Anti-life media manufactures hysteria

In the last two weeks, the prospect of significant pro-life gains in state legislatures this year has seemed to throw those in the hard-left wing of the media into a tizzy. A number of stories have come out with blatant inaccuracies and overwrought hyperbole. Their current target? AUL’s model bill entitled The Pregnant Woman’s Protection Act. This groundbreaking model legislation seeks to ensure that a pregnant woman and her unborn child are protected from criminal violence and that her decision to carry her child to term is respected.  Specifically, the model legislation was drafted in direct response to the well-documented […]
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New UK Abortion and STD Statistics: 1 in 5 Babies Killed; Teen STD Rates Doubled

New UK Abortion and STD Statistics: 1 in 5 Babies Killed; Teen STD Rates Doubled by LifeSiteNews.com LONDON, March 31, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK’s newly released abortion figures reveal that more than one in five children there dies from abortion. The Office for National Statistics report also revealed that the number of childless women over 40 has risen dramatically, while the UK birth rate is the lowest ever. Patrick Cusworth, spokesman for UK’s pro-life group Life, told the UK Mirror, “It’s ironic that while 600 babies a day are aborted – only 300-a-year are placed for adoption.” The report […]
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Canadian PM Backpedals on Proposal to Change National Anthem over Gender

Canadian PM Backpedals on Proposal to Change National Anthem over Gender by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski OTTAWA, March 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The short-lived proposal to bow to political correctness and exclude the word “sons” from Canada’s national anthem has come to an abrupt end. Three days after announcing his government’s intent, during the Speech from the Throne last week, to alter ‘O Canada’ to make it more “gender neutral,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said his Conservative government will no longer be pursuing the idea. According to National Post columnist Don Martin, Harper is said to have initiated […]
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Researchers Admit IVF Carries Higher Birth Defect Risk

Researchers Admit IVF Carries Higher Birth Defect Risk by LifeSiteNews.com SAN FRANCISCO, September 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the face of mounting evidence, researchers are increasingly admitting that in vitro fertilization carries greater risks of birth defects,. According to media reports, IVF “treatments” are “now coming under closer scrutiny. At least a dozen scientific papers published in the past year suggest a possible link between IVF and increased health risks”. “What’s missing now is the data to reassure patients and providers that these procedures are safe,” says Mary Croughan, professor at the University of California in San Francisco. In response, […]
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In Virginia: A surprise amendment, sudden victory for abortion clinic regulation

It’s has been a wild week in Virginia. Earlier this month, every single pro-life bill died in in the Virginia Senate. The pro-abortion led caucus blocked many good pieces of legislation in committee on a party line vote. Bills like the opt-out of the abortion mandate in the federal health care bill, an expanded informed consent bill, and even a bill that would ban coercing a woman into getting an abortion against her will died in the Senate Education and Health Committee. And then there was this week. For years, the pro-life movement has tried to get basic abortion clinic […]
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Gibbons case going to Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of Canada has decided that it will hear an appeal filed by her lawyer seeking to overturn an Ontario Court of Appeal decision reinstating her criminal conviction on a charge of disobeying a court order.
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IRS Drops Objections to Planned Parenthood Protests, Grants Tax-Exempt Status for Iowa Pro-Life Grou

IRS Drops Objections to Planned Parenthood Protests, Grants Tax-Exempt Status for Iowa Pro-Life Grou by LifeSiteNews.com CHICAGO, August 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) last month threatened to withhold tax-exempt status from an Iowa pro-life group unless they stopped protesting Planned Parenthood, the group’s attorneys say they received a letter this week acknowledging that the IRS had backed down and granted the status. Lawyers with the Thomas More Society announced that they received an official “Determination Letter” from the IRS granting tax exempt status to the Coalition for Life of Iowa, a newly formed grass roots […]
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Pray this prayer to defund Planned Parenthood

Lord of Life and Truth, Your Providence guides the course of history. You have conquered death And have made us the People of Life. You call us to fight the evil of abortion And the forces that promote it. We therefore ask you to grant wisdom and mercy to our nation. Give our government leaders the courage To put an end to the funding Of the largest abortion business in the world. Give all of us the courage to insist That public funding only be used For the protection and promotion of life Rather than for its destruction. Give us […]
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NewsBytes – Life Issues

Pro Choice Activist Counsels Strategic Retreat, Peter Kreeft supports Live Action, Mark Shea criticizes Live Action, deep freeze for Linda Gibbons, Time for Mercy Killing Debate, more....
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Obama Admin Intervenes in Sexual Orientation “Discrimination” Case

Obama Admin Intervenes in Sexual Orientation “Discrimination” Case by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White WASHINGTON, January 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Obama administration’s Justice Department (DoJ) has intervened directly in a civil suit launched by the ACLU on behalf of a homosexual teenager alleging his school discriminated against him based on his “sexual orientation.” Citing the Title IX amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the DoJ is arguing that the protections in the law against sex discrimination apply to “gender identity,” and therefore protect homosexuals. The DoJ said it has “authority to intervene to seek relief from denials of […]
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StatsCan Reveals Canada’s Birth Rate Continues to Drop: at All-Time Low

StatsCan Reveals Canada’s Birth Rate Continues to Drop: at All-Time Low by LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, April 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Statistics Canada revealed today that the rate at which women are having babies has dropped to an all-time low. The birth rate, as measured in 2002, dropped to 10.5 live births for every 1,000 population, the lowest since vital statistics began to be produced nationally in 1921. The rate represents a drop of 25.4% in the last 10 years alone. In total, 328,802 babies were born in 2002, down 1.5% from the previous year. It was the 11th decline in the […]
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Rolling Stone fudged Justin Bieber’s pro-life statements – twice

Pop superstar Justin Bieber actually made it clear in his recent interview with Rolling Stone that he believes that the unborn child “is a human” – but people who read the first, or even second, version of the magazine’s transcription of his remarks could be excused for not knowing that. A few hours after Rolling Stone offered a sneak peek at its new interview with Bieber, fishy things began to happen with his pro-life statements – which predictably made a splash on the blogosphere. The first version of his statements read as follows: “I really don’t believe in abortion,” Bieber […]
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US House’s stand against Planned Parenthood reveals the organization’s true mission

For the first time in American history, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to completely withdraw federal funding from Planned Parenthood – because it is an abortion provider. The amendment to H.R. 1, the continuing resolution to fund the federal government through the rest of the fiscal year, was agreed to on a vote of 240-185 with 10 Democrats voting with all but 7 Republicans. The amendment’s sponsor is Mike Pence of Indiana. He has attempted to defund Planned Parenthood for several years now. As he told POLITICO in an interview on Tuesday, “If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved […]
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Physician-assisted suicide: a recipe for elder abuse and the illusion of personal choice

The following is one of the most important articles ever written concerning assisted suicide in Oregon, Washington State and the other US proposed State bills (click here for the article in PDF format): By: Margaret K. Dore, Esq.   “Elders and people with disabilities are, as a group, at high risk for violence, abuse and exploitation.”   Vermont Center for Crime Victim Services[1] Introduction In 2009, a legislative proposal to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Vermont was introduced, but not brought to a vote.[2] The proposal was modeled on Oregon’s assisted suicide act.[3] Oregon is one of just two states where […]
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Abortion Included in Marie Stopes Job Perks along with Discount Gym Membership

Abortion Included in Marie Stopes Job Perks along with Discount Gym Membership by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, August 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A week after the Advertising Standards Authority issued a statement refusing to credit complaints about Marie Stopes TV abortion advertisements, the country’s largest abortionist group is at the center of a controversy again. The Daily Mail has revealed that Marie Stopes employees are being offered free abortions as a regular part of the organization’s employee benefits package. Marie Stopes International (MSI) employs 430 people in nine centers around Britain, with the bulk of its funding coming from […]
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Let the youth teach us about pro-life

Often I am asked to speak about the role of youth in the pro-life movement, and to encourage parishes and pro-life organizations to focus more on recruiting youth for this cause. In fact, this is not a difficult task. Youth understand the pro-life message better than many adults, and the most common response they give to the question, “Why are you involved in trying to stop abortion?” is “Because it could have been me.” They are aware that they were not protected in the womb, and could have been killed. They are survivors and they know it. But most important […]
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Bill to clarify that assisted suicide is prohibited in Idaho unanimously passes in the Idaho Senate

The bill to clearly define assisted suicide as prohibited in Idaho has unanimously passed in the Idaho Senate Affairs Committee. The Idaho Spokesman Review stated:   Legislation to outlaw physician-assisted suicide in Idaho has cleared the Senate State Affairs Committee, which just voted to send SB 1070 to the full Senate with a recommendation that it pass. The bill was sponsored by pro-life groups who worked with the Idaho Medical Association, in order to protect physicians making appropriate patient-care decisions for dying patients or following those patients’ living wills or advance care directives.   Ken McClure, IMA lobbyist, told the […]
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APA Ignored Evidence that Homosexual Behaviour is Part of Psychiatric Disorder Says Noted Psychiatir

APA Ignored Evidence that Homosexual Behaviour is Part of Psychiatric Disorder Says Noted Psychiatir by LifeSiteNews.com WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, July 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews) – In an interview with the Rome-based Zenit news service, Dr. Rick Fitzgibbons a psychiatrist and member of the Catholic Medical Association, said that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has ignored evidence that homosexual behaviour is a manifestation of a psychiatric disorder. In their recent call for the legalization of homosexual marriage, the APA has revealed a political bias that is of no service to homosexuals, said Fitzgibbons the primary author of the Catholic Medical Association’s document ‘Homosexuality […]
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Catholic Bishops Denounce Attempt to Legalize Eugenic Abortion in Brazil

Catholic Bishops Denounce Attempt to Legalize Eugenic Abortion in Brazil by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BRASILIA, August 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leadership of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB) has issued a statement condemning the attempt to legalize eugenic abortion in Brazil through the judicial system. The case, which will be heard by the Federal Supreme Tribunal of Brazil beginning August 26, will decide the constitutionality of abortions for anencephalic babies, who develop without a complete cerebrum. Although such babies often die in their mother’s womb or shortly after birth, some have lived for years, and have […]
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Assisted suicide is not legal in Montana; clarification needed

The Montanans Against Assisted Suicide and for Living with Dignity put an important update on their website concerning the status of Senator Hinkle’s Bill SB 116, the Elder Abuse Prevention Act. There is confusion in Montana related to the Montana Supreme Court – Baxter decision, which did not legalize assisted suicide but gave physicians, if prosecuted, a potential defense of consent. Please read the update: On February 10, 2010, the Senate Judiciary Committee defeated and tabled SB 167, which would have legalized physician-assisted suicide in Montana. Despite this defeat, some assisted suicide proponents are encouraging doctors and others to engage […]
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Baby saved from abortion thanks to pro-life students in Florida!

Students for Life of America receives stories everyday from students about their experiences on campus and their pro-life work in their community. The story below came to us from a student in Florida who was able to help a mother in need, and save a preborn baby. Pro-life students are taking a stand for Life across the country on their campuses and in their communities. SFLA is excited to share the following story with you… —— Today was so exciting! After seeing a 40 Days for Life email about abortions being done at a local abortion facility, I stood resolved […]
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Calling good ‘evil’ and evil ‘good’

In a recent New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof attacked Catholic Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix. Olmsted did something that Kristof considers unconscionable. He made a moral decision that was consistent with the Bible and the teachings of his Church —and he had the audacity to act upon it.
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New Poll Reveals Obama’s Plan To Scrap Conscience Protection Extremely Unpopular

New Poll Reveals Obama’s Plan To Scrap Conscience Protection Extremely Unpopular by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski WASHINGTON, DC, April 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A poll commissioned by the Christian Medical Association (CMA) has shown that 87% of American adults surveyed said it is important to “make sure that healthcare professionals in America are not forced to participate in procedures and practices to which they have moral objections” and that 95% of Christian of physicians agreed with the statement, “I would rather stop practicing medicine altogether than be forced to violate my conscience.” The poll was taken in response to […]
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Second Abortion Increases Risk of Premature Babies 93%: Canadian Study

Second Abortion Increases Risk of Premature Babies 93%: Canadian Study by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White September 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new Canadian study has shown that abortion increases the risk of future premature pregnancies and low birth-weight babies; however, the author has refused to say that abortion should be avoided, instead calling for improved abortion techniques. Published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the Canadian researchers found that women who had undergone a first or second trimester of pregnancy, when most are conducted, increased the risk of low birth-weight babies and premature babies 35 and 36 […]
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Pastor Rick Warren tweet laments 3700 Americans killed by abortion daily

Famed US Evangelical Pastor Rick Warren issued twitter messages last night lamenting the thousands of American children in the womb killed by abortion each day. “I’m glad you were born! Sadly every day 3,700 Americans are denied that right to live. They arent even given a choice,” wrote Warren. The megachurch Pastor followed a few minutes later with a second related tweet about having courage to speak up for life despite societal disapproval. “God commands: ‘Speak up for those who cannot speak up for themselves ‘Pr31:8 Fear disobedience more than human disapproval,” he said.
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French Study: Assisted Reproductive Technology Doubles Risk of Deformity

French Study: Assisted Reproductive Technology Doubles Risk of Deformity by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski PARIS, June 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to the largest study to date on the subject, children conceived by assisted reproductive technology (ART) are almost twice as likely to suffer birth defects compared to children conceived naturally. Dr. Géraldine Viot, a clinical geneticist at the Maternité Port Royal hospital in Paris, France, found that over 4% of children born through ART had some form of congenital deformity, compared to the rate for children conceived naturally of between 2% and 3%. “We found a major congenital […]
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Study: Rates of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Increased 61% After Abortion

Study: Rates of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Increased 61% After Abortion by LifeSiteNews.com PRETORIA, February 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to a study published in the journal BMC Psychiatry, women who have experienced abortion have high levels of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which follow findings from earlier studies linking abortion and PTSD. The study of 155 women in South Africa who had abortions looked at symptoms before abortion and at one month and three months after abortion. Almost one-fifth of the women had symptoms that met the criteria for PTSD, leading the authors to note that “high rates of PTSD characterize […]
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Why Planned Parenthood must be defunded

By now everyone has seen clips of the Live Action videos where Planned Parenthood staffers aid and abet a purported pimp and prostitute seeking abortion, birth control, and STD testing for their underage sex workers. But this is not the primary reason that Planned Parenthood should cease getting one red cent in taxpayer funding. Planned Parenthood is America’s largest abortion provider. They make tens of millions in profit from abortion every year and have over $1 billion in assets. It is well known that the same teenage and college girls who frequent Planned Parenthood’s doors to get the pill for […]
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Assisted suicide bill defeated in the Montana Judiciary Committee

Congratulations to everyone who worked in coalition to successfully defeat Senator Anders Blewett’s bill SB 167 by a vote of 7 – 5 in the Montana Senate Judiciary Committee. SB 167 would have legalized assisted suicide in Montana. Senator Greg Hinkle’s – Elder Abuse Prevention Act – Bill SB 116, which will reverse the Baxter court decision and prohibit assisted suicide in Montana will go to a vote soon. I was told that the majority of the Montana Senators oppose assisted suicide, but many of them are unsure of where Montana citizens stand on the issue of assisted suicide. A […]
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Abortion Kills Your Sex Life Says UK Doctor in Times Column

Abortion Kills Your Sex Life Says UK Doctor in Times Column by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, May 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the May 2 installment of his regular health feature in The Times, Dr. Thomas Stuttaford responded to a reader who complained of a loss of interest in sex following an abortion. “Though my boyfriend and I agreed it was the right thing to do, I feel guilty and I’ve gone off sex,” wrote the questioner. Dr. Stuttaford responded by saying that loss of libido after an abortion is “so common that it can almost be said to […]
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Landmark Study Demonstrates Natural IVF Alternative Effective in Helping Infertile Couples Conceive

Landmark Study Demonstrates Natural IVF Alternative Effective in Helping Infertile Couples Conceive by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LONDON, UK, October 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers from the International Institute of Restorative Reproductive Medicine have published a study in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine which confirms that natural procreative technology, called NaProTechnology or NPT – a non-invasive fertility-care based medical approach to the treatment of infertility – provided live birth rates comparable or superior to more invasive treatments, including assisted reproductive technology (ART) and in vitro fertilization (IVF). NPT was developed from thirty years of scientific […]
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NewsBytes – Islam

Iraqi archbishop warns that West cannot understand risk of 'Islamization,' Nicolas Sarkozy declares multiculturalism had failed, The Lights Are Going Out All Over Europe, more...
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NewsBytes – Life Issues

Hawaii Senate shelves assisted suicide bill, Idaho bill to Make Assisted Suicide a Felony, Abortion Greatest Human Genocide in History, Lila Rose, Doing What Law Enforcement Has Failed to Do, Donald Trump, pro-life convert?,More...
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NewsBytes – Homosexuality

Is there anyone left to defend traditional marriage?, What Will GOProud Bring to the Conservative Table?, Does Sarah Palin support a gay GOP group?, more...
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Aging Population, Low Birth Rate Will Place Massive Economic Burden on Younger Canadians: Report

Aging Population, Low Birth Rate Will Place Massive Economic Burden on Younger Canadians: Report by LifeSiteNews.com By Elizabeth O’Brien OTTAWA, June 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A report released on Friday in the Canadian Economic Observer by Statistics Canada states that the increasing number of aging baby boomers will cause a major decline in overall worker participation within Canada. The recent demographic study reveals that the labor force, that is, the number of workers aged 15 and over, will continue to increase over the next few decades. The labor participation, however – that is, the proportion of labor workers to retired […]
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Six countries, six defeats for euthanasia

Dr. Peter Saunders, the former director of the Care Not Killing Alliance in the UK and a speaker at the upcoming Third International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide that will be in Vancouver BC on June 3 – 4, 2010, yesterday published an article about the fact that euthanasia and assisted suicide bills are being defeated everywhere. His article titled: Six countries, Six defeats was published one day before the bill in Hawaii was unanimously defeat in the Health Committee in Hawaii and his article didn’t report the massive defeat of the euthanasia bill in Western Australia by 24 […]
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The Our Father and pro-life

The Lord gave us the Our Father as the model of all prayer. The first two words of that prayer tell us why we are pro-life. There is one Father of us all, the One who gives both divine life and the natural human life which is its prerequisite. The Father is the Creator, and if He is “our” Father, then what does that make us? We are all brothers and sisters in one human family. One Father entrusts us to the care of each other. We are to seek the good of one another. This is why Paul exhorts […]
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On Fox News Fearless HLI Priest Takes on Sean Hannity over Contraception, Hannity ‘Loses it’

On Fox News Fearless HLI Priest Takes on Sean Hannity over Contraception, Hannity ‘Loses it’ by LifeSiteNews.com Editorial by John-Henry Westen Editor LifeSiteNews.com NEW YORK, March 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Friday, the President of Human Life International, Fr. Tom Euteneuer used his weekly column to point out the hypocrisy of Catholic celebrity Sean Hannity, one of the stars of Fox News’ Hannity and Colmes show. Hannity had, on a show the week before, made a big deal of apologizing for having inadvertently eaten a couple of bites of a meat sandwich on a Friday during Lent. In his column, […]
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NewsBytes February 4 – Militant Islam

Militant Islam is winning, Egypt sends apostates to death, Muslim Brotherhood, 14-year-old rape victim whipped to death, Radical Imam's frightening prediction, World Muslim Population doubling, more...
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CANADIANS EXPORTING SUICIDE “EXIT BAG”

CANADIANS EXPORTING SUICIDE “EXIT BAG” by LifeSiteNews.com SYDNEY, Australia, Aug 21, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Australian media are reporting that the Canadian Right to Die Network is exporting a how-to guide to suicide along with a specially designed plastic bag for self-suffocation. Made in Ottawa, the bags are marketed for $30 (US) and offered along with a book on suicide drugs for $16 (US). An advertisement for the suicide kit notes that the “exit bag”, to be used for “self-deliverance”, is made of “clear strong industrial plastic” with “an adjustable collar (with elastic sewn into the back and a six-inch Velcro […]
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Commentary on February 3 News

LifeSiteNews reports often depend on credible tips from readers. South Dakota bill is astonishing. Filipino bishops a wonderful example to the world. Confronting and acting on the truths about homosexuality - We pay now, or we pay later - at a much higher price.
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Commentary on Feb. 2 News

Senate defeats repeal, More on Euteneuer controversy, last March for Life photos now on line, audio of Bachmann Rose Dinner talk, Improvements to Last Ten Days, View all Stories on One Page.
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Abortion, pre-requisite for higher education?

Over the past four months, I have been eagerly reading 200 health care policies to investigate how many colleges and universities across the country cover elective abortions and how many require that their students enroll in these abortion health care plans. The results are astounding…not only in what we have reported but also the fact that colleges and universities have now taken it upon themselves to promote and institutionalize elective abortions. Colleges and Universities should be places where students can go to learn and prepare themselves to enter into the workforce as enlightened individuals. Instead, they are being required to […]
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Commentary on February 1 News

Statement by Father Euteneuer to LifeSiteNews, Page 3 of March for Life photos now online, formatting problem with viewing photos in Internet Explorer corrected, impressive photos on Life Prizes Awards.
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National Porn Sunday October 9

National Porn Sunday October 9 by LifeSiteNews.com LOS ANGELES, October 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hundreds of churches across the US plan to participate in National Porn Sunday, a one-day event designed to start the conversation about the issues surrounding pornography, “America’s ‘dirty little secret,'” according to Porn Sunday creators, xxxchurch.com. The focus of Porn Sunday is to get churches and pastors talking about the issue of pornography and sexual addictions, according to its founders, California pastors Mike Foster and Craig Gross. The two founded xxxchurch.com in 2002, which they dub “the No. 1 Christian porn site.” “Churches in the past […]
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