbles in Polls By Peter J. Smith LAS VEGAS, Nevada, October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite a month of enduring relentless attack ads, pro-life GOP candidate Sharron Angle now leads in several polls over Nevada Democrat Harry Reid, the leader of the U.S. Senate, in what may be the nation’s most hotly contested Senate race. Rasmussen reports Thursday that Angle has now broken the 50 percent threshold of likely voters, and enjoys a four point lead over Reid (46 percent). Just two percent of voters would prefer […]
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YouTube Censors Pro-Life Sermon Seen by Millions of Brazilians

Thursday October 7, 2010 YouTube Censors Pro-Life Sermon Seen by Millions of Brazilians By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Google’s YouTube service decided to give an “X” rating on Tuesday to a pro-life sermon given by a Brazilian pastor that has been seen by over four million people, and which appears to have had a serious impact on the Brazilian Presidential elections. Viewers who attempt access to the link are now given a warning that “it is possible that the content of this video or group is inappropriate for some users in accordance with […]
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‘There’s So Many Basic Things Wrong Here’: Couple Urged Surrogate Mother to Abort

Wednesday October 6, 2010 ‘There’s So Many Basic Things Wrong Here’: Couple Urged Surrogate Mother to Abort By Patrick B. Craine VANCOUVER, British Columbia, October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More light has been shed on the web of legal and moral dilemmas surrounding artificial reproduction this week after a B.C. fertility doctor revealed a dispute between a couple and their surrogate over the couple’s desire to abort their baby. The National Post reports that the parents had discovered through a first trimester ultrasound that the child likely had Down syndrome. The surrogate, a mother of two, initially disagreed with the […]
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Congressman: Google-Searched Federal Audit on Obama Abortion Push in Kenya “Embarrassing”

Wednesday October 6, 2010 Congressman: Google-Searched Federal Audit on Obama Abortion Push in Kenya “Embarrassing” By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life U.S. Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey this week blasted a just-released report commissioned by USAID’s inspector general (IG) on the Obama administration’s involvement in Kenya’s abortion-promoting constitution as “poorly researched,” “embarrassing,” and “a whitewash.” Smith, who is the ranking U.S. congressman on the House of Representative’s Africa panel and co-chair of the Congressional Pro-life Caucus, had asked U.S. Agency for International Development’s IG Donald Gambatesa for a detailed report into allegations that […]
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Survey Finds Tea Partiers Socially Conservative, Religious

Wednesday October 6, 2010 Survey Finds Tea Partiers Socially Conservative, Religious By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new American Values Survey shows that among adults in the Tea Party movement, most are socially conservative and nearly half identify with the Christian conservative movement. The American Values Survey (AVS) for 2010 was conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute and examined a national random sample of 3,013 adults aged 18 and over between September 1 and September 14, 2010. Those surveyed who identified with the Tea Party, a movement of Americans concerned over the size […]
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Women Convicted of Infanticide Feted as Heroes by Mexico City Politicians

Friday October 1, 2010 Women Convicted of Infanticide Feted as Heroes by Mexico City Politicians By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, September 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Four women convicted of infanticide who were freed from prison following a campaign by pro-abortion groups were feted in Mexico City on Monday by the pro-abortion leader of the Women’s Institute of the Federal District (Inmujeres-DF), Martha Lucía Micher. The four women, who had been imprisoned along with three others in the state of Guanajuato for “homicide in reason of parentage,” were released from prison by the state government in early […]
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Pope Calls for Worldwide Vigil for All Nascent Human Life

Friday October 1, 2010 Pope Calls for Worldwide Vigil for All Nascent Human Life October 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Saturday, November 27th at St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate a “Vigil for All Nascent Human Life” coinciding with first vespers of the First Sunday of Advent. The Holy Father has also requested that “all Diocesan Bishops (and their equivalent) of every particular church preside in analogous celebrations involving the faithful in their respective parishes, religious communities, associations and movements.” An outline for the Vigil was provided from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the […]
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Harding U. Drops Komen over Planned Parenthood Funding

Wednesday October 6, 2010 Harding U. Drops Komen over Planned Parenthood Funding By Kathleen Gilbert SEARCY, Arkansas, October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The campus bookstore at an Arkansas Christian university has stopped selling Susan G. Komen for the Cure items because of the organization’s funding of several affiliates that fund Planned Parenthood. The Daily Citizen of Searcy and White County reported that, according to Harding spokesman David Crouch, university vice president Mel Sansom decided to pull the items because of the Planned Parenthood connection. Komen has come under fire from pro-life advocates for maintaining ties with about 21 affiliates that […]
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Abp Nienstedt Denies Communion to Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Advocates

Wednesday October 6, 2010 Abp Nienstedt Denies Communion to Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Advocates By Kathleen Gilbert ST. PAUL, Minnesota, October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archbishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis has denied communion to members of a group that included three nuns and a priest, who wore symbols expressing their opposition to Catholic Church teaching on marriage and homosexuality. The group expressed frustration after Archbishop John C. Nienstedt withheld the sacrament from them because they wore rainbow buttons and sashes signaling their support for same-sex “marriage” and homosexuality. The archbishop, who was celebrating his first student Mass at St. John’s on September […]
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Planned Parenthood Telemed Abortion Safety Claims Cast into Doubt by Data, Informant

Wednesday October 6, 2010 Planned Parenthood Telemed Abortion Safety Claims Cast into Doubt by Data, Informant DES MOINES, Iowa, October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New data released in the United States and Australia concerning complication rates for the abortion pill RU-486 point to a possible cover-up of the true complication rate for “telemed abortions” done by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland (PPH) in Iowa, reports Operation Rescue. On September 30, 2010, the Centers for Disease Control revealed in the New England Journal of Medicine that two more deaths linked to RU-486 (also known as Mifepristone or Mifeprex) were reported: one […]
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Antigonish Diocese to Run Conference with Dissident Paul Lakeland

Wednesday October 6, 2010 Antigonish Diocese to Run Conference with Dissident Paul Lakeland By Patrick B. Craine SYDNEY MINES, Nova Scotia, October 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, has organized a conference this month to be delivered by dissident theologian and former Jesuit priest Dr. Paul Lakeland of Fairfield University in Connecticut, who openly holds views on abortion, homosexuality, contraception and women priests that go against Catholic teaching. The conference, entitled ‘Catholicism at the Crossroads: How We Can Save the Church’ and scheduled for October 22-24, has a strong emphasis on the role of lay people […]
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Ontario Catholic College Accused of “False Compassion” in Hosting Homosexual Activist

Wednesday October 6, 2010 Ontario Catholic College Accused of “False Compassion” in Hosting Homosexual Activist By Patrick B. Craine LONDON, Ontario, October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In hosting a talk this month by a leading U.S. homosexual activist, King’s University-College, a Catholic institution affiliated with the University of Western, is “caving into a false compassion which neuters the healthy teachings of the Church,” says David MacDonald, a Canadian Christian musician and speaker who left the homosexual lifestyle. Jody Huckaby, executive director of PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), is set to deliver a talk at the College […]
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As Empire Crumbles, New Jersey Abortionist Sued Over Teen’s Suicide

Tuesday October 5, 2010 As Empire Crumbles, New Jersey Abortionist Sued Over Teen’s Suicide VOORHEES, New Jersey, October 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Notorious abortionist Steven Chase Brigham, whose abortion business is under investigation in several states, is now facing a lawsuit from an aggrieved family that claims their youngest daughter committed suicide after having an abortion by Brigham nearly a decade ago. According to Operation Rescue, George Zallie Sr. stated that neither Brigham nor his staff informed his daughter, Stacy, of facts about abortion that could have helped her make a better decision about her pregnancy. Zallie said their daughter […]
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Pro-Abort UK Columnist: A Loving Mom would Smother Disabled Baby

Tuesday October 5, 2010 Pro-Abort UK Columnist: A Loving Mom would Smother Disabled Baby By Kathleen Gilbert LONDON, October 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-abortion UK columnist provoked outrage from advocates of the disabled and horrified her fellow panelists on a BBC television show after she enthusiastically supported the smothering of suffering infants. Author Virginia Ironside, who has a regular advice column in The Independent newspaper, appeared on the BBC’s Sunday Morning Live show to argue that killing unborn disabled children is a possible act of mercy. But the other women on the show quickly reacted in horror after Ironside […]
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Pro-Abortion Obama Sinks to New Low in Public Opinion Survey

Tuesday October 5, 2010 Pro-Abortion Obama Sinks to New Low in Public Opinion Survey By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., October 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With November’s general election just a month away, a new survey shows public satisfaction with pro-abortion U.S. President Barack Obama at a new low. Many voters are upset with the direction his policies have taken the country, especially the new health care reform law and its backdoor abortion provisions. Rasmussen reports that for the month of September, 44 percent of voters said they “strongly disapprove” of Obama’s performance – a record high for this president […]
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Rick Scott Seizes Lead over Pro-Abort Emily’s List Challenger in Florida Governor’s Race

Tuesday October 5, 2010 Rick Scott Seizes Lead over Pro-Abort Emily’s List Challenger in Florida Governor’s Race By Peter J. Smith MIAMI, Florida, October 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life and Tea Party-backed candidate Rick Scott has now pulled ahead of his pro-abortion challenger Alex Sink in the Sunshine State’s gubernatorial contest. A new Sunshine State News Poll now has Scott, a Republican, as “favored to win” on November’s election day against Sink, the Democrat nominee. While that poll shows Scott leading with 44 percent of the vote to Sink’s 42 percent, and 14 percent undecided, which is all within the […]
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$600,000 Life Prizes to be Awarded for Second Year

Tuesday August 17, 2010 $600,000 Life Prizes to be Awarded for Second Year August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Up to $600,000 will be awarded by the Gerard Health Foundation’s during its 2009-2010 Life Prizes awards ceremony on January 22, 2011. The awards will recognize and honor individuals or organizations that have worked to save human lives. “Our Foundation has a profoundly simple mission: to save lives,” stated philanthropist Raymond B. Ruddy, founder of the Gerard Health Foundation. “Life Prizes works to honor those who have best accomplished this noble goal and to inspire the next generation to break the mold […]
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138 Babies Spared from Abortion…So Far: 40 Days for Life

Tuesday October 5, 2010 138 Babies Spared from Abortion…So Far: 40 Days for Life Commentary by Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life October 5, 2010 (40DaysforLife.com) – Thus far during this current 40 Days for Life campaign, we have reports of … 138 lives that have been saved from abortion — that we know of! Take a look at the stories behind those numbers: LAS VEGAS, NEVADA The 40 Days for Life vigil in Las Vegas is held outside an abortion center that is on a cul-de-sac. Just next to the abortion center is First Choice Pregnancy Center. Anyone going […]
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Fewer Children, Later Marriage, More Divorce in Canadian Families: Study

Tuesday October 5, 2010 Fewer Children, Later Marriage, More Divorce in Canadian Families: Study By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, October 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vanier Institute of the Family has released “Families Count: Profiling Canada’s Families IV,” the fourth in a series of publications since 1994 that draw on the most recent data to provide a new picture of Canadian families and the challenges they face. For pro-family advocates, the report paints a worrying picture of increased cohabitation and divorce, later marriages, and fewer children. Timed to provide a backdrop for National Family Week (October 4-9), Families Count details […]
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AUL Action “Life Counts Campaign” Targets ObamaCare’s Pro-Life Dems

Tuesday October 5, 2010 AUL Action “Life Counts Campaign” Targets ObamaCare’s Pro-Life Dems By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., October 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Americans United for Life’s (AUL) political action committee announced Tuesday that they are making the push in the final weeks of the November election campaign to target Democrats who cast votes critical to the passage of the unpopular health care reform law. AUL Action’s has poured $600,000 into its “Life Counts” campaign, which will target twelve battleground districts held by Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections with online grassroots organizing, radio ads, and email blasts, in […]
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Police Thwart Murder-for-Hire of Ex-Girlfriend and Unborn Child

Monday October 4, 2010 Police Thwart Murder-for-Hire of Ex-Girlfriend and Unborn Child By Peter J. Smith SCOTIA, New York, October 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 21-year-old New York man is under arrest for plotting to hire an assailant to stab his former girlfriend’s unborn child to death, and even murder her in the process, for the price of $500 and a brand new washing machine. The Albany Times Union reports that State Police were able to intervene in Alexei S. Ramey’s murder-for-hire plot by having an undercover investigator pose as the willing assailant. According to the criminal complaint in Scotia […]
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U.S. Rep Seeks to Defend DOMA, Criticizes “Faint-Hearted” Obama Admin Efforts

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ranking Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee has petitioned to intervene as defendant in two cases brought against the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), amid speculation that Obama administration Department of Justice officials would fail adequately to defend the pro-marriage law. U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) has argued that Obama's Department of Justice (DOJ) is not doing enough to defend DOMA, and therefore asked a federal court Tuesday for permission to intervene. Smith is being represented by the Alliance Defense Fund. The motion argues that the act, which defines marriage […]
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Brazilian Government Threatens Catholic Church over Opposition to Pro-Abort Presidential Candidate

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BRAZIL, October 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Brazilian President Luiz Lula's personal secretary, Gilberto Carvalho, yesterday warned the leadership of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops that if attacks against Labor Party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff continue, the Catholic Church's agreement with the government might be revised, according to a report that originated with the Valor Economico newspaper, and was repeated by the Italian news agency ANSA. The agreement, known as a “concordat,” is a type of treaty signed by the government of Vatican City and various governments worldwide.  The Brazilian concordat includes government […]
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Translation of Notice of Clarification by Archbishop Fernando Saburido on Abortion

Friday April 16, 2010 Translation of Notice of Clarification by Archbishop Fernando Saburido on Abortion Source: Archdiocesan website, dated April 15, 2010 https://www.arquidioceseolindarecife.org.br/noticias1.htm NOTICE OF CLARIFICATION In the face of the misunderstanding resulting from an interview with me published in the Diário de Pernambuco, on the 10th of the current month, regarding ABORTION, I would like to clarify the following points: 1. I share, in all senses, the orientation of our Holy Church which defends life and does not admit, in any hypothesis, that it be eliminated because it is a gift of God and it is only proper for […]
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New Bill Introduced to Combat Child Sex-Trafficking within U.S.

Thursday June 24, 2010 New Bill Introduced to Combat Child Sex-Trafficking within U.S. By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New legislation designed to aggressively address the sexual exploitation of children by sex-traffickers was introduced into the House of Representatives this week by U.S. Representatives Carolyn Maloney (NY-14) and Chris Smith (NJ-04). The bill would add $45 million to law enforcement and victim-assistance efforts. Maloney and Smith are co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Human Trafficking. They said the proposed law (H.R. 5575) is a legislative response to the findings of a 2009 study called the […]
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Police Detain Young California Activists for Pro-Life Witness on Public Sidewalk

Monday October 4, 2010 Police Detain Young California Activists for Pro-Life Witness on Public Sidewalk NIPOMO, California, October 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Members of the Survivors’ Campus Life Team were detained for holding graphic images and advocating the pro-life message on public sidewalks in front of Nipomo High School on Monday, September 27, 2010. The activists were offering literature to students as they left the school when they were approached by campus administrators and guards shortly after school dismissal and instructed to leave the area or face arrest. According to the Survivers, Principal Johnson and San Luis Obispo County Sheriff […]
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Houston Mom Shielded Unborn Baby while Stabbed to Death

Monday October 4, 2010 Houston Mom Shielded Unborn Baby while Stabbed to Death By Kathleen Gilbert HOUSTON, October 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mother of a pregnant young woman who was stabbed to death in Texas last month said that her daughter shielded her unborn child under a hail of stabs from a butcher’s knife. The Houston Chronicle reported last week that Leiah Jackson, 27, and her unborn child were killed in an attack September 26 by an unidentified individual. Jackson’s boyfriend, Yancey Daniels, was shot and killed about half an hour before Leiah was attacked. Leiah had managed to […]
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Breakthrough: Pro-life Lobby Soundly Defeats EU Attack on Conscience in Dramatic Reversal

By Hilary White ROME, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An attempt to erase the conscience rights of EU health care workers has been soundly defeated at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) this evening. In a vote of 56 to 51, the PACE rejected the proposal of Christine McCafferty, a British politician and abortion activist, to “regulate” conscientious objectors to abortion across Europe. The McCafferty Report, titled “Women’s access to lawful medical care: the problem of unregulated use of conscientious objection,” had been identified by pro-life advocates as the latest in a string of EU and PACE […]
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Canadian Center for Bioethical Reform Launches Site with Wealth of Pro-Life Info

By Patrick B. Craine CALGARY, Alberta, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A leading Canadian pro-life organization is aiming to “raise the bar” for pro-life activism in the country with the launch of a new website geared to training our multimedia generation in pro-life arguments and strategy. “We want the site to be a must-stop location for anyone who wants to know about abortion in Canada,” explained Jose Ruba, co-founder of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform (CCBR). The site features an in-depth and brand-new Pro-Life Classroom with a series of four-to-six-minute video clips illuminating the sound science, philosophy, and reasoning […]
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Carleton University Rep.: Pro-Life Students Arrested for Trespassing because of Content

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While Carleton University said earlier this week that it had five pro-life students arrested mainly because they had set up a display in an area on campus that the university claimed was “not normally permitted” for displays, a university representative today told LifeSiteNews.com that the real issue was “the nature of the content.” The students – four from Carleton and one from Queen’s University – were arrested around 9:00 a.m. Monday as they were preparing to set up the Genocide Awareness Project, which compares abortion to past atrocities through […]
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Democrats Hope Pro-Life Candidate Will be GOP Spoiler in Illinois Pro-Abort Senate Battle

By Peter J. Smith CHICAGO, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In Illinois voters are faced with two pro-abortion politicians slugging it out for the lead in the senate special election race. However one third party candidate is pro-life, and Democrats are hoping that his candidacy could end up having a spoiler effect on the GOP’s chances to cobble together a majority in the U.S. Senate. GOP’s Mark Kirk, who is presently serving in the U.S. House, and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias are about evenly matched in their struggle to capture (for the GOP) or retain (for the Democrats) President Barack Obama’s […]
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U.S. Gov Infected Hundreds of Guatemalans with STDs in 1940s: Obama Admin Apologizes

By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. government has issued a formal apology after it was discovered recently that the American government had infected hundreds of unwitting Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea as part of a medical experiment between 1946-1948. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius condemned as “appalling” an unpublished study describing the U.S. Public Health Service's trials on Guatemalans decades ago as they sought to test penicillin's effectiveness against the diseases. The scheme was uncovered by Medical historian Susan Reverby of Wellesley College in Massachusetts. […]
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U.S. Judge Delivers Setback to ObamaCare Foes

By Peter J. Smith DETROIT, Michigan, October 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge in Detroit has delivered a setback to opponents of the national health care reform law passed in March, ruling that the individual insurance mandate and other aspects are constitutional. U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh ruled Thursday that Congress has the authority to mandate that individuals carry health insurance by 2014 in the Affordable Care Act. Steeh said the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution allows Congress to not only regulate economic activity, but also the decisions of individuals that impact a “broader regulatory scheme.” Robert Muise, […]
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Abortionist Pulls Gun on Pro-Life Witnesses

Monday October 4, 2010 Abortionist Pulls Gun on Pro-Life Witnesses By Kathleen Gilbert Updated 10/4/10 at 16:16 CHARLESTON, South Carolina, October 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Tennessee abortionist was arrested, but released on $25,000 bail Saturday after brandishing a gun at pro-lifers peacefully witnessing outside a Charleston clinic. Witnesses say Tennessee abortionist Gary Boyle, 62, pointed a loaded handgun from his vehicle at about 8:30am Saturday morning at three pro-life witnesses, including one 17-year-old young man, who were standing outside the Charleston Women’s Medical Center in West Ashley. After Boyle entered the clinic, the pro-lifers called police. “We were like, […]
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Homosexual Agenda Safe in U.K’s Labour Party Under New Leader Miliband

Friday October 1, 2010 Homosexual Agenda Safe in U.K’s Labour Party Under New Leader Miliband By Hilary White MANCHESTER, October 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Already dubbed “Red Ed” by the media, Edward Miliband, the newly elected leader of Britain’s Labour Party, has indicated his intention of continuing the anti-family and anti-life policies established for the party under former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. At the party’s leadership conference in Manchester, Miliband, an atheist, re-committed the party to the social re-engineering project started under Blair and Brown that created “New Labour.” Last month Miliband pledged that the Labour party […]
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Pro-Lifers Will Fail Unless We Confront the ‘Corruption of Innocence’, Says Leader

Friday October 1, 2010 Pro-Lifers Will Fail Unless We Confront the ‘Corruption of Innocence’, Says Leader By Patrick B. Craine October 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – If the pro-life movement is to gain any headway, pro-life leaders must confront the root of the attack against the culture of life – the corruption of innocence through sex education and contraception, says Mercedes Arzu Wilson, founder and president of Family of the Americas and a pioneer in the natural family planning movement. “We have been ignoring the root of the problem all these years,” says Wilson. “The diabolical forces don’t care how much […]
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Save a Life: Just ‘Ask to See the Ultrasound’

Friday October 1, 2010 Save a Life: Just ‘Ask to See the Ultrasound’ Commentary by Shawn Carney, Campaign Director, 40 Days for Life October 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On this tenth day of the 40 Days for Life campaign, I have a few stories, a few more pictures — and good news from London that should help get your day off to a really exciting start. London Robert, who’s coordinating the first-ever 40 Days for Life campaign in England, says the prayers of vigil participants have helped save more two babies. Praise God for his courage to bring this campaign […]
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Philippine Legislators Attempting to Resurrect Controversial Reproductive Health Bill

Wednesday July 7, 2010 Philippine Legislators Attempting to Resurrect Controversial Reproductive Health Bill By James Tillman MANILLA, Philippines, July 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At least two representatives in the Philippine legislature have re-filed a controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill. The bill would bring about government-sponsored promotion of contraception and sex education. “If they will continue to push for this Reproductive Health Bill, the Church will definitely make known its stand and oppose it,” Caloocan Bishop Deogracias Iniguez said in response. The bill has been introduced several times in previous congresses. Only in the last did it get past committee and […]
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LifeSiteNews Special Rome Report

Commentary by Steve Jalsevac in Rome ROME, Italy, October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Readers may have noticed that Editor-in-Chief John-Henry Westen and myself have been mostly absent from LifeSiteNews reports for over a week. That is because we have been in Rome since September 26. The trip, which has included several meetings with Vatican officials, plus on-going meetings with international pro-life leaders posted in Rome and with others in attendance at an HLI conference, has been exceptionally busy and productive. At the same time we have had to deal with a few unpleasant surprises for LSN while we have been […]
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‘There’s So Many Basic Things Wrong Here’: Couple Urged Surrogate Mother to Abort

By Patrick B. Craine VANCOUVER, British Columbia, October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More light has been shed on the web of legal and moral dilemmas surrounding artificial reproduction this week after a B.C. fertility doctor revealed a dispute between a couple and their surrogate over the couple’s desire to abort their baby.  The National Post reports that the parents had discovered through a first trimester ultrasound that the child likely had Down syndrome. The surrogate, a mother of two, initially disagreed with the parents and decided to give birth to the child; however, she eventually decided to abort, according to […]
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Government of Mexico City is Acting like a ‘Dictatorship’: Archdiocese of Guadalajara

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent GUADALAJARA, Mexico, October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of Guadalajara has said that the government of Mexico City is behaving like a “dictatorship” by filing a complaint with the nation's Secretariat of Governance in response to the archbishop's opposition to the city’s abortionist and homosexualist policies. In a communiqué addressing the legal complaint filed by the city, the archdiocese stated that, “We are waiting the terms in which Governance will present the issue, to give a response, with all respect to the institutions and laws that govern us.” However, the archdiocese added, […]
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Ontario Catholic College Accused of “False Compassion” in Hosting Homosexual Activist

By Patrick B. Craine LONDON, Ontario, October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In hosting a talk this month by a leading U.S. homosexual activist, King’s University-College, a Catholic institution affiliated with the University of Western, is “caving into a false compassion which neuters the healthy teachings of the Church,” says David MacDonald, a Canadian Christian musician and speaker who left the homosexual lifestyle. Jody Huckaby, executive director of PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), is set to deliver a talk at the College on October 21 entitled ‘Social Justice and Social Stigma: Building the Bridge of Inclusion of […]
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Canadian Gvmt: Abortion-on-Demand for Refugees under ‘Emergency’ Health Program

By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Canadian government is funding abortion-on-demand for refugees under a health plan meant to provide “emergency and essential health-care,” revealed the Toronto Sun in a recent report. In the government’s handbook on the refugee health-care program, which is administered by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), abortion is singled out from all other surgeries, which are only covered if a doctor deems them to be an emergency or essential. The Toronto Sun reported that CIC is reviewing the program after the Sun questioned the fact that it provides, in some ways, […]
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Congressman: Google-Searched Federal Audit on Obama Abortion Push in Kenya “Embarrassing”

By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life U.S. Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey this week blasted a just-released report commissioned by USAID’s inspector general (IG) on the Obama administration’s involvement in Kenya’s abortion-promoting constitution as “poorly researched,”“embarrassing,” and  “a whitewash.” Smith, who is the ranking U.S. congressman on the House of Representative’s Africa panel and co-chair of the Congressional Pro-life Caucus, had asked U.S. Agency for International Development’s IG Donald Gambatesa for a detailed report into allegations that the Obama State Department and USAID were illegally funding groups pushing for a “yes” vote on […]
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Planned Parenthood Telemed Abortion Safety Claims Cast into Doubt by Data, Informant

DES MOINES, Iowa, October 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New data released in the United States and Australia concerning complication rates for the abortion pill RU-486 point to a possible cover-up of the true complication rate for “telemed abortions” done by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland (PPH) in Iowa, reports Operation Rescue. On September 30, 2010, the Centers for Disease Control revealed in the New England Journal of Medicine that two more deaths linked to RU-486 (also known as Mifepristone or Mifeprex) were reported: one in 2008, and one just last year, bringing the number of known RU-486 deaths to ten in the […]
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Sixty Thousand Brazilians Attend Pro-Life Demonstration Led by Controversial Bishop

Tuesday September 28, 2010 Sixty Thousand Brazilians Attend Pro-Life Demonstration Led by Controversial Bishop By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent RECIFE, Brazil, September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over sixty thousand Brazilians attended a pro-life rally held on Sunday by the Archbishop of Olinda e Recife, Fernando Saburido. The archbishop is a controversial figure due to statements he has made in recent months that appeared to contradict the Catholic Church’s teaching on human life and family. But in a speech delivered to the crowd, Saburido condemned the movement to legalize abortion in Brazil, which is being spearheaded by members of […]
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Congressman Says Internet-Fueled Sex Trafficking Too Big for Government Alone

Friday September 17, 2010 Congressman Says Internet-Fueled Sex Trafficking Too Big for Government Alone By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.) told a House subcommittee on Wednesday that stronger efforts need to be made to curb the scourge of child sex-trafficking, which has gained new fuel through the internet. Such an effort must involve stronger laws, but also needs the full and voluntary cooperation of foreign governments, businesses, and private citizens, he said. “Driven by demand and fueled by the ease and secrecy of the internet, we are facing a crisis of […]
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Researchers Announce Embryo-Free Breakthrough in Stem Cell Research

Friday October 1, 2010 Researchers Announce Embryo-Free Breakthrough in Stem Cell Research By Kathleen Gilbert BOSTON, October 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A faster and more efficient way of deriving stem cells from ordinary skin cells has been discovered, announced scientists in Boston Thursday, who say their discovery will revolutionize an already-booming field of medical advances through adult stem cells. Meanwhile, stem cells derived from human embryos cannot claim even one success in human treatment. A technique that develops ordinary cells into stem cells, or induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells, was created four years ago; however, because that procedure tampered with […]
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U.S. House Reapproves Funding for Ethical Cord Blood Stem Cells

Friday October 1, 2010 U.S. House Reapproves Funding for Ethical Cord Blood Stem Cells By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., October 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hope for future therapies and cures from stem cell research got a big boost Thursday, when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to renew funding for non-controversial work in stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood over the next five years. The House reauthorized the “Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act,” authored by New Jersey Republican Rep. Chris Smith in 2005, with a unanimous voice vote. “The Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of […]
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U.S. Pro-Life Student Group Defends Arrested Canadian Pro-Life ‘Heroes’

By Kathleen Gilbert ARLINGTON, Virginia, October 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An American organization of pro-life students has expressed solidarity with a group of Canadian students arrested Monday morning for setting up a display against abortion on the campus of Carleton University in Ottawa. Ruth Lobo, James Shaw, Nicholas MacLeod, and Craig Stewart were joined by Zuza Kurzawa from Queen’s University in Ontario. All five were taken into custody by police for setting up a Genocide Awareness Project display on the Tory Quad. The school had forbidden the group from displaying the images in the public area, allowing them to use […]
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Brazilian Presidential Frontrunner Loses First Round Vote – Abortion the Key Issue

By Julio Severo and Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BRASÍLIA, Brazil, October 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The abortion issue was the principle reason that Brazilian frontrunner Dilma Rousseff failed to win a majority in Sunday's presidential elections, according to the Brazllian press. Polls in the weeks leading up to the election had consistently given Rousseff, who represents the ruling Labor Party, a victory of 59-51%.  However, Rousseff managed to win only 47% of the vote after her lead dropped among Evangelical voters, following the distribution of several YouTube videos linking Rousseff and the Brazilian Labor Party with the legalization of abortion. The […]
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Rick Scott Seizes Lead over Pro-Abort Emily’s List Challenger in Florida Governor’s Race

By Peter J. Smith MIAMI, Florida, October 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life and Tea Party-backed candidate Rick Scott has now pulled ahead of his pro-abortion challenger Alex Sink in the Sunshine State’s gubernatorial contest. A new Sunshine State News Poll now has Scott, a Republican, as “favored to win” on November’s election day against Sink, the Democrat nominee. While that poll shows Scott leading with 44 percent of the vote to Sink’s 42 percent, and 14 percent undecided, which is all within the poll’s 3 percent margin of error, Sunshine State News reports the pro-life GOPer has solidified a lead […]
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Pope Drops Strong Hint to English Bishops: Get with the Program

Tuesday February 2, 2010 Pope Drops Strong Hint to English Bishops: Get with the Program By Hilary White ROME February 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI has urged the Catholic bishops of England and Wales to stand firm against proposed legislation that he said opposes the natural law, and to present the Catholic Church’s moral teaching in the face of the acceptance of moral relativism. The pope’s remarks are being interpreted by the media as being aimed at the Equality Bill that the Catholic bishops have warned will force churches to violate their religious beliefs on homosexuality, marriage and […]
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Abortion, ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Feature in Lame-Duck Bill

Friday October 1, 2010 Abortion, ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Feature in Lame-Duck Bill By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., October 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Congressional Democrats have planned out an ambitious lame-duck session for November and December, with a repeal of both the 1993 law barring homosexuals from military service and another prohibiting abortions from being performed on U.S. military bases. The Hill, a Congressional newspaper, reports that those items are on the table with 20 other measures that Democrat leaders plan to ram through Congress in 6 weeks – that is, if they also take off the usual […]
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Poll Finds Record Majority of Americans Distrust Mainstream Media

Thursday September 30, 2010 Poll Finds Record Majority of Americans Distrust Mainstream Media By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new Gallup poll shows that a record majority of Americans have little to no trust in mainstream media to report the news “fully, accurately, and fairly.” Nearly half cited “liberal bias” in the media, which ranked only slightly higher than the U.S. Congress in public confidence levels. Gallup reports that 57 percent of those polled for their annual Governance poll, conducted Sept. 13-16, 2010, said their “confidence and trust” in mass media – newspapers, television, […]
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Amnesty International Demands Decriminalization of Abortion throughout Latin America

Friday October 1, 2010 Amnesty International Demands Decriminalization of Abortion throughout Latin America By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent October 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amnesty International has issued a press release demanding the legalization of abortion throughout Latin America. “All regulations should be repealed that sanction or permit the imprisonment of women and children who seek or obtain an abortion under any circumstance,” said Amnesty International (AI) through its affiliate in Asunción, Paraguay. Claiming that it is “shameful” that Latin Americans continue to prohibit the killing of unborn children, AI added that “the penalization of abortion denies to pregnant […]
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Colorado Personhood Amendment Backers Lose ‘Biased Blue Book’ Challenge

By Peter J. Smith DENVER, Colorado, October 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sponsors of Colorado’s personhood amendment lost their legal challenge against this year’s state voter’s guide, the Colorado Blue Book, which they alleged was biased and filled with false statements. Last week, a district judge dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds that the courts did not have the jurisdiction to overrule the Legislative Council, the authors of the voter’s guide. Denver District Judge Robert Hyatt also contended as a practical matter that it was too late to intervene before the general election, as all 1.8 million Coloradans had already received […]
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Expert: Religious Freedom Eroding in Britain in the Wake of Equalities Laws and Terrorist Threat

By Hilary White DUBLIN, October 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New “equality” legislation combined with the Northern Irish “Troubles” and Islamic terrorist bombings in New York and London have created an atmosphere in Britain in which religion in general is held in suspicion, said an expert on religious discrimination law late last month in Dublin. British barrister Neil Addison told the Iona Institute’s conference on religious freedom that in Britain and elsewhere, the attitude is taking hold that religion must not in any way be given expression in public or working life Following on Pope Benedict XVI’s speech in Westminster Hall, […]
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Police Detain Young California Activists for Pro-Life Witness on Public Sidewalk

NIPOMO, California, October 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Members of the Survivors' Campus Life Team were detained for holding graphic images and advocating the pro-life message on public sidewalks in front of Nipomo High School on Monday, September 27, 2010. The activists were offering literature to students as they left the school when they were approached by campus administrators and guards shortly after school dismissal and instructed to leave the area or face arrest. According to the Survivers, Principal Johnson and San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Deputy Holzier claimed, first, that the Survivors were on school property, then that they were in […]
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Pro-Life Protestors Win Key Demands From City of Aurora in Settlement

Thursday March 25, 2010 Pro-Life Protestors Win Key Demands From City of Aurora in Settlement By Peter J. Smith AURORA, Illinois, March 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life advocates won major concessions from the city of Aurora to continue their pro-life witness and sidewalk counseling outside a Planned Parenthood facility, thus concluding their two year fight for their First Amendment rights. Attorneys for the Thomas More Society, representing Fox Valley Families Against Planned Parenthood and the Pro-Life Action League, successfully settled with the city in federal court in Chicago on Thursday, voluntarily dismissing their First Amendment lawsuit filed in 2007 to […]
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Texas AG Tightens Licensing/Informed Consent Requirements for Abortion Clinics

Wednesday September 29, 2010 Texas AG Tightens Licensing/Informed Consent Requirements for Abortion Clinics By Peter J. Smith AUSTIN, Texas, September 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Attorney General of Texas released an opinion tightening the licensing requirements for clinics that dispense abortion drugs, as well as the state’s informed consent laws for women seeking an abortion. Responding to a request from Texas Rep. Franke Corte jr. (R- San Antonio) for clarification, AG Greg Abbott declared that abortion facilities must stop using prerecorded phone calls or one-way conference calls to inform women of the risks of abortion in order to comply with […]
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Canadian Gvmt to Appeal Prostitution Ruling

Thursday September 30, 2010 Canadian Gvmt to Appeal Prostitution Ruling By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, September 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The federal government will appeal the Tuesday ruling that struck down Canada’s prostitution laws, the justice minister announced yesterday. “Prostitution is a problem that harms individuals and communities,” Justice Minister Rob Nicholson told the House of Commons. “That is why I am pleased to indicate to the House that the government will appeal and will seek a stay of that decision.” Ontario Superior Court Justice Susan Himel ruled Tuesday that Canada’s provisions on prostitution violated women’s Charter rights to […]
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Canadian Laws Restricting Prostitution ‘Unconstitutional’: Ontario Court

Wednesday September 29, 2010 Canadian Laws Restricting Prostitution ‘Unconstitutional’: Ontario Court By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, September 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Superior Court judge ruled on Tuesday that prostitutes should be allowed to freely communicate with customers on the street, conduct their business in their homes or brothels, and hire accountants, drivers and bodyguards, without fear of criminal prosecution. In her decision Justice Susan Himel stated that Criminal Code laws against keeping a common bawdy house, living on the avails of prostitution and communicating for the purpose of prostitution violated women’s Charter rights to freedom of expression and security […]
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U.K. Mother Acquitted in Assisted Suicide Case Becomes Poster Girl for Euthanasia Advocates

Monday February 1, 2010 U.K. Mother Acquitted in Assisted Suicide Case Becomes Poster Girl for Euthanasia Advocates By Hilary White LONDON, February 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since Kay Gilderdale of Stonegate, East Sussex, was acquitted of murder charges in the death of her daughter, she has been transformed into the poster-girl of Britain’s increasingly vocal and popular euthanasia movement. Kay Gilderale admitted to assisting the suicide of her 31-year-old daughter Lynn, who had suffered from Myalgic Encephalopathy for 17 years. Lynn’s illness, also called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, had left her severely disabled, in pain and expressing her desire for suicide. […]
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Divorce – The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience

Thursday September 30, 2010 Divorce — The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience Commentary by Albert Mohler Note: Albert Mohler is the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary – the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world. Thursday, September 30, 2010 (AlbertMohler.com) – Mark A. Smith, who teaches political science at the University of Washington, pays close attention to what is now commonly called the “culture war” in America. Though the roots of this cultural conflict reach back to the 1960s, the deep divide over social and moral issues became almost […]
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Pro-Lifers Boot Planned Parenthood from Michigan Counties

Wednesday September 29, 2010 Pro-Lifers Boot Planned Parenthood from Michigan Counties By Kathleen Gilbert COLDWATER, Michigan, September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Southern Michigan pro-lifers celebrated victory last week after steady grassroots pressure prompted local health administrators not to renew Planned Parenthood’s health provider leases. The Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency board on Thursday defeated a motion to renew the abortion giant’s lease in the three counties’ health system with a 3-3 vote. A majority would have been needed to renew the lease, which expires next month, for Planned Parenthood’s four locations. The health commissioners had heard from pro-lifers at their […]
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Obama Says Teachings of Jesus Christ ‘Spoke to Me,’ then Defends Abortion

Wednesday September 29, 2010 Obama Says Teachings of Jesus Christ ‘Spoke to Me,’ then Defends Abortion By Kathleen Gilbert ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, September 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following reports of widespread skepticism over his professed Christianity, President Obama on Tuesday invoked the teachings of Jesus Christ as the inspiration for his public agenda, which he called part of an “effort to express my Christian faith” – and in his next breath defended the legalized killing of unborn children. When a teacher’s assistant asked him why he was a Christian during a townhall Q&A in Albuquerque, the president answered, “I’m a […]
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Midwife Who Saved Hundreds of Newborn Babies from Nazis to be Honored

Wednesday September 29, 2010 Midwife Who Saved Hundreds of Newborn Babies from Nazis to be Honored By Patrick B. Craine ROME, September 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The late Polish midwife Stanislawa Leszczynska will be honoured in a display at the 5th World Prayer Congress for Life in Rome next month for her heroic efforts in saving hundreds of newborn babies from a brutal end at Auschwitz. Before she arrived at the camp in April 1943, all the newborns of prisoners in the infamous Nazi concentration camp were drowned and allowed to be ripped apart by rats before his or her […]
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40 Days for Life Celebrates Maryland Abortion Facility Closure

Wednesday September 29, 2010 40 Days for Life Celebrates Maryland Abortion Facility Closure Commentary by Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life September 29, 2010 (40DaysforLife.com) – “It’s official!” reads the message from Michael, the local 40 Days for Life coordinator in Severna Park, Maryland. “We have confirmed that Gynecare is closed,” he wrote, “and will not reopen its doors. The office suite that Gynecare has operated in for years is already listed for rent, and we have confirmed with the listing agent that the current tenant will be completely out of the office soon!” For the seventh time now, the […]
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Embattled Abortionist Claims States Can’t Prosecute over Interstate Abortion Scheme

Thursday September 30, 2010 Embattled Abortionist Claims States Can’t Prosecute over Interstate Abortion Scheme By Kathleen Gilbert VOORHEES, New Jersey, September 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A New Jersey abortionist under criminal investigation has made an attempt to slip out of prosecutors’ grasp by claiming that neither New Jersey nor Maryland, where he ferried his clients mid-abortion to complete the late-term procedures, are in a position to sue him. Stephen Chase Brigham, who once operated an empire of abortion clinics in four states, has come under scrutiny after a botched abortion last month led government officials to uncover his practice of […]
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Catholic Schools in Singapore Forced to Present Condom-Promoting Sex-Ed Program

Thursday September 30, 2010 Catholic Schools in Singapore Forced to Present Condom-Promoting Sex-Ed Program By Thaddeus M. Baklinski SINGAPORE, September 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A report by Singapore Catholic News says that a sexuality-education program based on Catholic moral principles that has been used in the country for 23 years has been replaced by a Ministry of Education program. The new program, which is mandated for both secular and religious schools, heavily promotes the use of condoms to high school and junior college students. “After 23 years of providing their sexuality-education programme in schools, Family Life Society (FLS) has failed […]
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Pro-Family Groups Oppose Canadian Prostitution Ruling

Thursday September 30, 2010 Pro-Family Groups Oppose Canadian Prostitution Ruling By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, September 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family groups are decrying Tuesday’s Ontario court decision that struck down Canada’s prostitution laws, warning that the ruling empowers pimps and human traffickers and threatens to usher in a Canadian sex tourism industry. “The decision reinforces the notion that sex is not an intimate and loving act but instead a commodity that can be bought and sold at will,” said Ruth Ross, executive director and general legal counsel for the Christian Legal Fellowship. Ontario Superior Court Justice Susan Himel […]
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Senate Markup Postponed for Abortion-Friendly Int’l Violence Against Women Act

Wednesday September 29, 2010 Senate Markup Postponed for Abortion-Friendly Int’l Violence Against Women Act By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., September 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Senate committee markup of a $1 billion bill pro-life leaders say they fear could become an engine for more abortion funding overseas has been postponed. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee office confirmed to LifeSiteNews.com Wednesday afternoon that the meeting in which IVAWA was to be discussed had been postponed from its original slot at 2:15pm Wednesday, but not yet rescheduled. The vote may wait until after the Senate goes on recess, which a committee spokesperson […]
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D.C. Court Allows Embryonic Stem Cell Research to Continue During Appeals Process

Wednesday September 29, 2010 D.C. Court Allows Embryonic Stem Cell Research to Continue During Appeals Process By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., September 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia has ordered that a district judge’s order blocking the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) embryo-destroying stem-cell research will be suspended while the appeals process works itself out. The order from Appeals Court judges Judith Rogers, Thomas Griffith, and Brett Kavanaugh, followed two days after oral arguments for and against U.S. District Chief Judge Royce Lamberth’s August 23 injunction that banned the NIH from […]
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Brazilian Supermodel Says U.S. Agency Pressured Her to Have Abortion

Tuesday September 28, 2010 Brazilian Supermodel Says U.S. Agency Pressured Her to Have Abortion By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BRAZIL, September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Brazilian supermodel Isabeli Fontana has revealed in a recent interview that she was pressured by a U.S. modeling agency to terminate the life of her unborn child when she became pregnant for the first time. Fontana told Brazil’s Istoé magazine that after modeling during her adolescence, she decided to leave her mother’s home at the age of 18 and live with her boyfriend. When she became pregnant at the age of 19 with […]
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School Must Allow ‘Transgender’ 6th Grader to Use Girls’ Bathroom: Maine Human Rights Panel

Tuesday September 28, 2010 School Must Allow ‘Transgender’ 6th Grader to Use Girls’ Bathroom: Maine Human Rights Panel By Kathleen Gilbert AUGUSTA, Maine, September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Maine Human Rights Commission (HRC) has ruled that a middle school unlawfully discriminated against a “transgender” sixth-grade boy by disallowing the child from entering a girls’ bathroom and instead assigning him his own separate bathroom. The matter concerned Orono Middle School’s treatment of a child whose parents have insisted has a right to use a girl’s bathroom, despite being biologically male, because of his chosen gender identity. “In choosing to disallow […]
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The Reverse Side of the News

Wednesday June 16, 2010 The Reverse Side of the News Editor’s Note: Hilary White is the LifeSiteNews European and Vatican Correspondent and one of LSN’s most experienced and knowledgeable persons on the myriad issues we cover. In addition to covering European and Vatican issues she has specialized in reporting on the complex reproductive technologies issues. Hilary has written a very detailed Briefing Book for Legislators on Reproductive Technologies which she is currently updating. Hello, Some years ago, I had a Toronto Slovak priest friend who was ordained in then communist Czechoslovakia. While secretly studying for the priesthood he took jobs […]
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UK Bishops Support for Homosexualist Agenda Based on Vatican-Rejected 2005 Policy

Wednesday September 29, 2010 UK Bishops Support for Homosexualist Agenda Based on Vatican-Rejected 2005 Policy By Hilary White ROME, September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Monday, when the head of the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales (CBEW) told a BBC interviewer that the U.K. bishops had not opposed the creation of legal civil partnerships for homosexuals, he was speaking from a longstanding policy that was published in 2005. But a source close to the CBEW has told LifeSiteNews.com that that policy was rejected by the Vatican for not being in line with Catholic teaching. The UK bishops, however, have […]
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School Trustees Slam “Homosexualized” Ontario “Equity Strategy”

Tuesday September 21, 2010 School Trustees Slam “Homosexualized” Ontario “Equity Strategy” By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, September 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The McGuinty government’s equity and inclusive education strategy “represents a violation of parental rights and religious freedom,” according to a trustee candidate for the York Region District School Board who is demanding the strategy be repealed. At the same time, a Catholic trustee in the Toronto Catholic District School Board says he believes the strategy is designed with the aim of “sweeping away our Christian and Catholic values of the family.” Allan Tam, a public school board candidate […]
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In the LifeLight: 40 Days for Life Leader Talks Saving Lives, One Prayer at a Time

Friday July 30, 2010 In the LifeLight: 40 Days for Life Leader Talks Saving Lives, One Prayer at a Time By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the closure of yet another abortion facility deluged by pro-life prayer and fasting, one leader of the wildly successful 40 Days for Life campaign has discussed the principles behind a movement that has electrified the pro-life community around the world. Shawn Carney is Campaign Director for 40 Days for Life, a national prayer campaign to end abortion that has grown by leaps and bounds since it was launched […]
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Britain’s Conservative Coalition Govt’ to Push Abortion, Contraception in MDGs

Friday July 30, 2010 Britain’s Conservative Coalition Govt’ to Push Abortion, Contraception in MDGs By Hilary White LONDON, July 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British government has pledged to place an “unprecedented focus” on “family planning,” including abortion, in its efforts to forward the UN’s Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). The government particularly focused on abortion in a July 27 press release, saying that “safe” abortion is the solution to the estimated 70,000 deaths a year “from an estimated 20 million unsafe abortions.” “Ensuring abortion services are safe, and that post-abortion care is provided, saves lives,” the statement said. “And increasing […]
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Brazilian Government Joins UN to Urge Latin American Nations to Depenalize Abortion

Friday July 30, 2010 Brazilian Government Joins UN to Urge Latin American Nations to Depenalize Abortion By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent BRASILIA, July 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Brazilian government has signed a UN-sponsored document endorsing the depenalization of abortion throughout Latin America. The legally non-binding document, entitled the “Brasilia Consensus,” was issued by the Eleventh Regional Conference on Latin American and Caribbean Women (CEPAL) meeting in Brazil’s capital city. It contains numerous references, some oblique and others explicit, to measures in favor of abortion, homosexualism, contraception, and other anti-life and anti-family policies. In its section on “sexual […]
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Arkansas Abortionist and Former Clinton Physician Dies at 75

Monday September 27, 2010 Arkansas Abortionist and Former Clinton Physician Dies at 75 By Kathleen Gilbert FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Arkansas abortionist notorious for mocking pro-life witnesses and who once claimed that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was his patient, has died of cancer at the age of 75. William Harrison, a Fayetteville obstetrician/gynecologist, closed his abortuary earlier this year after he was diagnosed with leukemia, leaving only one abortion facility operating in the state. Operation Rescue reports that Harrison claimed to have killed over 20,000 children in the womb over the course of his […]
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Pope Benedict Sends Greetings to 40 Days For Life Campaign

Friday September 24, 2010 Pope Benedict Sends Greetings to 40 Days For Life Campaign By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LONDON, UK, September 24. 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prior to the papal visit to England, the 40 Days for Life campaign team in London wrote to the pope, and has now received a letter in response from his office. Monsignor Peter B. Wells, responding for the Holy Father, wrote that the pope “appreciates the sentiments which prompted you to write to him about your work.” According to the letter, the pope will be personally praying for “you and all those who seek to […]
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Mexico City Reaches 47,000 Abortions after 42 Months of Legalization

Tuesday September 28, 2010 Mexico City Reaches 47,000 Abortions after 42 Months of Legalization By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent MEXICO CITY, September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Almost 47,000 unborn babies have died by surgical abortion in Mexico City during the three and a half years of its legalization, according to official statistics announced this week. However, according to one federal legislator, the numbers are understated due to a lack of reporting by private clinics. The figures were given to the Mexican press yesterday by Maricela Contreras Julián, a representative in the federal Chamber of Deputies who intends to […]
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Three Decades of Forced Abortion…and Counting: China to Continue One-Child Policy

Tuesday September 28, 2010 Three Decades of Forced Abortion…and Counting: China to Continue One-Child Policy By Thaddeus M. Baklinski BEIJING, September 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Sept. 25, 1980, the Communist Party Central Committee issued a statement saying that “in 30 years, when our current extreme population growth eases, we can then adopt a different population policy.” But while the 30th anniversary of China’s coercive one-child policy came and went this past week, the Chinese government has shown no signs of easing the policy, and instead expressed its intent to continue the use of forced abortion and sterilization, with no […]
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GOP Leads Democrat in Pro-Life Senate Race for West Virginia

Tuesday September 28, 2010 GOP Leads Democrat in Pro-Life Senate Race for West Virginia By Peter J. Smith CHARLESTON, West Virginia, September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In West Virginia two pro-life candidates are battling each other for a U.S. Senate seat that could either deliver a pro-life Democrat to the U.S. Senate or help hand control of the chamber to the GOP and its predominantly pro-life leadership. The latest polls show GOP candidate John Raese now pulling ahead of popular Democrat Governor Joe Manchin in the November special election to replace the late Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd. A new Rasmussen […]
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Study ‘Debunking’ Teen Abortion/Depression Link Flawed: Expert

Monday September 27, 2010 Study ‘Debunking’ Teen Abortion/Depression Link Flawed: Expert By Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study that concluded that teenagers suffer no psychological harm from abortion, and that has captured headlines in major newspapers today, is undermined by “a number of problems” in its methodology, according to an expert in the field. The Guttmacher Institute, which was founded by the International Planned Parenthood Federation, announced the results of the study Friday, claiming that “teens who have abortions are no more likely to become depressed or have low self-esteem than their peers whose pregnancies […]
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Philippines President Says Government Will Provide Contraceptives to the Poor

Monday September 27, 2010 Philippines President Says Government Will Provide Contraceptives to the Poor Church spokesman says Aquino is ‘selling out the Filipino soul’ for American dollars By Thaddeus M. Baklinski MANILA, September 27,2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Benigno Aquino III said today that the Philippine government will provide contraceptives to poor couples who request them. “I think the government is obligated to inform everybody of the responsibilities of their choices. At the end of the day, government might provide assistance to those who are without means if they want to employ a particular method,” Mr. Aquino said, during a satellite […]
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Abortionist Romeo Ferrer Closes Abortion Facility, Ending 20-Year Reign of Terror

Monday September 27, 2010 Abortionist Romeo Ferrer Closes Abortion Facility, Ending 20-Year Reign of Terror BALTIMORE, September 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Notorious abortionist Romeo Ferrer is closing his Severna Park, Maryland, abortion facility after a 10-year campaign by dedicated pro-life organizations and the suspension of his medical license by the Maryland Board of Physicians. Pro-life activists learned September 23 that the Gynecare Center is not scheduling new appointments and does not have a doctor to perform the procedure. The staff answering the phone indicated they are closing the facility. Ferrer’s license was abruptly revoked on September 8 after the Board […]
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Prominent Lutheran Pastor: Yes, I Struggle with Same-Sex Attraction

Friday August 6, 2010 Prominent Lutheran Pastor: Yes, I Struggle with Same-Sex Attraction By Peter J. Smith MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, August 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rev. Tom Brock is a senior pastor at Hope Lutheran Church in North Minneapolis who recently became the center of a controversy after his personal struggles with same-sex attraction were made public. Earlier in June, an undercover journalist with the Minnesota-based homosexual publication “Lavender” infiltrated and exposed Brock’s attendance at a local chapter of Courage, a Catholic-run, prayer-based support group for men struggling with unwanted same-sex attractions. Brock, 57 years old and a virgin by his […]
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Amnesty International Demands Decriminalization of Abortion throughout Latin America

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent October 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Amnesty International has issued a press release demanding the legalization of abortion throughout Latin America. “All regulations should be repealed that sanction or permit the imprisonment of women and children who seek or obtain an abortion under any circumstance,” said Amnesty International (AI) through its affiliate in Asunción, Paraguay. Claiming that it is “shameful” that Latin Americans continue to prohibit the killing of unborn children, AI added that “the penalization of abortion denies to pregnant women and children the medical attention they need.  This shows a cruel indifference […]
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Homosexual Agenda Safe in U.K’s Labour Party Under New Leader Miliband

By Hilary White MANCHESTER, October 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Already dubbed “Red Ed” by the media, Edward Miliband, the newly elected leader of Britain’s Labour Party, has indicated his intention of continuing the anti-family and anti-life policies established for the party under former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. At the party’s leadership conference in Manchester, Miliband, an atheist, re-committed the party to the social re-engineering project started under Blair and Brown that created “New Labour.” Last month Miliband pledged that the Labour party would campaign to change the definition of marriage to include homosexual partners. He told the […]
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Pro-Lifers Will Fail Unless We Confront the ‘Corruption of Innocence’, Says Leader

By Patrick B. Craine October 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – If the pro-life movement is to gain any headway, pro-life leaders must confront the root of the attack against the culture of life – the corruption of innocence through sex education and contraception, says Mercedes Arzu Wilson, founder and president of Family of the Americas and a pioneer in the natural family planning movement. “We have been ignoring the root of the problem all these years,” says Wilson.  “The diabolical forces don’t care how much we fight abortion, as long as you don’t touch the source that brings women to abort.” […]
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U.S. House Reapproves Funding for Ethical Cord Blood Stem Cells

By Peter J. Smith   WASHINGTON, D.C., October 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hope for future therapies and cures from stem cell research got a big boost Thursday, when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to renew funding for non-controversial work in stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood over the next five years.  The House reauthorized the “Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act,” authored by New Jersey Republican Rep. Chris Smith in 2005, with a unanimous voice vote. “The Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2010” now extends the program’s life through 2015. Since the Senate approved reauthorization […]
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Jesuit Loyola Marymount University Launches LGBT Office

Tuesday September 28, 2010 Jesuit Loyola Marymount University Launches LGBT Office By Kathleen Gilbert LOS ANGELES, September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – California’s Loyola Marymount University (LMU) has become the third Jesuit institution of higher education in the U.S. to establish an office dedicated to ministering to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students. California Catholic Daily pointed out a Sept 20 article in the LMU student newspaper, The Loyolan, celebrating the launch of the Office for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Student Services (GLBTSS) under the Division of Student Affairs. The article welcomed the event as “a milestone in LMU’s […]
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