The group rallied at Dundas Square from 12 to 1 in downtown Toronto, completely filling the entire perimeter around the square and then marched to Queen’s Park.
"The CTV story left viewers with the impression that our charity misrepresents its services and misleads women in crisis, which is absolutely untrue,” said Brian Norton.
The Guttmacher Institute relied on the opinions of health care workers to estimate the number of abortion procedures and complication rates. In other words, there was no objective data.
“I can tell you that here at Planned Parenthood we believe that it’s not up to us to decide what is a good or a bad reason for somebody to decide to terminate a pregnancy,” said the New York employee.
Gay Human Rights Complaint Against Calgary Bishop Dropped – Was All About Getting Media Attention by LifeSiteNews.com CALGARY, August (LifeSiteNews.com) – Norm Greenfield, who launched a human rights complaint against Calgary Bishop Fred Henry, has admitted to the media that his actions were done in order to attract media attention.Ã Greenfield launched his complaint after Bishop Henry released a pastoral letter explaining Catholic teaching on the subject of homosexuality. (See the letter here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/jan/050113a.html ) At a conciliation session at the Alberta Human Rights Commission headquarters yesterday, in a session mediated by a human rights commission lawyer, Greenfield met with […]
Photos of Port Coquitlam, B.C. Knights of Columbus Hall Dispute Lesbians’ Claims by LifeSiteNews.com PORT COQUITLAM, BC, December 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two lesbians awarded damages from a BC Human Rights Tribunal for being denied a Knights of Columbus hall rental for their same-sex “wedding” claimed they were completely unaware that the hall was affiliated with the Catholic Church. Pictures of the hall obtained by LifeSiteNews.com reveal its undeniableÃinclusion in a complex that included Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church and Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic School. Not only do the pictures reveal that the hall isÃpart of […]
Second Saskatchewan Marriage Commissioner Files Human Rights Complaint by LifeSiteNews.com REGINA, February 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A second Saskatchewan marriage commissioner has filed a complaint with the provincial Human Rights Commission after being told he must perform same-sex “weddings” or resign. Regina Marriage Commissioner Orville Nichols added his complaint today to that of Prince Albert commissioner Bruce Goertzen, who filed his complaint Friday. Nichols argues that, although marriage commissioners are technically self-employed, the province actually prescribes the fees set, the location and hours of work, so commissioners are in reality employees of the province. As such, commissioners are entitled to […]
Reasoning Behind France’s Rejection of Same Sex Marriage Published in English by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen MONTREAL, March 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In late January, a 30 member parliamentary commission of the French National Assembly published a 453 page Report on the Family and the rights of Children, which rejected same-sex marriage.Ã (Original coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/06021601.html ) That report, available only in French has been carefully examined by Louis DeSerres the bilingual national co-ordinator of ‘Preserve Marriage – Protect Children’s Rights’ (www.preservemarriage.ca )Ãwho has produced an English-language two page executive summary of the reasons behind the report’s rejection of homosexual ‘marriage’. […]
Despite Lawsuits Bishop Henry Refusing to Back Down ‘One Iota’ on Homosexual “Marriage” by LifeSiteNews.com CALGARY, March 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Even in the face of two human rights complaints, Calgary Bishop Fred Henry is refusing to back down over his pastoral and public statements on same-sex marriage, in which he faithfully presented the Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexuality. “Since homosexuality, adultery, prostitution and pornography undermine the foundations of the family, the basis of society, then the State must use its coercive power to proscribe or curtail them in the interests of the common good,” Bishop Henry said in a […]
Ontario Supreme Court Imposes New Definition Of Marriage As Including Homosexuals by LifeSiteNews.com TORONTO, June 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled this morning that homosexual ‘marriage’ is now a right guaranteed by the Charter of Rights, and thus re-wrote Canadian law on the matter. The court rendered invalid the existing definition of marriage to the extent that it refers to “one man and one woman” and reformulated the definition of marriage as “the voluntary union for life of two persons to the exclusion of all others”. The justices ordered their redefinition of marriage to have “immediate […]
Decline in Number and Rate of U.S. Abortions Continues, New Analysis Shows by LifeSiteNews.com NEW YORK, August 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new analysis from a pro-abortion group, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, shows that U.S. abortion rates continued to decline in 2001 and 2002, although the rate of decline has slowed since the early 1990s. The Institute estimates that 1,303,000 abortions took place in the United States in 2001—0.8% fewer than the 1,313,000 in 2000. In 2002, the number of abortions declined again, to 1,293,000, or another 0.8%. The rate of abortion also declined, from 21.3 procedures per 1,000 women […]
Canada Abruptly Ends Special Visas for Exotic Dancers after Inquiries into Underage Strippers by LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, December 1, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today in the House of Commons, Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan announced an abrupt end to the Canadian scheme of arranging visas specifically for exotic dancers, or strippers, which are used to fill positions at strip clubs in Canada. Those clubs, it has been acknowledged even by club owners, are notorious for forced back-room prostitution work. Weeks of House of Commons questioning directed at Immigration Minister Judy Sgro for her issuance of an exotic dancer visa to one of […]
Numerous commentators have drawn parallels between the Mexican fight and the current fight for religious freedom in the U.S. against the Obama admin's birth control mandate.
Calling the event "Gay Pride 2012," despite the ban, protesters held rainbow flags and signs, and made declarations to the media. At least one wore a Wicca symbol on her neck.
Ontario’s Liberal leader is walking his party off the same plank that took his federal cousins from “natural governing party” to the humiliating status of “third place losers” in the 2011 election.
Bishop Tom Williams, said, "Both religion and conscientious objection seem to be treated as problems to be minimised and circumscribed as much as possible."
Conservative MP Steve Woodworth’s historic motion (M-312) to debate the personhood of unborn Canadians in Parliament is set for June 13th, the MP revealed Tuesday.
Dozens of young people are set to launch the “New Abortion Caravan” in Vancouver Tuesday as an anti-abortion version of the 1970 campaign that sought to repeal Canada's abortion laws.
"A lot of doctors will place judgment because the brain is already developed, a lot. Pretty much everything's already developed," a Planned Parenthood worker tells the camera.
Catholic commentators have pointed out that the debate has given the Church an opportunity to educate the faithful on what it believes about contraception.
Catholic young people not afraid to openly profess their faith in a city that was once the marvel of the Catholic world, but has now largely become a spiritual wasteland of secularism and hedonism.
Six-year-old Daisy can become a doctor for dolphins only if we pay for her birth control? Ten-year-old Caroline should give up her military dreams now?
Pope Benedict Opposes Harry Potter Novels by LifeSiteNews.com RIMSTING, Germany, June 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the sixth issue of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – is about to be released, the news that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prior to his elevation to the Pontificate, had denounced the wildly popular series has resurfaced.Ã In 2003, a month after the English press throughout the world falsely proclaimed that Pope John Paul II approved of Harry Potter, the man who was to become his successor sent a letter to a Catholic German critic of Harry Potter […]
In Canada, the Ontario government’s fierce determination to force all Catholic and other schools to accept anti-Christian, homosexuality normalizing Gay Straight Alliances is now getting ugly. The Ontario bishops’ organization strategy of working quietly behind the scenes, rather than supporting the thousands of parents who have been valiantly fighting the government imposition and unsuccessfully pleading with the bishops’ to publicly join them, has been an entirely predictable failure. The bishops have been quietly assuring deeply concerned Catholics for the last few years that “it is being taken care of” and urging the parents’ groups to stop their public demonstrations. This […]
PPFA supports funding for UNFPA which assists Beijing's forced abortion policy, is institutionally tied to its enablers, and critics say Planned Parenthood performs abortions on coerced women in its clinics everyday.
No less than 127 individual studies of women from all around the world show that both induced and spontaneous abortion is associated with an increased risk of preterm birth.
“Parents and supporters ought to flood Dalton McGuinty with a firestorm of complaints, contact their local MPP, and spread the word to everybody they know,” said Jack Fonseca.
Minister of Education Laurel Broten told reporters she is introducing an amendment that will prevent schools from barring use of the name gay-straight alliance for the clubs.
Pro-life Wisconsin has issued a video with a brief but straightforward message: in a world increasingly aware of human rights, can it be long before the battle is won for recognizing personhood for all human beings – born and unborn?
Researchers at three North American universities have found that people who have children “report relatively higher levels of happiness, positive emotion, and meaning in life."
Guest post by Cassie Farrell Joyce Arthur’s recent piece in the Huffington Post is one that is ripe with inconsistencies and misleading statements, and it’s no surprise given that she has had a slobbering love affair with the traditionally dishonest pro-abortion movement for years. As Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, Arthur bemoans what she believes was a recent attack on a woman’s “right” to abortion, and insists that pro-lifers are more concerned with controlling women rather than with defending the life and dignity of preborn human person. Despite the fact that Stephen Woodworth’s Motion 312 aims […]
“Bishop Blaire's real concern" is that the lawsuits will "play into the hands of the Republican Party and hurt the re-election chances of President Obama,” Deal Hudson told LifeSiteNews.com.
A spokesman for the Minnesota Catholic Conference decried the letters as "unfortunate attempts by some to divide Catholics from their shepherds, their bishops."
Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller says abortion and other “threats against life” “eat away at the moral fiber of civilization itself, leading it to return to a state of barbarism, where life is treated trivially.”
Pennsylvania legislators have proposed a new bill to remove state funding from Planned Parenthood, while the Louisiana senate has passed a bill banning most abortions after 20 weeks.
"It would make a lot more sense for Target to help raise money for traditional marriage," Chuck Darrell of Minnesota for Marriage told LifeSiteNews.com.
Prince Alois had threatened to veto a referendum to legalize abortion, and now the prince is saying he will step down if the country curtails his veto powers.
Cheryl Sullenger of Operation Rescue told LifeSiteNews.com that information raises concern Carhart may be violating Nebraska's ban on late-term abortions.
The Vatican is backing a petition campaign in the European Union that seeks a debate towards enshrining personhood for the unborn from the moment of conception.
First Debate on Canada’s Coercive Abortion Bill Set for Monday by LifeSiteNews.com By Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, October 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –”Roxanne’s Law,” the Canadian private members bill that seeks to criminalize the coercion of pregnant women into obtaining abortions, is slated for its first hour of debate this Monday, November 1st. The bill, proposed by Conservative Member of Parliament Rod Bruinooge (Winnipeg South), is inspired by the case of Roxanne Fernando, a Manitoba woman whose boyfriend attempted to coerce her to have an abortion after she became pregnant in 2007. After refusing to have the unborn child killed, […]
A large family in Saskatchewan is crying foul after government officials at the Canadian border impounded their Canadian purchased vehicle after it had been modified in the U.S.
The kindest thing one can say about a person who ignores the issue, ignores the facts and ignores the consequences is that he is a misguided ignoramus.
U.S. Young Adults More Pro-Life: Gallup by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert PRINCETON, New Jersey, March 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The percentage of young adults in the U.S. favouring legalized abortion has undergone a significant drop, falling below all other age groups except seniors, according to a Gallup poll released Friday. The poll results also indicate that young adults are now the group most likely (23%) to favor making abortion illegal in all circumstances. Michael Barnett, director of American Life League’s LiveCampus project, said the poll backs anecdotal evidence gathered on college campuses nationwide. “Abortion doesn’t make sense to a generation […]
MP Ken Epp responds to the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada’s Claims about Unborn Victims of Crim by LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, August 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – MP for Edmonton-Sherwood Park, Ken Epp, released today a report responding to claims made by the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada in an article by ARCC Coordinator Joyce Arthur entitled “Bill C-484 Endangers Abortion Rights and Women’s Rights by Establishing Fetal Personhood.” Epp is the sponsor of Bill C-484, the so-called Unborn Victims of Crime bill, which would make it a separate crime to injure or kill an unborn child in a violent attack on […]
The measure will “further infringe on the religious freedoms of Christians, and the majority of mainstream Americans who do not accept such alternative lifestyles as normal,” said a local Christian businessman.
"[T]he best way to begin to turn around our struggling, crime-ridden, fatherless communities — and the only way to save the futures of terrified, miserable children — is to acknowledge the facts and policies that brought us here,” Marcus wrote.
Closing a clinic implicated in three botched abortions "is an example of what can be accomplished when pro-life groups work together," says Operation Rescue president Troy Newman.
Read my previous post here. Only four days after former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline filed a blistering motion asking that two Kansas Supreme Court justices recuse themselves from deciding whether to suspend his law license, the Supremes announced yesterday that FIVE of the seven would be doing so. Their rationale, according to the The Topeka Capital-Journal: The five justices voluntarily stepped aside, citing the Kansas Code of Judicial Conduct rule that requires recusal when a judge “previously presided as a judge over the matter in another court.” Without ever mentioning Kline’s motion, the five stated it “would not be […]
Vietnamese Abortion Rates Skyrocket; Doctors Anguished by the Killing by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski HANOI, Vietnam, March 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rising abortion rates, especially among unmarried teens, and widespread sex-selective abortions, are causing psychological trauma to many Vietnamese doctors, according to VietNamNet report. Dr. Nguyen Thi Hong Minh, director of the Central Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital in Hanoi, said she more and more frequently has to confront her “worst fears, having to abort unborn babies that are 20-22 weeks old, when their bodies are fully formed,” as the number of mothers seeking abortion steadily increases. Minh said her […]
Chen, who was targeted for retribution by the Communist Party for defending Chinese women forcibly aborted under the one-child policy, said that he hoped others would join him in his fight for justice in his home country.
In Ottawa Thurs. May 24, 2012 | 7:15PM More info here: https://www.socon.ca/michael-voris-coming-to-town/ In Toronto Sat. May 26, 2012 9:45AM For more info: https://www.catholicchapterhouse.com/new-evangelization-michael-voris-toronto
According to statements posted on the Ursuline Academy of Dallas website, Gates gave $5 milllion dollars to the school in 2006, $2 million in 2007 and $1.5 million in 2012.
The Moscow city government has declined to issue a permit for a "gay pride" parade for the seventh year in a row, defying a European Court of Human Rights ruling against the city in 2010.
We put out a lot of coverage of Canada’s National March for Life in Ottawa, but I have to admit it is impossible to convey all the great things that occurred from Wednesday evening through to Friday afternoon. It was the most energizing March for Life that most of us had ever experienced. What was prominent throughout was the overwhelming presence of very enthusiastic youth who added high, positive energy to all the events. Many of them were inspired by the events and they in turn inspired each other and all others who participated or viewed the march activities. For […]
PUEBLO, Colorado, May 18, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sarah Nelson, 22, was going through a challenging chapter in her faith journey in 2001 as she served in leadership at a successful megachurch in Denver, Colorado. She and her fiancee Brandon loved their church and the fellowship it provided, but Sarah could not shake off the feeling there was something missing. At her Christian church, one thing that was impressed upon her was that abortion was wrong. For as long as she can remember, Sarah had always considered herself “very pro-life and absolutely against abortion.” One day, while praying for an end […]
Sir Paul Coleridge said that marriage is the “gold standard for relationships” and that its erosion through easy divorce is “one of the most destructive scourges of our time.”
Dismantling of the family, attacks against parental rights and times of trouble for faith-based schools are looming large for France with the country's new socialist president, François Hollande.
On May 10 the Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus were honorary co-hosts of a wordy briefing entitled, “African Americans’ Attitudes on Abortion, Contraception, and Reproductive, Justice: From Public Opinion to Policymaking,” held at the U.S. Capitol. On the agenda: – “numerous challenges to accessing quality, affordable reproductive health care… exacerbated by campaigns targeting the African American community” – “research on the latest attitudes and concerns of African Americans relating to reproductive justice” – “key messaging as a response to attacks and threats to reproductive rights” Organizers were obviously alarmed by the inroads pro-lifers have made into the black […]
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is taking advantage of the upcoming Rio+20 conference in June to promote population control and reproductive rights as the backbone of sustainable development and poverty eradication.
Canadian sportscaster fired for tweet supporting traditional marriage comments on attacks against Filipino boxer who publicly disagreed with Barak Obama's support for homosexual "marriage".
In the last ten years, Hong Kong has become a refuge of sorts for couples seeking to have a second child under China's strictly, and often brutally enforced One Child Policy.
The U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) has warned that it was prepared to take the Obama administration to court if it won't rescind a rule forcing religious employers to pay for employees' birth control.
Three socialist parties in the government, have passed a resolution demanding the exclusion of the local bishop from all local government functions for preaching always held Catholic Church doctrines on homosexual behavior.
Bishop Martin J. Amos caused a national media uproar on Monday after he stated that the award should not be a public part of Fuller's graduation ceremony.
A spokesman said the shopping center is for "all Angelenos" and "not a place for intolerance," and therefore Pacquiao would be banned from its premises.
In light of the recent push across the country for anti-bullying bills, a Conservative MP is calling for a ban on "the most cruel and most common bullying of all": abortion.
Members of the Final Exit Network (FEN) have been on trial in Arizona, Georgia and now Minnesota, but for most concerned people the question is – who are the Final Exit Network? The first place to look for information about FEN is from Stephen Drake, the research analyst for the disability rights group Not Dead Yet. Drake has been following FEN for many years and is an expert on FEN. Many people know about the Hemlock Society that was co-founded by Derek Humphry, who co-wrote the book Jean’s Way (a story of how he helped to kill his first wife) […]
A Toronto Catholic elementary school is under fire after hosting a “transgendered” Miss Universe Canada contestant on Tuesday in the run-up to the annual spectacle this weekend.
Recently Pope Benedict emphasized to U.S. bishops that reform of Catholic universities is the “most urgent challenge” facing the Church in the country.
Canada’s federal government says a tax-funded “tell-all” sex exhibit at Ottawa’s Museum of Science and Technology “cannot be defended” and they are calling on LifeSiteNews readers to complain to the museum.
“This exhibit includes what can only be described as soft pornography," says Dave Quist, executive director for the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada.
Lahey has accepted the Decree of Dismissal, which also requires him to pray the Liturgy of the Hours in reparation for the harm and the scandal he has caused.
At the French language March for Life Mass Quebec City Archbishop Gérald Lacroix said "history has proven... that wherever the rights of the unborn child are not respected, other rights are sooner or later compromised."
Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and South Dakota already have laws that allow pharmacists to refuse to fill a prescription for emergency contraceptives.
USAID LEAVES $137 MILLION UNACCOUNTED FOR IN POPULATION CONTROL REPORT by LifeSiteNews.com Taxpayers ask: ‘Who received our $137 million in population control funds?’ WASHINGTON, May 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – “The United States Agency for International Development cannot determine to whom it gave $137 million for population control in fiscal year 2000,” said Ed Szymkowiak, national director of STOPP International, a division of American Life League. “That’s our tax money. Any private company that had such pathetic accounting practices would be out of business.” The USAID report, “Overview of USAID Population Assistance FY 2000,” states that of its $353 million in […]
‘Family Planning’ Groups Spreading AIDS in Africa with Depo Provera, New Study Warns by LifeSiteNews.com NEW YORK, September 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With its insistence on the use of injected contraceptives, health organizations pushing Depo Provera have been spreading AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases in the developing world. A new study by the National Institutes of Health, University of North Carolina and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have found that the use of injected hormonal contraceptives increases the risk of STD’s. Charles Morrison of Family Health International in Research Triangle Park, N.C., who led the study, said that it […]
Bishop Encourages All Priests to Imitate Him by Spending One Hour in Front of Abortion Facility by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman FARGO, September 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Samuel J. Aquila, the Catholic bishop of Fargo, North Dakota, is strongly encouraging his priests to imitate him by praying for an hour in front of an abortion facility during this year’s national “Forty Days for Life”. The “Forty Days for Life”, which is scheduled to take place from September 26th to November 4th of this year, is a program of pro-life activism modeled on the biblically significant number of forty days, […]
US Sexuality Survey Shows Gays 107% More Likely To Engage In Criminal Activities by LifeSiteNews.com COLORADO SPRINGS, CO., June 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A forty-eight page study to be published two weeks from now in the peer-reviewed journal, Psychological Reports, compares extensive and newly released Center for Disease Control (CDC) data, concluding that homosexuals are far more likely to engage in illegal and socially dangerous behaviour than heterosexuals. In fact, according to the study, homosexuals are over 107% more likely to have been booked for illegal activity than heterosexuals. Dr.ÃPaul Cameron of the Family Research Institute led and penned the […]
To a great many observers, the apparent rejection and imminent defeat of Motion 312 in the House of Commons would seem to herald the end of the abortion debate in Canada.
In his homily at the National March for Life Youth Conference, Ottawa's Fr. Anthony Hannan said the only way to save the Catholic schools is to "make them Catholic."
"Why does Bill 13 make repeated, special mention of LGBT anti-bullying initiatives, when such incidents represent only a fraction of the reality of bullying in Ontario schools?” they asked.
“It is time to end abortionists’ money grab at the expense of poor women and their unborn children,” ” said Scott Fischbach, Executive Director of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life.
Dr. Charmaine Yoest said she believes the ruling is part of the “true war on women – a war that puts the agenda of the abortion industry ahead of the needs of women.”
French Catholics Force Homosexualist “Kiss-In” Away from Notre Dame by LifeSiteNews.com By James Tillman PARIS, FRANCE, February 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—French homosexualist demonstrators had planned to have a “kiss in” in front of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris this Valentine’s day. But in response to the protests of a group of young French Catholics and patriots, it was moved away from the church of Our Lady. The kiss-in was ostensibly meant to combat “homophobia.” The organizer of the kiss-in, Arthur Vauthier, had nevertheless said that it was a “way to challenge the Church, to question the Church on the question of […]
“We have every reason to believe” a petition to end the church’s membership in the coalition, but not given a vote, would have passed, a pro-life leader tells LifeSiteNews.
Last Thursday's March for life was an inspiring event with its record crowd and enthusiastic participants. Here are 48 high quality, large photos taken on Parliament Hill before and after the march.
Florida late-term abortionist James Pendergraft’s rap sheet is so long it is hard to believe he is still walking the streets, never mind practicing medicine.
Canada “cannot afford not to have the conversation” about abortion, urged the president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada at the National March for Life on Thursday.
The new prayers offer praise for “the wondrous joy of motherhood” and “the grace and pride of fatherhood, reinforcing what we already believe, but sometimes forget.
A pastoral letter on freedom of conscience and religion today expresses concern about an “aggressive relativism” in Canada that seeks to relegate religion to the private sphere.
The invitation "can only be seen as a statement of where the university stands – certainly not with the Catholic bishops," says an editorial in the Washington archdiocesan newspaper.
Rumors began to spread when a former Planned Parenthood executive converted to Christianity and told her pastor that Planned Parenthood was planning something horrible in Ft. Worth.
According to Gates, the nuns at her old school were delighted to hear about her plans to initiate a global contraceptive campaign and contacted her to tell her: "We're all for you.
Abortion and Euthanasia Bringing about the Demise of Catholic Health Care: Prominent Catholic Obstet by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White, Rome Correspondent ROME, November 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Believing Catholics are being pushed out of the medical professions, especially in areas like obstetrics, by the insistence of secularised medical services on “abortion rights,” contraception and, now, increasingly physician-assisted euthanasia, claims a prominent Catholic obstetrician. Dr. Walley, a Catholic obstetrician, emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and founder of Matercare International, made these remarks during an interview with LifeSiteNews at the 5th conference of Catholic Obstetricians and […]
If the US bishops are serious in their desire to preserve religious liberty, the USCCB must stop issuing statements that distract attention from that cause.
Ted Shulman has repeatedly issued death threats against leading pro-life figures, including Fr. Frank Pavone, Troy Newman, Robert George and Jill Stanek.
Instances of dissidence between bishops and academics, "can easily be exploited to compromise [the Church's] authority and her freedom,” the pope said.
This study contributes to a growing body of peer-reviewed research which documents the positive public-health impact of pro-life parental-involvement laws.
Twilight Breakdown: ‘Girl Porn’ and the Books of Mormon by LifeSiteNews.com Commentary by Kathleen Gilbert edited 7.26.10 FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As the latest Twilight film once more beckons an adoring gaggle of girls of all ages, onlookers watching their daughters, wives, and sisters flood the franchise with their hard-earned money are forced again to ask: just what is so intoxicating about Twilight, and is it ultimately for good or for ill? The answer may not be immediately clear – at least, among those who reject Twilight’s standing as quality literature. Some consider its appeal to […]
Under the constant threat of rain that failed to materialize, an exuberant crowd of nearly 20,000 pro-life activists gathered on Parliament Hill today in Ottawa.
New revelations that the clinic may be breaking the law are only the latest in a long and sordid history of patient injuries, sloppy practices, and dirty conditions.
The mask is off, six months before the election and about a year since he announced that he was willfully violating his Oath of Office by ordering the Justice Department to cease defending the law in court.
"It's Alice through the looking glass. It only gets curiouser and curiouser," Phill Kline said about his bizarre findings about Tiller and Planned Parenthood.
Isn’t a bioethicist who questions the value of human life itself like a physicist who denies the existence of cause and effect or a theologian who denies the existence of God?
Today I want to share with you the following e-mail I received from a pro-abortion person who visited the Priests for Life web site and saw the pictures of aborted babies. She wrote: “I thought that you would like to know that you have changed the mind of at least one person with your web site, me. Although I have never had an abortion myself, I have always thought that it should be a woman’s right to do what she wanted to her body. Today I stand corrected. Thank you for showing me the truth. I will pray for success […]
As thousands flock to Parliament Hill, Canada’s largest city newspaper has profiled the pro-life movement’s “slick, youthful rebranding” in a rare positive piece.
ND Prez Jenkins Has “No Interest” in Asking for Leniency for ND Protesters Despite Calls for “Dialog by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert SOUTH BEND, Indiana, June 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of the University of Notre Dame has “no interest” in interfering with the fates of over 80 peaceful pro-life protesters arrested on campus while protesting President Obama’s May 17 commencement speech, says the pro-lifers’ attorney. One of the arrestees, Lambs of Christ founder Fr. Norman Weslin, issued a statement Monday calling on University president Fr. John Jenkins to heed the arrested group’s requests to meet, which Weslin says […]
The Vatican’s newspaper has published an article by historian Lucetta Scaraffia concerning the translation into Italian for the first time of the 1920 book by Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche, titled, Allowing the destruction of life unworthy of life. The article, “If Life is ‘unworthy of being lived” (see below) offers an historical evaluation of the importance of the book and then it concludes that the basic ideology of the book – i.e. eugenics, or in other words, the elimination of people who are genetically “inferior” or mentally ill – is alive and well in this culture. Many people wrongly […]
The intense, short video, presents viewers with a riddle to solve: "It once signalled the coming of a great injustice. Now it will make the invisible victims visible."
The bill would not only strike a preemptive blow against same-sex “marriage,” but would further strengthen marriage by ending heterosexual domestic partnerships.
A White House document says that as "crazy as it may sound," a "baby that has not yet been born" must be included in the overall count of guests in a White House tour.
Academy member Dr. Josef Seifert wrote that "February 24, the day of the fertility conference, was possibly the worst day in the history of the PAV", for its "ignoring of ethical concerns, direct contradictions of Catholic teaching" and other reasons.
One of the best ways to see how to violate all the rules of logic is to examine the arguments – if you can call them arguments at all – of those who try to defend abortion.
World renowned chastity speaker and pro-life convert Dawn Eden has just released a new book about how to find healing for sexual wounds with the help of Catholic saints.
Yesterday it emerged that Mitt Romney’s new twin grandchildren were born with the help of a surrogate mother. Three of Mitt Romney’s sons have resorted to IVF to create their families
A deal may soon be brokered to allow Chen Guangcheng and his family to leave China to take up a fellowship at an America university, according to U.S. State Department officials.
LifeSiteNews went to Graham Preston's home just before his arrest. We see his family getting ready for his departure, interview Graham and watch his rather civilized (compared to what usually happens in North America) arrest.
His career was destroyed after his iconic shot of an unborn child's fist reaching out in the midst of surgery. He now travels the world telling his story.
Local Catholic ratepayer states, "If you won't be faithful to Catholic teaching on homosexuality, how can you continue to call yourself a Catholic school board."
Since then, two of the three proposals of the Pope in addressing the matter have been taken up in full force, but one of those proposals remains largely unheeded.
As the US bishops fight Obama’s contraception mandate, the Ottawa Catholic School Board admits its health plan covers contraceptives, including abortifacients.
You've probably seen it, but if you haven't here it is: the following story has gone viral on social networking sites, spreading a simple, but powerful pro-life message wherever it goes.
Frozen Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Cure Toddler’s Cancer by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White BRISTOL, UK, February 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A two year old girl from Suffolk has been cured of a rare form of cancer using genetically matched adult stem cells from a Japanese donor. Last week, news reports around the world revealed Sorrel Mason, a toddler from Great Wratting in Suffolk suffering from acute myeloid leukaemia, received a transplant of donated cells from a frozen umbilical cord from Tokyo. Sorrel’s mother, Samantha Mason, told media, “Sorrel would be dead now if she had been left untreated.” The little […]
"Hundreds of millions of young people spend the most formative years of their lives watching music videos which often promote an openly destructive lifestyle," says the group's founder.
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