D.C. fetal pain ban fails in U.S. House

A bill that would have prohibited abortions after 20 weeks gestation based on the unborn child's capacity to feel pain has failed to clear the 2/3 majority hurdle it needed to pass in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Birth control and disinformation: the risks of philanthropy

By Giulia Galeotti. Translated by Matthew Hoffman. Some weeks ago, during a meeting organized in London by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, by the United Nations and by the British government, the wife of the founder of Microsoft announced that, during the next eight years, she will spend 450 million Euros to research new techniques of birth control, improve information regarding contraception and make services and devices available in the poorest countries of the planet, particularly Africa. In a CNN interview, Melinda Gates has stated that for her, a Catholic, giving to women improved access to contraception is a […]
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British Tory Leader Supports Unlimited Abortion for Disabled Unborn Children

British Tory Leader Supports Unlimited Abortion for Disabled Unborn Children by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, August 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The leader of Britain’s Tory opposition party has stated that he supports eugenic abortion for disabled infants up to the time of birth. In the build-up to party conference season in the autumn, David Cameron was asked if he would be willing to change the law, amended in 1990, that allows disabled children to be aborted at any time of gestation up to the point of birth. “If in power would you favour measures to reverse this discrimination by […]
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Two More Undercover Videos of Planned Parenthood Rape Cover-Ups Set for Release

Two More Undercover Videos of Planned Parenthood Rape Cover-Ups Set for Release by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert ARIZONA, March 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two more videos exposing illegal cover-ups of sexual abuse by Planned Parenthood employees are due for release tomorrow by Live Action Media, a pro-life student group that has received national attention by exposing the illegal practices of the abortion giant. Earlier Live Action videos were the inspiration behind a California county board of supervisors’ recent decision to de-fund Planned Parenthood. The videos will be the fourth and fifth installments of the Mona Lisa Project, a series of […]
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Vancouver Diocese Exits Credit Union Program Over Institution’s Support for Homosexual Agenda

Vancouver Diocese Exits Credit Union Program Over Institution’s Support for Homosexual Agenda by LifeSiteNews.com VANCOUVER, September 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vancouver Sun reports today that Archbishop Adam Exner has ended the participation by four diocesan Catholic schools in an otherwise excellent VanCity Credit Union program because the financial institution actively supports a pro-homosexual agenda. The decision was finally prompted, says the Sun, after the large credit union launched an ad campaign with two men sitting cheek-to-cheek, saying, “I want to bank with people who value all partnerships”. This was the most recent in a series of pro-homosexual actions taken […]
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Vatican: Abortion in Rape Cases is “Violence Answered with Further Violence, Murder with Murder”

Vatican: Abortion in Rape Cases is “Violence Answered with Further Violence, Murder with Murder” by LifeSiteNews.com By Elizabeth O’Brien VATICAN CITY, August 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an exclusive interview with Vatican Radio on Sunday evening, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican official who is second only to Pope Benedict XVI, spoke of his regret over Amnesty International’s newly adopted advocacy of abortion in cases of rape or when the mother’s life is in danger. Referring to the organization’s official confirmation of this “selective abortion” stance, given at its International Council Meeting last week, Cardinal Bertone stated, […]
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New York Times Likely to Dump Ombudsman after Abortion Bias Exposed

New York Times Likely to Dump Ombudsman after Abortion Bias Exposed by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, January 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New York Times is seriously contemplating removing its public editor (ombudsman) position which was instituted in 2003 to be an independent voice for the public within the paper in order to maintain credibility. The new move comes in the wake of current public editor Byron Calame’s confirmation that LifeSiteNews.com was correct in asserting the Times made a major error in reporting on criminal penalties for abortion in El Salvador. The first recorded mention of the intention […]
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Still Sexually Attracted to Men but Happily Married to a Woman

Still Sexually Attracted to Men but Happily Married to a Woman by LifeSiteNews.com Special to LifeSiteNews.com by Warren Throckmorton, PhD I have a friend named Jim, who many people would think of as gay, or at least bisexual. However, he doesn’t see himself that way. He is married but has been attracted to men for as long as he can remember. His wife is the only girl he has ever been with and he says, “She is still the only woman that turns me on.” Although I am not Jim’s counselor, he and I often talk about matters of sexuality […]
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Conservative Party Tells Candidates not to Answer Pro-Life Questionnaires Then Denies it

Conservative Party Tells Candidates not to Answer Pro-Life Questionnaires Then Denies it by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, January 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Across the country Conservative candidates have been telling the pro-life group Campaign Life Coalition that they are being forbidden to answer the group’s pro-life questionnaire. Several candidates even sent in an unsigned memo claiming it came from party headquarters saying that answering questionnaires was not allowed. While Party officials denied the charges in comments to LifeSiteNews.com, new information has shown that the directives did indeed come from Party headquarters. LifeSiteNews.com was informed by the Conservative press office […]
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Germany Pulls Booklet Encouraging Parent-Child Sexual Massage, but not Child Song Book Encouraging M

Germany Pulls Booklet Encouraging Parent-Child Sexual Massage, but not Child Song Book Encouraging M by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen BERLIN, July 31, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After severe criticism from German and Polish parents, medical and psychological experts the German government’s Ministry for Family Affairs has pulled two booklets aimed at parents of toddlers and young children which advocated parent-child sexual massage. In addition to encouraging fathers to massage their infant daughter’s private parts, the documents encourage unlimited masturbation. (see LifeSiteNews.com coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/jul/07073008.html ) Reported on by LifeSiteNews.com yesterday, the content of the booklets were first brought to light in Germany […]
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“Evidence Doesn’t Matter” in APA Abortion Advocacy

“Evidence Doesn’t Matter” in APA Abortion Advocacy by LifeSiteNews.com Special to LifeSiteNews.com from the Elliot Institute SPRINGFIELD, IL, Springfield, IL (Feb. 15, 2005)—According to a spokesperson for the American Psychological Association, the APA’s pro-choice position, first adopted in 1969, is based on a civil rights view, not on scientific proof of any mental health benefits arising from abortion. The admission that ideology, not science, governs the APA’s support for abortion came in response to a request by a Washington Times columnist for the organization’s reaction to a new study linking abortion to mental illness. The study tracked 25 years worth […]
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World Youth Day Cardinal Forbids French Dissident Bishop from Speaking in Cologne

World Youth Day Cardinal Forbids French Dissident Bishop from Speaking in Cologne by LifeSiteNews.com COLOGNE, November 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne, who will host the upcoming 2005 World Youth Day, has used canon law to prevent a French dissident bishop from speaking in his archdiocese. Cardinal Meisner employed a rarely used provision of canon law, Canon 763, which allows a bishop to prevent another bishop from speaking in his diocese for a serious reason. French bishop Jacques Gaillot, planned to speak on October 28 in Bonn on the topic “Being Christian in the Third Millennium: A […]
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NICARAGUAN GIRL, 9, RECEIVES ABORTION

NICARAGUAN GIRL, 9, RECEIVES ABORTION by LifeSiteNews.com MANAGUA, February 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pregnant nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl whose parents lobbied hard for Nicaraguan officials to authorize an abortion of their unborn grandchild, has now had the abortion, a pro-abortion group reported on Friday. Nicaraguan Health Secretary Lucia Salvo, who supported the action, described the child’s condition as “stable.” The parents said the girl was raped in Costa Rica. Nicaragua’s Family Ministry said it would prosecute anyone who helped the family obtain an abortion. The Roman Catholic Cardinal-Archbishop of Managua also tried to dissuade the family, offering to protect the […]
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$5000 Fine Sought For Christian Marriage Commissioner Who Declined Gay Couple

$5000 Fine Sought For Christian Marriage Commissioner Who Declined Gay Couple by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White SASKATOON, April 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canadian Christian civil marriage commissioner in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Orville Nichols, could face up to $5000 in fines for having referred a homosexual couple to a different commissioner. Human Rights Commission lawyer Janice Gingell asked the tribunal to find that Nichols contravened the code and order him to pay $5,000 in compensation to the complainant. The 70 year-old Mr. Nichols used a clearly religious-based conscience argument for his refusal, saying his faith guides his daily life, that he […]
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Mississippi meadows and the killing fields of New York

Mississippi is down to its last abortion mill, and if it closes we’ll have the first state in the Union without an abortion mill in the forty years since Roe. That’s quite an accomplishment, and the people of Mississippi and the many pro-life groups from around the nation who have made that happen are to be congratulated. It takes quite a bit of education, activism, and prayer to make an abortion-free Mississippi happen. In a state with a large African American population, that is an especially welcome reprieve from the eugenic decimation of African Americans in New York City, where […]
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New survey on teen sexual activity fails to present whole story

A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has received plenty of media coverage this past week. It presents historical data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey on the sexual activity of high-school students. The results indicate that there were declines in minors’ sexual activity during the 1990s. However, those declines have stalled in the current decade. The study is very detailed and presents data on various measures of teen sexual activity. These include the percentage of teens who have ever had sex, the percentage of teens who have had sex with four or more partners, […]
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Catholic group launches emergency Novena regarding scandal of Catholic Relief Services

Our Lady of America Newsletter of July, 26 2012 launched an “Urgent Call to Prayer” to address the scandal of the international charity arm of the US Bishops’ Conference funding pro-contraception groups. The newsletter invites Catholics to pray an “Emergency Novena Against CRS Imprudence of Associating with Impure Anti-Life Groups.” The prayers are aimed at “the specific purpose that prudent bishops will successfully correct the imprudent bishops and the staff association with the monstrous payment of funds to such impure and anti-life forces.” Click here to join in the novena.
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IRONY: NGO Funded by Canadian Bishops’ D&P Battles East Timor Bishops over Abortion

IRONY: NGO Funded by Canadian Bishops’ D&P Battles East Timor Bishops over Abortion by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac East Timor, April 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) has learned that a pro-abortion NGO that is going head-to-head with East Timor’s Catholic bishops in an effort to legalize abortion in the strongly Catholic country, is funded by the Canadian Catholic bishop’s official development arm, the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P). Early last month the second International Women for Peace conference took place in East Timor, a country where upwards of 95% of residents are Catholic. At the conclusion […]
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Studies Show Abstinence Education Works: Heritage Foundation Report

Studies Show Abstinence Education Works: Heritage Foundation Report by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac WASHINGTON, D.C., April 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abstinence education is “crucial to the physical and psycho-emotional well-being of the nation’s youth,” concludes a detailed report released by the Heritage Foundation. The report, “Abstinence Education: Assessing the Evidence”, released yesterday, examines 21 studies of abstinence education programs, and concludes that statistics show that abstinence programs are effective in deterring teens from becoming sexually active, thereby reducing the risk of STDs, teen pregnancy, etc. The release of the report preceded today’s hearing of the U.S. House of Representative’s Committee […]
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Free Speech Affirmed for Christians Arrested While Sharing Faith

Free Speech Affirmed for Christians Arrested While Sharing Faith by LifeSiteNews.com HAMPTON, N.H., December 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal district court issued an order Wednesday that bars the arbitrary enforcement of a state law against “unreasonable and loud noise” while a lawsuit against the law moves forward. The ordinance was used to arrest two men who were sharing their faith and singing worship songs on a public sidewalk in the Hampton Beach area. Alliance Defense Fund allied attorneys filed suit last month on behalf of the two men challenging the vague state law. “The government shouldn’t harass and threaten […]
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NY Nurse Forced to Help with Abortion Files Another Suit against Hospital

NY Nurse Forced to Help with Abortion Files Another Suit against Hospital by LifeSiteNews.com NEW YORK, April 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a lawsuit Friday against Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York state court, on behalf of a nurse forced to participate in a late-term abortion procedure under threat of disciplinary action, including possible termination and loss of her license. The state suit was filed in addition to pro-life nurse Cathy Cenzon-DeCarlo’s federal lawsuit, which is on appeal, because her rights of conscience are also protected by New York law. “Pro-life nurses shouldn’t be forced to […]
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to State’s Homosexual Partnership Law

Wisconsin Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to State’s Homosexual Partnership Law by LifeSiteNews.com By James Tillman MADISON, WISCONSIN, November 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)—The Wisconsin Supreme Court has declined to hear a legal challenge regarding the constitutionality of the state’s homosexual partnership law. The law was challenged in July by Wisconsin Family Action, which argued that it violates an amendment to the Wisconsin state constitution passed by referendum in 2006. This amendment states not only that marriage must be between a man and a woman in Wisconsin but also that a “legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried […]
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Religious Exemption Adopted in Council of Europe ‘Anti-discrimination’ Resolution

Religious Exemption Adopted in Council of Europe ‘Anti-discrimination’ Resolution by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White STRASBOURG, May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-family advocates at the Council of Europe have scored a victory with substantial changes of language to protect religious freedom of expression in a resolution on “Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.” On April 29, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) voted 51 to 25 to adopt Resolution 1728 (2010), which the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) had helped to delay until wording had been inserted to protect religious objections to […]
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Pro-lifers Kicked, Shoved on Camera by Abortionist’s Hired Thugs

Pro-lifers Kicked, Shoved on Camera by Abortionist’s Hired Thugs by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert VIENNA, September 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the latest chapter in a long history of abuse, the state prosecutor’s office in Vienna is attempting to stifle the legal claims of a pro-lifer, whom a local abortionist’s hired thugs were caught on tape cutting, harassing and intimidating outside an abortion mill. Demonic screaming and moaning, groping, and other forms of psycho-terrorism against pro-lifers from abortionist Christian Fiala’s paid employees have been documented on video since at least 2007, and published by the Catholic Web site Gloria.tv. Footage […]
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Texas Teen Nearly Forced by Parents into Abortion

Texas Teen Nearly Forced by Parents into Abortion by LifeSiteNews.com AUSTIN, Texas, October 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 16-year-old girl secured a temporary restraining order last week from a Texas court that blocks her parents from forcing her to have an abortion against her will. On two occasions, the teenager’s mother literally dragged her to local abortion facilities, including International Healthcare Solutions and Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region, demanding that her daughter terminate the life of her child. Though she refused, and the child’s father also does not want the baby killed, her parents continued to insist that […]
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Court Rules Schools Can Teach Homosexuality Without Parents Consent or Choice to Opt Out

Court Rules Schools Can Teach Homosexuality Without Parents Consent or Choice to Opt Out by LifeSiteNews.com By Meg Jalsevac BOSTON, February 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Friday, February 23, Federal District Judge Mark L. Wolf dismissed David Parker’s civil rights lawsuit against the Lexington, MA school board. Along with other parents from the same school, Parker filed the lawsuit last April after they were notified by the local school board that the school was not required to provide parental notification before introducing and teaching homosexual or transgender material in elementary school classrooms. As reported by LifeSiteNews, Parker originally confronted officials […]
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Harper Addresses Muslim Group on Same-Sex Marriage while Toronto Gays March

Harper Addresses Muslim Group on Same-Sex Marriage while Toronto Gays March by LifeSiteNews.com MISSISSAUGA, June 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stephen Harper’s absence from the Toronto “Gay Pride” parade was noted in a number of major newspapers but only a few mentioned where he was while it was happening. Most media consider opposition to same-sex marriage to be strictly a Christian phenomenon; they often omit to mention that no established religious tradition has ever endorsed homosexuality as a legitimate ‘lifestyle.’ While NDP leader and long-time pro-abortion activist, Jack Layton, Toronto Mayor David Miller, and Toronto’s new Chief of Police attended the […]
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I’m on the Michael Coren show The Arena tonight (July 24) on Sun News TV 7-8pm EST

I was in Ottawa today being taped for a short segment of Michael Coren’s show The Arena on Sun TV which airs 7-8pm EST. If you catch it, please let me know what you thought. And if you have suggestions for improvement they’d be appreciated too. Michael took up the lastest attack on religious freedom with the Mayor of Boston vowing to keep Chick-fil-A restaurants out of his city based on the Christian company’s support for traditional marriage. Here were my talking points: (didn’t quite get to all of them but did my best) All this talk about how is […]
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Last Call!

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Last call!

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Swedish Pastor Sentenced to Month in Prison for Preaching Against Homosexuality

Swedish Pastor Sentenced to Month in Prison for Preaching Against Homosexuality by LifeSiteNews.com STOCKHOLM, July 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ake Green, the pastor of a Swedish Pentecostal church in Kalmar, Sweden, has been sentenced to one month in prison by a Swedish court, for inciting hatred against homosexuals. Green was prosecuted in January for “hate speech against homosexuals” for a sermon he preached last summer citing Biblical references to homosexuality. During a sermon in 2003, Green described homosexuality as “abnormal, a horrible cancerous tumour in the body of society”. Sweden passed an equivalent to Canada’s Bill C-250 last year—a “hate […]
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Our world is changing – Fast

Tuesday, I was fresh from an eight-day pilgrimage to Israel. Fresh probably isn't the right word - more like ridiculously exhausted. But I've been away from the news while plunged into a very different world, a world rent by the spirit of religious war.
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Our world is changing – fast

Tuesday, I was fresh from an eight-day pilgrimage to Israel. Fresh probably isn't the right word - more like ridiculously exhausted. But I've been away from the news while plunged into a very different world, a world rent by the spirit of religious war.
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Earlier Screening for Down’s Syndrome May Fuel Eugenic Program Against Disabled

Earlier Screening for Down’s Syndrome May Fuel Eugenic Program Against Disabled by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White November 10, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A US National Institutes of Health-financed study has shown that first-trimester screening with a blood test and ultrasound can detect Down’s syndrome in an unborn child 87% of the time. Another test in the second trimester can give up to 95% accurate diagnosis researchers report in The New England Journal of Medicine. Lead author Fergal Malone says that the study of more than 38,000 U.S. women could lead to more screening using less invasive procedures. In most cases, Down’s […]
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Massachusetts Tells Catholic Church it Must Permit Homosexual Adoption

Massachusetts Tells Catholic Church it Must Permit Homosexual Adoption by LifeSiteNews.com By Terry Vanderheyden BOSTON, February 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and a top government leader have told a group of bishops that their request that Catholic institutions be exempt from placing foster children with same-sex parents will be denied. “My understanding is that any exemption would require legislation and would not be something I would be authorized to do on a personal basis,” Romney said, according to a Boston Globe report. He has in the past indicated that he is opposed to same-sex “marriage.” House chairman […]
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Science Reveals Unborn can Dream, Smell, Hear, Remember Events and Feel Pain

Science Reveals Unborn can Dream, Smell, Hear, Remember Events and Feel Pain by LifeSiteNews.com ROME, May 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Zenit news reported Friday an interview with Italian neonatal specialist Dr. Carlo Bellieni, who wrote the book Dawn of the I: Pain, Memory, Desire, Dream of the Fetus. The partial-birth abortion ban trials have brought to fore the question of the humanity of the unborn, specifically their ability to feel pain. Bellieni has worked for years in the Department of Neonatal Intensive Therapy of the Le Scotte University Polyclinic of Siena, where he has studied the issue of fetal suffering. […]
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U.S. Abortion-Breast Cancer Lawsuit Settlement Backs Informed Consent Obligation

U.S. Abortion-Breast Cancer Lawsuit Settlement Backs Informed Consent Obligation by LifeSiteNews.com PHILADELPHIA, October 22, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer announced today that the first U.S. abortion-breast cancer (ABC) lawsuit settled for an undisclosed amount on October 17, 2003. The case was filed in Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. The plaintiff was a 17-year-old Pennsylvania resident when a second-trimester abortion was performed in New Jersey without parental knowledge or consent. Although she hasn’t developed breast cancer, she sued her abortion provider, Charles Benjamin, for neglecting to warn her about the physical and emotional risks of abortion. Karen […]
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Unborn Child Who Became Hockey Star Stopped his Mother From Taking Her Life

Unborn Child Who Became Hockey Star Stopped his Mother From Taking Her Life by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz VANCOUVER, Canada, January 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A small kick from an unborn child was enough to save his mother’s life, and his own. Justin Pogge, star goalie for the Canadian junior men’s hockey team, and newly signed to the Toronto Maple Leafs made a move 19 years ago that stopped his mother from throwing herself off a bridge into the river in Fort McMurray, Alta. Annet Pogge was 22 when her boyfriend walked out on her at their engagement party, after […]
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Abortion Position of Condoleezza Rice – US Secretary of State

Abortion Position of Condoleezza Rice – US Secretary of State by LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, March 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a candid interview with The Washington Times Friday expressed her position on abortion as “mildly pro-choice.” Asked, “Are you pro-life? Are you pro-choice? What is your thought on abortion?”, Rice responded: “I believe if you go back to 2000, when I helped the president in the campaign, I said that I was, in effect, kind of Libertarian on this issue, and meaning by that that I have been concerned about a government role in this […]
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More on Ken Campbell’s Death

More on Ken Campbell’s Death by LifeSiteNews.com DELTA, B.C., August 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following yesterday’s notice of the death of Canadian pro-life hero Ken Campbell on Monday, LifeSiteNews has learned of funeral arrangements. Visitation will be in Delta, B.C.on Thursday August 31 from 7-9 p.m. at the Delta Funeral Home located at 5329 Ladner Trunk Road, Ladner (Delta), BC. (Phone 604-946-6040 ) FUNERAL: Friday, September 1, at 10 AM, at South Delta Baptist Church, located at: 1988 56 St, Tsawwassen (Delta), BC Phone 604-943-8244 (Going toward the Tsawwassen ferry terminal on Hwy 17, turn left onto 56 Street (the […]
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Slovenia Legalizes Same-Sex “Marriage”

Slovenia Legalizes Same-Sex “Marriage” by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith SLOVENIA, July 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The former member of the Yugoslavian Republic, now member of the EU, Slovenia, yesterday legalized same-sex “marriage.” According to B92 radio in Belgrade, Serbia, the new Slovenian marriage laws allow homosexual couples to register their partnerships as a legal “marriage,” enjoying the same rights as married heterosexual couples under Slovenian law. However, the new law does put restrictions on the “weddings” of homosexual couples. The law limits the attendance of “wedding” ceremonies to the two partners and the local registration official, forbidding any third […]
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Former Iraq Hostage Accuses Catholic Knights of Homosexual Discrimination

Former Iraq Hostage Accuses Catholic Knights of Homosexual Discrimination by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac TORONTO, Ontario, June 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – James Loney, the former CanadianÂIraqi hostage, has charged the Ontario Knights of Columbus with homosexual discrimination. The Knights recently announced the closure of a youth leadership camp located in Orillia OntarioÂwhere Loney worked for several years. Loney—who revealed his homosexuality amidst the publicity furor accompanying his eventual safe return from Iraq—has accused the Knights of closing the campÂbecause he is gay. The factual basis for his allegation is still uncertain. News reports have been unclear and contradictory about whether […]
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2008 LSN movie review seems to have uncannily predicted what happened in Colorado last night

Editor-in-Chief John-Henry Westen and I are big fans of entertaining adventure and Superhero movies such as the new Spiderman movie, The Avengers, Thor and Captain America – all good, clean movies with lots of emphasis on virtues and some really good laughs here and there. However, after separately viewing Batman: Dark Knight in 2008 we concurred the movie was too disturbing and much more than harmless entertainment. Not everyone in our families and even on our staff agreed, yet our conviction, based on many years’ developed evil-sensing radar, could not be shaken. This stuff was somehow dangerous. I have seen […]
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Fifty Shades of Immorality

James' erotic tale with the huge number of sales makes the unstated message clear: our society has become obsessed with exploitive, self-gratifying sex and the degradation of the human person as a commodity.
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Disqus commenting still not resolved

Please note that the Disqus commenting system which stopped functioning Friday due to a Disqus technical problem has still not been resolved. Our apologies for the inconvenience which is out of our control.
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Unlike Development and Peace, U.S. Bishops Development Arm Has Strong Pro-Life Policies

Unlike Development and Peace, U.S. Bishops Development Arm Has Strong Pro-Life Policies by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac April 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In stark contrast to the Canadian bishops’ official international development arm, Development and Peace (D&P), the United States bishops’ official international development arm, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), has put in place and closely follows strict pro-life policies that ensure that it is not funding pro-abortion or pro-contraception organizations. Recently, LSN spoke with CRS senior communications manager Tom Price, after LSN discovered that an NGO that is currently lobbying the East Timorese government to legalize abortion was listed as […]
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Don’t curse the darkness

With each Culture of Life story LifeSiteNews publishes, we are lighting a bright beautiful candle that pierces the darkness and dispels the gloom.
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The Lancet proves euthanasia deaths are rising in The Netherlands

The long awaited 2010 nationwide examination of the euthanasia law in the Netherlands was published in The Lancet on July 11, 2012. The study found that: * the number of euthanasia deaths has grown significantly since 2005 (4050 in 2010, 2425 in 2005) * the under-reporting of euthanasia in the Netherlands has grown since 2005 (23% in 2010, 20% in 2005) * there is a growth in deaths by terminal sedation (12.3% in 2010, 8.2% in 2005) * the percentage of requests for euthanasia being fulfilled has increased (45% in 2010, 37% in 2005) * the number of deaths without […]
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The story of Jonah and the Whale like you have never heard it told

My wife was recently sent a link to a video of a little girl telling the story of Jonah and the whale. Sounds cute, but my goodness, once this little cutie gets wound up does she ever take it on. You won’t forget the story after this performance, done without any notes. Now what does this have to do with a life and family news service? First of all, this is my blog section, so I get to write and present things here that are different from the usual LifeSiteNews grind. But as well, I think this video has a […]
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U.S. Christian Camp Loses Tax-Exempt Status over Same-Sex Civil-Union Ceremony

U.S. Christian Camp Loses Tax-Exempt Status over Same-Sex Civil-Union Ceremony by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac OCEAN GROVE, N.J., September 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced on Monday that it was stripping the Methodist Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association of its tax-exempt status for part of its property. The Methodist camp made the news earlier this year after it refused, for religious reasons, to allow a lesbian couple to hold a “civil-union” ceremony at a pavilion on the camp’s property. The pavilion, said Scott Hoffman, the camp’s chief administrative officer to LifeSiteNews, “is a […]
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Correction notice Re: Google and porn

Yesterday LifeSiteNews reported that Google had established a "partnership" with porn producer Vivid Video. This information, as received from another usually very reliable organization, was in fact incorrect.
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It’s finally here: Video Premier

Today, we are very proud to unveil today a video put together by Mirandum Pictures to celebrate LifeSiteNews.com's 15th anniversary. We have shown you brief teasers before, but this is the full 9+ minute production - and well worth the watch. We know you will be impressed!
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It’s finally here: Video Premier

Today, we are very proud to unveil today a video put together by Mirandum Pictures to celebrate LifeSiteNews.com's 15th anniversary. We have shown you brief teasers before, but this is the full 9+ minute production - and well worth the watch. We know you will be impressed!
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Speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand – Part 3

I arrived in Australia on June 23, speaking in Melbourne, South Australia and then Tasmania. On June 29 I left Australia and arrived in Auckland New Zealand to speak at a conference, organized by a local steering committee that was titled: Legalized Euthanasia: Do we need it? The conference on Saturday, June 30 was very impressive with approximately 100 attendees from across New Zealand. The conference had several excellent speakers including a member of the New Zealand parliament, Dr. Huhana Hickey, who spoke about euthanasia from a legal perspective as well as from a Maori (native) perspective, Russell Vickery, a […]
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Is the NHS really killing 130,000 patients a year with the Liverpool Care Pathway?

The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph recently ran a story claiming that the NHS ‘kills off a 130,000 elderly patients every year’ through use of a ‘death pathway’. The story has been picked up relatively uncritically by many news outlets around the world, and particularly pro-life sites. The claims are based on comments made by Professor Patrick Pullicino, who spoke at a Medical Ethics Alliance conference at the Royal Society of Medicine this week. There are around 450,000 deaths in Britain each year of people who are in hospital or under NHS care. About 29% – 130,000 – are of […]
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Spreading the anti-euthanasia message Down Under – Part 2

On day 1 of the speaking tour of Australia I had the opportunity to speak at the Life Dinner in Melbourne where more than 400 people were in attendance. On Sunday, June 24, I flew to Adelaide South Australia where I was met by Paul Russell, the leader of HOPE, the group that has successfully defeated attempts to legalize euthanasia in South Australia. I stayed for several days in South Australia, speaking to a dinner with local leaders, a lunch with business and organizational leaders, and on Wednesday I spoke to members of the South Australian legislature, an event that […]
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New Study Shows Contraceptive Pill Increases Risk of Heart Disease, Stroke

New Study Shows Contraceptive Pill Increases Risk of Heart Disease, Stroke by LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Hoffman May 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology has revealed that the newest version of the contraceptive pill increases the risk of heart disease. The study, which was conducted by the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies at the University of Udine, in Italy, concludes that the new, “third-generation” oral contraceptives elevates the levels of “C-reactive protein” (CRP) in women, which in turn raises their risk of cardiovascular disease. In comparing healthy women who used the […]
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German Bishop Stops Funding to Liberal Catholic Organization

German Bishop Stops Funding to Liberal Catholic Organization by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz REGENSBURG, Germany, February 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A German archbishop has stopped diocesan funding for a Catholic organization known to challenge the authority of the Pope as reported by Californian Gerald Augustinus on his blog. Augustinus says Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller of the diocese of Regensburg, in Bavaria, has cut off funding from the Central Committee of German Catholics, the main secular organization in the country. The Committee was receiving more than two million Euros in financing from the Church. Archbishop Müller has also suppressed the Diocesan […]
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U.K. Embryo Authority Warns IVF Children Have 30% Higher Risk of Genetic Abnormality

U.K. Embryo Authority Warns IVF Children Have 30% Higher Risk of Genetic Abnormality by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White LONDON, March 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British government’s embryo research authority has warned potential parents that children conceived artificially through in vitro fertilization have a thirty percent higher risk of genetic abnormalities. Reports of higher levels of birth defects among IVF children have been making headlines since at least 2003, but the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has only this week issued a warning on the matter. The HFEA said that parents should be told of the risks associated with […]
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Fertility Treatment is Hugely Successful but Largely Ignored by Medicine

Fertility Treatment is Hugely Successful but Largely Ignored by Medicine by LifeSiteNews.com Commentary by Thaddeus M. Baklinski March 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – NaProTECHNOLOGY (Natural Procreative Technology or NPT) is a dramatically successful, but not well known or practiced method of diagnosing and treating gynecological diseases and infertility in women. It is a morally acceptable and very cost effective method of restoring fertility, using a fertility-care based medical approach, rather than a fertility-control approach. This new reproductive science works cooperatively with the natural fertility [menstrual] cycle. It has been developed as a series of medical applications based on a standardized assessment […]
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BMA corrects Lord Falconer’ s misrepresentation of its position on ‘assisted dying’

Yesterday I drew attention to Lord Falconer’s false claim in the Times that the British Medical Association had adopted a neutral position on ‘assisted dying’ (a euphemism for assisted suicide and euthanasia). In fact the BMA, like the RCGP, RCP and Association for Palliative Medicine, are all opposed to any change in the law. The story of the former Lord Chancellor’s ‘fiction’ has since been picked up by George Pitcher on the Daily Mail blogs. And now the BMA itself has written to the Times to correct the ‘error’. Dr Vivienne Nathanson, BMA Director of Professional Activities, writes in the […]
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Spreading the anti-euthanasia message Down Under – Part 1

Last September, I was contacted by a group of pro-life people in Melbourne Australia who asked me to be their guest speaker at their Life Dinner on June 23, 2012. I accepted this invitation and viewed this as an opportunity to embark on my second speaking tour of Australia. (In October 2010, I had the opportunity to speak in six Australian cities in seven days). I arrived in Melbourne, a day late, due to a problem with one of the flights, leaving me with no sleep before my presentation. There were more than 400 people who came to the Life […]
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Gala revealed a lot about who we are

Abby Johnson's spirited talk was a natural fit for the night. Being pregnant at the time and having some complications related to the pregnancy, she had to cancel other speaking engagements but was thankfully still able to carry on with ours.
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Euthanasia debate heating up in Tasmania

On June 28, I (Alex Schadenberg) was in Hobart Tasmania meeting with members of the Tasmania state parliament concerning the announcement earlier in the week that the Labor/Greens coalition government will once again be debating the legalization of euthanasia in Tasmania. In response to the announced euthanasia debate, Paul Russell – HOPE Australia, and I called a media conference on the steps of parliament at noon to offer the media another point of view. After the meeting with the members of the Tasmanian parliament we received a text concerning a media release sent out by Philip Nitschke, the founder of […]
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